• title card: white all caps Art Nouveau text reading ‘THE MORNING AFTER’ superimposed on a view inside The Rostarn Trading Company showing Merlin, Tara and Steed passed out from the gas, a large teddy bear on the chair next to the one Merlin is slumped in
  • A policeman’s helmet lies abandoned dramatically in the foreground of a deserted street
  • Merlin and Steed grab Sergeant Hearn around the neck with the handcuff chain, forcing him to order his men to drop their weapons
  • Yates and Jenny stand beside their television van, telling Steed and Merlin, who are off camera, what’s been happening
  • Sergeant Hearn decides a slug of cheap whisky is a good idea while guarding his prisoners
  • Steed and Merlin smile at each other after defeating the Brigadier with the sleeping gas, handkerchiefs tied around their faces to protect against it
  • Steed and Tara are barely visible in the gloom as they examine the box sent from Merlin that is filled with the stolen luminous dust

Series 6 — Episode 17
The Morning After

Teleplay by Brian Clemens
Directed by John Hough

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 532KB)

Production No E.67.9.20
Production completed: November 11 1968. First transmission: January 10 1969.

Crew

Produced by Albert Fennell regularThe Professionals
and Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
Teleplay by Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
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 John Hough regularThe ChampionsCarry On..
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 H.A.R. Thomson regular
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 Len Townsend regular
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
Recording director A.W. Lumkin regularThe Saint
Sound recordist Dennis Whitlock regularThe ChampionsThe SaintRandall and HopkirkDepartment SJason King
Dubbing mixer Len Shilton 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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