• title card: white all caps text reading ‘THE ROTTERS’ askew by 30 degrees counter-clockwise and superimposed on Kenneth and George smiling at the now-disintegrated door
  • Tara fights George and Kenneth in Pendred’s house
  • Steed and Tara climb out into the ruined church tower, finding Pym crushed under the tenor bell - all the beams have vanished
  • Steed lies on the floor, covered in the remains of the piano as the outer woodwork has been destroyed
  • Tara hold the lock of the door, all that remains of the wooden hut she’d hidden in. Behind her stand Jackson and Sandford, who has just disintegrated the hut with the metal spraygun in his hand
  • Wainwright surprises Tara by sitting up in his coffin and pointing a pistol at her
  • Tara carries an enormous mushroom through Steed’s flat in order to make and omelette

Series 6 — Episode 14
The Rotters

Teleplay by Dave Freeman
Directed by Robert Fuest

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 601KB)

Production No E.67.9.18
Production completed: October 22 1968. First UK transmission: January 8 1969. First transmission (USA): December 16 1968

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Tara King Linda Thorson regularThe Saint
Kenneth Gerald Sim regularThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
George Jerome Willis regularCallanDoctor WhoDanger ManAdam Adamant
Reginald Pym Eric Barker Danger ManCarry On..
Professor Palmer John Nettleton regularDepartment SDoctor WhoThe ProfessionalsThe Champions
Mother Patrick Newell regularDoctor WhoDanger ManRandall and Hopkirk
Mervyn Sawbow Frank Middlemass The Sweeney
Sandford Dervis Ward Danger ManThe ChampionsDad’s Army
Parbury Harold Innocent regularDoctor WhoThe ProfessionalsThe ChampionsCallanRandall and Hopkirk
Sonia Toni Gilpin regularDanger Man
Mrs. Forsythe Amy Dalby Dad’s Army
Victor Forsythe John Stone regular007The ChampionsThe Saint
Wainwright Charles Morgan regularDoctor WhoDad’s ArmyThe Saint
Manservant Harry Hutchinson regular
Carter Noel Davis regular
Sir James Pendred John Scott Adam Adamant
Jackson Les White regular007Danger ManRandall and HopkirkThe ChampionsCallanThe SweeneyThe SaintCarry On..Blake’s 7Space 1999
Rhonda Rhonda Parker regularSpace 1999

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