Episode 1 - The Town of No Return

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Direction		Music		Humour		Intros/tags
Villains		Plot		Emma		Sets/Props
Overall (0-10)	A splendid start to the season, but that might be because it was filmed a while down the track - Steed and Mrs Peel have instant electricity on screen, creating a classic.

Victim	Killer	Method	click a name to see the face
Tom Smallwood	??	??
Rest of the villagers	??	??
Jimmy Smallwood	Saul V*	savaged by dogs
School Inspector	Saul V*	savaged by dogs

While the locomotive 6108 is clearly a Great Western Railway 6100-class 2-6-2T, stock footage from before Railway Nationalisation in 1948 even though the locomotive was in service until August 1965, a later shot of the train is different - the locomotive is clearly a Fowler class 4 2-6-4T, built by the London Midland & Scottish Railway between 1927 and 1934 (with very great thanks to Nigel Wassell).

Newell ©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd All Rights Reserved	19:00-20:00 - Film from the original shoot was used wherever possible and causes the odd continuity error. Most obvious is the scene where Smallwood is being pursued by the dogs. In one shot (19:58) you clearly see that the man running is fair haired, and much slimmer - in fact, it's Walter Horsbrugh, who was also chased in the original script, but the scene was deleted - the only hint that he was similarly pursued in the final print is the muddy and savaged state he appears in when he stumbles into the schoolhouse.	Horsbrugh ©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd All Rights Reserved

Another Patrick Newell continuity error occurs when he goes looking for his brother Tom. He passes through the town with his suitcase in his right hand, putting it down near the forge in the smithy. He then proceeds to the church without it, but in the reverse angle of his approach to the church, and the beginning of his flight from it, the suitcase is back; only to disappear a moment later when he's chased by Brown and the bloodhounds (Thanks to Jenna Clayton).

31:10-31:20 - Mrs Peel's wearing gloves when she discovers the vandalised parish records, but she's bare-handed in the close-up - another piece of left-over Elizabeth Shepard footage?

35:28 - When the real Mark Brandon collapses and dies, his head falls to the floor. A moment later, as Emma examines the photograph, his head is resting on his arm.