• title card: white all caps text reading ‘THE MAURITIUS PENNY’ superimposed on Peckham’s body slumped over his desk
  • Brown watches the auction from behind a brass eagle
  • Brown shoots Goodchild in the middle of the auction hall when the auctioneer’s gavel falls
  • extreme close-up of Cathy being shocked
  • Dr. Gray threatens Steed with her dental instruments
  • Matterley announces to the facists that the day of New Rule has been postponed

Series 2 — Episode 7
The Mauritius Penny

Teleplay by Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks
Directed by Richmond Harding

Production No 3510, VTR/ABC/2075
Production completed: October 18 1962. First transmission: November 10 1962.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Catherine Gale Honor Blackman regular007Danger ManDoctor WhoThe Saint
Brown Alfred Burke regularDanger ManThe SaintRandall and Hopkirk
Gerald Shelley David Langton regularThe Champions
Lord Matterley Richard Vernon 007Pink PantherThe SaintUFODepartment S
Sheila Gray Sylvia Langova regular
W. Maitland Edward Jewesbury Danger ManIndiana JonesThe Saint
Percy Peckham Harry Shacklock regularCarry On..
Paul Goodchild Philip Guard
Inspector Burke Alan Rolfe
Charlady (Elsie) Grace Arnold regularThe Prisoner
P.C. Andrews Edward Higgins regularThe Saint
Miss Power Delia Corrie
Porter Raymond Hodge regular
Lorry driver Edwin Brown regularThe Saint
Lorry driver’s mate (Charlie) Anthony Blackshaw regular007The SaintAdam Adamant
Foreign delegate Theodore Wilhelm Jason King
Boy Anthony Rogers Doctor Who
herself Freckles regular
Auction hand unknown
bidder/fascist Malcolm Watson regularDoctor WhoCallan
bidder/fascist unknown
bidder/fascist Len Russell regularDoctor Who
bidder/fascist Alban Blakelock regular
bidder/fascist Bert Simms Doctor WhoAdam Adamant
bidder/fascist woman unknown
bidder/fascist Billy John regular007The Saint
bidder/fascist unknown
bidder/fascist unknown
bidder/fascist unknown
bidder/fascist unknown
bidder/fascist woman unknown
bidder/fascist unknown
bidder/fascist unknown
bidder/fascist Philip Becker regular
bidder/fascist unknown
Northern delegate Gordon Davis regular
uniformed fascist Paul Blomley regular
fascist woman unknown
uniformed fascist Keith Goodman regularDanger ManDoctor WhoPolice SurgeonCallan
fascist woman unknown
fascist woman unknown
fascist unknown
fascist unknown
fascist unknown
fascist woman unknown
uniformed fascist unknown
uniformed fascist unknown
Credits Legend:
Credited
Credited but not listed in press
Credited in press but not on screen
Credited in paperwork only
Uncredited / unattributed role
Crew: 90% opacity
® : illustrated from other sources

The camera script reads “Plus 24 male and 6 female extras” but there only seem to be 21 male extras used - it looks like they did away with all the non-speaking porters from the auction room scenes.


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