• title card: white all caps text reading ‘THE GILDED CAGE’ superimposed on a neatly stacked pallet of gold ingots
  • Cathy stands between Manley, on the right, and Westwood, confused that they have just arrested her for the murder of Spagge
  • Rev Benham speaks earnestly to Cathy in her prison cell; she faces away from us and is mostly off-screen
  • Cathy, on the left, wearing her leather flying suit, explains her heist plan to the gang, using a floor plan of the vault
  • Close-up of Cathy wearing a gas mask as the heist begins
  • Steed feigns surprise when Cathy tells him there’s a reward of 10% of the haul for Fleming’s capture

Series 3 — Episode 7
The Gilded Cage

by Roger Marshall
Designed by Robert Macgowan
Directed by Bill Bain

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 320KB)

Production No 3614, VTR unknown
Production completed: October 25 1963. First transmission: November 9 1963.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Catherine Gale Honor Blackman regular007Danger ManDoctor WhoThe Saint
John P. Spagge Patrick Magee regularThe Champions
Abe Benham Edric Connor
Fleming Norman Chappell regularCarry On..
Wardress Margo Cunningham The Professionals
Jack Manley Fredric Abbott regularAdam AdamantThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsDanger ManPink PantherThe PrisonerThe SaintDepartment S
Westwood Alan Haywood regularDoctor WhoThe SaintUFO
Hammond Martin Friend regularDoctor Who
Peterson Terence Soall
Gruber Geoff L’Cise regular
Fatso Barker Douglas Cummings regular
Groves Neil Wilson regularDoctor WhoPolice Surgeon
Katie Katie regular
Guard Howard Kingsley regular
Guard unknown
Guard Frank Peters regular (unconfirmed)
Guard Bernard Barnsley 007Doctor Who
Credits Legend:
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Crew: 90% opacity
® : illustrated from other sources

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