Episode 17 - Return Of The Cybernauts

Mrs Peel's handbag was not left where it was found the next day - the edge of the counter is clearly visible, and clearly empty, in the preceding scene.
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When Steed's wrist is photographed to obtain details of his watch, the resulting black & white photograph has the watch the wrong way round on his wrist - the winder is towards his hand instead of towards his cuff.

Mrs Peel arrives at Steed's flat wearing the red tartan jacket and deep pink belt, with the belt wrapped around her counterclockwise (loose end to her left), but when she arrives at Beresford's house, the whole time in a trance-like state, the belt is worn clockwise, with the loose end to her right, especially obvious when Beresford starts removing her jacket, and flips the belt out to her left, exposing the white back of the belt.

Paul Beresford holds a glass of wine up for Steed to look at and says it's definitely corked, and he'll have to get another - problem is, you detect if a wine is corked by smell, not sight - cork-taint is a fungal growth in the cork wood, not bits of cork floating in the wine!

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Dr Neville's attire varies greatly. When he is running to the car and drops his keys, and when he's removed through the roof of the car, he's wearing tan suede Chelsea boots, a brown jacket and grey trousers. However, when he's being carried to Beresford's house by the cybernaut, he's wearing black leather Oxfords, and a navy suit. Once in Beresford's lab and awake, he's back in his brown jacket, and one would assume, his suede boots. The Australian broadcast master of "Return of the Cybernauts" has a great many cuts taken out of it to allow more advertisements. The scene where Dr Tingwell is captured is cut just as he evades the cybernaut, then we see Steed and Mrs Peel arriving at Beresford's - a good 1:50 of footage is missing. That's not the only bit, either. Most of the cars chases - when Mrs Peel's in a trance, Benson driving to Hunt's place - are missing, as is most of Steed's second conversation with Rosie.

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Joseph notes:

Steed's tie changes colour for no good reason from gold to orange, when worn with the same shirt and suit! (Ed.: I assumed this was colour shift on the film stock, note my description above as "bronze/mustard"; then again, Joseph may well be right.)

Then there is the change into a blue suit from the grey one, from Beresford's place to Hunt's house. Steed is supposed to be in a hurry and for some reason stops to change clothes (or the continuity girl - Gladys Goldsmith in this case - wasn't paying attention). No wonder people are always dying before The Avengers get there (a fact made fun of by Mrs Peel in Something Nasty in the Nursery).

Beresford's house is given the same address as Benstead's house in Dead Man's Treasure: High Pines, Eddington. But it's a different house! Beresford's house is Woolmers Park, Essendon Road, Letty Green, Herts., while Benstead's is Shenley Hall, Rectory Lane, Shenley, Herts. WD7 9AN.
(Ed: Actually, it's John Hunt's house that's given as High Pines, Edgington, and it's still not the same house.)