• title card: white all caps text reading ‘BRIEF FOR MURDER’ superimposed on a close-up of Steed in the pub, looking thoughtful
  • In the old-fashioned, wood-panelled pub, Steed, centre stage, shares a drink with Wescott on his left and Dicey on his right to celebrate Wescott’s acquittal
  • Steed, leaning on the fork of a tree, aims his revolver; he’s dressed in a check blazer and black bowler hat
  • In court: Steed demonstrates that the bowler hat found at the crime scene is far too big for him - his head disappearing into it
  • Barbara Kingston wraps up her case, the Lakin brothers sitting on the bench to her left and behind her.
  • Realising they are undone, the Lakin brother search their law book for a precedent

Series 3 — Episode 1
Brief For Murder

by Brian Clemens
Designed by James Goddard
Directed by Peter Hammond

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 305KB)

Production No 3600, VTR unknown
Production completed: April 11 1963. First transmission: September 28 1963.