• 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.

Crew

Produced by Albert Fennell regularThe Professionals
and Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
Executive Producer Julian Wintle regular
Directed by Sidney Hayers regularThe Professionals
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 Carr regular
Camera Operator James Bawden regularCarry On..
Art Director Len Townsend regular
Continuity Gladys Goldsmith regular007Carry On..Space 1999
Make-up Jim Hydes regularCarry On.. (billed as Jim Hyde)
Hairdressing Hilda Fox regular
Wardrobe Gladys James regular
Editor Tony Palk regular
Recording Director A.W. Lumkin regularThe Saint
Sound Recordist Ken Rawkins regularUFO
Dubbing Mixer Len Shilton regularThe ChampionsThe SaintDepartment S
Sound Editor Russ Hill regularThe ChampionsDepartment S
Music Editor Karen Heward 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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