Series 6 — Episode 7
All Done with Mirrors

Regional broadcasts

TV Times listing

International broadcasts

This episode was not broadcast in Italy until 1980.

Continuity & Trivia

1. 3:11 — There’s dust and hair on the caption scanner when the credits come up under the titles
2. 3:40–4:20 (4:00) - This episode must have been meant as the first episode of the season, as Rhonda is introduced to Steed for the first time, and Steed has reservations about giving the assignment to Tara; Mother describes sending in female agents as “a new, intuitive approach to things”.
3. 4:56 (4:30) - Steed declares, “I’m innocent, entirely innocent!” Tara takes one look at the bikini-clad girls and says, “Yes, but for how long?”
4. throughout - Carmoadoc is presumably in Wales.
5. 8:02 and throughout - The wall decorations from Split! & My Wildest Dream are on the rotating arms of the device in the centre of the establishment, as well as on the walls.
6. 8:30 — Linda Thorson slips into her native Canadian accent briefly.
7. 12:26 — (12:00) - Gozzo’s approach to Williams’ house is accompanied by Laurie Johnson’s “March of the Cybernauts” and Gozzo had not been seen yet, so a viewer might have expected him to be a cybernaut.
8. 14:09 — Linda Thorson does some of her own stunts in the fight against Gozzo, notably the first flying kick over the car.
9. 15:04 (14:30) - When Cyd Child puts in the final kick to send Gozzo into the shed, she falls backwards but a second later with the change of angle Linda Thorson resumes the rôle of Tara and is standing up, arms in a karate pose.
10. 15:32 — Tara walks away at the end of the fight with no mud on here trousers, despite having been marked quite a lot during the fight.
11. 16:06 — Seligmann’s view through the binoculars is an identical shot to Tara’s view of the lighthouse moments earlier (presumably either side of the commercial break).
12. 23:59 — there’s a big wad of threads at the top left just as the vision switches to the extreme close-up of the Colonel looking throught the telescope. When the vision switches to Tara entering the lamp room, it becomes a few tangled threads stuck in the corner; they disappear briefly at the camera switch to Tara and Barlow’s close-ups at 24:14, 24:19, 24:22, returning whenever the Colonel is in close-up, or there’s a mid-shot. It disappears completely at 24:52.
13. 25:42 (25:23) - Tara swings the telescope, which had been pointing at the sea, to the right to view the cliffs, but the cliff-edge in question was to the left.
14. 25:44 — There appears to be a big dent in the side of the telescope.
15. 43:15 — Joe Dunne stands up then continues his roll down the stairs. This stunt is widely reported to be the longest stair fall stunt in television history but director Ray Austin revealed it was actually a fifteen-foot set that they kept filming again and again from different angles.
16. 46:00 — There’s colour shift in the back projection sequence when Steed is driving.
17. Running time: 49′27″
18. Sparshott’s medals: Military Cross, Korea Medal, United Nations Service Medal for Korea, Africa General Service Medal, General Service Medal 1918–62, General Service Medal 1962, Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal
19. This episode has a video Q&A and commentary with Ray Austin and Philip Hawkins on the Lives in the Pictures YouTube channel.

Production notes

1. This must have been quite an expensive episode to produce, there’s tons of location filming and the lighthouse sets would have been specially built.
2. I’d previously written that Ray Austin seems to be emulating Peter Hammond with his choice of shots but Ray recently revealed that a lot of the reflection shots were directed by Johnny Hough, who worked out with Ray that the story was all about reflections so they planned a lot of reflection shots and shots through glass, it wasn’t a conscious emulation of Hammond at all.

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