• title card: white all caps text reading ‘HOW TO SUCCEED .... AT MURDER’ outlined in black and superimposed on a close-up of Miss Purbright’s wrist with the charm bracelet
  • J.J. Hooter wears a protective bandage around his invaluable nose
  • Close-up of the creepy ventriloquist’s dummy which gives the women their orders
  • Steed puffs ot his chest as he pretends to keep fit; Emma, resting on the sofa behind him smiles at his antics
  • Mrs. Peel, wearing a black leotard, is seized by the murderous keep fit women
  • Steed and Emma hold each other close as they are surrounded by the women and face Henrietta
  • Henry and the puppet Henrietta collapse against a poster of the real Henrietta after being shot by Steed, Henry still carries his revolver
  • Steed and Emma read books on ventriloquism ( ‘ADVANCED VENTRILOQUISM’ and ‘THE VENTRILOQUISTS’) inside a moving caravan

Series 4 — Episode 25
How to Succeed .... At Murder

by Brian Clemens
Directed by Don Leaver

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 654KB)
Read the original synopsis (PDF 103KB)

Production No E.64.10.25
Production completed: February 15 1966. First transmission: March 15 1966.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Emma Peel Diana Rigg regular007Doctor Who
Mary Merryweather Sarah Lawson Danger ManThe ProfessionalsThe SaintCallanJason KingDepartment S
Sara Penny Angela Browne regularDanger ManThe PrisonerThe Saint
Gladys Murkle Anne Cunningham
Liz Purbright Zeph Gladstone
Henry Throgbotham Artro Morris regularThe Saint
Joshua Rudge Jerome Willis regularDoctor WhoDanger ManCallanAdam Adamant
J.J. Hooter Christopher Benjamin regularDoctor WhoDanger ManThe PrisonerThe SaintJason King
Sir George Morton Kevin Brennan regularThe ProfessionalsThe SaintAdam Adamant
Barton David Garth regularDoctor WhoThe SaintAdam Adamant
Jack Finlay Robert Dean Danger ManThe Saint
Annie Sidonie Bond
Henrietta (voice) Bridget Armstrong Jason King
Blonde unknown
Brunette Terry Barella regular
Brunette unknown
Man at bus stop unknown
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® : illustrated from other sources

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