Series 6 — Episode 25
Get-A-Way!

Regional broadcasts

TV listings for 24^th January 1969 in the Midlands area were for Killer but it was replaced. As Get-A-Way! is the only episode not accounted for in the Midlands area, it is likely it was shown on that date unless a different programme was shown instead.

TV Times listing

International broadcasts

Get-A-Way! was originally scheduled for February 25 1969 in Melbourne, Australia, but replaced by Killer. The Age at the time printed their full-week television listings on Thursdays and these episodes were shown the following Tuesday, so it had been rescheduled before Monday afternoon for ABC Publicity to inform the press before the type was set for the next day’s newspapers. Get-A-Way! would eventually screen in that city on April 22 1969.

Get-A-Way! and The Curious Case of the Countless Clues are reported in different newspapers for the 6^th and 20^th May 1969 — although Gazette de Lausanne reports the mysterious Un succès mérité for the 6^th. It looked at first to be a regional variation but La Liberté may have solved the problem and shows that Trop d’indices was pre-empted. They had corrected the listing to announce Les évadés du monastère in place of Trop d’indices but left a photo of Linda on the page labelled as being from Trop d’indices — and two weeks later has a photo from Get-A-Way! with a summary for The Curious Case of the Countless Clues… Given that the vast majority of Swiss newspaper have Get-A-Way! followed by The Curious Case of the Countless Clues, I have gone with that consensus.

Continuity & Trivia

1. 4:25–4:30 — Get-A-Way! is the only episode with fully animated opening titles, the “Get-A-Way!” getting away, stage left.
   
2. 10:00–10:10 — while Col. James and Steed are investigating the dead-end hallway, you can just see the shadow of the boom microphone on the tapestry at bottom right.
3. 14:25–14:30 — one of the monks touches the tapestry at the very point where Lubin is supposed to be standing still, camouflaged.
4. 18:03 — Why do Lubin’s paint footprints go to a wall?
5. 26:02 — Bryant is reading “Wild Ways of the Animal World” by Ross E. Hutchins.
6. 27:04 — Burdett Mews
7. 28:13 — Princess Mews
8. 29:26 — This is the first use of Steed’s yellow Rolls-Royce (in production terms); it had appeared earlier in the broadcast run.
9. 34:50–35:03 — There’s a hair caught on the camera lends at top right in the CUs of Tara.
10. 36:20 (37:37) - Why does Price decide not to enter Ezdorf’s cell when he’s just seen him taking his clothes off, after getting in the bath? He thinks about it, then decides to do nothing.
11. 39:26–31 — During the mid shot of Price there is a triangular object stuck to top left of camera
12. Passim. - Why do Lubin and the other agents only destroy page 25, when page 26 is a big giveaway advertisement for Lizard Vodka that could have blown the whole scheme?
13. Passim. - We must assume the liquid affects hair and skin the same way it affects cloth - in fact Ezdorf wets his hair - as none of the men wear hoods.
14. Running time : 49′17″

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