It's those doors again! You might remember them from From Venus with Love and The Bird Who Knew Too Much, amongst others.
Steed is revealed to be 6' 2" tall, and weighs 170lbs.
In the motorcycle fight scene, it's rather obvious that there's a stunt double, as the chalk marks on Diana Rigg's pants are nothing like those on the performer who leaps over (and into!) the motorcycle - Cyd Child, getting a minor injury.
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| Mackiedockie Court must be near Tom Savage's studio (The Bird Who Knew Too Much), as they're both near the same Stone St. And they must both be near Purbright & Co. (Quick-Quick Slow Death) which is on Mackiedockie Street. When Tubby Vincent escape Thyssen after being stabbed, Thyssen has his back to the death masks, yet ends up slumped against the door, several feet in front of him, despite falling backwards. |
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Another bevy of unlisted players in this episode, like these nuns, can you identify them? The executioner is played by stunt regular Terry Plummer - he's seen at his best (although, as always, uncredited) as Frederick in A Surfeit of H2O, but turns up in The Superlative Seven (his only credit, despite being in thick Chinese makeup), Never, Never, Say Die and a host of other episodes. He's a larger man without a shirt on, isn't he? By the time he appeared in Return of the Pink Panther he was quite large... |
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| Waldo Thyssen and his ancestors | |||||
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1570![]() Matthew Thyssen Tudor inquisitor |
1600?![]() Bruno Thyssen Elizabethan sportsman |
1680![]() Edwin Thyssen Jacobean duellist |
1790![]() Samuel Thyssen Georgian philanderer |
1870?![]() Herbert Thyssen Victorian squire |
1967![]() Waldo Thyssen Sixties loony |