• title card: white all caps text reading ‘RETURN OF THE CYBERNAUTS’ superimposed on a close-up of the metal cybernaut, weating a black hat, sunglasses and overcoat, carrying the unconscious Dr. Russell on his right shoulder
  • The cybernaut plods across the fields, Dr. Neville still unconscious on his right shoulder
  • The cybernaut strikes down Dr. Russell when he tries to leave
  • Steed holds the copper bust of Emma as he stands next to her in Beresford’s study, she is smiling at him because Beresford has just made the same quip about preferring the original that he just made
  • Steed dives out of the way as the thought-controlled Mrs. Peel speeds away
  • Beresford gloats as his wristwatch present has enabled him to take control of Emma’s brain - he uses the controls that makes her his robot
  • video - Steed tries to repair Mrs. Peel’s toaster - and the toaster blasts through the ceiling

Series 5 — Episode 17
Return Of The Cybernauts

by Philip Levene
Directed by Robert Day

Steed pulls some strings
Emma becomes a puppet

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 596KB)

Production No E.66.6.18
Production completed: June 27 1967. First transmission: September 27 1967.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Emma Peel Diana Rigg regular007Doctor Who
Paul Beresford Peter Cushing regularDoctor WhoSpace 1999Star Wars
Benson Frederick Jaeger regularDoctor WhoThe ProfessionalsThe SaintIndiana JonesThe SweeneyDepartment SJason KingCallan
Dr Neville Charles Tingwell regularDanger ManUFOAdam Adamant
Professor Chadwick Fulton Mackay regularDoctor WhoDad’s ArmyThe Saint
Dr Russell Roger Hammond Doctor WhoThe Sweeney
Dr. J. W. Garnett Anthony Dutton regularDepartment S
Conroy Noel Coleman regularDoctor Who
Rosie Aimi Macdonald The Saint
John Hunt Redmond Phillips Danger ManThe Saint
The Cybernaut Terry Richards regular007Indiana JonesAdam AdamantPink Panther
Dr. Clement Armstrong Michael Gough regularDoctor WhoBlake’s 7The SaintThe ChampionsIndiana Jones (Footage from ‘The Cybernauts’)
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