• title card: white all caps text reading ‘THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE COUNTLESS CLUES’ superimposed on Dawson lying inside the chalk outline on the carpet
  • Rear Window: Shot from the outside of Tara looking out her sash window
  • Earle holds Flanders’ rifle, wrapped in plastic, preparing to assassinate Scott
  • Sir Doyle holds up the plastic-bagged revolver, one of his detectives stands behind him
  • Steed grabs Gardiner by the throat as they fight
  • Gardiner’s face is covered in paint after Tara clobbers him with her art supplies
  • Tara holds onto her fireman’s pole and doffs Steed’s hat at him

Series 6 — Episode 18
The Curious Case of the Countless Clues

Teleplay by Philip Levene
Directed by Don Sharp

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 538KB)

Production No E.66.6.27 / E.67.9.1
Production completed: January 5 1968. First transmission: January 31 1969. First transmission (USA): April 3 1968

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Tara King Linda Thorson regularThe Saint
Earle Anthony Bate regularThe SaintThe Champions
Gardiner Kenneth Cope regularDoctor WhoRandall and HopkirkCarry On..
Stanley Tony Selby Doctor WhoThe SweeneyCallanDepartment S
Sir Arthur Doyle Peter Jones regularRandall and HopkirkCarry On..
Janice Flanders Tracy Reed 007UFO
Robert Flanders Edward de Souza regularDoctor Who007Department SThe SaintThe Sweeney
Sir William Burgess George A. Cooper regularDoctor WhoDanger ManThe Saint
Reginald Herbert Dawson Reginald Jessup Doctor WhoDanger ManThe SaintDepartment SThe Champions
Scott unknown
Witness John Timberlake regularDoctor WhoDanger ManThe SaintThe PrisonerThe SweeneyCarry On..
Detective Ernest Fennemore regularThe Saint
Detective Peter Roy regular007Star WarsDoctor WhoThe SaintThe SweeneyBlake’s 7CallanIndiana JonesCarry On..
Life attendant Harold Coyne regularThe SaintThe Sweeney
Doorman unknown

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