• title card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left reading ‘THE SEE-THROUGH MAN’ superimposed on a view from between the shelves of the records office towards the frosted glass door. Painted on the glass and seen reverse is the writing ‘MINISTRY OF DEFENCE RECORDS OFFICE INVENTIONS (External Submissions)’
  • subtitle card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left reading ‘STEED MAKES A BOMB - EMMA IS PUT TO SLEEP!’ superimposed on the view between the shelves in the record office
  • Youtube video - Mrs. Peel is examining some specimen slides and is astonished to find that one of them has been altered so that Steed’s signature summons - ‘Mrs. PEEL - WE’RE NEEDED’ is visible through the microscope
  • Steed smiles thoughtfully as he listens to the ravings of Quilby, who is wearing a lab coat in his dusty basement lab. A robot with a plastic dome head is just visible on the right
  • Emma teases Steed as she flips through Quilby’s article in the Alchemists magazine, her chemistry equipment on the bench before her in the middle of her flat
  • A near collision as a huge lorry passes between Vazin’s Jaguar and Mrs. Peel’s Lotus, preventing Vazin from running her off the road
  • A headless man wearing a tuxedo attacks Steed with Quilby’s pestle
  • Mrs. Peel refuses to co-operate despite Brodny trying to coerce her with a pistol as they stand in the marble hallway of the embassy
  • Youtube video - Steed and Emma depart in an elegant vintage Rolls-Royce that refuses to start. They get out to push it then have to chase after it when it kicks into life

Series 5 — Episode 4
The See-Through Man

by Philip Levene
Directed by Robert Asher and Roy Rossotti

Steed makes a bomb -
Emma is put to sleep!

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 516KB)

Production No E.66.6.5
Production completed: December 1 1966. First transmission: January 30 1967.

Crew

Produced by Albert Fennell regularThe Professionals
and Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
Executive Producer Julian Wintle regular
Directed by Robert Asher regularThe ChampionsThe 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 Geoffrey Haine regularThe Champions
Principal items of Mr. Macnee’s wardrobe designed by Pierre Cardin regular
Miss Rigg’s costumes designed by Alun Hughes regular
Casting Director G.B. Walker regularThe Saint
Assistant Director Richard Dalton regular
Camera Operator Frank Drake regular
Art Director Fred Carter regularPink Panther
Continuity Peggy Spirito regular
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
Recording Director A.W. Lumkin regularThe Saint
Sound Recordist Simon Kaye regular007Indiana Jones
Dubbing Mixer Len Abbott 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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