• title card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left reading ‘THE LIVING DEAD’ superimposed on the gloomy chapel with a knight’s tomb on the left, three pews down the middle and a golden eagle lectern on the right, the sally for the bell hangs in the centre, before the altar
  • subtitle card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left reading ‘STEED FINDS A MINE OF INFORMATION
			EMMA GOES UNDERGROUND’ superimposed on the gloomy chapel interior
  • Youtube video - Mrs. Peel is stopped at some traffic lights. When they turn amber, the light has ‘MRS. PEEL’ taped on it and the go light reveals ‘WE’RE NEEDED’. She turns to find Steed in his Bentley behind her, doffing his hat
  • Spencer inspects the cobweb-festooned tomb of the armoured 6th Duke, searching for the source of a noise
  • Masgard and Tom gaze melevolently at Steed in the shadows of the foggy graveyard
  • A view of the underground city
  • Down in the mine, Mandy, on the right, pulls a pistol on Steed, who is wearing a miner’s lamp on his bowler hat
  • Steed gives Mrs. Peel a light peck on the cheek for saving his life, the dead firing squad she has just mown down with a submachinegun lie on the ground of the underground city behind them
  • Youtube video - Steed’s mechanic tells him he has a ghost in the engine - then ends up beinbg revealed as Mrs. Peel and they share a glass of champagne

Series 5 — Episode 7
The Living Dead

by Brian Clemens
Directed by John Krish
based upon a story by Anthony Marriott

Steed finds a mine of information
Emma goes underground

Production No E.66.6.7
Production completed: January 5 1967. First transmission: February 22 1967.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Emma Peel Diana Rigg regular007Doctor Who
Masgard Julian Glover regularDoctor Who007Blake’s 7The SaintThe ChampionsIndiana JonesStar WarsSpace 1999The SweeneyCallanJason King
Mandy Mackay Pamela Ann Davy regularDoctor WhoThe SaintDepartment S
Geoffrey, Sixteenth Duke of Benedict Howard Marion Crawford regularDanger ManThe SaintCarry On..
Kermit the Hermit Jack Woolgar Doctor WhoThe SaintThe Sweeney
Hooper Jack Watson regular
Rupert Staplow, Fifteenth Duke of Benedict Edward Underdown regularDoctor WhoDanger Man007The SaintDad’s Army
Olliphant John Cater regularDoctor WhoDanger ManThe SweeneyDepartment SDad’s Army
George Spencer Vernon Dobtcheff regularDoctor Who007Blake’s 7The SaintThe ChampionsIndiana JonesThe Sweeney
Tom Alister Williamson regularThe SaintDad’s ArmyAdam AdamantPolice Surgeon
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® : illustrated from other sources

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