• title card: white all caps text reading ‘BRIEF FOR MURDER’ superimposed on a close-up of Steed in the pub, looking thoughtful
  • In the old-fashioned, wood-panelled pub, Steed, centre stage, shares a drink with Wescott on his left and Dicey on his right to celebrate Wescott’s acquittal
  • Steed, leaning on the fork of a tree, aims his revolver; he’s dressed in a check blazer and black bowler hat
  • In court: Steed demonstrates that the bowler hat found at the crime scene is far too big for him - his head disappearing into it
  • Barbara Kingston wraps up her case, the Lakin brothers sitting on the bench to her left and behind her.
  • Realising they are undone, the Lakin brother search their law book for a precedent

Series 3 — Episode 1
Brief For Murder

by Brian Clemens
Designed by James Goddard
Directed by Peter Hammond

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 305KB)

Production No 3600, VTR unknown
Production completed: April 11 1963. First transmission: September 28 1963.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Catherine Gale Honor Blackman regular007Danger ManDoctor WhoThe Saint
Jasper Lakin John Laurie regularDad’s Army
Miles Lakin Harold Scott
Barbara Kingston Helen Lindsay regularPolice Surgeon
Ronald Henry Wescott Alec Ross regularDoctor Who
Dicey Hunt June Thody
Wilson Anthony Baird regularDanger ManCarry On..Randall and Hopkirk
Miss Elizabeth Prinn Alice Fraser
Inspector Marsh Fred Ferris regularDoctor WhoThe Saint
Bart Michael Goldie Doctor Who
Judge Thomas H. Hardesty Robert Young
Maisie Pamela Wardel
Foreman of the Jury Walter Swash regular
Constable of the court unknown
Constable outside court unknown
Clerk of the court unknown
Usher of the court Philip Webb regularDoctor WhoThe SaintBlake’s 7
Barrister Gerry Wain Doctor WhoDanger ManCarry On
Barrister unknown
Barrister unknown
Gaol warden unknown
Juror Billy John regularThe Saint
Juror James Darwin regular
Pub patron/court audience unknown
Pub patron/court audience Richard Cuthbert regular
Pub patron/court audience unknown
Pub patron/court audience unknown
Pub patron/court audience Martin White regular
Pub patron/juror Robert Manning regular
Pub patron unknown
Pub patron Terry Brewer regular
Pub patron/court audience unknown
Court audience Rex Rashley regularDoctor Who
Court audience unknown
Court audience Aileen Lewis regular007The PrisonerThe SaintThe SweeneyCallanCarry On
Pub patron unknown
Pub patron unknown
Yoga student unknown
Yoga student unknown
Yoga student/court audience/pub patron Aleta Morrison regular007
Yoga student unknown
Yoga student Polly Perkins The Sweeney
Yoga student/court audience/pub patron unknown
Credits Legend:
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Credited in press but not on screen
Credited in paperwork only
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Crew: 90% opacity
® : illustrated from other sources

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