• 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.

Crew

Teleplay by Robert Banks Stewart regularDoctor WhoDanger ManCallanAdam Adamant
All characters and events in this Teleplay are fictitious. Any similarity to actual events or persons, living or dead, is purely co-incidental.
Directed by James Hill regularThe Saint
Produced by Julian Wintle regular
In Charge of Production Albert Fennell regularThe Professionals
Music by Laurie Johnson regularThe ProfessionalsJason King
Associate Producer Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
Photography Alan Hume regular007Carry On..Star Wars (billed as Alan Hume B.S.C.)
Art Director Harry Pottle regular007Carry On..
Film Editor Richard Best regular
Production Manager Geoffrey Haine regularThe Champions
© Associated British Productions Limited MCMLXV
Diana Rigg’s wardrobe designed by John Bates regular
and her shoes by Edward Rayne regular
Assistant Director Frank Hollands regularThe SaintUFO
Camera Operator Godfrey Godar regularCarry On..
Casting Director G.B. Walker regularThe Saint
Continuity June Randall regular007The Saint
Make-up George Blackler regularThe SaintCarry On..
Hairdresser Pearl Orton regularCarry On..
Wardrobe Jackie Jackson regular
Sound Editor Jack T. Knight regular007Space 1999 (billed as Jack Knight)
Sound Recording Simon Kaye regular007Indiana Jones
Dubbing Mixer Len Abbott regularThe ChampionsThe SaintDepartment S
Recording Director A.W. Lumkin regularThe Saint
Stunt Arranger Ray Austin regularThe ProfessionalsThe SaintRandall and HopkirkThe ChampionsDepartment SSpace 1999
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Credited in press but not on screen
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