• title card: black all caps text reading ‘THE UNDERTAKERS’ superimposed on a cap and a pistol lying on a white table
  • Paula hangs up the phone while Lomax sits next to her on the step
  • Paula smiles, her face reflected in the mirror next to her, as Lomax leaves; Daphne is less impressed with the man
  • Madden emerges vampirically from his coffin hiding-place
  • Cathy questions the loopy Mrs. Renter as the old lady chats to a bird in a cage
  • Steed pats the bottom of one of the statues in the grounds of the nursing home

Series 3 — Episode 2
The Undertakers

by Malcolm Hulke
Designed by David Marshall
Directed by Bill Bain

Read the script (PDF 2.3MB)

Production No 3608, VTR/ABC/2899
Production completed: August 2 1963. First transmission: October 5 1963.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Catherine Gale Honor Blackman regular007Danger ManDoctor WhoThe Saint
Lomax Lee Patterson Jason King
Paula Madden Jan Holden regularThe SaintThe Champions
Mrs. Renter Lally Bowers
Robert Madden Patrick Holt regular007Randall and HopkirkThe Saint
Daphne Madden Mandy Miller The Saint
Green Howard Goorney regularDanger ManThe Saint
Mrs. Lomax Marcella Markham
Wilkinson Ronald Russell
Mrs. Baker Helena McCarthy
Reeve Denis Forsyth
Pallbearer (Frank Harper) Valentino Musetti regularSpace 1999007CallanThe Professionals
Pallbearer Richard Turner regular
Pallbearer Leonard Kingston regularDoctor Who
Pallbearer John Dennison regular
Professor Renter unknown
Adelphi resident Malcolm Watson regularDoctor WhoCallan
Adelphi resident unknown
Adelphi resident unknown
Adelphi resident unknown
Adelphi resident unknown
Adelphi resident Richard Cuthbert regular
Credits Legend:
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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

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