• 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

Crew

Produced by Albert Fennell regularThe Professionals
and Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
Teleplay by Dave Freeman Carry On..
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 Robert Fuest regular
Executive in charge of production Gordon L.T. Scott regular
Music by Laurie Johnson regularThe ProfessionalsJason King
Production controller Jack Greenwood regular
Production designer Robert Jones regular
script editor Terry Nation regularDoctor WhoBlake’s 7The ChampionsThe SaintDepartment S
Director of photography Alan Hume regular007Carry On..Star Wars (billed as Alan Hume B.S.C.)
Editor Manuel del Campo regular
Production manager Ron Fry regularDoctor WhoSpace 1999
Post production co-ordinator Ann Chegwidden regularDoctor Who
Patrick Macnee’s suits designed by Patrick Macnee regular007
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 Purdie regularThe Professionals
Camera operator Geoff Seaholme regular
Associate art director Richard Harrison regular007
Associate art director Kenneth Tait regularDepartment S
Set dresser Simon Wakefield regular007
Continuity Kay Perkins regular
Make-up Jim Hydes regularCarry On..
Hairdressing Mary Sturgess regularThe Sweeney
Wardrobe Ivy Baker regularPink Panther
2nd unit photography Bob Thompson
Recording director A.W. Lumkin regularThe Saint
Sound recordist Dennis Whitlock regularThe ChampionsThe SaintRandall and HopkirkDepartment SJason King
Dubbing mixer Len Abbott regularThe ChampionsThe SaintDepartment S
Sound editor Peter Lennard regularThe ProfessionalsRandall and HopkirkDepartment S
Music editor Paul Clay regularThe Professionals
Construction manager Len Dunstan regular
Supervisory electrician Roy Bond regular
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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