continuity and trivia
Ann Sydney was Miss World 1964 and a pop star of the time, often appearing on
Shindig (in much the same way,
Dangerman had a guest actor in Patsy Ann Noble for the episode "Not So Jolly Roger").
Arnie Packer's telephone number (as dialled by Tay Ling) is 463-337.
A major continuity error in the intro!
(see above) The entirety of the canvas is in full view at all times - even just at the point where Mrs Peel starts in amazement - the crimson
MRS PEEL is
not on the corner of the canvas until
after Steed walks around the back, wiping his brush.
John Garrie was obviously thought to look Asian to casting agents of the time - he turns up in the final Dangerman production
Koroshi as a Japanese character.
David K. Smith's site has recently been informed that the bird sculpture that used to adorn Mrs Peel's flat is in the room where Tay-Ling meets his maker. (Prior to this it was in Tom Savage's photo studio in The Bird Who Knew Too Much - Emma probably got rid of it because of the arrow-hole in the side, courtesy of Steed.)
I thought so too, at first, but the item in question turned out to be a lamp more cormorant-shaped than peacock. >> |
Cray's House |
Emma's Flat |
Steed serves a classic French haute cuisine meal - shades of Escoffier and Churnonsky here.
Menu
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A dozen Whitstable oysters
Consommé de tortue claire au xères (turtle soup)
- it sounds like Steed says Dubarrym but I can't imagine cauliflower and turtle soup! |
champagne (Moët et Chandon) |
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| Saumon dés cardes barbue (or maybe saumon d'Ecosse bellevue?) |
'59 Chablis (premier cru) |
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| Suprèmes de volailles a la Kiev |
'29 Chateau Mouton-Rothschild (deuxième cru) |
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| Crêpes surprises with peeled walnuts |
Tawny (Crusty) Port |
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©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE |
Just before Stanton and Steed arrive at Poole's house, Steed asks Stanton 'How are we doing?' Stanton replies 'Not too good!' and shows Steed a drawing, which in the longshot is nothing like the drawing of the Winged Avenger at the window that we are given as the close up.
Notice also the perennial problem of colour-shift when Stanton & Steed are in the Bentley with the projected background of moving scenery. |
©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE |
New continuity errors courtesy of Jenna Clayton:
- Every time the Avenger climbs a wall, we see his claws going up notched stone or concrete blocks, despite the fact that no building he ever climbs resembles them. Anyway, why is he using the claws when he could just walk up the wall?
- Overdub, fluffed line, or melodrama?
Sir Lexius is having tea with Emma and says "...tried to [gap] do me out of the profits!" Jenna thinks he said something else, I think he paused for effect (or maybe stumbled over his lines).
- The (prop) staircase in Poole's mansion shakes terribly whenever anyone's on it; when Steed and Emma follow Poole up them, It looks as though the whole thing will collapse beneath them!
- When Dumayne is killed, not only does he obviously catch himself and cushion his fall, but he also visibly inhales and exhales one time after he lands!
- Steed and Emma fail to realize that finding the published WA comic with the picture of Dumayne's body makes Packer at least a co-conspirator; they wonder aloud whether Packer or Stanton - or both - is the Winged Avenger.
- How do Poole, Emma and WA keep their bodies horizontal while climbing up the walls? They're somehow managing it almost entirely through the use of their ankle muscles!
- When chasing Emma, WA climbs out the second story window, climbs up at least one story, then crashes through the window onto... the second story!
- During the fight with Emma, just after scratching the table, one of the hooks from the right claw falls off the Winged Avenger's costume - and it falls up to the ceiling!
- During the final fight scene, when Steed and Stanton break in, Emma and the Winged Avenger are 5 or 6 feet above them; but when Steed whacks him with the signs, he's is little more than one foot above him!
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