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Frankymole · Post by **Frankymole** » Sun Mar 21, 2021 11:14 pm

Early1970s at a guess? Based on hairstyle. Might be late 60s, just after the Bond movie perhaps. Probably pre-Theatre of Blood.

Brugeoise · Post by **Brugeoise** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 5:21 pm

I found these stills which appear to belong to unaired bits of footage from The Great Great Britain Crime (credit on the watermarks)

mousemeat · Post by **mousemeat** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 7:56 pm

Frankymole wrote:Early1970s at a guess? Based on hairstyle. Might be late 60s, just after the Bond movie perhaps. Probably pre-Theatre of Blood.

my gut feeling is around 1969...little before, or a tad after the final episode of the Tara era...by the time of the Bond film, Macnee had put on more weight, and his face had some age lines..

Frankymole · Post by **Frankymole** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:53 pm

Brugeoise wrote:I found these stills which appear to belong to unaired bits of footage from The Great Great Britain Crime (credit on the watermarks)

Edward Brayshaw (with gun), Gertan Klauber, and Gerald Harper (in uniform), I presume. All popular "cult" TV/film actors in their own right.

Post by **dissolute** » Fri Jun 25, 2021 3:30 am

That explains a lot, I always wondered why Gertan has a credit when he's barely in HAOL.

Frankymole · Post by **Frankymole** » Fri Jun 25, 2021 10:38 am

His wife (Gwendolyn Watts) was in The Avengers too, as "Julie" in Man With Two Shadows.

Nice mini-biography of him on IMDB:

Corpulent, bushy-browed Czechoslovakian-born character actor Gertan Klauber was a familiar face on British television, appearing in anything from 'Carry On' comedies to playing a Roman galley master in Doctor Who (1963). In Britain from an early age, he studied acting in Birmingham before moving to London in the mid-1950's. Over the next four decades, he trod the boards of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Arts Theatre and the National Theatre, as well as acting in several drama series for BBC TV. His stock-in-trade was a fluency in Eastern and Central European dialects, as a result of which he was often typecast as spies, border guards, waiters, minor officials and oily second-string villains. As such, he guested on many popular television shows of the day, including The Saint (1962), Danger Man (1964), and The Prisoner (1967). He was, arguably, at his most amusing, as the mad, penguin-fixated King George III in the final instalment of Blackadder the Third (1987).
- IMDb Mini Biography By: I.S.Mowis

He had a bigger role than the galley master in Dr Who a couple of years later, playing the sinister "Ola" who was the deputy to Peter Jeffrey's "Pilot" (colonial governor) in "The Macra Terror" story.

Frankymole · Post by **Frankymole** » Fri Jun 25, 2021 10:48 am

Brugeoise wrote:

I love how Mr Macnee is have a crafty cigarette, though I hope the nearby paraffin heater is not leaky! Could make for a fiery performance...

Brugeoise · Post by **Brugeoise** » Fri Jun 25, 2021 12:36 pm

Frankymole wrote:I love how Mr Macnee is have a crafty cigarette, though I hope the nearby paraffin heater is not leaky! Could make for a fiery performance...

Now that you mention the cigarette, I noticed Colonel Cork is holding one as well. Either Steed and him were sharing a smoke on screen (as it frequently happened during the Cathy Gale era) or it had something to do with the original plot.

Frankymole · Post by **Frankymole** » Fri Jun 25, 2021 3:38 pm

It's just during rehearsal for the actual scene to be shot, I imagine. They wouldn't take agency/press/publicity stills during the actual shooting so it was a between-filming chance for a smoke break. I don't think Steed smoked any more during the filmed seasons, but as we know from TNA he still carried a cigarette case for friends!

Or perhaps they were "facing the firing squad" and so were offered a last cigarette (but no blindfold!).

mousemeat · Post by **mousemeat** » Sat Jun 26, 2021 1:33 am

Frankymole wrote:It's just during rehearsal for the actual scene to be shot, I imagine. They wouldn't take agency/press/publicity stills during the actual shooting so it was a between-filming chance for a smoke break. I don't think Steed smoked any more during the filmed seasons, but as we know from TNA he still carried a cigarette case for friends!

Or perhaps they were "facing the firing squad" and so were offered a last cigarette (but no blindfold!).

whole different time....when smoking was accepted on the set, and in vogue..