• title card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left reading ‘THE HIDDEN TIGER’ superimposed on a tiger skin lying over Williams’ contorted body
  • subtitle card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left reading ‘STEED HUNTS A BIG CAT EMMA IS BADLY SCRATCHED’ superimposed on a tiger skin lying over Williams’ contorted body
  • Youtube video - Removing wallpaper in her flat, Mrs. Peel is amazed to find ‘Mrs. Peel -’ written beneath one sheet. She turns to see Steed remove another, under which is written ‘- We’re needed.’
  • View through the bars of a tiger cage: Nesbitt aiming his rifle to the right of the camera. The cage bears a sign that reads ‘DO NOT FEED THE ANIMALS’
  • Mrs. Peel, holding the cat-shaped PURRR brochure, purrs appreciatively when Steed, holding the E-K phone book, refers to her as a ‘beautiful, bronze tabby’
  • Cheshire’s identi-cat system, showing Mrs. Peel’s ‘Little John’
  • Angora dangles the dangerous locket from her right hand as she haughtily tells Peters not to worry
  • Steed, strapped to a chair, is relieved to see Mrs. Peel burst in and rush down the corridor between the soon-to-be lethal cats, a large cat statue is on the right
  • Youtube video - Steed helps Emma redecorate her flat, but ends up stepping in a tray of paint

Series 5 — Episode 8
The Hidden Tiger

by Philip Levene
Directed by Sidney Hayers

Steed hunts a big cat
Emma is badly scratched

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 648KB)

Production No E.66.6.8
Production completed: January 15 1967. First transmission: March 1 1967.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Emma Peel Diana Rigg regular007Doctor Who
Edwin Cheshire Ronnie Barker The Saint
Dr. Manx Lyndon Brook regularDanger ManThe Professionals
Angora Gabrielle Drake regularThe ProfessionalsThe SaintThe ChampionsUFO
Major Nesbitt John Phillips Danger Man
Peters Michael Forrest regularDanger ManThe SaintUFOCallan
George Erskine Stanley Meadows The ProfessionalsThe SaintThe SweeneyRandall and Hopkirk
Sir David Harper Jack Gwillim Danger Man007The SaintThe Champions
Dawson Frederick Treves Doctor WhoThe SweeneyIndiana Jones
Samuel Jones Brian Haines The Professionals
Williams John Moore regularDoctor WhoThe Champions
Walter Bellamy Reg Pritchard regularDoctor WhoThe Saint
Undertaker Pat Enright The SaintCarry On..
Hearse Driver unknown
Pallbearer 1 unknown
Pallbearer 2 unknown
Moke Driver Alan Stuart regularThe SaintThe SweeneyCarry On..
Moke Driver unknown
Moke Driver unknown
Moke Driver unknown
Credits Legend:
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Credited in press but not on screen
Credited in paperwork only
Uncredited / unattributed role
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® : illustrated from other sources

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