• title card: white all caps text reading ‘DEATH OF A BATMAN’ superimposed on photograph of Steed in Army uniform
  • Steed struggles to find room to swing his polo mallet in his flat while Cathy chats to him from the sofa
  • Lady Cynthia is quite taken with the dashing Mr Steed - a close-up of her face
  • Steed encounters Goliath in the darkened florists
  • Van Doren looks on uneasily as Lord Teale speaks on the phone
  • Steed is perturbed by Van Doren’s revolver, which has just appeared near his left temple

Series 3 — Episode 10
Death Of A Batman

by Roger Marshall
Designed by Paul Bernard
Directed by Kim Mills

Read the script (PDF 1.7MB)

Production completed: 14 August 1963. First transmission: 26 October 1963

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular 007
Catherine Gale Honor Blackman regular 007 Danger Man Doctor Who The Saint
Basil, Lord Teale Andre Morell regular The Professionals Doctor Who The Saint
Eric van Doren Philip Madoc regular Doctor Who The Saint Space 1999 UFO Dad’s Army The Sweeney Jason King Randall and Hopkirk The Champions
Lady Cynthia Bellamy-Barnett Katy Greenwood
John James Wrightson David Burke The Champions
Victor Gibbs Geoffrey Alexander Adam Adamant
Edith Wrightson Kitty Attwood Adam Adamant
Cooper Ray Browne regular 007 The Saint
Clarence Arthur Wrightson unknown
Jenny unknown
Goliath unknown
and
Katie Katie regular
Trade show attendee Richard Pescud regular(unconfirmed)
Trade show attendee unknown
Trade show attendee unknown
Trade show attendee unknown
Trade show attendee Raymond Hodge regular
Trade show attendee unknown
Trade show attendee Vernon Duke regular
Trade show attendee Richard Nellor regular
Trade show attendee unknown
man in newspaper photo Richard Cuthbert regular(unconfirmed)

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