• title card: white all caps text reading ‘TOO MANY CHRISTMAS TREES’ superimposed on a man wearing a Santa mask and outfit
  • Top-down view of a seance, there are four places around a round table at each of which is a photograph of Steed, the seat at the bottom of the screen is empty
  • Madame Guillotine kneels before the guillotine alongside the evil Santa, who holds the rope that will make the blade fall
  • Emma twirls around in her Oliver Twist costume, revealing how much, according to Steed, she has filled out(!)
  • Surreal image of a playing card turning into the scary masked Santa figure
  • Jeremy Wade, dressed as Jacob Marley, sits dead in the cobwebs of Miss Haversham’s wedding banquet; Emma’s hand moves some of the cobwebs aside
  • Mrs. Peel disarms Jenkins as they fight in the hall of mirrors
  • Steed hold some mistletoe aloft as they depart, seeking a kiss from Mrs. Peel

Series 4 — Episode 13
Too Many Christmas Trees

by Tony Williamson
Directed by Roy Baker

Read the draft script (PDF 19.6MB)
Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 625KB)
Read the original synopsis (PDF 97KB)

Production No E.64.10.6
Production completed: March 1 1965. First transmission: December 21 1965.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Emma Peel Diana Rigg regular007Doctor Who
Brandon Storey Mervyn Johns regularDanger ManThe Saint
Dr. Felix Teasel Edwin Richfield regularDoctor WhoDanger ManUFOAdam Adamant
Janice Crane Jeanette Sterke
Martin Trasker Alex Scott regularDanger ManThe SaintSpace 1999Randall and HopkirkDepartment SAdam AdamantJason King
Jenkins Robert James regularDoctor WhoThe ProfessionalsBlake’s 7
Jeremy Wade Barry Warren regular
Frederick David Marshall John Wilder regular007The Saint
Bald guest Charles Bird regular
Mrs. Storey Nan Kearns
Old Guest Norman Fisher regularThe SaintThe PrisonerCarry On..
Maid Rachel Clay
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Violinist unknown
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Guest Peter Roy regular007Star WarsDoctor WhoThe SaintThe SweeneyBlake’s 7CallanIndiana JonesCarry On..
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Guest Pat Judge regularDoctor Who007The SaintDad’s ArmyThe SweeneyCarry On..
Guest Muriel Greenslade The Saint
Guest unknown
Guest Mabel Etherington regularThe Saint
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Guest unknown
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® : illustrated from other sources

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