• title card: white all caps text reading ‘THEY KEEP KILLING STEED’ (the K is two lines high and serves as the first letter for both of the middle words) superimposed on the dead double of Steed lying next to some black and white photographs of Steed’s face
  • Rhonda sits in the sinking rowing boat in a wetsuit, a red phone on the thwart in front of her
  • Perova has put on his face-changing mask and fills the syringe from the vial
  • Nadine’s disfigured face after his tranformation failed
  • Tara is backed up against the bridge and, no longer knowing who to trust, points her revolver at Steed
  • Baron von Curt fights off Arcos’ men with his saintly swordfighting skills
  • Tara slumps on her sun lounge after the thunder rolls outside - she and Steed are pretending to be at the beach with a pile of sand in the middle of her flat

Series 6 — Episode 12
They Keep Killing Steed

Teleplay by Brian Clemens
Directed by Robert Fuest

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 498KB)
Read the draft script (PDF 5.95MB)
Read a movement order (JPG 112KB)

Production No E.67.9.15
Production completed: September 20 1968. First transmission: December 18 1968. First transmission (USA): November 11 1968

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Tara King Linda Thorson regularThe Saint
Baron Von Curt Ian Ogilvy The Saint
Arcos Ray McAnally regular
Zerson Norman Jones Doctor WhoThe ProfessionalsThe Saint007The SweeneyThe Champions
Captain Smythe Bernard Horsfall regularDoctor Who007The SaintDepartment S
Mother Patrick Newell regularDoctor WhoDanger ManRandall and Hopkirk
Bruno William Ellis
Nadine Hal Galili 007The ProfessionalsSpace 1999Department SJason KingThe SaintPink PantherCarry On..
Helga Nicole Shelby regularThe Saint
Miranda Rosemary Donnelly The SaintDepartment S
Maid Gloria Connell
Hotel Porter Michael Corcoran regularDanger Man
Chairman Ross Hutchinson regular
Chief Guard Reg Whitehead Doctor WhoThe Saint
Guard Anthony Sheppard regularThe Saint
Redhead Angharad Rees
Taxi Driver George Ghent Callan
Rhonda Rhonda Parker regularSpace 1999
Verno Arthur Howell regular007Star Wars
Golda Bill Cummings regular007The PrisonerRandall and HopkirkPink PantherThe ChampionsCarry On..
Smanoff Frank Barringer regular
Hotel Manager Philip Webb regularDoctor WhoThe SaintBlake’s 7
barman Gerry Judge regular
Perova Peter Roy regular007Star WarsDoctor WhoThe SaintThe SweeneyBlake’s 7CallanIndiana JonesCarry On..
Mintoff unknown
Georgio unknown
Bowler unknown
Rejected doppleganger Patrick Macnee regular007
Perova as John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Mintoff as John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Bowler as John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Georgio as John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Nadine as John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
First Taxi Driver unknown
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Delegate Tony Castleton regular007Danger ManThe SaintPink PantherCarry On..
Delegate unknown
Delegate Tony Mulcahy Danger ManThe SaintCarry On..
Delegate Jack Armstrong regular
Waiter Louis Matto
Delegate Dan Darnelli regularDanger Man007The PrisonerPink Panther
Delegate Terry Sartain regularDoctor WhoThe SaintBlake’s 7
Delegate Tony Mendelssohn regularDanger ManThe SaintThe Prisoner
Delegate Ned Hood Danger Man
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Delegate Ralph Wing
Delegate Richard Gregory 007The SaintCarry On..Star Wars
Delegate Roy Lansford regular007The SaintThe SweeneyThe ChampionsCarry On..
Guard Les White regular007Danger ManRandall and HopkirkThe ChampionsCallanThe SweeneyThe SaintCarry On..Blake’s 7Space 1999
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