• 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.

Crew

Produced by Albert Fennell regularThe Professionals
and Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
Executive Producer Julian Wintle regular
Directed by Charles Crichton regularDanger ManThe ProfessionalsThe SaintSpace 1999
Teleplay by Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
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 regularThe ProfessionalsJason King
Production Controller Jack Greenwood regular
Production Designer Robert Jones regular
Director of Photography Alan Hume regular007Carry On..Star Wars (billed as Alan Hume B.S.C.)
Supervising Editor Peter Tanner regular
Production Manager Geoffrey Haine regularThe 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 regularThe Saint
Unit Manager Richard Dalton regular
Unit Manager Laurie Greenwood regularThe Sweeney
Assistant Director Ted Lewis regular
Camera Operator Tony White regularThe SaintSpace 1999Department S
Art Director Kenneth Tait regularDepartment S
Continuity Gladys Goldsmith regular007Carry On..Space 1999
Hairdressing Hilda Fox regular
Make-up Jim Hydes regularCarry On.. (billed as Jim Hyde)
Wardrobe Jean Fairlie regularUFO
Editor Lionel Selwyn regular
Recording Director A.W. Lumkin regularThe Saint
Sound Recordist Simon Kaye regular007Indiana Jones
Dubbing Mixer Len Abbott regularThe ChampionsThe SaintDepartment S
Sound Editor Rydal Love regularThe ChampionsThe SaintDepartment S
Music Editor Karen Heward regular
Construction Manager Charles Hammerton regular
Supervisory Electrician Walter Thompson regularThe Saint (billed as Wally Thompson)
Stunt Arranger Ray Austin regularThe ProfessionalsThe SaintRandall and HopkirkThe ChampionsDepartment SSpace 1999
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