Series 6 — Episode 27
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International broadcasts

This was the last episode shown in the initial run of series 6 in Melbourne, Australia. Series 6 would return to Victoria screens in February 1970 after the “Steed’s Choice” series of repeats of seven selected episode from series 5, from November 1969 onwards. ABV2 replaced The Avengers with The Ed Sullivan Show but ABN2 kept showing series 6 to New South Wales and ACT viewers throughout the rest of May and June, with Bizarre concluding the series on June 27 1969.

This episode was not shown in the initial Swiss run of series 6 in 1969, but was the one of six previously unbroadcast episodes shown there in a new run of the series in 1974.

Continuity & Trivia

1. 2:48 (2:28) - a forlorn harmonica version of the theme tune plays over the opening titles, this is repeated at various points through the episode.
2. 3:24 — Tara’s appointment is in Sturmer Street, just round the corner from Steed.
3. 3:50 — Henry chloroforms Tara and he and Rupert drags her away.
4. 4:23 — Meudon et Heim champagne.
5. 6:00 — There’s a hair stuck to top left corner of screen in the close-up tracking shot of Mother moving across Tara’s apartment.
6. 6:17–6:32 — The boom microphone dips into view as Mother intones, “It also ensures I’m interrupted”.
7. 7:20 — Mother states that The Fierce Rabbit was our man in Armentierres in the First World War.
8. 7:25 — The first file in the cabinet is clearly a script.
9. 7:26 (6:50) - While ferreting through the Ministry files in search of the ‘The Fierce Rabbit’ file, Carter flicks past Mrs. Peel’s and Mrs. Gale’s not-yet-declassified files. There are also files labelled MENT, Bernard and, intriguingly, Experiment 53-T-4. If this were Doctor Who, there would be a Big Finish audio adventure for that file by now...
   

   Mrs. Emma Peel	Mrs. Cathy Gale	The Fierce Rabbit

10. throughout - Rupert’s (fake) medals are Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross, African General Service Medal, India General Service Medal. He wears a captain’s uniform with grenadier collar badges and a red triangle regimental insignia.
11. 12:12 — Juniper’s room is the same set as the vault of St Bartholemew’s church, last seen in Take Me to Your Leader and Mother’s headquarters from Who Was That Man I Saw You With? (the three episodes were filmed one after another), but it’s been whitewashed.
12. 16:36 (16:16) - Captain Rupert Lasindall’s address is Seven Pines, Barsworth, Hertfordshire.
13. 17:51 — Something - a cable or a hawser? - appears at the bottom right corner of the screen - it looks like it’s attached to the camera.
14. 19:05–19:30 — there’s something hanging over the top right corner of the camera in the shots at the top of the stairs as Rupert guides Juniper to see his Uncle.
15. 21:37 — Hubert Pettigrew’s address is 10A George Court, Knightsbridge.
16. 24:30 — the film of the scene where Pettigrew visits Steed is washed out, scratched and dirty.
17. 30:10 — we glimpse the boom microphone as the camera pans back from the door to focus on Henry.
18. 34:30 — Henry chlorforms her again when she discovers the skeleton.
19. 37:55 — Rupert tells her it’s November 18th, 1915
20. 39:55 — The close-up of Steed is marred by a black smudge top centre of the lens.
21. Running time: 49′54″
22. In the original script, the antique store owner was named Murray instead of Xavier Smith.

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