• 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

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

Crew

Produced by Albert Fennell regularThe Professionals
and Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
Executive Producer Julian Wintle regular
Directed by Robert Day regularDanger Man
Teleplay by Roger Marshall regularThe ProfessionalsThe Sweeney
based upon a story by Jeremy Scott 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
Additional Music by Russ Henderson and his Trinidad Steel Band The SaintDanger Man
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 Jack Martin regular
Camera Operator James Bawden regularCarry On..
Art Director Len Townsend regular
Continuity Mary Spain regular
Make-up Jim Hydes regularCarry On.. (billed as Jim Hyde)
Hairdressing Hilda Fox regular
Wardrobe Felix Evans regular
Recording Director A.W. Lumkin regularThe Saint
Sound Recordist Ken Rawkins regularUFO
Dubbing Mixer Len Abbott regularThe ChampionsThe SaintDepartment S
Sound Editor Peter Lennard regularThe ProfessionalsRandall and HopkirkDepartment S
Music Editor Karen Heward regular
Construction Manager Herbert Worley 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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