Episode 23 - Murdersville

What was in those custard tarts? They're heavy enough to send someone as solid as Banks reeling, and have a similar effect on Mickle. They must have been made by Steed's Aunt Penelope (viz. her rock cakes in Dead Man's Treasure).

Speaking of Jennny and Maggie coming in - how come they didn't trip over, or even notice, Haymes' body with the spear in the torso?

Joseph Grieg is wrongly credited as Joseph Greig.

Dr Haymes is in the credits with that name, and is referred to by that name throughout the episode, but the sign outside his surgery definitely says "Doctor D.L. Haynes".

Another one of those wet-dry-wet moments at the dunking stool.

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	Emma gets a very creamy body during the (food) fight at the end, but when she threatens the Jenny and Maggie with a custard tart she is much less splattered. Come to think of it, I'll bet it was Cyd Child who was creamed. ©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd All Rights Reserved

	As you can read elsewhere, the village of Little Storping In-The-Swuff is in fact Aldbury, which remains pretty much the same today. It also appeared, under the moniker of "Swingingdale" ("Not very swinging.") in Dead Man's Treasure. << ©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd All Rights Reserved
©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd All Rights Reserved	Mrs Peel's purple and blue catsuit appears to change colour several times throughout the episode - it becomes a red and deep purple/black catsuit (see left and above right). It's obviously caused by some dodgy projection techniques. It only occurs when she's inside a car, so they must be projecting the moving background onto the actors from the front, rather than onto a screen from behind, as was more usual (and more successful) practice. Cost cutting at The Avengers? Never!	©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd All Rights Reserved

When Mrs Peel drives Paul to his house they enter from the far end of the village, behind the large triangular road markings (let's call that North). Paul runs into town, correctly, from the South and Mrs Peel drives back in later also from the South, to stop at the honey shop; however, the faked accident has her facing South, just near the honey shop, as if it had entered town from the North, and when Haymes drives her back from the house they come from the North. (Of course, the locals might know a shortcut that causes this).

I just love the scene where the dastardly Frederick Williams is about to shoot Samuel Morgan, but then the librarian, Miss Avril, points to the "SILENCE" sign and he slips a silencer on the end of his pistol.

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That telephone conversation in full:

	(phone rings)
	STEED: Hello? (faintly)
	EMMA:  John, darling, it's Emma
	STEED: Mrs, oh, uh, Mrs...
	EMMA:  Don't be silly darling, it's your wife. How's my little Johnsie-wonsie?
	STEED: Johnsie-wonsie's fine! you sound like
	you've been sokaing up just a little bit too much  grape-juice.
	EMMA:  You haven't been out all day? Poor darling, go out
	and take the children with you.
	STEED: Children?! &emdash; You're in trouble, aren't you?
	EMMA: That's right.
	STEED: Is somebody listening?
	EMMA:  Yes, and I've had an absolutely torturous day.
	STEED: Ah, would you mind telling me where you are?
	EMMA:  No darling, that would be silly.
	STEED: Are you in Little Storping?
	EMMA:  Yes, I've had some trouble with my car. I had to drive over to &emdash;
	HAYMES: Salisbury (quietly)
	EMMA:  Salisbury, I'm calling from there.
	STEED: That's what they want me to think.
	EMMA:  That's right. Kiss little Alan for me, and Julian,
	and Gordon and baby Brian.
	STEED: Can you give me a clue, hint, anything?
	EMMA:  Don't forget that you promised to take them to the museum,
	you can do that after you've been to the pub.
	HAYMES: That's enough. (sternly)
	STEED: The pub and the museum? You want me to meet you in the pub in Little Storping?
	(Haymes motions and hangs up the 'phone)
	STEED: Mrs Peel?
	

There's a whole bunch of people not credited in this one! Mostly just random bodies and killers, but some are quite notable. Anyone know who they are?
[ Those with a border have enlargements - click them to see more. ] Hilary was played by Hilary Dwyer.
The sunglasses-wearing assassin has been identified by Stephen Vincent as Gareth Thomas, who went on to greater fame as Blake in Blake's 7, and the man thrown out of the car is regular stuntman Romo Gorrara.
'Martin' also played 'Zorick' in The Correct Way to Kill, but wasn't credited for that either. You can also see him driving a Landrover at the beginning of The £50,000 Breakfast - Peter Clay, regular stuntman.
Villager #9 may just be Bill Nick, a semi-regular on The Prisoner, Villager #10 is the same stuntman/actor as "Trilby's victim", strange that he turns up for the dunking several minutes after being shot.

	Martin		Wilson		Trilby-wearing assassin		Trilby's victim
	Old Farmer		Hillary		Villager 1		Villager 2
	Villager 3		Villager 4		Villager 5		Villager 6
	Villager 7		Villager 8		Villager 9		Villager 10