• title card: white all caps text reading ‘THE TOWN OF NO RETURN’ outlined in black and superimposed on a close shot of Saul in fisherman’s cap and jumper, tending his net
  • Close-up of Mrs. Peel revealing her face for the first time by removing her fencing mask; she wears a stretch jersey catsuit fronted in vinyl. Her flat, behind her, has an assortment of neo-Classical ornaments
  • On the train, Steed avoids speaking to Smallwood by burying himself in his book, titled ‘GREAT DISAPPEARING ACTS’
  • Saul chases after Smallwood with his hunting dogs in a stark silhouette
  • Steed threatens Piggy by scorching his moustache
  • Saul advances, threatening Steed with a glowing hot horseshoe
  • Emma and Steed emerge from the grate in the floor of the bunker
  • Emma drives as they ride off on a Vespa motor scooter (back projection scene)

Series 4 — Episode 1
The Town of No Return

by Brian Clemens
Directed by Roy Baker and Peter Graham Scott

Production No E.64.10.1
Production completed: August 3 1965. First transmission: October 2 1965.


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