• 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.