• title card: white all caps text reading ‘DEAD MAN’S TREASURE’ superimposed on a close-up of a red chest with bronze reinforcement
  • Steed drives the Lotus Brands Hatch simulator
  • Sir George points to the bowser, apologising that ‘they’ve put the super in the standard’
  • A clue, written on the pub sign for ‘The Vaults’, it reads: ‘SWINGINGDALE GET A MOVE ON’
  • Emma struggles with the Lotus simulator, trying to keep it on the track so as not to be electrocuted as Mike points a gun at her head
  • Alex and Carl lie in the wreckage of their crashed E-type Jaguar which has slammed into a tree
  • video - Emma is startled to discover that putting Steed’s electric razor into reverse has given her a bushy moustache

Series 5 — Episode 20
Dead Man’s Treasure

by Michael Winder
Directed by Sidney Hayers

Steed rallies around
Emma drives for her life

Read the shooting script (PDF 1.4MB)

Production No E.66.6.19
Production completed: August 2 1967. First transmission: October 18 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 Michael Winder The SaintCallanSpace 1999
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 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 Ernie Lewis The Prisoner
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
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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