Episode 109: Emma Peel Era
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Produced: November 1966
UK Premiere (London, Season 5): 3 February 1967
US Premiere (New York, Season 2): 3 February 1967
Brodny makes his return accompanied by an "invisible
man,"
a colleague who has devised a plot to bankrupt the government by duping certain
officials into believing that a formula for invisibility actually works.
IMHO |
This is unquestionably my least-favorite Emma Peel episode
(the subhead should read, "Levene makes a bomb"). I'm sorry, but even
though the show is supposed to be a tad goofy, Brodny is way too much to take, and he's even
worse this time than he was in "Two's a Crowd." Only
one real bright spot, when Steed and Emma discuss chemistry (center left).
Trivia |
Production stills and (silent) unused footage of this episode have recently been unearthed by Raiders of the Lost Archive, an initiative of Britain's ITV company. Those interested can contact the collector, who made the materials available, via the Kaleidoscope website: http://www.kaleidoscope.org.uk/
Robert Ahuna of Los Angeles wonders if anyone else has noticed that the plots of "The See-Through Man" (Feb. '67) and the Get Smart episode "Now You See Him, Now You Don't" (Oct. '65) are virtually identical? And Charity wasn't fooled by the invisible man the way Brodny was—she notes how the water in the shower passed right through him...
By the way, Pablo Alonso of Argentina points out that Brodny says he has tickets for a Beatles concert. But the last Beatles concert was in San Francisco on 29 August 1966, so Brodny bought tickets for a non-existent gig. Of course, it is possible that, when this episode was produced, nobody realized the San Francisco gig would be the last. That they mentioned the Beatles at all is curious considering the general absence of real-world references in the show.
Acronym Alert: MOD is the
Ministry of Defence.
On Location |
Shenley Lodge, Shenley, was used as Quilby's house. The
embassy was actually Edge Grove School, Aldenham, and Daviot Hall was the oft-used BR
Centre at the Grove, Watford.
Best Scene |
Closing credits.
Best Line |
Emma: "Yuk!"
We're Needed |
Whilst Steed observes, Emma slips a culture slide into a
microscope to discover it says, "Mrs. Peel—We're Needed!"
Tag |
Steed and Emma end up pushing his antique Rolls down the road.
