• title card: white all caps text outlined in black reading ‘ESCAPE IN TIME’ superimposed on a close-up of Thyssen’s stern, bearded face, he is dressed in Elizabethan clothes with a large white ruff and a gold and scarlet jacket
  • subtitle card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left reading ‘STEED VISITS THE BARBER EMMA HAS A CLOSE SHAVE!’superimposed on the close-up of Thyssen in Elizabethan dress, Thyssen is now smiling
  • Youtube video - Steed summons Mrs. Peel to the case by engraving his signature ‘WE’RE NEEDED’ on the back of her invitation to the Hunt Ball
  • Mrs. Peel and Steed hold each other closely, having just broken from an embrace in a shop doorway to avoid close examination by their quarry
  • Emma is holding a black crocodile stuffed toy and braces herself as Mitchell, wearing hunting pinks, rides his motorcycle murderously towards her
  • Steed, on the right, smiles at the stuffed kangaroo toy striped in orange and peach that he has just been given by Parker, who wears a striped blazer and boater
  • Inside the ‘time machine’ Steed zooms along a striped corridor that whirls around him as the drugs take effect
  • Mrs. Peel has her bare feet locked in the stocks, her Georgian dress at odds with the Tudor surrounds
  • Youtube video - Stedd and Mtrs Peel depart in a vintage Unic cab that refuses to start until it has covered Steed’s face in soot

Series 5 — Episode 3
Escape In Time

by Philip Levene
Directed by John Krish and Roy Rossotti

Steed visits the barber
Emma has a close shave!

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 822KB)

Production No E.66.6.2
Production completed: October 10 1966. First transmission: January 23 1967.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Emma Peel Diana Rigg regular007Doctor Who
Thyssen Peter Bowles regularDanger ManThe PrisonerThe SaintSpace 1999Department SCallanAdam AdamantRandall and Hopkirk
Clapham Geoffrey Bayldon regularDoctor WhoDanger Man007The SaintPink PantherSpace 1999
Vesta Judy Parfitt regularThe SaintAdam Adamant
Anjali Imogen Hassall The SaintThe ChampionsCarry On..Jason King
Sweeney Edward Caddick Doctor WhoDepartment SCallanRandall and Hopkirk
Parker Nicholas Smith regularDoctor WhoThe SaintThe ChampionsThe Sweeney
Tubby Vincent Roger Booth regularThe Sweeney
Colonel Josino Richard Montez The SaintThe ChampionsCarry On..Jason KingUFO
Clyde Paxton Clifford Earl regularDoctor WhoDanger ManThe Professionals007The SaintDepartment SJason King
Mitchell Rocky Taylor regularDoctor Who007Blake’s 7Danger ManThe PrisonerThe ProfessionalsThe SaintCallanThe SweeneyRandall and HopkirkPink PantherIndiana Jones
Redcoat Joe Dunne regular007The ProfessionalsThe PrisonerPink PantherSpace 1999Randall and Hopkirk
Executioner Terry Plummer regular007The SaintPink Panther
Josino’s double Paul Weston regular007Indiana JonesStar WarsSpace 1999Blake’s 7
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Nun Eve Aubrey Doctor Who
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Nun Pauline Chamberlain regularThe Saint007The PrisonerCarry On..
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Chauffeur unknown
Bookie Jack Ross regular007Carry On..The Saint
Bookie Paul Weston regular007Indiana JonesStar WarsSpace 1999Blake’s 7
Pushy Punter unknown
Punter unknown
Coachman unknown
Footman unknown
Doxie unknown
Doxie unknown
Philanderer Paul Weston regular007Indiana JonesStar WarsSpace 1999Blake’s 7
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