• title card: white all caps text reading ‘LEGACY OF DEATH’ alongside some Chinese character superimposed on a close-up of the ‘Last Will and Testament’ held in Zoltan’s hand, the background is Farrer’s red coffin
  • Zoltan appears to threaten Steed with the ceremonial dagger and he bestows Farrer’s bequest
  • Sidney peers up out the window of their old-fashioned car while Humbert sits timidly beside him - they are dressed in 1940s linen suits and Panama hats
  • A trail of black cars blatantly follow Tara and Steed
  • The demon-masked and red robed Ho Lung attacks Tara, a green Chinese tapestry hangs behind him
  • Tara is strapped to a table as von Orlak tells her he will make her talk by using the Chinese water torture
  • Steed and Tara are excited as the model Spitfire aeroplane starts to zoom around his flat. He wears and ugly shirt while she wears a brief minidress with plunging neckline

Series 6 — Episode 8
Legacy of Death

Teleplay by Terry Nation
Directed by Don Chaffey

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 528KB)

Production No E.67.9.14
Production completed: August 9 1968. First UK transmission: November 20 1968. First transmission (USA): November 4 1968.

Crew

Produced by Albert Fennell regularThe Professionals
and Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
Teleplay by Terry Nation regularDoctor WhoBlake’s 7The ChampionsThe SaintDepartment S
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 Don Chaffey regularDanger ManThe Prisoner
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
script editor Terry Nation regularDoctor WhoBlake’s 7The ChampionsThe SaintDepartment S
Director of photography Peter Jessop regular
Editor Karen Heward regular
Production manager Ron Fry regularDoctor WhoSpace 1999
Post production co-ordinator Ann Chegwidden regularDoctor Who
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 Ted Lewis regular
Camera operator Ernie Robinson regular
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 photography Gerald Gibbs regular
Recording director A.W. Lumkin regularThe Saint
Sound recordist Cecil Mason regularThe Saint
Dubbing mixer Bill Rowe regular007The SaintDepartment S
Sound editor Peter Lennard regularThe ProfessionalsRandall and HopkirkDepartment S
Music editor Paul Clay regularThe Professionals
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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