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The Episode Guide to Season 4 (1965-6) of The Avengers

Episode 23 - The House That Jack Built

Episode Rating

Subject 0-5 Subject 0-5 Subject 0-5 Subject 0-5
Direction 5 stars Music 4 stars Humour 2 stars Intros/tags 4 stars
Villains 5 stars Plot 5 stars Emma
4½ stars
Sets/Props
4½ stars
Overall
(0-10)
A remake of a Cathy Gale episode, but no worse for that. Diana Rigg shines in this solo vehicle. Great sets and wonderful direction makes this a masterpiece. 9 stars

The Cars

Marque/Model/Type Number Plate
Lotus Elan S2 HNK 999C
Bentley UW 4887
Tandem bicycle -

Who's Killing Whom?

Victim Killer Method
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H.M. Prisons Officer ? Burton V* broken neck
Withers Burton ? V* bayonetted
Burton V* Professor Keller V* suicide box (done by machinery)

continuity and trivia

8:56 - Emma brakes suddenly to avoid Pongo and puts her other foot on the clutch, which would reduce the effectiveness of the breaking!

30:00-33:00 - The shots of Emma's family in the museum are clearly not hers - how would her parents be in Sixties clothes back in the Thirties?

43:13 - Keller's suicide box last appeared as the lift to Armstrong's office in The Cybernauts.

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