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  • 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

6 stars

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

Steed finds a mine of information
Emma goes underground

Crew

Produced by Albert Fennell regular New Avengers The Professionals
and Brian Clemens regular New Avengers Dangerman The Champions The Professionals Adam Adamant
Executive Producer Juilan Wintle regular
Directed by John Krish regular The Saint
Teleplay by Brian Clemens regular New Avengers Dangerman The Champions The Professionals Adam Adamant
based upon a story by Anthony Marriott
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 regular New Avengers The Professionals Jason King
Production Controller Jack Greenwood regular
Production Designer Robert Jones regular
Director of Photography Alan Hume regular 007 Carry On.. Star Wars (billed as Alan Hume B.S.C.)
Supervising Editor Peter Tanner regular
Production Manager Geoffrey Haine regular The 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 regular The Saint
Unit Manager Richard Dalton regular
Assistant Director Ted Lewis regular
Camera Operator Tony White regular The Saint Space 1999 Department S
Art Director Fred Carter regular Pink Panther
Continuity Gladys Goldsmith regular 007 Carry On.. Space 1999
Hairdressing Hilda Fox regular
Make-up Jim Hydes regular Carry On.. (billed as Jim Hyde)
Wardrobe Jean Fairlie regular UFO
Stunt Arranger Ray Austin regular New Avengers The Professionals The Saint Randall and Hopkirk The Champions Department S Space 1999
Editor Lionel Selwyn regular
Recording Director A.W. Lumkin regular The Saint
Sound Recordist Simon Kaye regular 007 Indiana Jones
Dubbing Mixer Len Abbott regular The Champions The Saint Department S
Sound Editor Jack T. Knight regular New Avengers 007 Space 1999
Music Editor Karen Heward regular
Construction Manager Charles Hammerton regular
Supervisory Electrician Walter Thompson regular The Saint (billed as Wally Thompson)
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