Series 6 — Episode 29
Take-Over

Regional broadcasts

TV Times listing

International broadcasts

This episode was one of five that were left out of the initial run of series 6 in Melbourne, Australia, and was eventually rescreened in 1970 after the “Steed’s Choice” series of repeats of seven selected episode from series 5.

This episode was not broadcast in Switzerland or Germany at the time; Italy didn’t see it until 1982.

Continuity & Trivia

1. 4:00 — Tara gives Steed a shotgun belonging to her uncle, who had never used it. When Steed asks why, she says the young man married the uncle’s daughter of his own free will.
2. 14:31 — Obvious back-projection used for the driving scene with Steed in the Rolls-Royce.
3. 15:15 — Steed knocks at the garden door with a “shave and a haircut” knock.
4. 15:22 — Steed greet them with the words, “Happy Christmas”.
5. 16:02 — Steed explains that Bill and her were taken prisoner in Nanking, no window in the cell, we lost track of time.
6. 19:13 — “I haven’t seen a room clear so quickly since Freddy Furman took a live skunk into the Turkish Baths”
7. 20:34 — “I spend all my money on new noses”.
8. 24:21 — Is that product placement for the brand of Steed’s watch?
9. 24:28 — you can see the crew’s equipment reflected in the glass of the picture frame on the wall.
10. 32:55 — When Steed hides behind the tree, both the close-up of him and the mid shot of Fenton are out of focus.
11. 38:31 — there’s a ribbon sticking out over the top centre of the camera lens as Lomax approaches the window and uses his binoculars.
12. 42:40 — Tara is bound and gagged by Fenton and Sexton.
13. 44:00 — Cyd Child takes over in defeating Circe.
14. Running time: 49′57″

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