• title card: white all caps text reading ‘DRESSED TO KILL’ superimposed on a close-up of Christmas decorations - a bauble and some tinsel
  • Some of the fancy dress guests jostle the conductor - the disguised Newman
  • Steed cheekily tweaks the tail of Pussycat’s costume and she responds with saucily feigned indignation, Preston and the barman are in the background on the right
  • Newman, on the right now out of his beard disguises, confers with the barman after drugging Dorothy
  • Steed tries to pick the lock of the handcuffs which are keeping him and Cathy prisoner
  • Back at Steed’s flat, Cathy and Steed sit back to back and enjoy some champagne from champagne saucers

Series 3 — Episode 14
Dressed To Kill

by Brian Clemens
Designed by David Marshall
Directed by Bill Bain

Read the script (PDF 2.7MB)

Production No 3617, VTR/ABC/3194
Production completed: December 6 1963. First transmission: December 28 1963.