• 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!

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

Crew

Produced by Albert Fennell regularThe Professionals
and Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
Executive Producer Julian Wintle regular
Directed by John Krish regularThe Saint
Tag Directed by Roy Rossotti regular
Teleplay by Philip Levene regular
All characters and events in this teleplay are fictitious and any similarity to actual events or persons, living or dead, is purely co-incidental.
Music by Laurie Johnson regularThe ProfessionalsJason King
Production Designer Wilfrid Shingleton regular
Director of Photography Wilkie Cooper regular (Wilkie Cooper B.S.C.)
Supervising Editor Peter Tanner regular
Production Manager Ted Lloyd regular
Principal items of Mr. Macnee’s wardrobe designed by Pierre Cardin regular
Miss Rigg’s costumes designed by Alun Hughes regular
Unit Manager Richard Dalton regular
Unit Manager Laurie Greenwood regularThe Sweeney
Assistant Director Richard Dalton regular
Camera Operator Frank Drake regular
Art Director Fred Carter regularPink Panther
Set Dresser Ted Tester regular
Continuity Gladys Goldsmith regular007Carry On..Space 1999
Hairdressing Bill Griffiths regular
Make-up Jim Hydes regularCarry On.. (billed as Jim Hyde)
Wardrobe Hilda Geerdts regular
Stunt Arranger Ray Austin regularThe ProfessionalsThe SaintRandall and HopkirkThe ChampionsDepartment SSpace 1999
Casting Director G.B. Walker regularThe Saint
Recording Director A.W. Lumkin regularThe Saint
Sound Recordist Simon Kaye regular007Indiana Jones
Dubbing Mixer Len Shilton regularThe ChampionsThe SaintDepartment S
Sound Editor Jack T. Knight regular007Space 1999
Music Editor Karen Heward regular
Construction Manager Charles Hammerton regular
Supervisory Electrician Walter Thompson regularThe Saint (billed as Wally Thompson)
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Crew: 90% opacity
® : illustrated from other sources

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