Episode 14 - Something Nasty In The Nursery

Sir George is revealed to be the son of the Attorney-General, and Beaumont is second cousin to an unnamed prince.

1. How did Mrs Peel end up at GONN?
2. How come Martin doesn't realise Goat is not a woman?
3. How do they know Steed knows about Wilmot?
4. When Steed drives away (11:30), it's clearly sped-up footage.
5. Another quick change for Steed - navy pinstripe one moment (20:40), then he's in his brown suit (21:40)
6. How did Mrs Peel know Wilmot's nursery name 'Cuddles', when she wasn't present when Steed learnt it?
7. Goat marks the map with rough squares around the toy missiles (an Airfix kit of a Bristol Bloodhound, by the way) (45:16), but just before Steed tears up the map, they're marked with circles. (46:08) Also, the residents of Norwich will be happy that the missile has moved from the centre of town, down towards Eccles.

Upon arriving at Lord Beaumont's, Steed is in the car wearing costume (3), but once inside is wearing (2) again.

grey suit	brown suit	grey suit
(6:20)	(7:54)	(8:24)
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Steed avoids being drugged by wearing gloves, but at the beginning of the scene you can see that he's not wearing any gloves. At least, you can if you're watching a DVD or a VCR on a flat screen television - older televisions and monitors chopped the picture off with the screen curvature; so audiences of previous years - and possibly even the production staff - never saw the continuity error.

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<< Steed puts the bomb in the tuba and blows the blast out the window... or does he? The picture to the left clearly shows the bomb falling out of the tuba seconds before it goes off. The glories of the One-take world of Sixties television.

What happened to Penelope Keith?

Given what Ms Keith looked like in The Murder Market (left), I think all her scenes ended up on the cutting room floor.
She appears in the black & white promotional still at the top of the page, Steed looks like he's about to talk to her... (right)