Episode 4 - The See-Through Man

continuity and trivia

1. 7:43 et passim. - The robot in Quilby's lab was originally made for the film, "Mother Riley Meets the Vampire" (1952). It's had the glass dome replaced with a more bulbous version and the dials on the stomach panel seem to have changed.
2. 12:33 - Brodny's entry into the Vazin's quarters was filmed as slate 25.
3. 13:35 - The scene where he accompanies Elena back in and queries the expenses the Vazins are incurring was filmed as slate 28.
4. 15:17 - His later tiptoe through the suite was filmed as slate 26, it took two takes.
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   21:45-23:20 - Reference is made to Brodny's appearance in Two's a Crowd in more ways than one - even the props department played a hand, putting a bottle of Creme des Violettes on his desk, next to the bottle of Smirnoff. Unfortunately, they weren't so attentive to the characters - Brodny says (23:10) his first names are Vladimir Jaroslav but in Two's a Crowd he claimed his mother called him Sergei.
6. 21:52 - Smirnoff product placement.
7. 23:43, 26:05 and 27:19 - back projection colour shift of Elena and Emma - there was colour shift earlier in another driving scene but it was much less apparent.
8. 25:27 - same reel-to-reel tape player as in From Venus With Love.
9. 27:54 - the studio shot of Mrs Peel getting out of her car is in the exact same spot as when she was supposed to be pulled up at the roadside, watching Elena and Ackroyd at 26:10.
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    29:55-30:00 - When Steed shows Quilbey Elena's photograph, the long shots of the photo are different to the closeup, which is the same photo which they pull from Elena's dossier.
11. 33:00 - the turnstile in the park is rather obviously a studio set.
12. 34:57 - Mrs Peel says, "Yeuch!" looking at the blue chemicals, then promptly drops some of it on her hand!
13. 46:55 - Brodny, trying not to get sent back behind the Iron Curtain, declares "I have tickets for the next Beatles concert". However, this was filmed in November 1966 and broadcast in 1967; the Beatles had stopped touring by then - their last English concert (not counting the impromptu gig on top of Apple Corp in 1969) was at Empire Pool, Wembley (now Wembley Arena) on 1st May, 1966. Their last ever commercial concert was at Candlestick Park in San Francisco on 29th August 1966. Of course, the scriptwriter and producers couldn't have known that at the time.
14. Running time: 49'10"

Cast notes

1. Three actors are uncredited, anyone know who they are? I suspect Daviot was just played by a member of the crew (or the unstoppable Peter J. Elliott), he just lies face down in the duck pond for a couple of seconds. Vazin is played by a costume specialist, he was last seen (if that's the word) as the bloke masquerading as a murderous old woman in The Girl From Auntie. I think he is Art Thomas from A Touch of Brimstone.
   Have a look at these pictures:

   Lord Daviot	Major Alexandr Vazin	Embassy Guard