• title card: white text reading ‘Thingumajig’ in a script font superimposed on the box shape drawn in the sand by Greer, whole hands lie beside it
  • Major Star finds Reston’s body in the tunnels, a black mark on his forehead
  • Steed puzzles over the mysterious box
  • Teddy, Steed and Inge examine the map of the catacombs under Teddy’s church
  • Tara takes cover behind the sofa, desperately shaking a bottle of champagne which she intends to ‘fire’ at the electronic box
  • Steed is prepared for the box - welding goggles, gloves and electrical discharge gun with a huge generator
  • Tara hangs upside down outside Steed’s window, helping him fix his television reception, the antenna in her hand. He reaches out to grab her

Series 6 — Episode 26
Thingumajig

Teleplay by Terry Nation
Directed by Leslie Norman

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 505KB)
Read a call sheet (JPG 150KB)

Production No E.67.9.28
Production completed: February 3 1969. First UK transmission: March 28 1969. First transmission (USA): March 24 1969.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Tara King Linda Thorson regularThe Saint
Inge Tilson Dora Reisser Space 1999
The Rev. Teddy Shelley Jeremy Lloyd regularCallan
Kruger Iain Cuthbertson Doctor WhoAdam AdamantDepartment S
Professor Harvey Truman Willoughby Goddard regularDanger ManThe SaintCarry On..The SweeneySpace 1999
Major Star Hugh Manning regular
Dr. Grant John Horsley regularThe ProfessionalsDepartment SCarry On..The Champions
Brett Edward Burnham regularDoctor WhoThe SaintCallan
Stenson Vernon Dobtcheff regularDoctor Who007Blake’s 7The SaintThe ChampionsIndiana JonesThe Sweeney
Pike Russell Waters regularThe SaintThe Champions
Phillips Michael McKevitt The Saint
Williams Neville Hughes Dad’s Army
Greer John Moore regularDoctor WhoThe Champions
Bill Reston Harry Shacklock regularCarry On..

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