• title card: white all caps text reading ‘A SURFEIT OF H20’ outlined in black and superimposed on Barker lying on the ground, gasping for air in the torrent of rain
  • Mrs. Peel sips a cup of tea in Eli’s house while holding an umbrella over her head
  • Eli’s boots lie at the feet of a man-shaped pool of water in the soggy field
  • Mrs. Peel emerges from a hut dressed is a very tight PVC mack and black and white rubber hat
  • A close up of Sir Arnold’s notepad, starting to get soaked with rain. It reads ‘Rain contains silver iodide - excessive amount indicates it was introduced by man.’
  • Dr. Sturm subjects Mrs. Peel to torture in the wine press, her head and shoulders emerge from under the machinery
  • Close-up of Mrs. Peel during the fight in the rainstorm; water pours off her cap and hair and she is thoroughly wet
  • Steed and Emma gaze meaningfully at each other before they depart in her Moke

Series 4 — Episode 8
A Surfeit of H2O

by Colin Finbow
Directed by Sidney Hayers

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 791KB)
Read the original synopsis (PDF 93KB)

Production No E.64.10.10
Production completed: May 11 1965. First transmission: November 16 1965.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Emma Peel Diana Rigg regular007Doctor Who
Jonah Barnard Noel Purcell The SaintCarry On..
Dr. Sturm Albert Lieven
Joyce Jason Sue Lloyd regularThe SaintPink PantherThe SweeneyJason KingRandall and HopkirkDepartment S
Eli Barker Talfryn Thomas regularDoctor WhoThe SaintDad’s ArmyAdam Adamant
Sir Arnold Kelly John Kidd regular
Martin Smythe Geoffrey Palmer regularDoctor Who007The ProfessionalsThe SaintPolice SurgeonThe Sweeney
Ted Barker Michael Corcoran regularDanger Man
Frederick Terry Plummer regular007The SaintPink Panther
Heckler unknown
Heckler Charles Rayford regular
Heckler Robin Burns Doctor WhoThe Saint
Heckler unknown
Heckler John Timberlake regularDoctor WhoThe SaintThe PrisonerCarry On..
Heckler David Baker regular
Heckler John Adams
Heckler unknown
Heckler unknown
Heckler Del Baker regular007Danger ManThe SweeneySpace 1999Blake’s 7
Technician Joe Farrer regular
Small Boy Steven Morley Doctor WhoDanger Man
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