• title card: white all caps text outlined in black reading ‘MISSION...’ superimposed on a view of a deserted, dusty country lane
  • title card: the white all caps text outlined in black has changed to read ‘MISSION... HIGHLY IMPROBABLE’ superimposed on a view of a deserted, dusty country lane
  • The shrunken Captain Gifford stares up at the telephone which dwarfs him
  • The Saracen armoured car is bombarded by artillery
  • Steed, reduced to minature size, tries to use Schaffer’s telephone to get help from Emma, the similarly shrunken Saracen is also on Schaffer’s desk
  • Steed stalks along the skirting board, wielding a (to him) huge pen as a weapon
  • Emma turns her back to Steed and asks him if ‘everything’ has returned to normal
  • video - It sounds like rain, so Steed galantly offers Emma his much-shrunken umbrella and turns up the collar of his suit

Series 5 — Episode 24
Mission... Highly Improbable

by Philip Levene
Directed by Robert Day

Steed falls into enemy hands
Emma is cut down to size

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 636KB)

Production No E.66.6.24
Production completed: September 22 1967. First transmission: November 15 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 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 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 Kevin Pike
Art Director Len Townsend regular
Continuity Marjorie Lavelly regularThe SaintCarry On..
Make-up Jim Hydes regularCarry On.. (billed as Jim Hyde)
Hairdressing Hilda Fox regular
Wardrobe Felix Evans regular
Editor Lionel Selwyn regular
Recording Director A.W. Lumkin regularThe Saint
Sound Recordist Cecil Mason regularThe Saint
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
Stunt Arranger Ray Austin regularThe ProfessionalsThe SaintRandall and HopkirkThe ChampionsDepartment SSpace 1999
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