• title card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left reading ‘SOMETHING NASTY IN THE NURSERY’ superimposed on a close-up of Dodson slumped over a red leather armchair, dead and sucking his thumb
  • subtitle card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left reading ‘STEED ACQUIRES A NANNY EMMA SHOPS FOR TOYS’ superimposed on a close-up of Dodson slumped over a red leather armchair, dead and sucking his thumb
  • Youtube video - Mrs. Peel wakes from a nap to find a toy carousel on her table. One of the knights bears a flag that reads ‘Mrs. PEEL’. Steed appears and says, ‘We’re needed!’
  • Steed inspects a shelf in Martin’s toy store which holds the ‘TOYS FOR THE OFFSPRING OF NOBILITY’
  • A row of nannies menacingly pull objects from their prams
  • Mrs. Peel leaps onto a car to avoid being struck down by Gordon, then turns to try to wrestle him from his vehicle
  • Close-up of the old lady in the wheelchair brandishing a tommy gun - her face is not in frame so you can’t tell who she is
  • Goat, disguised as Nanny Roberts, hands General Wilmot a pistol to kill Steed after he’s shown the location of the missile bases on a map; Miss Lister sits between them
  • Youtube video - Emma and Steed gaze into a crystal ball, she sees a sign that says ‘Tune in again next week’ while he sees something more salacious

Series 5 — Episode 14
Something Nasty In The Nursery

by Philip Levene
Directed by James Hill

Steed acquires a nanny
Emma shops for toys

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 470KB)

Production No E.66.6.14
Production completed: April 3 1967. First transmission: April 19 1967.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Emma Peel Diana Rigg regular007Doctor Who
Mr. Goat Dudley Foster regularDoctor WhoDanger ManThe SaintJason KingPolice Surgeon
Miss Lister Yootha Joyce The SaintJason King
Lord William Beaumont Paul Eddington regularDanger ManThe PrisonerThe Champions
Viscount Frederick Webster DSO & Bar Paul Hardwick 007The Professionals
Sir George Collins Patrick Newell regularDoctor WhoDanger ManRandall and Hopkirk
General Wilmot Geoffrey Sumner
Gordon Trevor Bannister The Saint
Martin Clive Dunn Dad’s Army
James George Merritt The Prisoner
Nanny Roberts Enid Lorimer
Nanny Smith Louie Ramsay
Nanny Brown Penelope Keith regularCarry On..
(Not shown in final episode)
Dobson Dennis Chinnery Doctor WhoThe PrisonerThe SaintThe Champions
Nanny unknown
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Credits Legend:
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® : illustrated from other sources

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