• title card: white all caps text reading ‘ESPRIT DE CORPS’ superimposed with dark dropshadow over a shot of the kilted soldiers marching away after the execution, the piper in the middle of the frame
  • Cathy, standing in a mackintosh in front of the office swing doors, asks a thoughtful Captain Trench a question
  • Jessop, in his mess whites, asks the guard what Steed was up to
  • The General presides over the court-martial, his drummer behind him
  • Jessop ensures Steed’s blindfold is straight as he awaits his execution in front of a row of sandbags
  • Cathy looks away from the General, who is disappointed to discover that she was not his Queen after all

Series 3 — Episode 25
Esprit De Corps

by Eric Paice
Designed by David Marshall
Directed by Don Leaver

Read the script (PDF 900KB)

Production No 3624, VTR/ABC/3481
Production completed: March 11 1964. First transmission: March 14 1964.

Crew

Honor Blackman’s wardrobe designed by Frederick Starke regular
written by Eric Paice regular
story editor Richard Bates regular
THE AVENGERS theme composed and played by Johnny Dankworth regular
designed by David Marshall regularCallan
producer John Bryce regular
Directed by Don Leaver regularCallanPolice Surgeon
Floor Manager John Russell regular
Stage Manager Mary Lewis regular
P.A. Anne Summerton regular
P.A. Timer Pamela Bedford regular (billed as Pam Bedford)
Call Boy David Granger regular
Wardrobe Audrey Riddle regular
Wardrobe Sally Russell regular
Technical Supervisor Peter Wayne regular
Lighting Supervisor Peter Kew regular
Sound Supervisor John Tasker regular
Senior Cameraman Dickie Jackman regular
Racks unknown
Vision Mixer Gordon Hesketh regular
an ABC Production
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