Episode 21 - A Touch of Brimstone

Episode Rating

The Cars

Who's Killing Whom?

Victim	Killer	Method	click a name to see the face
VIP	Willy Frant V*	electrocution
Lord Darcy	Willy Frant V*	trapdoor into river
John Cartney V*	John Cartney V* & Emma	trapdoor into river (accidental)

continuity and trivia

Cartney certainly eats lively chocolates! The close ups of his armchair have been recut with the television footage in the editing room, but this means we see the chocolate on the chair before he picks them out of the box.

22:28 - Steed's patent hangover cure, which he calls "National Anthem" comprises two eggs, sugar and worcester sauce.

39:30 - Emma turns tail and hears for the staircase when the box is opened to reveal TNT inside the fireworks boxes - but there's no way she could have seen if from where she was.

43:53 - the couldn't have sex scenes on Sixties television, but we come close here. Cartney says Mrs Peel is theirs, to de with as they will. The men rush her and carry her around the room with the women throwing petals over her, before descending the stairs. At that point the camera cuts back to Mrs Peel's snake, no longer flaccid in her hands but now before the fire, it's long neck rearing up and erect.

Mrs Peel's snake seems to... uh... grow from a reasonably sized python when she's holding it to a much larger constrictor when it's crawling around the mantel. Paging Dr Freud!

Cast notes

• Carol Cleveland will be familiar to Monty Python fans - she was a regular of the ensemble.
• Robert Cawdron returns as the fake policeman in Murdersville.
• Colin Jeavons returns as the comic book writer Stanton in The Winged Avenger.
• Peter Wyngarde returns gloriously as Stewart Kirby in Epic (as well as in Jason King and Department S). Michael Latimer and Bill Wallis both return in The Positive-Negative Man (as the villainous Peter Haworth and the ill-fated Dr Charles Grey respectively)
• Jeremy Young is the double agent Burton in The Forget-Me-Knot and the Russian agent Chislenko in Gnaws.
• Bill Reed is another notable stuntman who's being throwing himself off buildings for years, here he stacks explosives in the cellar - he might also be the hooded man who fights little Art Thomas.
• The man I've described as a Beaky Libertine appears in a multitude of episodes, as well as in Dangerman and The Champions.

• We don't get to see much of Alf Joint in this episode - he's the sheik's security guard and - I think - the masked man who fights Robert Cawdron (bottom right). Interested viewers can see more of him as the thug who jumps James Bond and winds up electrified in a bathtub at the beginning of Goldfinger ( bottom left).