Episode 24 - A Sense of History

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Direction		Music		Humour		Intros/tags
Villains		Plot		Emma		Sets/Props
Overall (0-10)	Funny, sexy, furious - and that's the whole episode, not just Rigg. All the characters are drawn from the Robin Hood saga that the story becomes at the fancy dress rag, a clever twist on the set-up.

Marque/Model/Type	Number Plate
Rolls Royce Silver Wraith LWB, with 'Teviot' Touring Saloon coachwork by Hooper & Co Ltd	KXQ 777
Lotus Elan S2	HNK 999C
Gypsy Caravan	-
BSA motorcycle and enclosed sidecar	FYK 76C

Victim	Killer	Method	click a name to see the face
James Broom CBE	Duboys V*	arrow
Grindley V* {FAKED}	Millerson V*	arrow
John Petit V*	Grindley V*	crushed by bookshelf

Richard Carlyon puts out a flaming arrow with a bottle of brandy - looks like someone had been watering it down!

Throughout the episode, all the characters refer to St Bode's Academy, but it was obviously a late change - there must have been a real St Bede's, the original name of the university in the script. Only the introductory scene where Carlyon gets out of the boot of Broom's car do they say St Bode's without it being redubbed. In fact, here's one, and there are a couple others. At 14:40 there's an incredibly obvious over-dub when Grindley says the name, and the props are all emblazoned with St Bede's.

Mike Cheyne points out that the supporting cast all have names that are referential to the Robin Hood chronicles - Robin Duboys is the name usually given to Robin Hood, and Millerson is Much the Miller's son; Allen is Alan à Dale; John Petit is Little John; Marianne is Maid Marion; Richard Carlyon is Richard Coeur de Lion, i.e. Good King Richard I, the Lion-heart.

Steed and Emma discover Carlyon in the boot of Broom's car, although the tarpaulin over the car would have made it very difficult for him to have got there.

The shelves that fall on Petit look too flimsy to kill anyone they might land on.

Carlyon, when talking to Steed, refers to his coffee as" "continental roasted"; but a few scenes later, Steed says that he's very partial to Carlyon's "continental blended".

Broom approaches the fairly large college down an almost unused one-lane dirt road which appears to be the main thoroughfare as the villains are lying in wait there. Talk about backwoods education!

Despite the fact that Carlyon's a marked man, Steed leaves him alone in a brightly-lit wagon in the deserted woods for most of the episode! Even more incredibly, the woods-savvy students don't take the opportunity to kill him, knowing that he's there!