• 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 5
Death Of A Batman

by Roger Marshall
Designed by Paul Bernard
Directed by Kim Mills

Production No 3609, VTR unknown
Production completed: August 14 1963. First transmission: October 26 1963.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Catherine Gale Honor Blackman regular007Danger ManDoctor WhoThe Saint
Basil, Lord Teale Andre Morell regularThe ProfessionalsDoctor WhoThe Saint
Eric van Doren Philip Madoc regularDoctor WhoThe SaintSpace 1999UFODad’s ArmyThe SweeneyJason KingRandall and HopkirkThe Champions
Lady Cynthia Bellamy Katy Greenwood
John James Wrightson David Burke The Champions
Victor Gibbs Geoffrey Alexander Adam Adamant
Edith Wrightson Kitty Attwood Adam Adamant
John Cooper Ray Browne regular007The Saint
Clarence Arthur Wrightson Philip Becker regular
Jenny unknown
Goliath Stan Simmons regularDoctor WhoDanger ManUFO
Katie Katie regular
Trade show attendee Richard Pescud regularRandall and Hopkirk
Trade show attendee unknown
Trade show attendee unknown
Trade show attendee unknown
Trade show attendee Philip Webb regularDoctor WhoThe SaintBlake’s 7
Trade show attendee unknown
Trade show attendee Vernon Duke regular
Trade show attendee Richard Nellor regular
Trade show attendee unknown
Trade show attendee unknown
Major Foster MFH Richard Cuthbert regular(photograph only, unconfirmed)
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

Katy Greenwood’s original rehearsal script shows that Lord Teale was originally called Lord Basil de Witt, and Victor Gibbs was originally Victor Grove. Her full name in that script is Lady Cynthia Bellamy-Barnett, daughter of Lord Barnett. In the revised script, she's only referred to as Lady Cynthia Bellamy, and is the daughter of the Earl of Ashdown. There are nine or ten extras (and maybe two more?) in the trade show scene but they’re very peripheral to the action and very hard to capture in a still image.


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