• title card: white all caps text reading ‘QUICK-QUICK SLOW DEATH’ outlined in black and superimposed on the dead man’s arm, showing the tattoo reading ‘Lucille’
  • Huggins lies on the changeroom floor, the torn ledger on his chest and a dagger protruding from his waist
  • Piedi kneels on the floor with his hand on Emma’s foot which he has plunged into the bowl of plaster; she is sitting with her legs crossed on a chair in front of him
  • Nicki and Emma try to teach their toe-crushing students how to dance the cha cha
  • Emma turns away from Lucille, worrying where she’s going to hide the enormous garlic sausage Steed has just given her
  • The extras from central casting whirl around the ballroom in their evening best
  • The foreign agent pauses as he raises his cosh to belt Steed over the head
  • Emma and Steed dance away as a muslin veil is overlaid the picture

Series 4 — Episode 19
Quick-Quick Slow Death

by Robert Banks Stewart
Directed by James Hill

Read the shooting script (PDF 1.7MB)
Read the original synopsis (PDF 108KB)

Production No E.64.10.19
Production completed: November 12 1965. First transmission: February 1 1966.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Emma Peel Diana Rigg regular007Doctor Who
Lucille Banks Eunice Gayson Danger Man007The Saint
Ivor Bracewell Maurice Kaufmann Danger ManThe Saint
Nicki Carole Gray The Saint
Chester Read Larry Cross The SaintCallanCarry On..
Arthur Peever (impostor) James Belchamber regular
Captain Noble John Woodnutt Doctor WhoThe SaintThe SweeneyCallanAdam Adamant
Fintry Alan Gerrard Doctor Who
Piedi David Kernan regularCarry On..
Bernard Colin Ellis
Huggins Graham Armitage regularDoctor WhoThe Saint
Syder Charles Hodgson regular
Bank Manager Ronald Govey Blake’s 7
Willi Fehr Michael Peake Doctor WhoDanger ManThe Saint
The real Arthur Peever unknown
Tattoo Girl unknown
Pallbearer Fred Woods 007Doctor WhoThe SaintCarry On..Dad’s ArmyThe SweeneyThe ProfessionalsThe ChampionsDepartment SRandall and Hopkirk
Pallbearer Anthony Lang regularDoctor WhoDanger ManThe SaintCarry On..Dad’s ArmyStar Wars
Undertaker Richard Gregory 007The SaintCarry On..Star Wars
Toecrusher unknown
Mr. Marsh William Stampe Doctor WhoAdam AdamantThe ProfessionalsPink Panther
Mr. Wattakins Harry Tierney regularDoctor WhoThe PrisonerUFOCallanThe Sweeney
Guest unknown
Guest Rosemary Martin
Boris Raymond Adamson regularDanger ManRandall and HopkirkThe SaintThe Sweeney
Dancer Gerry Judge regular
Dancer Pauline Chamberlain regularThe Saint007The PrisonerCarry On..
Dancer Alan Meacham (aka Alan Viccars) regularDanger ManDoctor WhoThe SaintThe PrisonerThe ChampionsDepartment SCarry On..Space 1999
Dancer unknown
Dancer Phillip Stewart 007The SaintCarry On..
Dancer unknown regular
Dancer Leslie Davenport
Dancer unknown
Dancer unknown
Dancer unknown
Dancer George Holdcroft regularCarry On..The PrisonerThe SaintThe Sweeney
Dancer unknown
Dancer Pat Ryan regular007Danger ManThe SaintThe SweeneyCarry On..
Dancer unknown
Dancer Juba Kennerley regular007Doctor WhoThe SaintThe ChampionsCarry On..
Dancer Fred Stroud regular007Danger ManThe SweeneyThe Saint
Dancer unknown
Dancer Hani Borelle regularThe Saint
Dancer Emil Stemmler regularDanger ManThe SaintCarry On..
Dancer John Smart regularDanger ManThe SaintThe SweeneyCarry On..
Credits Legend:
Credited
Credited but not listed in press
Credited in press but not on screen
Credited in paperwork only
Uncredited / unattributed role
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® : illustrated from other sources

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