Series 6 — Episode 9
Noon Doomsday
Teleplay by Terry Nation
Directed by Peter Sykes
Production No E.67.9.13
Production completed: July 30 1968. First UK transmission: November 27 1968. First transmission (USA): October 28 1968.
Regional broadcasts
Broadcaster | Date | Time |
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Thames Television | 27/11/1968 | 8:00pm |
ATV Midlands | 28/11/1968 | 7:00pm |
Granada Television | 16/03/1969 | 8:25pm |
Anglia Television | 28/11/1968 | 7:00pm |
Border Television | 8/12/1968 | 8:10pm |
Channel Television | 28/11/1968 | 7:00pm |
Grampian Television | 27/11/1968 | 8:00pm |
Southern Television | 5/02/1969 | 8:00pm |
Scottish Television | 6/03/1969 | 8:00pm |
Tyne Tees Television | 27/11/1968 | 8:00pm |
Ulster Television | 28/11/1968 | 7:00pm |
Westward Television | 28/11/1968 | 7:00pm |
Harlech Television | 28/11/1968 | 7:00pm |
Yorkshire Television | 29/11/1968 | 7:35pm |
TV Times listing
9.30
The Avengers
Patrick Macnee
Linda Thorson
Noon Doomsday
By Terry Nation
It’s High Noon for Steed. who is recovering in a special convalescence hole for secret agents after his latest exploit.
Previously shown on ITV
John Steed | Patrick Macnee |
Tara King | Linda Thorson |
Farrington | Ray Brooks |
Grant | T P McKenna |
Baines | Friffith Jones |
Lyall | Lyndon Brook |
Kafka | Peter Bromilow |
Mother | Patrick Newell |
Rhonda | Rhonda Parker |
Perrier | Peter Halliday |
Sunlet | Anthony Ainley |
Hyde | John Glyn-Jones |
Carson | David Glover |
Cornwall | Lawrence James |
Taxi driver | Alfred Maron |
Executive in Charge of Production Gordon L. T. Scott Script Editor Terry Nation Director Peter Sykes Producers Albert Fennell Brian Clemens
ABC Television Network Production
International broadcasts
Broadcaster | Date | Time |
---|---|---|
ABN2 Sydney, Australia | 24/01/1969 | 8:00pm |
ABV2 Melbourne, Australia | 28/01/1969 | 8:30pm |
ABC New York, USA | 28/10/1968 | 7:30pm |
ORTF2 France | 13/12/1969 | 10:05pm |
Suisse Romande, Switzerland | 9/09/1969 | 8:20pm |
French title | Je vous tuerai à midi | |
ZDF Germany | 1/12/1970 | 9:00pm |
German title | Wenn es zwölf Uhr schlägt | |
KRO Netherlands | 24/02/1970 | 9:00pm |
Dutch title | De wraak van Kafka | |
TTI Italy | 6/1/1982 C5 | |
Italian title | Appuntamento a mezzogiorno | |
Spain | 8/12/1969 | 11:00pm |
Spanish title | Mediodía mortal |
Continuity & Trivia
- 4:25 — Steed has gone to “Department S” to recover. An in-joke or coincidence with Peter Wyngarde’s television show?
- 5:54 — Mother says, “Countdown starting now”, and the camera pans across a row of glasses with decreasing amounts of drink in them.
- 12:28 — There’s a hair at the top right of the screen in the close-up of Carson.
- 15:00 — Steed says, “June 19, seven years ago” - that would put it in 1961, between the cases The Yellow Needle and Death on the Slipway.
- 22:39 — Kafka is referred to as having been the “Head of Murder International” - is that a tie in with Intercrime as well?
- 24:00 (24:20) - Discussing their predicament, Steed says there’s someone in the facility with the only gun in the area and the key to the defences - but at the end of the episode he fires a gun at Kafka that’s hidden in his crutch.
- 25:05 — That’s not John Glyn-Jones down the well!
- 26:15 — Music from Never, Never Say Die plays as Tara tries to climb back out of the well.
- 34:21–35:02 — The clock reads 11:44 as Steed picks up the gun and checks it, but it’s 11:52 two seconds later in the close-up of the clock after he turns to check the time.
- 37:10 (38:35) - the poor horses are greatly frightened by the arrival of the helicopter.
- 38:02 — Tara puts two sugar cubes in Steed’s tea cup when she makes his tea.
- 39:19 — The clock reads 11:59am but a few moments later [39:47 (41:34)], the clock says it’s 12:04pm - not quite Noon!
- 41:18 — Mariachi music plays when Tara attacks Grant at the barn.
- 44:57 (46:10) - The fanfare from Murdersville is played as Tara emerges after killing Grant.
- Running time: 50′03″
- The episode was mostly filmed at Brian Clemens’ farm, Park Farm, at Ampthill.
The Transport
Marque | Colour | Number |
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horses | chestnut | |
Winchester Mk III 1967 taxi | black | ? |
Fordson Major E1A 1951 tractor | blue | |
Hughes 300 (269B) helicopter 1967 | buff | G-AVUM |
Who’s Killing Whom?
Victim | Killer | Method |
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Giles Cornwall | Dr. Carson | crushed by a cartwheel |
Dr. Hyde | Dr. Carson | revolver |
Dr. Carson | Tara | shot by his revolver during a fight |
Grant | Tara | revolver |
Farrington | Tara | throwing knife |
Kafka | Steed | spear gun hidden in crutch |
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The Fashions
Tara | Steed |