Look- (stop me if you've heard this one) but There Were These Two Fellers...

Teleplay by Dennis Spooner, Directed by James Hill

Look- (stop me if you've heard this one) but There Were These Two Fellers...
is one of those rare episodes with more than one title screen:

Just who is so obsessed with clowns?
We have:

Maxie and Jennings in clown make-up in Look- (stop me if you've heard this one) but There Were These Two Fellers...,
the gang of mercenaries wearing clown masks in Have Guns - Will Haggle,
Merlin wearing a clown mask in The Morning After,
and Miranda Loxton wears a clown costume for the first quarter of Requiem.

The walking stick Tara finds becomes a bunch of cloth flowers - a standard conjuror's prop, but in the car, they rapidly become a bunch of bananas, a sword (which rips Tara's canopy), a bunch of daffodils, and a top hat with a hydrangea in the band.

Early inklings of Cleese's Basil Fawlty character in the nervous and unhelpful civil servant, Marcus Rugman:
"You are a public office", says Tara, and he replies, "Yes, that's the trouble".

16:10 - it's ridiculous that the eggs are raw, they would go off in days and Rugman earlier states they're the culmination of over twenty years' work.

Marque	Colour	Number
Morris 1100	pale grey	KPD 655C
Austin taxi	black	62 FGK
AC 428 Frua	maroon	LPH 800D
Rolls Royce Silver Cloud 2	two-tone grey	?
Rolls Royce	pale lemon	KK 4976

Victim	Killer	Method
Sir Jeremy Broadfoot	Maxie Martin	joke gun (which fires bullets anyway)
Cleghorn	Maxie Martin	clubbed over the head
Rugman	Maxie Martin & Jennings	slips on banana
Brigadier Wiltshire	Maxie Martin	bomb
Marler	Maxie Martin	thrown knife
Lord Dessington	Jennings	rug pulled out from under his feet, he falls out a window

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Tara

sky blue overcoat over black rollneck skivvy, skirt, long gloves and boots
tan skivvy and long sky blue culottes (and a red clown nose), later with a jacket to matck the culottes (but without the nose)
blue jacket and culottes with black crew neck pullover
white silk fuck-me dress with frilly cuffs, low neckline and very short skirt, black hoker, gold handbag

Steed

brown three piece suit (green felt collar) with yellow/green shirt and brown & green paisley tie, brown bowler
dark teal rollneck skivvy and black trousers
dark brown three piece suit (felt collar) with white shirt and chocolate tie, brown bowler
grey three pice suit and bowler with orange cream shirt and pale orange and taupe paisley tie
grey suit with blue rib-fronted shirt and purple tie
black double breasted suit and bowler with navy tie and white shirt, red and gold pin in tie
black open neck shirt and black/brown vertically striped trousers with a tan cardigan
(very briefly)
- blue silk chinese robe with black tartars hat
- admiral's uniform
- native american costume
midnight blue tuxedo and bow tie, with pale blue shirt (flashing "Eat at Joe's" sign on his back)

The Avengers

Season 6 - Episode 10

Look- (stop me if you've heard this one) but There Were These Two Fellers...

Teleplay by Dennis Spooner, Directed by James Hill

Continuity & Trivia

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