• title card: white all caps text reading ‘EMILY WRITTEN BY DENNIS SPOONER’ superimposed on a close-up of Purdey, looking back in fear as she opens a door
  • Purdey stands on top of the Plymouth at the exit of Ray’s Car Wash, her long skirt shrunken by the carwash down to a miniskirt length; Steed offers her a hand to help her down
  • The Plymouth comes towards us on a country lane, Steed’s bowler hat taped to the roof to protect the hand print left by the traitor
  • Purdey looks nervous as the hillbilly takes another swig from his jug of moonshine
  • Steed feverish chisels away at the roof of the burning car, trying to detatch the evidence before it is destroyed; Gambit and Purdey watch from behind a distant pile of logs
  • The traitor’s hand print, preserved on the piece of roof removed from the car

The New Avengers, Series 2 — Episode 13
Emily

by Dennis Spooner
Directed by Don Thompson

Production details

Produced:August, 1977

Regional broadcasts

BroadcasterDateTime
Thames Television1/12/19778.00pm
ATV Midlands17/12/19778.00pm
Granada Television1/12/19778.00pm
Anglia Television1/12/19778.00pm
Border Television
Channel Television1/12/19778.00pm
Grampian Television
Southern Television1/12/19778.00pm
Scottish Television1/12/19778.00pm
Tyne Tees Television
Ulster Television1/12/19778.00pm
Westward Television1/12/19778.00pm
Harlech Television17/12/19779.30pm
Yorkshire Television25/11/19778.00pm

TV Times listing

I do not have a TV Times / TV Weekly or other contemporary British listing for this episode, if you have one, please get in touch.

The Irish Times listing for November 28 1977, 8pm
The Age listing for April 10 1978, 8.30pm
The Canberra Times listing for April 10 1978, 8.30pm
Sydney Morning Herald listing for April 10 1978, 8.30pm
Sunday Mail (Brisbane) listing for April 10 1978, 8.30pm
The Advertiser listing for April 10 1978, 8.30pm

International broadcasts

ABN2 Sydney, Australia10/04/19788.30pm
ABQ2 Brisbane, Australia10/04/19788.30pm
ABV2 Melbourne, Australia10/04/19788.30pm
ABS2 Adelaide, Australia10/04/19788.30pm
CBS New York, USA9/02/197911.30pm
TF1 France25/08/19798.40pm
Suisse Romande, Switzerland
French titleEmily
ZDF Germany
German titleEmily
KRO Netherlands19/12/19778.25pm
Dutch titleEmily
Italy17/04/80??
Italian titleEmily
Spain12/07/817.35pm
Spanish titleEmily
CXY Winnipeg, Canada14/06/19788.00pm
Televisyen Malaysia PR113/07/19787.29pm
TV Singupura 58/05/19788.40pm

Adelaide broadcast date is assumed as all states followed the same schedule but the local listing does not name the episode.

USA: Chicago Tribune listing for February 9 1979, 10.30pm
France: Feuille d’Avis de Neuchâtel L’Express episode summary & photo for August 25 1979, 8.40pm
Spain: ABC Madrid listing for July 12 1981, 7.35pm

Continuity and trivia

A few road shots are obviously reused — Emily driving past the school bus, and the establishing shot of the second police car is in fact an earlier shot of the first car.

The Transport

Marque Colour Number Plate
Steed’s Jaguar XJS yellow MHF 291
Cadillac puce MLH 327
Purdey’s Toyota Corolla liftback yellow LRM 022
Motorboat white 153 76887
Datsun 120Y green LYX 913
Plymouth (‘Emily’) brown HHP 999
Toyota GT liftback silver MKD 614
Honda police bike silver -
Pontiac navy LYD 954
? grey -
Chevrolet brown LEW 362
Oldsmobile Cutlass crimson LYH 850
Plymouth police car black and white MKJ 634 / 641
Plymouth police car black and white JVE 038 / 418

Who’s Killing Whom?

Victim Killer Method
Ken Phillips Mirschtia revolver
Click a name to see the face

The Fashions

Gambit’s fashions
  1. olive cord jacket
  2. navy pinstriped suit, white shirt, purple tie
Purdey’s fashions
  1. floral blue Ashley style dress, big red bow
  2. red dustcoat, white apron, beige headscarf (dsguise, over the below)
  3. blue & whit check blouse, tan & cream vest, tan skirt, brown boots
Steed’s fashions
  1. charcoal blazer, beige trousers, white shirt, maroon tie with diamond pattern
  2. brown plaid skirt, ankle length, cream sweater
  3. grey 3p sb, pale blue shirt, navy tie with wh spot, black bowler
  4. brown sports coat, felt collar, beige chinos, white shirt, brown tie

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