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The original script for this was really bad... 13C: Lucas hides his briefcase under a random seat; scene 31A: Steed finds it in a sarcophagus, in the presence of the ticket collector, who a second earlier had been in the dining car with Mrs. Peel...

Wasn't Moira Lister one of the actresses considered to play Emma Peel, before Elizabeth Shepherd was selected?

Yes, I believe so.
It might have been Moira Redmond.

Of course, you're right.

As an adjunct to the Series 3 General Data - the notes that I made in the Canal Plus archives in 2004 in case they're of *any* use at all:

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Series II Episode 1: The Fear Merchants Dialogue...

Trivia - the only Emma Peel one-word episode title; there's something nice about them!

When colour television started in Australia in 1975 the ABC repeated the 1967 Diana Rigg episodes in a 10pm slot because they considered it a great demonstration of colour film in a television show.
C-Day was March 1st 1975, and Escape in Time...

gotta LOVE Emma's red outfit...hip !

Roy Rossotti had a lot of personal problems.
He was sacked from directing an episode of The Prisoner and Patrick McGoohan took over at short notice (from what I've heard, McGoohan had been disagreeing with Rosotti's approach and contradicting him...

interesting link..pertaining to the hi jinxs of the Cold War...enjoyed reading about that troubled era....

I have stated in the past that the Peel colours are the most formulaic of all the Avengers seasons, but Death's Door can't be accused of this.

We have few back-to-the-apartment scenes and apart from the dreams-made-real plot its quite down to...

Was channel hopping recently and The Curse of the Mummys Tomb (1964) was on Talking Pictures TV. This strongly reminded me of The Return of the Cybernauts. When the mummy enters the library it really resembles it, even to the design of the room....

I always liked this episode. Is it a classic? No. However how they get involved in the case makes way more sense than a lot of the episodes and the plot is logical.

I actually like it better than Death of a Great Dane and that's because of changing...

Steed did realise pretty much straight away something was up. I was going to say that Croft treated Forbes badly, he rants and raves about him being drunk and blames him for the whole mess without evidence but now I think about it, it could be...

It was probably prop sugar glass for the shot and real glass most of the rest of the time

Yes that makes perfect sense

Thanks as always!!

Whatever imperfections one can find an criticisms one can have; DEAD MAN'S TREASURE could only have been on The Avengers. Fifty minutes of charming fun in a fancy-full but not fantastical world. Unlike for instance MURDERSVILLE it does not have a...

One of my favourite closing scenes.
It is utterly charming. Wouldn't it be funny if Steed's subconscious doodlings resulted in JS + CG though... :D

It's a 10 for me. It's a great deal of fun, even if sometimes it gets a bit goofy.

I gave 7

initially, EONS ago, I gave it a 3...re watching it recently, I'll upgrade it to a ' 7 '....

Is it known why Flemyng was removed?

Despite having directed The Fear Merchants, Flemying was discribed by Brian Clemens as not being an Avengers director, which could just about mean anything. All I can think of is that Flemyng fell behind with...

This one is difficult to judge for me as I missed it in taping it and only got to see it once I bought the DVD's. It stands out for me from the other Peel colours.

I would say nice plot idea, but badly executed. As TAF notes the names are messed up...

She was certainly one of the many actresses screen-tested. I didn't hear about how they were ranked, though (if at all).

Wasn't Emma watching the Cybernauts in this episode at the start? That sort of makes you feel it's all a joke as such as how could she be rewatching the events of that episode if it was real life? Christopher Lee's Frank N. Stone was not lost on me...

I can't say I noticed any little holes in the plot, but I suppose, with the number of times the great bouncy ball scene occurs, they just had to cut something else! The scenes are funny each time and Clive Dunn is good. It's a pity, though, that...

My problem is its lack of originality, being more or less the exact same plot as Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians novel.

This is one of just 3 or 4 episodes that stuck in my memory long after watching it on first broadcast in my pre-teen...

Not the biggest fan of the colour Emma Peel era, but this one is quirky enough that I've always enjoyed it! Same with Murdersville.