The Avengers : The Joker

continuity and trivia

Right at the beginning of the episode, Mrs Peel arrives at Steed's apartment and rings the doorbell, then throws the vase through the glass to gain entry. All this time, the three lower buttons on her coat are fastened, but when she opens the door and comes through, the middle button is unfastened, but it's done up again moments later when she's mixing a stiff drink.

©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd All Rights Reserved	A couple of shots are messed up when the Strange Young Man calls at the house. In the first (top), they're much closer together in the first reverse angle than in the shots before and after, with the SYM not stepping forward until just before the second reverse angle. (23:00-23:20) In the second (bottom), Mrs Peel is leaning on the bannister in the close-up, but when we cut back to the long shot she's nowhere near it, she only leans on it as the SYM goes to use the telephone. Steed's military friend who's killed with the poisoned razor blade is billed in the cast list as Major George Fancy, but answers the telephone with the words "Wentworth here". The house is the same as in The Superlative Seven. How does Steed start the gramophone with the 'Mein Liebling' record (which must be upstairs somewhere) when he's lurking behind a playing card in the dining room?

A couple of shots are messed up when the Strange Young Man calls at the house.
In the first (top), they're much closer together in the first reverse angle than in the shots before and after, with the SYM not stepping forward until just before the second reverse angle. (23:00-23:20)
In the second (bottom), Mrs Peel is leaning on the bannister in the close-up, but when we cut back to the long shot she's nowhere near it, she only leans on it as the SYM goes to use the telephone.

Steed's military friend who's killed with the poisoned razor blade is billed in the cast list as Major George Fancy, but answers the telephone with the words "Wentworth here".

The house is the same as in The Superlative Seven.

How does Steed start the gramophone with the 'Mein Liebling' record (which must be upstairs somewhere) when he's lurking behind a playing card in the dining room?

©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd All Rights Reserved	Speaking of *that song, Carl Schmidt's "Mein Leibling, Mein Rose", Laurie Johnson recently wrote: Laurie Johnson composed the tune, Brian Clemens wrote an English lyric and Leo Birnbaum, a viola player in the orchestra, translated it into German [ not too well though, it should have been 'Meine Liebling, Meine Rose' - ed.* ]. The title was "Mein Liebling, Mein Rose". For the recording session Mike Sammes of the Mike Sammes Singers fame, took on the persona required for this musical subterfuge. Mike was a much called-upon session musician of the day. Strangely enough, the impact of the featuring of the record in that one episode resulted in the necessity to release a commercial 45 record of the song. Fans from all over fell under its strange spell. Even Kim Novak wrote to Laurie Johnson, from the States, requesting a copy of the dastardly confidence trick. From start to finish, the song and recording had to be accomplished in a matter of days to be ready for the episode. The name "Deutsche Phon" (see left) was a fictional record company name thought up by Brian Clemens for the label[ suggested by the name & colours of "Deutsche Gramophon" & the logo of "Domino" - ed. ]

	When Mrs Peel is investigating the roses in her bedroom, she's standing by the bed looking around and you can spot the shadow of a stage hand's arm appear twice, on the wall above the bed. (31:26) ©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd All Rights Reserved

©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd All Rights Reserved	Prendergast moves in his chair in the frontal shot, but the close-up of the cutting hands doesn't move position. (44:40)

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

Episode 15 - The Joker