• title card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left reading ‘THE BIRD WHO KNEW TOO MUCH’ superimposed on Danvers lying on the floor of a fire-tower with bird seed spilling out of his jacket
  • subtitle card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left reading ‘STEED FANCIES PIGEONS - EMMA GETS THE BIRD’ superimposed on Danvers lying on the floor of a fire-tower with bird seed spilling out of his jacket
  • Youtube video - Emma opens her bay windows and a moment later an arrow shoots through it and lands in her bird sculpture. Attached to it is Steed’s signature summons, a card reading ‘Mrs. Peel WE’RE NEEDED!’
  • Sam and Steed enjoy a light lunch on board a punt in the river, their waiter is wearing waders
  • Sam and Steed pose for Tom Savage in his photographic studio, hands on hips and heroically posturing
  • Mrs. Peel wakes to find herself tied to a chair facing a pistol booby-trap
  • Emma leans forward over the desk, amazed by Jordan’s well-trained birds as he strikes a triangle to make one sing. He wears a mortar board with a yellow canary glued to the top
  • Emma interrogates Robin after dragging him from the swimming pool, keeping him captive by wrapping her ankles around his neck
  • Youtube video - Steed invites Emma to meet a bird - for lunch and they set off in a vintage Renault, which decides to go on reverse

Series 5 — Episode 5
The Bird Who Knew Too Much

by Brian Clemens
Directed by Roy Rossotti and Peter Graham Scott
based upon a story by Alan Pattillo

Steed fancies pigeons -
Emma gets the bird

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 1MB)

Production No E.66.6.3
Production completed: November 10 1966. First transmission: February 8 1967.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Emma Peel Diana Rigg regular007Doctor Who
Professor Jordan Ron Moody regular
Samantha Slade Ilona Rodgers regularDoctor WhoThe SaintAdam Adamant
Tom Savage Kenneth Cope regularDoctor WhoRandall and HopkirkCarry On..
Verret Michael Coles Doctor WhoThe ProfessionalsThe SaintThe SweeneyDepartment SRandall and Hopkirk
Edgar Twitter John Wood regularIndiana Jones
George Cunliffe Anthony Valentine regularCallanSpace 1999Department S
Robin Clive Colin-Bowler Department S
Mark Pearson John Lee regularDoctor WhoDanger ManThe Champions
Percy Danvers Peter Brace regularDoctor WhoDanger Man007The PrisonerStar WarsPink PantherThe Sweeney
Frank Elrick Gerry Crampton regular007The PrisonerPink PantherIndiana JonesUFO
Morgue attendant Pat Judge regularDoctor Who007The SaintDad’s ArmyThe SweeneyCarry On..
Waiter unknown
Model unknown
Model William F. Sully 007The SaintAdam AdamantDad’s Army
Guard unknown
Credits Legend:
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Credited in press but not on screen
Credited in paperwork only
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® : illustrated from other sources

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