• title card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left reading ‘THE JOKER’ superimposed on someone wearing a mustard jumper cutting up Emma’s photo with a pair of scissors
  • subtitle card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left reading ‘STEED TRUMPS AN ACE EMMA PLAYS A LONE HAND’ superimposed on the hands feverishly chopped at the remains of the photograph with the scissors
  • Youtube video - Mr. Peel drops round to see Steed who stumbles down his stairs. She breaks in and he gasps, ‘Mrs. Peel, you’re needed’
  • The inside of the house with the ominous Death’s head ace playing card as the door at the top of the stairs
  • The Strange Young Man holds the severed telephone wires up for Emma to see
  • Emma stares wildly at the carving knife embedded in the pine wall of the kitchen by the door
  • A worried Emma stands behind a chair, the candles on the foreground are ot of focus with the narrow field
  • An extreme close-up of Prendergast, so close he entrirely fills the screen and you can’t see all of his face
  • Youtube video - Steed is playing Solitaire when Emma drops round. He shows her a card trick - the two cards she chooses add up to the year of his vintage champagne; she throws down two jokers

Series 5 — Episode 15
The Joker

by Brian Clemens
Directed by Sidney Hayers

Steed trumps an ace
Emma plays a lone hand

Read the shooting script (PDF 3.42MB)
Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 665KB)

Production No E.66.6.15
Production completed: April 11 1967. First transmission: April 26 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 Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
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 Alan Hume regular007Carry On..Star Wars (billed as Alan Hume 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 Ted Lewis regular
Camera Operator Tony White regularThe SaintSpace 1999Department S
Art Director Kenneth Tait regularDepartment S (billed as K. McCallum Tait)
Continuity Gladys Goldsmith regular007Carry On..Space 1999
Hairdressing Hilda Fox regular
Make-up Basil Newall regular007UFOSpace 1999
Wardrobe Jean Fairlie regularUFO
Recording Director A.W. Lumkin regularThe Saint
Sound Recordist Simon Kaye regular007Indiana Jones
Dubbing Mixer Len Abbott regularThe ChampionsThe SaintDepartment S
Sound Editor Jack T. Knight regular007Space 1999
Music Editor Karen Heward regular
Construction Manager Charles Hammerton regular
Supervisory Electrician Walter Thompson regularThe Saint (billed as Wally Thompson)
Stunt Arranger Ray Austin regularThe ProfessionalsThe SaintRandall and HopkirkThe ChampionsDepartment SSpace 1999
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