Series 6 — Episode 13
The Interrogators

Regional broadcasts

TV Times listing

The 1980s repeat listing greatly truncates the plot synopsis but adds a credit for Executive in Charge of Production Gordon L. T. Scott.

International broadcasts

Only the United States of America, Australia, and the Netherlands showed this episode in first-run series.

Continuity & Trivia

1. throughout - Colonel Mannering’s presumably fake medals are:
   Distinguished Service Order, British Empire Medal
   1939–45 Star, Africa Star with 8th Army clasp, Italy Star, France and Germany Star
   Defence Medal, War Medal 1939–45 with oak leaf for being mentioned in dispatches, Korea Medal, United Nations Service Medal for Korea
   General Service Medal (1918–61), General Service Medal (1962), Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal, Croix de Guerre 1939–1945
   The same medals are worn by Brigadier Hansing in The Morning After.
2. 1:48 — Lt Roy Caspar’s serial number is 22413791. He wears just the two General Service Medal ribbons when in dress uniform.
3. 2:16 (2:20) - Christopher Lee emerges from a corner of the surgery which was completely empty 20 seconds earlier.
4. 2:55 — The caption title acetates are very dirty, there’s grit and hair all over it.
5. 3:08 — Steed has an antique phone in the Bentley again.
6. 3:10–3:22 — That’s a stand-in for Macnee.
7. 3:25 — Steed dials 0 to enter Mother’s HQ through the phone booth.
8. 3:30 (3:50) - Mother’s HQ is hidden, Get Smart style, behind a telephone box.
9. 8:29 — Yet another visit to the quarry last seen in the previous episode, They Keep Killing Steed.
10. 11:15 — There’s a hair at top right after the guards drag Caspar thruogh the door.
11. 15:29 — The boom microphone dips alarmingly into shot as Steed stands up from questioning Caspar.
12. 16:03 — The boom micropohne appears again, waggles about until 16:08 and then you see its shadow on the wall for a few seconds.
13. 31:22 (32:10) - Tara has been selected to go to Centre 53 to attend TOHE course A7. The documents are covered by Secret Security Sealed Instruction 47, subsection QR4932.
14. 35:46 — The boom microphone appears again when Tara is introduced to the other officers in the bar.
15. 44:55–45:00 — one of the officers runs through a door in an army uniform and a couple of seconds later he is wearing a navy uniform.
16. 46:25 — There’s a hair in the bottom right corner of the screen.
17. 46:46 — You can see a painted backdrop through the French doors.
18. 47:00 — Steed’s bowler has a steel crown this week, deflecting Toy’s bayonet.
19. 47:31 — There’s a hair top left as Steed is apprehended by the officers.
20. 49:50 (51:19) - Steed’s intonation “not to give away your secret recipe” is obviously redubbed.
21. Running time: 50′20″

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