• title card: white all caps text reading ‘IMMORTAL CLAY’ superimposed on the water tank containing the corpse
  • Machen, on the left, shows Cathy some of the teacups he potted
  • Allen asks Mara out on a date
  • de Groot sneers at Miller for being obsessed with Mara
  • Steed and Mara cling to eachother as they hide in the wardrobe
  • Anne admits to Richard - and Steed - that she let Lander into the pottery

Series 2 — Episode 16
Immortal Clay

Teleplay by James Mitchell
Directed by Richmond Harding

Read the script (PDF 6MB)

Production No 3516, VTR/ABC/2298
Production completed: January 10 1963. First transmission: January 11 1963.

Cast

click a name to see the face
John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Catherine Gale Honor Blackman regular007Danger ManDoctor WhoThe Saint
Richard Marling Paul Eddington regularDanger ManThe PrisonerThe Champions
Harry Miller James Bree regularDoctor WhoRandall and Hopkirk007The ProfessionalsThe SweeneyThe Prisoner
Josh Machen Bert Palmer
Allen Marling Gary Watson regularDoctor WhoCallanRandall and HopkirkThe Saint
De Groot Steve Plytas regularDoctor Who007Danger ManThe ProfessionalsThe SaintDepartment SCarry On..Pink PantherJason KingThe Champions
Anne Marling Rowena Gregory regularDanger ManThe Saint
Mara Little Didi Sullivan
One-Ten Douglas Muir regularThe Saint
Blomberg Frank Olegario 007Danger ManIndiana JonesThe Saint
potter unknown
secretary unknown
potter Graeme Cruickshank regular
potter Philip Webb regularDoctor WhoThe SaintBlake’s 7
potter Frank Fry regularDanger Man (unconfirmed)
potter unknown
potter unknown
potter unknown
potter unknown
barman Paul Eden regular
waiter Leonard Kingston regularDoctor Who
customer unknown
customer unknown
customer unknown
customer unknown
customer unknown
hotel customer Winifred Sabine regular
hotel customer Ernest Blyth regularDoctor Who
hotel customer Maurice Selwyn regularDoctor Who
hotel customer Howard Kingsley regular
Lander (store dummy)
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

24 Extras - 15 Male and 9 Female
(I can’t see three of the women or the last male extra, they might not have been used in the final production).

There was no actor playing Lander in the prologue, the corpse found in the tank was a shop mannequin.


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