• title card: white all caps text reading ‘BOX OF TRICKS’ superimposed on Valerie’s body, lying face down on the floor with a bullet wound in her back
  • extreme close-up of Henriette talking to Steed
  • Denise’s body has fallen out of the cabinet, face up, strangled by a stocking
  • Venus anxiously prepares to enter the cabinet as Weston performs his act. The Dave Lee Trio can be seen in the background
  • Weston takes the tape from Gallam and threads it onto the player hidden inside the upright piano
  • Venus and Steed dance, Henriette is annoyed by Venus’ non-stop chattering

Series 2 — Episode 17
Box of Tricks

Teleplay by Peter Ling and Edward Rhodes
Directed by Kim Mills

Read the script (PDF 4.9MB)

Production No 3517, VTR/ABC/2299
Production completed: January 17 1963. First transmission: January 18 1963.

Cast

click a name to see the face
John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Venus Smith Julie Stevens regular
Kathleen Sutherland Jane Barrett
General Sutherland Maurice Hedley Adam AdamantThe Saint
Dr. Gallam Edgar Wreford Blake’s 7
Gerry Weston Ian Curry Carry On..
Denise April Olrich
Manager (The Major) Dallas Cavell regularThe ChampionsDoctor Who
Henriette Jacqueline Jones
with
maitre d’ Robert Hartley
Harry Royston Tickner Doctor WhoThe Saint
Mary Gail Starforth
Valerie Lynn Taylor regularDanger Man
Nino Gregory Scott regular
and The Dave Lee Trio:
himself Dave Lee regularAdam Adamant
himself Art Morgan regular
himself Spike Heatley regular
Extras:
Gallam’s nurse unknown
hostess Julie La Rousse regular
hostess Paddy Kent regular
hostess unknown
hostess Yvette Herries regular
hostess unknown
club patron/British admiral Charlie Stewart Blake’s 7
club patron Paul Eden regular
club patron/West German general Vernon Duke regular
waiter unknown
dustman/club patron Leonard Kingston regularDoctor Who
club patron unknown
club patron John Sefton regular007
club patron unknown
club patron unknown
club patron unknown
club patron/French general John Cabot regularCarry On..
club patron 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

+ 10 men, 10 women extras as Waiters, Dustman, Members of N.A.T.O. conference, Hostesses and night-club clientele. (I’m missing two of the male extras, but I never saw a dustman or waiter).


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