• title card: white all caps text reading ‘FALSE WITNESS’ superimposed on a view up a London Street. Melville walks away upscreen and we can see Penman’s legs sticking out from behind a red telephone box
  • In a quiet suburban street, Steed sets up his own personal bus stop. His yellow Rolls-Royce and a soon-to-be-confused commuter in the background
  • Lord Edgefield smirks as he knows the witness will not testify
  • A view inside Mother’s ‘office’ on the top deck of a Routemaster bus
  • Tara is soscked to the skin and milk pours off her face as she fights Sloman in the vat of milk
  • The steel butter machine, with Tara trapped inside, pressed against one of the wedge-shaped windows
  • Tara stands in the background, surprised to find Steed trying to use up the left-over butter om a mountain of toast

Series 6 — Episode 6
False Witness

Teleplay by Jeremy Burnham
Directed by Charles Crichton

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 572KB)

Production No E.67.9.12
Production completed: July 11 1968. First transmission: November 6 1968.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Tara King Linda Thorson regularThe Saint
Sykes John Bennett regularBlake’s 7Doctor WhoDanger ManThe ProfessionalsThe Saint
Melville Barry Warren regular
Sir Joseph Tarlton Tony Steedman regularThe ProfessionalsThe SaintThe ChampionsThe SweeneyDepartment SJason King
Mother Patrick Newell regularDoctor WhoDanger ManRandall and Hopkirk
Lord Edgefield William Job regular
Sloman Dan Meaden regular007
Plummer Michael Lees The Champions
Nesbitt Simon Lack Doctor WhoDanger ManThe SaintJason King
Dr. Grant Arthur Pentelow regular
Penman Peter Jesson Danger ManRandall and HopkirkCarry On..
Lane Rio Fanning regularDoctor WhoBlake’s 7The Champions
Brayshaw John Atkinson
Gould Larry Burns
Little Man Jimmy Gardner Doctor WhoThe Saint
Amanda Terry Eliot
Rhonda Rhonda Parker regularSpace 1999

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