Episode 97: Emma Peel Era |
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Produced: ca. 25 October to ca. 12 November 1965 A dead man is discovered in a runaway pram, and a number of diverse clues eventually point to a dance school. A quick-quick slow investigation by "Baggy Pants" Steed and Emma reveals it to be a front for a spy infiltration scheme, wherein lonely, anonymous bachelors are replaced with enemy agents.
Wonderfully eccentric characters abound, like the tattooist and his garlic sausage ("What is home without a moth?"), and Piedi the Italian shoemaker gushing over Emma's "two pairs of foot." And don't you just love the title? It would have earned a full four bowlers—indeed, it could have been in the top ten—were it not for the effectively annoying dance school music, which gets stuck in my head every time I watch it.
That annoying dance hall music is recycled in a scene from "The £50,000 Breakfast." Steed really mangles his French when he tells Emma, "I neufed his soixante!" This literally translates to "I nined his sixty," when Steed in fact "nined his six."
The street scenes were filmed just ouside the studio on Shenley Road, Borehamwood.
Steed has a one-way conversation with Captain Noble, who, having been nearly choked to death earlier, can only grunt and croak. When Steed asks how he relayed a message to Mrs. Peel on the phone, the Captain whistles in Morse code.
After having accidentally target-shot his "lunchtime refreshment," Steed laments, "Hate to see good beer going into orbit." Another fine exchange... Emma: "You're number nine!" Steed: "And you're dancing with garlic sausage!"
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QUICK-QUICK SLOW DEATH |
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Teleplay by |
Robert Banks Stewart |
CAST |
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John Steed |
Patrick Macnee 007 |
Graham Armitage |
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James Belchamber |
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Charles Hodgson |
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David Kernan |
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