• title card: white all caps text with gold dropshadow to the right reading ‘THE CORRECT WAY TO KILL’ superimposed on Percy and Algy walking away down the cobble-stoned alley
  • subtitle card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left and gold dropshadow to the right reading ‘STEED CHANGES PARTNERS - EMMA JOINS THE ENEMY’ superimposed on Percy and Algy walking away down the cobble-stoned alley
  • Youtube video - Mrs. Peel buys the morning paper, only to discover the front page now reads ‘Mrs. Peel - we’re needed!’ as Steed smirks at her from a nearby doorway
  • Olga throws open her fur coat to reveals grenades, pistols, knives and a pair of binoculars. She stands in the middle of Steed’s pine-lined flat, a print of ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ by Robert Hillingford (1899) over the fireplace
  • Steed holds his umbrella up to his face and peers thruogh the handle at Winters, telling him the handle is loose. Olga looks on, baffled, in the background
  • A whiff of jack boots as the assembled snobs practice hailing a taxi with a gesture that mimics the Nazi salute.
  • Ivan’s body is revealed inside the crate of umbrellas.
  • Mrs. Peel, in an orange catsuit, peers around the enemy identification chart, currently showing a large black and white photo of Steed
  • video - Steed wears a Russian fur hat after an evening in Olga’s company, but reflects that the evening was missing something - ‘a certain bourgeois, capitalistic, decadent touch’, suggests Emma

Series 5 — Episode 9
The Correct Way To Kill

by Brian Clemens
Directed by Charles Crichton

Steed changes partners -
Emma joins the enemy

Read the shooting script (PDF 942KB)

Production No E.66.6.9
Production completed: January 23 1967. First transmission: March 8 1967.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Emma Peel Diana Rigg regular007Doctor Who
Olga Savonovitch Negretiskinka Volowski Anna Quayle 007
Nutski Michael Gough regularDoctor WhoBlake’s 7The SaintThe ChampionsIndiana Jones
Ivan Peppitoperoff Philip Madoc regularDoctor WhoThe SaintSpace 1999UFODad’s ArmyThe SweeneyJason KingRandall and HopkirkThe Champions
Tarquin Ponsonby ffrye Terence Alexander regularDoctor WhoThe ChampionsCarry On..
Percy (Mr. Percival) Peter Barkworth regularDoctor Who
Algy (Algernon Wynche) Graham Armitage regularDoctor WhoThe Saint
Dr. Hubert Merryweather Timothy Bateson regularDoctor WhoThe Saint
Hilda Joanna Jones regularJason KingDepartment S
J. Nathan Winters Edwin Apps Danger Man
Boris Groski John G. Heller regularDanger ManThe SaintPink PantherThe Sweeney
Stanislaus Arkadi Romo Gorrara regular007Danger ManThe SaintThe PrisonerThe SweeneyIndiana JonesPink Panther
Zoric Art Thomas regular
Sparring Partner Douglas Robinson regularPolice Surgeon007Pink PantherStar WarsIndiana Jones
Sparring Partner Peter Brace regularDoctor WhoDanger Man007The PrisonerStar WarsPink PantherThe Sweeney
Sparring Partner Terry Plummer regular007The SaintPink Panther
Snob (Mr. Jones) Michael Elwyn regularDoctor Who
Snob Maurice Connor regularCarry On..
Snob unknown
Snob Chris Webb regular007Doctor WhoThe SaintThe ProfessionalsBlake’s 7The SweeneyStar WarsIndiana Jones
Snob (Mr. Wilson) unknown
Snob unknown
Snob (Mr. Watkins) unknown
Snob unknown
Snob unknown
Snob unknown
Snob unknown
Snob John Kettringham 007The SaintUFOStar WarsCarry On..
Snob John Clifford regularThe SaintThe SweeneyUFOSpace 1999
Snob Harry Tierney regularDoctor WhoThe PrisonerUFOCallanThe Sweeney
Snob Bernard Barnsley 007Doctor WhoCarry On..
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