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The Avengers

Series 6 - Episode 10

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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

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:

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.

The Transport

MarqueColourNumber
Morris 1100pale greyKPD 655C
Austin taxiblack62 FGK
AC 428 FruamaroonLPH 800D
Rolls Royce Silver Cloud 2two-tone grey?
Rolls-Royce 40/50 h.p. 'Silver Ghost' 1923 H.J.Mulliner tourer (chassis number 46LK)pale lemonKK 4976

Who's Killing Whom?

VictimKillerMethod
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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The Fashions

Tara Steed
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