Episode 26 - Honey for the Prince

Episode Rating

The Cars

Who's Killing Whom?

Victim	Killer	Method	click a name to see the face
George Reed	Vincent East V*	machine gun
Ronny Westcott	Vincent East V*	machine gun
B. Bumble	Vincent East V*	pistol shot
Ponsonby Hopkirk	Vincent East V*	pistol shot
Bernie V*	himself V* & Emma	fell on discharging pistol

continuity and trivia

1. 2:30 - Steed and Emma return drunkenly from an all night party over Tyke's Water Bridge.
2. 3:16 - Those aren't bloody handprints, they're paint-dripping handprints!
3. 4:41/4:35 - Steed tells Emma to ring Colonel Robertson, let him know what's happened and arrange for the body to be removed. When he returns to his flat later and sees Bernie's feet sticking out from behind the sofa, he calls Robertson again (18:32/19:10), angry that the body is still "making the place very untidy". Robertson appears to be someone Steed reports to, and is probably the same Colonel he rings in
   How to Succeed .... At Murderand mentions on the 'phone in The House That Jack Built.
4. 6:00 - Macnee does some of his own stunts here, although in the long shots it's a stand-in.
5. 12:22 - When Steed gets no response from the man dressed as Napoleon, so he addresses him in French: "Je vous en prie, monsieur; pardon mon général, mon brave général... je cherche M. Hopkirk" - which elicits a smile from the general.
6. 13:06 - Hopkirk tells Napoleon, "Won't keep you long Napoleon, Wellington's just getting his boots on."
7. 14:50 - Peter Diamond may be a great stuntman but he's terrible at dying on stage without melodramatics.
8. 17:33/18:00 - Hopkirk tell Steed, "I know, you're a secret agent. Licenced to kill, pitting your wits against a diabolical mastermind;" Steed initially thinks his cover is blown but then Hopklirk continues, "It would make a change from your everyday humdrum existence".
9. 22:05 - Yet another silenced revolver offered by Hopkirk - and another, real one, used by Vincent later on. Silencers don't work on most revolvers due to the gap between the barrel and the cylinder.
10. 37:25 - Steed give Prince Ali a full commentary of the last Test Match - but who are Scott Gordon and Fiennes-Barnes?
11. 42:01 - Diana Rigg hurriedly hitches up her pants which are in danger of revealing more than she intended.
12. 42:05 - 47:00 - There's a duty roster for the wives, Emma being added by Henry as she start to search ofr the assassin:
    
    

    SUN.	No. 51 - Jessica	No. 184 - Jose	No. 304 - Carol	No. 53 - Babie
    MON.	No. 76 - Rose	No. 45 - Naja	No. 72 - Zena
    TUE.		No. 42 - Sharron		No. 238 - Miffy
    WED.	No. 41 - Freda		No. 78 - Zoie
    THU.
    FRI.		No. 119 - Mary
    SAT.	No. 321 - Emma

    The rooms in the hareem are arranged thus:
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    238 - Miffy
    119 - Mary
    76 - Rose
    ?? - ??
    ?? - ??
    45 - Naja
    --------
    78 - Zoie
    72 - Zena
    61 - Freda
    53 - Babie
    51 - Jessica
    ?? - ??
    --------

    There's no sign of Florrie, Ethel or the unnamed wives 4 and 33, or the rooms for the other wives on the roster.

13. 45:30 - It's Diana Rigg doing the throwing, but it's a stuntman being thrown.
14. 45:30-47:00 - When Emma runs down the hall to save the Prince, it's outside the rooms of Freda & Babie (Vincent already having been shown to be hiding in Freda's room but he's emerging from Babie's room). After Vincent is thrown across the hallway, they're fighting outside the rooms of Zoie and Zena, which is further down the corridor but he looked to have been thrown up the corridor.
15. 47:10 - Emma turns over the QQF fantasy to read the subject, but in the long shot it's turn back over again.
16. 48:28 - you can see the wire holding up the back of the "flying carpet".
17. 48:49 - The Avengers depart down the same road as usual.
18. Ron Moody returns in The Bird Who Knew Too Much as the feather-brained Professor Jordan.
19. The set of Prince Ali's palace was used for the filming of the short promotional film for the upcoming colour season, The Strange Case of the Missing Corpse.
20. Running time: 49'41"