• 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

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

Crew

Produced by Albert Fennell regularThe Professionals
and Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
Executive Producer Julian Wintle regular
Directed by James Hill regularThe Saint
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 regularThe ProfessionalsJason King
Production Controller Jack Greenwood regular
Production Designer Robert Jones regular
Director of Photography Ernest Steward regularCarry On..Callan (Ernest Steward 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 Ron Purdie regularThe Professionals
Camera Operator James Bawden regularCarry On..
Art Director Len Townsend regular
Continuity Eve Wilson regular
Hairdressing Jeanette Freeman regular007The SaintPink PantherSpace 1999
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 Ken Rawkins regularUFO
Dubbing Mixer Len Shilton regularThe ChampionsThe SaintDepartment S
Sound Editor Jack T. Knight regular007Space 1999
Music Editor Karen Heward regular
Construction Manager Charles Hammerton regular
Supervisory Electrician Steve Birtles regularThe Saint
Stunt Arranger Ray Austin regularThe ProfessionalsThe SaintRandall and HopkirkThe ChampionsDepartment SSpace 1999
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Crew: 90% opacity
® : illustrated from other sources

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