• 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.

Crew

Produced by Albert Fennell regularThe Professionals
and Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
Executive Producer Julian Wintle regular
Directed by Sidney Hayers regularThe Professionals
Teleplay by All characters and events in this teleplay are fictitious and any similarity to actual events or persons, living or dead, is purely co-incidental.
Music by Laurie Johnson regularThe ProfessionalsJason King
Production Controller Jack Greenwood regular
Production Designer Robert Jones regular
Director of Photography Ernest Steward regularCarry On..Callan (sic, proper title is Ernest Steward B.S.C.)
Supervising Editor Peter Tanner regular
Production Manager Geoffrey Haine regularThe Champions
Principal items of Mr. Macnee’s wardrobe designed by Pierre Cardin regular
Miss Rigg’s costumes designed by Alun Hughes regular
Casting Director G.B. Walker regularThe Saint
Unit Manager Richard Dalton regular
Unit Manager Laurie Greenwood regularThe Sweeney
Assistant Director Ron Purdie regularThe Professionals
Camera Operator James Bawden regularCarry On..
Art Director Len Townsend regular
Continuity Mary Spain regular
Hairdressing Hilda Fox regular
Make-up Basil Newall regular007UFOSpace 1999
Wardrobe Jean Fairlie regularUFO
Editor Tony Palk regular
Recording Director A.W. Lumkin regularThe Saint
Sound Recordist Ken Rawkins regularUFO
Dubbing Mixer Len Abbott regularThe ChampionsThe SaintDepartment S
Sound Editor Rydal Love regularThe ChampionsThe SaintDepartment S
Music Editor Karen Heward regular
Construction Manager Charles Hammerton regular
Supervisory Electrician Steve Birtles regularThe Saint
Stunt Arranger Ray Austin regularThe ProfessionalsThe SaintRandall and HopkirkThe ChampionsDepartment SSpace 1999
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