• title card: white all caps text reading ‘DEATH ON THE ROCKS’ superimposed on jewellery lying on a dressing table
  • The assembled dealers, standing around the table, look nervous as Fenton conducts his auction of illicit diamonds
  • Mrs. Daniels is strangled with her pearls
  • Nicky, standing between Fenton and Liza, is shocked by their callousness
  • Fenton draws his gun as he and Liza enter Steed’s house
  • Steed leans on a ladder as he and Cathy reflect on the case

Series 2 — Episode 10
Death on the Rocks

Teleplay by Eric Paice
Directed by Jonathan Alwyn

Read the script (PDF 5MB)

Production No 3512, VTR/ABC/2161
Production completed: November 15 1962. First transmission: December 1 1962.