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| Subject | 0-5 | Subject | 0-5 | Subject | 0-5 | Subject | 0-5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direction | 5 stars | Music | 4 stars | Humour | 3 stars | Intro & tag | 4 stars |
| Mastermind | 3½ stars | Plot | 3 stars | Emma | 5 stars | Set Design | 4 stars |
| Overall (0-10) |
Second only to The Hidden Tiger, as far as I'm concerned. There's really nothing to fault with this episode, one of the strongest pieces of television drama ever recorded. | 9 stars | |||||
The sleepy hamlet of Little Storping In-The-Swuff has its calm
disrupted by a man coming out of the pub and gunning another
man down. The villagers, however, carry on regardless.
Mrs Peel goes to the village with Croft, an old school friend
who has quit the Army and retired to the country. His butler
has disappeared, leaving all his objets d'art smashed around
his house. Croft disappears, and Emma finds his butler's body,
and is then knocked out by an unseen assailant.
When she recovers, she is told she had a car accident, but she
notices Paul's watch on the wrist of one of the men in her
car. She discovers she has stumbled upon a village of
murderers when she finds bodies at the doctor's house, but is
captured. After a dunking Emma is forced to ring her
'husband', John, and manages to pass on a message to Steed
unbeknownst to the villagers. He turns up in time to rescue
her from the local museum and Mrs Peel craftily pelts the
villagers into submission.
Mrs Peel has found her knight in shining armour when Steed
becomes trapped in the helmet she has just escaped from.
| Marque/Model | Colour | Number Plate |
|---|---|---|
| Citroën DS19 Estate | black | AYR 141B |
| Lotus Elan S3 | glacier blue | SJH 499D |
| Vanden Plas 4-litre | black | HOF 800D |
| MGB | light blue | 556 FYP |
| Ford Corsair | white | ABH 276B |
| Wolseley 6/99 police car | black | 649 CLC |
| Helicopter | grey | G-AVEE |
| Humber Super Snipe | mid grey | - |
| Victim | Killer | Method |
click a name to see the face |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin | Wilson | Pistol | |
| Unknown victim (off screen) | Sunglasses-wearing assassin | Shotgun | |
| Forbes |
Hubert & Mickle V* | Sickle | |
| Samuel Morgan | Frederick Williams | Silenced Pistol | |
| Major Paul Croft | Hubert & Mickle? V* | ? | |
| Unknown man | Trilby-wearing assassin | Tommy gun | |
| Unknown man | Unknown killers | Body thrown from passing car (Humber Sceptre, maybe), but probably already dead. | |
| Dr Haymes V* | Emma | Spear |
| Emma's Fashions | Steed's Fashions |
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