• title card: white all caps text reading ‘THE WRINGER’ superimposed on Hal anxiously holding his hand to his mouth as he sits in the train
  • Steed in the foreground wearing a pinned and chalk-marked jacket as Lovell measures him for a suit
  • Charles sits between Hal and Steed, all three in suit and tie, as Hal outlines the allegations against Steed. A reel to reel tape, out of focus in the extreme foreground, records the conversation
  • Steed stares at one of the brainwashing images, a hypnotising spiral, projected onto the wall outside his wire cage
  • The Wringers bites his thumb as he grins fiendishly down on Hal and Steed in the fire tower
  • Cathy sits on Steed’s sofa, her right arm in a black sling (to match her outfit) as he pours them both a cup of coffee

Series 3 — Episode 17
The Wringer

by Martin Woodhouse
Designed by Philip Harrison
Directed by Don Leaver

Read the script (PDF 900KB)

Production No 3618, VTR/ABC/3231
Production completed: December 20 1963. First transmission: January 18 1964.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Catherine Gale Honor Blackman regular007Danger ManDoctor WhoThe Saint
Hal Anderson Peter Sallis CallanDanger ManDoctor Who
Charles Paul Whitsun-Jones regularDoctor WhoThe SaintJason KingDepartment S
Oliver Barry Letts Doctor WhoPolice Surgeon
Lovell Gerald Sim regularThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
The Wringer Terence Lodge regularDoctor WhoJason King
Bethune Neil Robinson Pink Panther
Murdo Douglas Cummings regular
Frederick Sempel unknown
Arne Langstrom unknown
George Arnold Meyer unknown
Ann Lisa Pravicz unknown
Herman Ludner unknown
Arthur Leacock unknown
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

The script notes: “+ 1 Male Extra doubling Steed’s Hand for cut-away shots”.


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