• title card: white all caps text reading ‘The House That Jack Built’ outlined in black and superimposed on two marble lions flanking the front door of a large, whitewashed house
  • Centre of the maze - Emma stands near a strange, pulsing machine in a circular room with black and white concentric circles on the floor. Around it, strange arched passageways with zigzag and wavy black and whgite designs stretch away in every direction
  • Emma holds her old childhood doll as she looks the exhibit of her life
  • A plastic mould of Professor Keller’s head glows in the blackness behind Emma
  • Emma cuts through a huge photograph of herself to find a way out
  • Professor Keller’s face on the monitor, revelling in his posthumous revenge
  • The glass case surrounding Professor Keller’s preserved corpse cracks and splinters as the house breaks down
  • Steed and Mrs. Peel ride away on a tandem bicycle

Series 4 — Episode 23
The House That Jack Built

by Brian Clemens
Directed by Don Leaver

Read the shooting script (PDF 1.97MB)
Read the original synopsis (PDF 131KB)

Production No E.64.10.23
Production completed: January 18 1966. First transmission: March 1 1966.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Emma Peel Diana Rigg regular007Doctor Who
Professor Keller Michael Goodliffe 007The SaintCallanJason KingRandall and Hopkirk
Burton Griffith Davies Doctor WhoDepartment S
Frederick ‘Pongo’ Withers Michael Wynne The SaintThe Champions
D.M. Pennington Keith Pyott regularDoctor WhoThe Prisoner
H.M. Prisons officer Gary Woolf
H.M. Prisons officer unknown
Sir John Knight unknown
Lady Knight Enice Bennett regular007
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® : illustrated from other sources

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