• title card: white all caps text with thing black outline reading ‘The £50,000 Breakfast’ superimposed on a stomach x-ray showing the white spots of diamonds
  • Steed and Mrs. Peel visit the yard where Dusty’s car is being examined - Steed hold Dusty’s ventriloquist’s dummy while Emma stands to his left in a fetching green ensemble
  • One of Miss Peagram’s assistant, disguised as a doctor, prepares a lethal dose in a syringe
  • Mrs. Rhodes looks worriedly into the gloom of her puppet shop, her hand on the shoulder of a ventriloquist’s dummy
  • Russ Henderson and his Trinidad Steel Band entertain the guests in the smokey atmosphere of the cigar tasting party
  • Steed and Emma are handcuffed to the bedpost, Steed tries to pick the cuffs with a gold tie pin
  • video - Emma teases Steed about taking in the two borzois and he tells her he doesn’t like dogs in his demesne - or on his necktie!

Series 5 — Episode 19
The £50,000 Breakfast

by Roger Marshall
Directed by Robert Day
based upon a story by Roger Marshall and Jeremy Scott

Steed dabbles in tycoonery
Emma in chicanery

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 916KB)

Production No E.66.6.20
Production completed: July 18 1967. First transmission: October 11 1967.

Cast

click a name to see the face
John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Emma Peel Diana Rigg regular007Doctor Who
Glover Cecil Parker The SaintCarry On..
Miss Pegram Yolande Turner regularThe SaintDepartment S
Sir James Arnell David Langton regularThe Champions
Mrs. Rhodes Pauline Delaney regular
Judy Anneke Wills regularDoctor WhoThe Saint
Minister Cardew Robinson regularCarry On..
First Assistant Eric Woofe
Second Assistant Philippe Monnet
Dusty Rhodes Richard Curnock
Security Man Jon Laurimore regularDoctor WhoThe PrisonerCallanSpace 1999
Mechanic Richard Owens regularDanger ManThe SaintRandall and HopkirkThe Champions
Kennel Man Michael Rothwell
Jerezina Yole Marinelli The Champions
First Doctor Christopher Greatorex
Second Doctor Nigel Lambert regularDoctor WhoBlake’s 7UFO
Henchman Romo Gorrara regular007Danger ManThe SaintThe PrisonerThe SweeneyIndiana JonesPink Panther
Land-Rover Driver Art Thomas regular
Male Farmhand Les Crawford regularDanger ManThe Prisoner007The SaintBlake’s 7
Female Farmhand Ann Barrass regular007The SaintThe Prisoner
Belhound (dog)
Dancer (dog)
nurse unknown
hostess Janice Hoye
hostess unknown
hostess unknown
hostess unknown
sexton Henry Gilbert Doctor Who007Danger ManThe SaintAdam AdamantThe Champions
mourner unknown
mourner unknown
mourner Douglas Cooper regularRandall and HopkirkStar Wars
mourner unknown
himself Russ Henderson The SaintDanger Man
himself Sterling Betancourt The SaintDanger Man
himself Max Cherrie The SaintDanger Man
smoker Sadie Slade regularDanger ManThe Saint
smoker unknown
smoker Charles Gilliard The SaintDanger Man
smoker unknown regular
smoker unknown
smoker John Howard regular007
smoker Roy Beck regular007The SaintThe PrisonerUFOThe ChampionsCarry On..
smoker Richard Atherton regularDoctor Who
smoker unknown
smoker unknown
smoker unknown
smoker unknown
smoker unknown
smoker unknown
smoker unknown
smoker Terence Conoley regularThe PrisonerDad’s ArmyCarry On..
smoker unknown
smoker unknown
Credits Legend:
Credited
Credited but not listed in press
Credited in press but not on screen
Credited in paperwork only
Uncredited / unattributed role
Crew: 90% opacity
® : illustrated from other sources

fan forum Donate Become a Patron!