The Avengers Forever: Detail Point

	Trivia Overload

It is ironic that Andre Morell's character, Horatio Kane, should be so adverse to "modern techniques" (save for atom bombs), when his character in "Death of a Batman" held quite the opposite view—that the country would fail without the success of the most advanced technology businesses.

Stranger than fiction: Courtesy of the original UK broadcast order, this makes two episodes in a row that the mastermind is in a wheelchair—with his legs covered by a plaid blanket no less! It is also that rarest of episodes in which Steed caries a gun, although he does not have occasion to use it.

Mark H. Stevens suspects that, when Emma notes whoever buys the china for the store can't distinguish between "Bates and Royal Crichton," it's a sly reference to fashion designer John Bates and director Charles Crichton...

Dennis Oliver and wife point out that, for the benefit of Dr. Who fans, there are several Dalek toys (one on the wall and two on the table). And Mike Noon adds that, as well as the various Dalek toys, Steed and Mrs. Peel converse with one another through puppets from the Gerry Anderson Supermarionation Series, Fireball XL5—she is Venus, he is Steve Zodiac.

Pablo Alonso from Argentine notes that this episode bears some similarities to Get Smart's first season episode, "Our Man in Toyland" (a coincidence as the episode first aired in the US on 9 October 1965). The villains uses a department store for their purposes, the leading lady infiltrates working as a saleswoman, and children's toys are used during a fight.

Gregory A. McVey-Russell observes that Peter Howell, who played Professor Popple, also played The Professor in the Prisoner episode, "The General." In both cases he played professors that were drugged and otherwise coerced to do the bidding of their captors.

Robert Allen notes that the model airplanes Emma is arranging in the toy department make a repeat appearance in "The Town of No Return." In both instances we see the same four models, all built from Airfix kits: Junkers Ju 88A, Heinkel He 111H, Douglas Boston Mk.III, and Handley Page Halifax Mk.III.