• title card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the top left reading ‘DEATH’S DOOR’ superimposed on a closed, ornate oak door inside an ornate marble jamb with ‘CONFERENCE ROOM’ painted in gold
  • Steed’s Bentley hurtles down Spout Hill toward an oncoming van, the brakes having failed
  • Inside the blue warehouse, Melford panics as he faces an outsized calendar showing FRIDAY 13
  • Becker takes aim with a rifle, has just asked him to replace
  • The villainous chauffeur Jepson is easily defeated by Mrs. Peel’s karate skills
  • Emma stands in the blue warehouse wearing a green catsuit with lace-up sleeves, her arms are crossed and she holds a pistol in her right hand, pointed over over her left shoulder at a sign that reads SPOUT HILL. A stocking is over her head and she tops her outfit with a black bowler at a jaunty angle
  • video - Steed wakes from a dream to find that Mrs. Peel mysteriously knows the exact theatre tickets he’s booked them

Series 5 — Episode 18
Death’s Door

by Philip Levene
Directed by Sidney Hayers

Steed relives a nightmare
Emma sees daylight

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 522KB)

Production No E.66.6.17
Production completed: June 13 1967. First transmission: October 4 1967.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Emma Peel Diana Rigg regular007Doctor Who
Sir Andrew Boyd Clifford Evans regularThe PrisonerThe SaintRandall and HopkirkThe ChampionsJason King
Stapley William Lucas regularDoctor WhoDanger ManThe Saint
George, Lord Melford Allan Cuthbertson regularDanger ManThe SaintThe ChampionsJason KingUFOCallan
Alfred Becker Marne Maitland Danger Man007The SaintThe ChampionsPink PantherCallanDepartment S
Dr. Evans Paul Dawkins regularThe ProfessionalsDad’s Army
Pavret Michael Faure
Saunders Peter Thomas regularDoctor WhoDepartment S
Dalby William Lyon Brown regularThe Prisoner
Haynes Terry Yorke regularThe PrisonerThe ProfessionalsThe SaintPink Panther
Jepson Terry Maidment regular007The SaintPink Panther
Diplomat unknown
Diplomat Paddy Smith regular007The Saint
Diplomat Pat Ryan regular007Danger ManThe SaintThe SweeneyCarry On..
Diplomat Emil Stemmler regularDanger ManThe SaintCarry On..
Diplomat Gerry Judge regular
Diplomat Sandy Stein regular
Diplomat Eric Wetherell The Saint
Diplomat Bill Felton
Diplomat John Preston The Saint007The PrisonerCallan
Diplomat Royston Farrell regularDoctor Who
Diplomat Richard Nellor regular
Photographer unknown
Photographer unknown
Photographer Bob Wright Carry On..
Photographer unknown
Photographer Philip Johns regular
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Photographer unknown
Journalist unknown
Journalist Alan Harris regular007Star WarsSpace 1999UFOCarry On..
Journalist unknown
British delegate Ian Selby regularDanger ManThe SaintCarry On..
British delegate Ron Gregory 007Doctor WhoThe SaintPink Panther
British delegate unknown
British delegate Eden Fox regularDoctor WhoCallan
Cyclist Cliff Diggins regular007Blake’s 7The SweeneySpace 1999
Bumbling deliveryman Joe Bartlett The SaintUFO
Bumbling deliveryman unknown
Road worker unknown
Road worker unknown
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Photographer unknown
Photographer Philip Johns regular
Photographer Roy Beck regular007The SaintThe PrisonerUFOThe ChampionsCarry On..
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Photographer Victor Chapman regular007Danger ManThe SaintThe PrisonerRandall and HopkirkUFOThe SweeneyPink PantherCarry On..
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Photographer unknown
Portuguese observer Pat Halpin regular007Danger ManThe PrisonerThe SaintCallanCarry On..
Journalist unknown
Journalist Paul Weston regular007Indiana JonesStar WarsSpace 1999Blake’s 7
Journalist Sonnie Willis regularDoctor WhoDanger ManThe Sweeney
Bureaucrat Paul Phillips regularThe SaintThe Prisoner
Journalist Bill Strange Doctor WhoDanger ManThe SaintCarry On..<
Journalist Gerry Crampton regular007The PrisonerPink PantherIndiana JonesUFO
Romanian observer unknown regular
Diplomat Fred Peck regularCarry On..The SaintDad’s Army
Diplomat Fred Davis Danger ManThe SaintThe PrisonerCallan
Diplomat Vernon Duke regular
News commentator (voice only) David Rendall
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® : illustrated from other sources

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