• title card: white all caps text reading ‘WISH YOU WERE HERE’ superimposed on Uncle Charles peering through the rails of the bar room, evoking a jail cell
  • Tara hold her green and white striped suit up and peers through the large round hole where the back has been burnt through
  • Mother sits grumpily in the outsized scales as Steed reviews the notes, Rhonda stands passivle among the black and white photos around them
  • Basil arrives at the hotel with an enormous supply of sporting equipment and luggage
  • Basil and Tara plan the next step of their escape
  • Maxwell is revealed as the villain behind the hotel when he pulls a gun on our heroine
  • Tara is holding a picnic hamper when she discovers Steed is being held prisoner in his flat

Series 6 — Episode 19
Wish You Were Here

Teleplay by Tony Williamson
Directed by Don Chaffey

Production No E.67.9.16
Production completed: September 12 1968. First UK transmission: February 7 1969. First transmission (USA): November 18 1968

Crew

Produced by Albert Fennell regularThe Professionals
and Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
Teleplay by Tony Williamson regularThe ChampionsDanger ManThe SaintAdam AdamantRandall and HopkirkJason KingDepartment S
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 Don Chaffey regularDanger ManThe Prisoner
Executive in charge of production Gordon L.T. Scott regular
Music supervision by Laurie Johnson regularThe ProfessionalsJason King
Additional music by Howard Blake regular
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 Karen Heward 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 Norman Jones
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 Betty Sherriff
Wardrobe Felix Evans regular
Recording director A.W. Lumkin regularThe Saint
Sound recordist Sid Rider
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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