• title card: white all caps text reading ‘MY WILDEST DREAM’ superimposed on Peregrine clamly looking out his car window
  • Slater closes his eyes as he nears breaking point, Dr. Jaeger encourages him to kill Winthrop’s effigy again
  • A view through a circular viewfinder - we see Tara fighting with Dyson, trying to stop him from taking the diary
  • Op art or therapy? Gibbons sits in the middle of a red and white painted room with the word OBSERVATION in huge letters on the far wall, Dr. Reece walks towards us
  • The culmination of Teddy’s conditioning - a dummy with Steed’s face and a revolver
  • Teddy appears from behind Steed’s curtains wielding a service revolver
  • Tara and Steed celebrate another case closed with a bottle of champagne

Series 6 — Episode 31
My Wildest Dream

Teleplay by Philip Levene
Directed by Robert Fuest

Production No E.67.9.6
Production completed: April 18 1968. First UK transmission: April 4 1969. First transmission (Australia): December 17 1968.

Regional broadcasts

BroadcasterDateTime
Thames Television7/04/196910:30pm
ATV Midlands27/12/196911:40pm
Granada Television7/09/196910:00pm
Anglia Television16/11/196910:35pm
Border Television4/04/196910:30pm
Channel Television30/07/19699:00pm
Grampian Television10/04/196911:00pm
Southern Television30/07/19699:00pm
Scottish Television
Tyne Tees Television29/06/196910:30pm
Ulster Television9/05/196911:05pm
Westward Television30/07/19699:00pm
Harlech Television4/05/196910:20pm
Yorkshire Television31/05/196911:40pm

TV Times listing

TV Times listing for April 7 1969, 10.30pm (London edition)
TV Times listing for September 7 1969, 10pm (North edition)
TV Times listing for November 16 1969, 10.35pm (Anglia edition)

10.30 The Avengers
Patrick Macnee
Linda Thorson
in
My Wildest Dream
By Philip Levene

Steed and Tara are involved in a bizarre case when members of a board of directors are murdered.

John Steed Patrick Macnee
Tara King Linda Thorson
Jaeger Peter Vaughan
Tobias Derek Godfrey
Chilcott Edward Fox
Nurse Owen Susan Travers
Slater Philip Madoc
Reece Michael David
Gibbons Murray Hayne
Dyson Tom Kempinski
Winthrop John Savident
Peregrine Hugh Moxey

Executive in charge of Production Gordon L. T. Scott; Designer Robert Jones; Director Robert Fuest; Producers Albert Fennell, Brian Clemens

Sydney Morning Herald listing for January 31 1969, 8pm
The Age listing for December 17 1968, 8.30pm

International broadcasts

BroadcasterDateTime
ABN2 Sydney, Australia31/01/19698:00pm
ABV2 Melbourne, Australia17/12/19688:30pm
ABC New York, USA6/01/19697:30pm
ORTF2 France21/4/88 A2
Suisse Romande, Switzerland19/08/19698:35pm
French titleMon reve le plus fou
ZDF Germany
German titleTherapie des Todes
KRO Netherlands21/04/19709:10pm
Dutch titleDromen zijn geen bedrog
TTI Italy25/12/1980 C51
Italian title Ho sognato di uccidere
Spain27/10/196911:00pm
Spanish titleSueño de muertes

This episode was not included in contemporary broadcasts in Germany, France, and Italy.

USA: Chicago Tribune listing for January 6 1969, 6.30pm
USA: New York Times listing for January 6 1969, 7.30pm
Switzerland: L’Impartial listing for August 19 1969, 8.35pm
Spain: El Noticiero listing for October 27 1969, 11pm
Netherlands: Leidse Courant episode summary, April 21 1970
Netherlands: Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant listing for April 21 1970, 9.10pm
Switzerland: Journal de Jura episode summary, August 19 1969

Continuity & Trivia

  1. 2:24, 3:25 and throughout - Dr. Jaeger’s office has the same wall decorations as Dr. Constantine had in his operating theatre in Split! and the Carmadoc Research Establishment had in All Done with Mirrors.
  2. 6:43 and 6:50 — The boom microphone leaps into shot a couple of times at the top of the screen as Steed stops ion the landing to say, “Teddy!”, then again when he stoops to say, “And always here” to the Hon. Teddy Chilcott.
  3. 7:35 — Nurse Owen tells Steed to be at Aloyisius Peregrine’s address, Apartment 9, Park View Towers.
  4. 9:45 — There’s not a single mark on Gibbons after falling from the fire escape.
  5. 14:40 — Nurse Owen calls Tara, starting the number by dialling 46.
  6. 14:45 — Nurse Owen tells Steed that Henry Winthrop’s address is The Lodge, Meadow’s Green.
  7. 18:05 — Probably Cyd Child or Diane West driving the car, it’s not Linda Thorson.
  8. 20:24 & 20:34 — There’s notable colour shift in the two short back-projection driving shots.
  9. 22:15 — There’s a hair at the bottom edge of then lens when Tara retrurn to her flat to find Teddy waiting for her. (The shot from below and the following long shot, but not the mid-shot two-up).
  10. 24:02 — Teddy’s leg is no longer hooked around the pole in the shot from above, but Tara still can’t throw him.
  11. 25:03 — Dr. Reece tries to call Steed with a number starting with 63.
  12. 26:30 — There’s a hair stuck to the top of the camera lens.
  13. 28:05 — The lead-out to commercial break is poorly coloured.
  14. 28:12–17 — The model train scoots across the model viaduct outside Tara’s window.
  15. 29:02 — Dr. A. Jaeger’s consulting rooms are at 18 Marlin St, W1.
    Marlin St is actually Hallam St, at the corner of Duchess St - just across Portland Pl from Duchess Mews, the location for exteriors of Steed’s flat.
  16. 32:02 — When Jaeger says, “Your ancestors were killers, hunters of men”, Steed quips he had a Great Aunt on his mother’s side who was ruthless with a knitting needle.
  17. 38:33 — It’s possibly a different sign for Dr. Jaeger’s practice, and it’s definitely on a different fence to that seen at 29:18.
  18. 40:43 — Teddy’s dream sequence doesn’t make any sense, Chilcott wouldn’t have been been to his flat so wouldn’t have known what it looked like.
  19. 41:18 — In the close up of Tara holding the keys, they’re actually Nurse Owen’s (Susan Travers’) long pink nails. You can see them in the close-up of her administering the syringe later on (41:43). When Tara picked up the keys before (37:39), her nails were short, manicured, clear varnished nails.
  20. Running time: 49′18″

The Transport

MarqueColourNumber
Volvo 122 S B18 ‘Amazon’ 1964greyBLE 392B
Rolls-Royce 40/50 h.p. ‘Silver Ghost’ 1923 H.J.Mulliner tourer (chassis number 46LK)pale lemonKK 4976
Austin LDO/Wandsworth ambulancewhite?
Jaguar S-Type [XJ3] 1966brownKHV 786D
AC 428 Frua Drophead Convertible Coupé 1965 Prototype (CF1)maroonLPH 800D

Who’s Killing Whom?

VictimKillerMethod
Aloyisius Peregrine Paul Gibbons stabbed (imaginary attack)
Aloyisius Peregrine Paul Gibbons stabbed
Paul Gibbons (Paul Gibbons) falls off fire escape in shock
Henry Winthrop Slater stabbed
Slater Frank Tobias revolver (during struggle, he claims self-defence)
Dyson Tara impaled on sword during fight
John Steed Hon. Teddy Chilcott revolver (imaginary attack)
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The Fashions

Tara Steed

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