• title card: white all caps text reading ‘ROOM WITHOUT A VIEW’ outlined in black and superimposed on a close-up of a Chinese disc wind chime
  • Mrs. Peel fights the laundryman who has helped abduct Dr. Wadkin
  • Pasold collapses as he tries to turn off the gas pouring from the radiator
  • Over the shoulder view of the guard stroking Mrs. Peel’s neck menacingly with his riding crop as she looks up at him from the straw floor
  • Steed remarks that Chessman’s business is booming as they regard the huge world map on the wall
  • Steed, in his white waiter’s uniform, encounters the gas-mask wearing guard hiding in the wardrobe or room 621
  • Steed turns to look towards us - and the oncoming guards, as he is unlocking Emma’s cell door; she peers through the grilled window
  • Steed conveys Emma away in a rickshaw (or at least, their stunt doubles do)

Series 4 — Episode 15
Room Without a View

by Roger Marshall
Directed by Roy Baker

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 802KB)
Read the original synopsis (PDF 113KB)

Production No E.64.10.9
Production completed: April 29 1965. First transmission: January 4 1966.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Emma Peel Diana Rigg regular007Doctor Who
Max Chessman Paul Whitsun-Jones regularDoctor WhoThe SaintDepartment SJason King
Varnals Peter Jeffrey regularDoctor WhoThe SaintAdam AdamantThe SweeneyPink Panther
Dr. George Cullen Richard Bebb regularDanger ManBlake’s 7
Carter Philip Latham regularDoctor WhoDanger ManThe ProfessionalsThe SaintUFO
Leonard Martin Pasold Peter Arne regularDanger ManThe SaintPink PantherDepartment SThe Champions
Pushkin Vernon Dobtcheff regularDoctor Who007Blake’s 7The SaintThe ChampionsIndiana JonesThe Sweeney
Dr. John Wadkin Peter Madden regularDanger Man007The SaintThe ChampionsAdam Adamant
Anna Wadkin Jeanne Roland Danger Man007The SaintThe Champions
Grace Martin Julie Pauline
George / Waiter unknown* regularThe ChampionsDanger ManThe SaintCarry On..
Olivia unknown
Interrogator / Laundryman Anthony Chinn Danger Man007The ProfessionalsUFOIndiana JonesPink PantherThe Champions
Guard / Laundryman Romo Gorrara regular007The PrisonerThe SaintIndiana JonesPink Panther
Laundryman unknown
Waiter unknown
Waiter Victor Chapman regular007Danger ManThe SaintThe PrisonerRandall and HopkirkUFOThe SweeneyPink PantherCarry On..
Head Waiter Fred Stone
Laundry van driver Peter Evans regular007Doctor WhoThe SaintThe PrisonerThe ChampionsPink PantherCarry On..
Laundryman Don Archell regularDanger ManThe Saint
Night Receptionist Cassandra Chapman regular007
Day Receptionist Aleta Morrison regular007
Fake Dr. Cullen unknown regular
Maitre d’hôtel Andrew Andreas regularDanger ManDoctor WhoAdam AdamantThe Professionals
Room Service Donald Webb regularDanger ManCarry On..
Lift Attendant Sidney Jennings Danger ManCarry On..
Lift Attendant John Tatum regularThe SaintThe Champions
Lift Attendant Fred Machon regular007Danger ManThe SaintThe PrisonerThe ChampionsCarry On..
Lift Attendant John Wilder regular007The Saint
Guard Terry Plummer regular007The SaintPink Panther
Room Service Ned Lynch regularDanger Man007The SaintThe PrisonerThe Champions
Barman Pat Ryan regular007Danger ManThe SaintThe SweeneyCarry On..
Waiter Michael Dempsey regularDoctor WhoThe Saint
Hotel guest unknown
Hotel guest John Howard regular007
Hotel guest Roy Beck regular007The SaintThe PrisonerUFOThe ChampionsCarry On..
Hotel guest unknown
Hotel guest unknown
Hotel guest Enice Bennett regular007
Hotel guest unknown
Hotel guest unknown
Hotel guest unknown
Hotel guest unknown
Hotel guest Ian Selby regularDanger ManThe SaintCarry On..
Hotel guest unknown
Credits Legend:
Credited
Credited but not listed in press
Credited in press but not on screen
Credited in paperwork only
Uncredited / unattributed role
Crew: 90% opacity
® : illustrated from other sources

Strangely, Jeanne Roland was credited for her part as Anna Wadkin in the TV Times but received no on-screen credit at the end of the episode.

* Previously identified as John Cam but probably is not.


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