• title card: white all caps text reading ‘THE GRAVE- DIGGERS’, outlined in black, superimposed on a view of the graveyeard, ivy creeping over the cross nearest us
  • Marlow lies in his coffin
  • Fred tries to create the illusion that Sir Horace’s train carriage is moving through the countryside with a range of wheezing, puffing old equipment
  • In full surgical garb, Dr. Massie prepares to operate with a blow torch. Miss Thirwell attends on his right while Sager control the gas flow, rather than anaesthetic, in the background. A huge operating theatre light dominates the scene
  • Sir Horace happily rides his miniature steam engine
  • View through the telescope of Massie tying Mrs. Peel to the railway tracks
  • Steed dives under Baron’s legs as they fight on top of the miniature train
  • Steed happily toots the engine’s horn while Mrs. Peel, sitting behind him, covers her ears

Series 4 — Episode 2
The Gravediggers

by Malcolm Hulke
Directed by Quentin Lawrence

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 499KB)
Read the original synopsis (PDF 97KB)

Production No E.64.10.8
Production completed: April 14 1965. First transmission: October 5 1965.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Emma Peel Diana Rigg regular007Doctor Who
Sir Horace Winslip Ronald Fraser Doctor WhoDanger ManIndiana JonesPink PantherThe Sweeney
Dr Johnson Paul Massie
Miss Thirwell Caroline Blakiston regularThe SaintStar WarsThe SweeneyDepartment SRandall and HopkirkThe Champions
Sexton Victor Platt regularThe PrisonerThe Saint
Frederick Charles Lamb Department S
Nurse Spray Wanda Ventham Doctor WhoDanger ManThe PrisonerThe SaintUFOCarry On..The SweeneyDepartment SRandall and Hopkirk
Baron Ray Austin regularThe ProfessionalsThe SaintRandall and HopkirkThe ChampionsDepartment SSpace 1999
Sager Steven Berkoff 007The ProfessionalsThe SaintUFORandall and HopkirkThe Champions
Miller Bryan Mosley regularDoctor WhoThe SaintAdam Adamant
Dr. Hubert Marlow DSc Lloyd Lamble The Prisoner
Vicar unknown
Dr. Palmer Aubrey Richards regularDoctor Who
Pallbearer Steve Emerson Doctor WhoCallan
Pallbearer Cliff Diggins regular007Blake’s 7The SweeneySpace 1999
Pallbearer Joe Farrer regular
Pallbearer Joe Phelps regularDanger ManThe SaintCallanCarry On..
Pallbearer Mike Stevens regular007Star WarsThe SaintRandall and HopkirkUFOCarry On..Space 1999
Pallbearer unknown
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® : illustrated from other sources

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