• title card: white all caps text reading ‘THE MASTER MINDS’ outlined in black and superimposed on the scene in the vault of the guardsmen looting the safe
  • Mrs. Peel is installed as Sir Clive’s nurse, his doctor looks on approvingly at her uniform
  • Davina reveals that she has really just returned from the South of France - still wearing nothing but a bikini under her fur coat
  • The Professor hangs upside down from the ceiling, relishing the bloodflow to his brain
  • Steed narrowly avoids being skewered when he walk in front of an archery target
  • Emma lies on the trampoline in a black leotard as she discusses events with Steed
  • Emma takes aim at Steed with her bow
  • Mrs. Peel smiles through the torn film screen after defeating Holly Trent

Series 4 — Episode 6
The Master Minds

by Robert Banks Stewart
Directed by Peter Graham Scott

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 689KB)
Read the original synopsis (PDF 85KB)

Production No E.64.10.3
Production completed: January 8 1965. First transmission: November 2 1965.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Emma Peel Diana Rigg regular007Doctor Who
Sir Clive Todd Laurence Hardy Callan
Holly Trent Patricia Haines regularDanger ManThe SaintRandall and HopkirkThe ChampionsDepartment SAdam Adamant
Desmond Leeming Bernard Archard regularDoctor WhoDanger ManThe ProfessionalsDad’s ArmyCallanPolice Surgeon
Dr. Fergus Campbell Ian McNaughton
Sir Jeremy John Wentworth regularThe PrisonerThe SaintCallan
Davinia Todd Georgina Ward Danger Man
Major Plessy Manning Wilson The Saint
Findler Harvey Hall regularDanger ManThe SaintDepartment S
Allan St. Johnson MP unknown
Sir Clive’s butler Harry Hutchinson regular
Sir Clive’s doctor Frank Mills regularDoctor WhoThe Sweeney
Sir Clive’s nurse Geraldine Addison The SaintThe Sweeney
St. Johnson’s secretary unknown
Barman Emil Stemmler regularDanger ManThe SaintCarry On..
Philandering MP & Egghead John Wilder regular007The Saint
Background MP George Holdcroft regularCarry On..The PrisonerThe SaintThe Sweeney
Man in bar Tony Mendelssohn regularDanger ManThe SaintThe Prisoner
Woman in bar Pearl Walters 007Carry On..The PrisonerThe Saint
Man in bar unknown
Archer unknown
Archer & Egghead Jack Mandeville regularDanger ManThe Saint
Marjorie unknown
Professor Spencer Martin Miller Doctor WhoDanger ManThe PrisonerThe SaintAdam AdamantDepartment S
Lieutenant Hardcastle Nigel Lambert regularDoctor WhoBlake’s 7UFO
Filson Paddy Ryan regularDoctor Who007Randall and HopkirkAdam Adamant
Cute Egghead Elizabeth Reber
Egghead Raf de la Torre Doctor Who
Egghead unknown
Egghead unknown
Egghead Joe Phelps regularDanger ManThe SaintCallanCarry On..
Egghead Donald Webb regularDanger ManCarry On..
Egghead unknown
Egghead unknown
Egghead unknown
gymnast Jackie Cooper regular007Doctor WhoThe PrisonerUFOPink Panther
Man in rowing machine Joe Farrer regular
Credits Legend:
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Credited in press but not on screen
Credited in paperwork only
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® : illustrated from other sources

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