Series 6 — Episode 14
The Rotters

Regional broadcasts

TV Times listing

International broadcasts

This episode was not shown in the initial Swiss run of series 6 in 1969, but was the first previously unbroadcast episode shown there in a new run of the series in 1974.

Continuity & Trivia

1. 2:46 — This week, Mother’s office is entirely made of plastic and all of the furniture is inflatable.
2. 7:32 (7:45) - Surely destroying the desk with the wood rotting device would also destroy all the paper inside it, including the photographs.
3. 8:40 — That’s nice intercutting of Cyd Child & Linda Thorson in the fights scene.
4. 13:38 — The music is from The Hidden Tiger.
5. 16:14 (16:44) - The church bell has no clapper, why on earth did they film a shot straight into it?
6. 17:38 — That external shot of George and Kenneth coming through the gate doesn’t look like an evening shot...
7. 19:16 (20:06) - It’s a clear redub of Steed saying, “That’s Pendred and Pym gone, who are the others?”
8. 27:33 — The chain disappears as well as the wooden gate but it’s there at 27:42 for Tara to pick up.
9. 28:49 — The music is the march from The Hidden Tiger.
10. 32:10 — The stuntman is not much like Macnee, and the other two are suddenly wearing their caps.
11. 33:39 — Same location as the woods in Super Secret Cypher Snatch, maybe the same as They Keep Killing Steed as well.
12. 38:18 (39:13) - Mother says Sawbow was shot point blank, but he wasn’t! Sandford was good 20' away at least.
13. 45:33 — There’s colour-shift in the back-projection driving scene.
14. 46:50 — Wainwright says he’s going to ransom the world for £1,000,000,000 and Tara quips, “You don’t really believe all this rot do you?”
15. 49:00 — The omlette recipe recipe (Steed comments in parentheses):
    Plain flour, 2lb. (hand milled on stone), 4 dozen eggs (all laid by pedigree hens within the last 3 hours), salt (from the coast of Brittany, coarse ground), seven rare and exotic herbs, llama milk, wild cane sugar, and pimentos. (Whisky - that’s for me!) Mix together for ten minutes and add the master chef’s touch, then ten minutes after that you have Steed’s crusted omlette of mushroom.
    “Oh, mushroom!” Tara exclaims, and she rushes in and picks up an enormous mushroom.
16. Running time: 50′15″

The Transport

Who’s Killing Whom?

Jackson dies according to the synopsis, there’s no other evidence to suggest his death on screen.

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The Fashions