• title card: white text reading ‘Dead On Course’ superimposed on the burning wreck of an aeroplane
  • Steed talks to Dr. King, who is gazing at the see-through air controller’s map that is between the camera and them. He taps his chin with some papers
  • Sister Isobel keeps a vigil by Margot’s bedside
  • Deidre in close-up, being questioned by Steed (off-screen)
  • Dr. King finds molotov cocktails in the crate of holy wine that Vincent opens for him
  • The Mother Superior fires a hail of bullets from her submachinegun up the ladder

Series 2 — Episode 14
Dead on Course

Teleplay by Eric Paice
Directed by Richmond Harding

Read the script (PDF 6MB)

Production No 3501, VTR/ABC/1778
Production completed: May 26 1962. First transmission: December 29 1962.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Dr. Martin King Jon Rollason regularDanger ManDoctor Who
Freedman John McLaren 007The Saint
Michael Joyce Liam Gaffney Danger Man
Vincent O’Brien Donal Donnelly Department S
Mother Superior Peggy Marshall
Deidre O’Connor Elisabeth Murray
Sister Isobel Janet Hargreaves Danger ManDoctor Who
Hughes Nigel Arkwright
Bob (Robert Austin) Slade Bruce Boa regular007Carry On..The ChampionsThe ProfessionalsThe SaintStar Wars
Margot Margo Jenkins
Pilot Trevor Reid
and
Gerry Edward Kelsey Doctor WhoThe Saint
kiosk woman Mollie Maureen CallanPink PantherThe Sweeney
ambulance man Denis Cleary Adam AdamantDoctor Who
man disguised as a nun Wilfred Grove Danger Man
navigator unknown
corpse unknown
ambulance man/man in bar Bill Richards regularDoctor WhoAdam Adamant
nun unknown
nun unknown
nun unknown
nun unknown
nun unknown
nun unknown
nun unknown
Credits Legend:
Credited
Credited but not listed in press
Credited in press but not on screen
Credited in paperwork only
Uncredited / unattributed role
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® : illustrated from other sources

The camera script notes 7 female extras and 4 male extras. With Bill Richards doubling up as man in bar and second ambulance man, and the corpse potentially being the same person as the navigator (there is a publicity still that shows he is in uniform) then they may have reduced it to 2 male extras.

The TV Times listing has a misprint, listing Vincent O’Brien as Vincet O’Brien.


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