The Episode Guide to Season 5 (1967) of The Avengers

Episode 8 - The Hidden Tiger

continuity and trivia
Contrary to what you might have read elsewhere, the is no continuity error when Cheshire's playing with the Identi-Cat system - true, he replaces the chin, which is the top sheet, with another. However, when Mrs Peel says the eyes are wrong, he places another sheet over the top - on top ofthe chin and smaller eyes below [see enlargement].

Right:When Erskine is attacked outside the barn, we get a low angle view - to represent the cat's POV - unfortunately, you can also see the studio roof. (13:13)

Left:Peters is talking to Angora and goes to pour himself a glass of milk, only to find it almost full already, so he just tops it up and drinks. Must have required a couple of takes for that one. (34:52)

Right:The view from the peephole that we see from Steed's point of view is impossible - he's in a side room and yet he can see straight down the middle of the hallway. (41:16)

Going through the gates of PURRR are a lot of mokes - actually, it's four, which go through the gate three times, giving the impression that 10 mokes had entered. (all 4; then 2 in front of Steed and 2 behind as he stops at the gate; then we cut to Steed, with all four queued up behind him again). (23:00) The footage of the attacking lion (7:17) is taken from the Patrick McGoohan film "Nor the Moon by Night".

Right: Also while at Nesbitt's, Steed crosses the room, followed by Nesbitt, and the shadow of the boom microphone dances across his forehead. (7:45)


The cat Cheshire gave Mrs Peel and which escapes from her car to the van clearly walks across the middle of the hallway when the cats are released by the villains, but reappears in the van in the next scene, scaring Dr Manx into crashing the vehicle.
In Emma's arms
...in the hall
...in the van
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Left: Gabrielle Drake (Angora) went on to star as Lt. Gay Ellis in the TV series UFO; she wears Mrs Peel's red and black woolen coat from The Cybernauts in a few scenes.
Right: Several actors are uncredited - the undertaker and pallbearers who leave PURRR with a cat-sized coffin when Steed arrives. Anyone know them? The undertaker also appeared as the gas-mask wearing guard in The Living Dead.
Undertaker Pallbearer
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