• title card: white all caps text thickly outlined in black reading ‘YOU’LL CATCH YOUR DEATH’ superimposed on Camrose’s hand holding the fatal envelope
  • Matron stands behind an x-ray viewer, showing a chest x-ray
  • Preece and Dexter capture Tara with the aid of some choloroform
  • A view through the narrow window of a reinforced cell door - Tara in a red suit & tie holds her head as she sits on the bed
  • Two of the miserable cold and flu test subjects sit shivering in their dressing gowns
  • Steed and Dr. Fawcett inspect the envelope while wearing gas masks
  • Tara and Steed cough and splutter, and soak their feet in bowls of hold water as a cold takes them

Series 6 — Episode 3
You’ll Catch Your Death

Teleplay by Jeremy Burnham
Directed by Paul Dickson

Production No E.67.9.9
Production completed: June 5 1968. First UK transmission: October 16 1968. First transmission (USA): October 7 1968.

Crew

Produced by Albert Fennell regularThe Professionals
and Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
Teleplay by Jeremy Burnham regularDanger ManThe ProfessionalsThe SaintRandall and Hopkirk
All Characters and events in this Teleplay are fictitious. Any similarity to actual events or persons, living or dead, is purely co-incidental
Directed by Paul Dickson The ChampionsJason KingDepartment SRandall and Hopkirk
Executive in charge of production Gordon L.T. Scott regular
Music by Laurie Johnson regularThe ProfessionalsJason King
Production controller Jack Greenwood regular
Production designer Robert Jones regular
Story consultant Philip Levene regular
Director of photography Alan Hume regular007Carry On..Star Wars (billed as Alan Hume B.S.C.)
Post production co-ordinator Harry Booth regular
Editor Karen Heward regular
Production manager Ron Fry regularDoctor WhoSpace 1999
Patrick Macnee’s suits designed by Patrick Macnee regular007
Miss Thorson’s costumes designed by Alun Hughes regular
Casting director G.B. Walker regularThe Saint
Unit manager Laurie Greenwood regularThe Sweeney
Assistant Director Ron Appleton regularUFO
Camera operator Brian Elvin regularThe ProfessionalsDepartment S
Associate art director Len Townsend regular
Associate art director Kenneth Tait regularDepartment S
Set dresser Simon Wakefield regular007
Continuity Mary Spain regular
Make-up Jim Hydes regularCarry On..
Hairdressing Janice Dorman regular
Wardrobe Felix Evans regular
2nd unit director John Hough regularThe ChampionsCarry On..
2nd unit photography Gerald Gibbs regular
Recording director A.W. Lumkin regularThe Saint
Sound recordist Cecil Mason regularThe Saint
Dubbing mixer Len Abbott regularThe ChampionsThe SaintDepartment S
Sound editor Peter Lennard regularThe ProfessionalsRandall and HopkirkDepartment S
Music editor Vivienne Collins regular
Construction manager Herbert Worley regular
Supervisory electrician Steve Birtles regularThe Saint
Stunt arranger Joe Dunne regular007The ProfessionalsThe PrisonerPink PantherSpace 1999Randall and Hopkirk
MCMLXVIII A.B.C. Television Films Limited All rights reserved
Made at Associated British Elstree Studios England and on location
ABC Production / Associated British Corporation

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