Series 6 — Episode 24
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This episode was not broadcast in Switzerland.

This episode was one of five that were left out of the initial run of series 6 in Melbourne, Australia, and was eventually rescreened in 1970 after the “Steed’s Choice” series of repeats of seven selected episode from series 5.

Continuity & Trivia

1. 1:18 — The Ministry building is in fact Watford town hall.
2. 3:05 — The caption scanner has hair and dust all over it — when the opening credits are superimposed there are two hairs in the top left corner and specks over the entire picture.
3. 3:23 — There’s an odd colour shift as the camera pans up from the manhole and zooms towards the approaching Steed; it looks like a remastering error, where the black level suddenly shifts, rather than film stock damage.
4. 3:30 and throughout - Mother’s office this week is a cricket club, complete with indoor practice nets and Victoriana, underground beneath a manhole!
5. 8:00 — Martha Roberts lived at 4 Chester Place, London E13.
6. 9:30 — Doesn’t look like E13, more like NW1. (It’s actually Sutherland Avenue, W9)
7. 9:55 — Is it just me, or does Veronica Strong look exactly like Jennifer Saunders?
8. 15:00 - the clue to the killer is a very exclusive perfume, a bit like in How to Succeed .... At Murder
9. 18:15 — The customer list starts with : Lady Vanessa Cholmondley-Davenport (Mother has known her since she ‘came out’ in ’38); The Hon. Malvina Tredwell-Smith (Mother says she’s a platoon leader in Girl Guides). The rest of list is not read out as Tara is interrupted by Freeman. However, you can see it in a few shots and is partly visible:
   The Duchess of Wakefield
   Miss Martha Roberts
   Lady Constance C... - ...
   The Marchioness of Galloway
   etc...
   Princess Jasmine of La..
   etc...
10. 19:44 and 23:16 — Sir Rodney’s Rolls is back at the town hall. Looks like repeats of the shot from 1:18.
11. 20:38 — Is this the first use of Latin since the departure of Honor Blackman? Steed comments, “De mortuis nihil nisi bonum” (Don’t speak ill of the dead) to Tait when Tait says he’s glad to scotch a rumour about Sir Rodney Kellogg before it went any further.
12. 23:00 — The policewoman recites Tait’s number plate as being 308 HYH.
13. 31:55 — Shades of The Correct Way To Kill as Bromfield and Steed meet with Terence Alexander smiling benignly at Steed as they’re introduced.
14. 36:30 — Paul Weston as Macnee’s stunt double for the fight. I can’t identify the stand-in for Frank Gatliff.
15. 38:06 — There’s colour shift here, but is it in film stock or the remaster? I suspect the remaster as there was a similar one when Steed was approaching the open manhole at the beginning of the episode.
16. 41:12 — The shadow of the boom crosses Tara’s face as the camera pans to follow Bromfield across the room.
17. 41:24 — A clearly painted backdrop for the cloudy sky outside the window.
18. 43:05–43:10 — Another stand-in for Macnee, probably Paul again, standing in Osnaburgh Street, NW1
19. 43:50 — That’s Paul Weston rushing to save Cyd Child from falling.
20. 44:10 — Macnee reportedly cracked a few ribs doing this scene where he save Linda from falling from the window.
21. 44:47–44:49 — Bromfield reaches for his inside pocket, we cut to Steed and then back to Bromfield, who has his hands by his sides again. There might have been a scene where he’s disarmed removed, as Tara ends up with Bromfield’s gun later on.
22. 44:51 — It looks like Paul Weston and maybe Romo Gorrara doing this fight scene, nicely intercut with closeups of Macnee and Alexander.
23. 45:16 — Steed knocks Tara out with the steel crown of his bowler hat.
24. 45:20 — Nice to see that he’s still using Herbert Johnson & Son hats as well.
25. 45:33 — The piano computer dispenses a huge manuscript after the keys are all hit during the fight and Steed comments, “They’ll never fit this into paperback”.
26. 47:05 — You can see the joins in the set’s ceiling as Steed approaches the door.
27. 47:10 — The microdot projectors are in different positions on Steed’s waistcoat to those he put them at 46:55.
28. 49:30–50:00 — Steed is wearing a different coat, so why does he have the microdots on this one as well? I think he planned to get teenage girls to fall in love with him…
29. 49:30–50:00 — Speaking of teenage girls, the three (not 25) women we can glimpse thought the glass are definitely not teenagers.
30. 49:58 — Steed, concerned that Tara has been affected by the hypnotic dots on his waistcoat says, “I’d better take it off!” Does Tara reply “Oh, Steed!” or “Oh, please!” ?
31. Running time: 50′14″

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