• title card: white all caps text reading ‘LOOK - (stop me if you’ve heard this one) BUT THERE WERE THESE TWO FELLERS...’ superimposed on Maxie and Jennings in their clown make-up. Maxie is smiling inanely while Jennings has a sad face
  • Rugman opens the door to Tara and makes sure she’s read the Victorian circus poster styled sign which fills the entire door: ‘EGGS FRAGILE, FRAGILE AREA TAKE CARE, HANDLE AS EGGS, TREAD CAREFULLY, NO HANDBAGS, UMBRELLAS, PACKAGES, PLEASE TAKE CARE, DON’T KNOCK, PLEASE DON’T KNOCK, DONT’T SLAM THE DOOR, TALK LOUDLY, VIBRATE, EVEN BREATHE’
  • The Brigadier stands in the carpark, holding the comic yet deadly BOMB
  • Steed visits the joke writer Marler, whose office is knee-deep in rejected gags
  • Lord Dessington plummets to his doom from the window
  • Firey Frederick smiles after he lights his blow torch and prepares to burn Tara in half
  • Steed and Tara leave his apartment to go to dinner, she in a very short silk dress, he in a rented tuxedo that has a light-up sign on his back which reads Eat at JOE’S in red cursive on a white square

Series 6 — Episode 10
Look - (stop me if you’ve heard this one) But There Were These Two Fellers...

Teleplay by Dennis Spooner
Directed by James Hill

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 578KB)

Production No E.66.6.31 / E.67.9.5
Production completed: March 19 1968. First transmission: December 4 1968. First transmission (USA): May 8 1968

Crew

Produced by Albert Fennell regularThe Professionals
and Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
Teleplay by Dennis Spooner regularThe ChampionsDoctor WhoThe ProfessionalsJason KingDepartment SRandall and HopkirkUFO
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 James Hill regularThe Saint
Executive in charge of production Gordon L.T. Scott regular
Music by Laurie Johnson regularThe ProfessionalsJason King
Story consultant Philip Levene regular
Production controller Jack Greenwood regular
Production designer Robert Jones regular
Consultant to the series Julian Wintle regular
Director of photography Gilbert Taylor regularDepartment SStar Wars (billed as Gilbert Taylor B.S.C.)
Post production co-ordinator Harry Booth regular
Editor Manuel del Campo regular
Production manager Ron Fry regularDoctor WhoSpace 1999
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
Set dresser Kenneth Tait regularDepartment S
Continuity June Randall regular007The Saint
Make-up Jim Hydes regularCarry On..
Hairdressing Gordon Bond regular
Wardrobe Felix Evans regular
Editor Lionel Selwyn regular
2nd unit director John Hough regularThe ChampionsCarry On..
2nd unit photography Jimmy Harvey regularThe Champions (billed as Jimmy Harvey B.S.C.)
Recording director A.W. Lumkin regularThe Saint
Sound recordist Cecil Mason regularThe Saint
Dubbing mixer Len Shilton regularThe ChampionsThe SaintDepartment S
Sound editor Peter Lennard regularThe ProfessionalsRandall and HopkirkDepartment S
Music editor Karen Heward 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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