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  • title card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left reading 'THE HIDDEN TIGER' superimposed on a tiger skin lying over Williams' contorted body
  • subtitle card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left reading 'STEED HUNTS A BIG CAT EMMA IS BADLY SCRATCHED' superimposed on a tiger skin lying over Williams' contorted body
  • Youtube video - Removing wallpaper in her flat, Mrs Peel is amazed to find 'Mrs Peel -' written beneath one sheet. She turns to see Steed remove another, under which is written '- We're needed.'
  • View through the bars of a tiger cage: Nesbitt aiming his rifle to the right of the camera. The cage bears a sign that reads 'DO NOT FEED THE ANIMALS'
  • Mrs Peel, holding the cat-shaped PURRR brochure, purrs appreciatively when Steed, holding the E-K phone book, refers to her as a 'beautiful, bronze tabby'
  • Cheshire's identi-cat system, whowing Mrs Peel's 'Little John'
  • Angora dangles the dangerous locket from her right hand as she haughtily tells Peters not to worry
  • Steed, strapped to a chair, is relieved to see Mrs Peel burst in and rush down the corridor between the soon-to-be lethal cats, a large cat statue is on the right
  • Youtube video - Steed helps Emma redecorate her flat, but ends up stepping in a tray of paint

Series 5 - Episode 8
The Hidden Tiger

9½ stars

by Philip Levene
Directed by Sidney Hayers

Steed hunts a big cat
Emma is badly scratched

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 Sidney Hayers regular New Avengers The Professionals
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 regular New Avengers The Professionals Jason King
Production Controller Jack Greenwood regular
Production Designer Robert Jones regular
Director of Photography Ernest Steward regular New Avengers Carry On.. Callan (sic, proper title is Ernest Steward 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
Unit Manager Laurie Greenwood regular The Sweeney
Assistant Director Ron Purdie regular New Avengers The Professionals
Camera Operator James Bawden regular Carry On..
Art Director Len Townsend regular
Continuity Mary Spain regular
Hairdressing Hilda Fox regular
Make-up Basil Newall regular 007 UFO Space 1999
Wardrobe Jean Fairlie regular UFO
Editor Tony Palk regular
Recording Director A.W. Lumkin regular The Saint
Sound Recordist Ken Rawkins regular UFO
Dubbing Mixer Len Abbott regular The Champions The Saint Department S
Sound Editor Rydal Love regular The Champions The Saint Department S
Music Editor Karen Heward regular
Construction Manager Charles Hammerton regular
Supervisory Electrician Steve Birtles regular The Saint
Stunt Arranger Ray Austin regular New Avengers The Professionals The Saint Randall and Hopkirk The Champions Department S Space 1999
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