Episode 1 - From Venus With Love

Jeremy Lloyd went on to great heights of fame, not that he wasn't already a household name in Britain in the Sixties. He appeared in "The Assassination Bureau" ( Diana Rigg and Oliver Reed ), was one of the company of "Laugh-In" that sealed "The Avengers" fate in the US, and ended up writing comedy - "Are You Being Served?" and "'Allo 'Allo" being his most successful productions.

The bloodthirsty (or maybe bleach-obsessed) Martin is uncredited in the cast list, but I think it's Billy Cornelius, a regular stuntman for the series. [ click on the mug shot or here for an enlargement ]

©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd All Rights Reserved	LEFT: The 'alien' vehicle is a Ford GT-40, the doors are the proof. RIGHT: Talking about cars... Emma's Lotus is an S3 1966, and here's the evidence. The S2 had a chrome label saying Elan S2 where this one just has Elan in chrome on the upper body. The rear lights are the elongated ovoid shape of the S3 (top right). The logo on the lower body (bottom right) is probably either the World Champions or Indianapolis Champions logo.	©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd All Rights Reserved

The painting that Mansford is appreciating just before he leaves this mortal coil turns up again backstage in Epic. Not only that, but both copies of it - with and without the silhouette - turn up in two episodes of The Saint ("A Portrait of Brenda" and "The Power Artist"). The non-silhouette version reappears in an episode of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).	Venus	Epic

©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd All Rights Reserved	LEFT: Recognise those doors? They turn up in Thyssen's house in Escape in Time. RIGHT: The close-up of the reel to reel player is misplaced, with Steed's arm on the wrong side, and the player rotated about 50°.	©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd All Rights Reserved

	Elsewhere, you'll find claims that Whitehead wasn't holding a record when shot by the laser, but is holding one when found by Steed. This is wrong, as this picture shows - he picks it up off the table off camera, after setting another disk going (it's lying in from of the gramophone). When Steed finds him, the record is no longer in front of the gramophone, and is white in his hands.

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LEFT: A muffed close-up - the clock on the safe says 7 seconds before 2:45, but 17 seconds later, when Jennings taps the clock in the long shot we've lost 10 seconds, as it's right on 2:45. RIGHT: Did they cut a shot of the bowler being shot? One second it's in Steed's hand, the next he's just holding the mirror, so how did the hat become white?

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Speaking of hats... Steed's eye test require him to identify these hats: trilby homburg bowler cap jockey porkpie topper boater busby fez RIGHT: The set dresser misspelled 'ophthalmic' on Primble's surgery lamp.

©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd All Rights Reserved	Another messed-up close-up, Barbara Shelley keeps the pose of clenched hands in prayer position, despite the long shots mostly having them held over her stomach.
	Another messed-up close-up, the dummy's head has already collapsed in the long shot of Steed approaching it, but the next close-up shows it in the act of collapsing.