• title card: white all caps text reading ‘DEATH A LA CARTE’ superimposed on a close-up of mushrooms growing in a box of soil
  • The Emir admonishes his doctor, Mellor stand between them
  • Steed, posing as Sebastian Stonemarten, tries his luck with Josie
  • Lucien ices a cake for the Emir, the country’s coat of arms on the top
  • Mellor and Ali plan what to do next
  • Umberto gives up the fake Italian pose and serves fish and chips to Steed and Cathy

Series 3 — Episode 13
Death à la Carte

by John Lucarotti
Designed by Richard Harrison
Directed by Kim Mills

Read the script (PDF 2.3MB)

Production No 3604, VTR/ABC/2716
Production completed: June 7 1963. First transmission: December 21 1963.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Catherine Gale Honor Blackman regular007Danger ManDoctor WhoThe Saint
Brigadier Mellor Robert James regularDoctor WhoThe ProfessionalsBlake’s 7
Emir Abdulla Akaba Henry Soskin regularThe ChampionsThe Saint
Dr. Sir Ralph Spender Paul Dawkins regularThe ProfessionalsDad’s Army
Arbuthnot Ken Parry regularThe Sweeney
Lucien Chaplet Gordon Rollings regularCarry On..Pink Panther
Umberto Equi David Nettheim Doctor WhoThe PrisonerThe Saint
Josie Coral Atkins CallanThe Sweeney
Ali Valentino Musetti regularSpace 1999007CallanThe Professionals
Army officer Charlie Price 007Danger ManThe PrisonerCarry On..
Chef Frank Fry regularDanger Man (unconfirmed)
Chef unknown
Chef unknown
Waiter unknown
Kitchen hand unknown
Kitchen hand 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 script credits “+ 7 male extras as chefs, kitchen porter, washers up, waiter and Army Officer”.


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