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KILL THE KING |
Production completed: 30 August 1961
UK Premiere (London, Season 1): 2 September 1961 |
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Steed is assigned to protect King Tenuphon while in London
to sign an oil deal. There was already one attempt on the King's life aboard the plane
bound for London. Meanwhile, a paid assassin rents the flat across from the hotel where
the King is staying, and as Steed double-checks the area, the landlady tells Steed
nothing—under threat of her husband's death. When a low-flying helicopter attracts royal
attention, Steed averts the assassination attempt by hurling himself at the King, whose
assistant is killed instead, and the King's bodyguard kills the would-be assassin.
This episode has not been recovered; the images shown at left are production stills (usually shot during a rehearsal). |