Episode 111: Emma Peel Era
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We're Needed
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A.K.A.
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Other Viewpoints
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Le mort vivant
Der Geist des Duke von Benedikt
Il morto vivente
Los Muertos Vivos
De levende doden
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Produced: December 1966/January 1967
UK Premiere (London, Season 5): 24 February 1967
US Premiere (New York, Season 2): 3 March 1967
FOG competes with SMOG in an effort
to explain the sightings of the ghost of a 300-year-old Duke. When Steed and Emma encounter Kermit the Hermit, a derelict who hears noises
from underground at a long-closed mine, the body count suddenly jumps.
IMHO |
Yet another variation on the cold war era "underground organization preparing to infiltrate the country" theme, which by now is wearing thin. Combine this with a script that's awfully flimsy in spots and you get a mediocre episode. Still, it's always fun when Emma gets to rescue Steed—taking out a whole firing squad with a machine gun in the process—for which she earns a peck on the cheek and a mention in his will (I should have thought she'd earned a lot more than that!). As Mandy from FOG would say, "Ffffff-mmmm!"
Trivia |
The exterior shots of the mine entrance—the tall crane with the huge wheel—may have also been used as an exterior shot nine years later on Doctor Who in the second Key to Time story, "The Pirate Planet." It served as the entrance to the secret mines of the planet Zanak, a hollow world that surrounded other planets, crushed them, and mined the minerals out of them. (Gregory A. McVey-Russell)
Brian Clemens' screenplay is based on a story by Anthony Marriott.
Acronym Alert: FOG is Friends of Ghosts and SMOG is Scientific Measurement of Ghosts.
Best Scene |
Steed faces his execution with such excruciating ease and politeness that the commander of the firing squad is reluctant to carry out the order. "It's important to do these things well," Steed explains.
Best Line |
Mandy is busily trying to talk Steed into letting her accompany him into the mines, but he sternly refuses: "If you think you can make me change my... that you can twist me around your... that by rolling those... beautiful blue eyes—" Mandy: "They're gray, actually." Steed: "So, they are, they're soft gray—I love the way they—NO, NO, NO!"
Essential Reading |
- Mrs. Peel... We're Needed by Piers Johnson