• title card: white all caps text reading ‘THE HOUR THAT NEVER WAS’ with faint outline superimposed on a smashed face of a clock on an oak dashboard
  • In the cook house, the cake has been left with the decoration unfinished
  • Steed and Mrs. Peel examine the dead milkman lying on the runway
  • Steed talks to the scrounger, Hickey, as the latter digs through the bins
  • Steed crouches behind the milk float as another inert RAF officer is loaded onto it by the crooks
  • Steed unties Emma from the dentist’s chair
  • Emma fights one of the plotters (stuntman cliff Diggins)
  • Steed and Mrs. Peel suddenly realise no-one is driving the milk float

Series 4 — Episode 9
The Hour that Never Was

by Roger Marshall
Directed by Gerry O’Hara

Read the draft script (PDF 8.55MB)
Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 490KB)
Read the original synopsis (PDF 118KB)

Production No E.64.10.14
Production completed: July 20 1965. First transmission: November 23 1965.

Crew

Teleplay by Roger Marshall regularThe ProfessionalsThe Sweeney
All characters and events in this Teleplay are fictitious. Any similarity to actual events or persons, living or dead, is purely co-incidental.
Directed by Gerry O’Hara regularThe Professionals
Produced by Julian Wintle regular
In Charge of Production Albert Fennell regularThe Professionals
Music by Laurie Johnson regularThe ProfessionalsJason King
Associate Producer Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
Photography Ernest Steward regularCarry On..Callan (billed as Ernest Steward B.S.C.)
Art Director Harry Pottle regular007Carry On..
Film Editor Richard Best regular
Production Manager Geoffrey Haine regularThe Champions
© Associated British Productions Limited MCMLXV
Diana Rigg’s wardrobe designed by John Bates regular
and her shoes by Edward Rayne regular
Fashion Consultant Anne Trehearne regular
Assistant Director Frank Hollands regularThe SaintUFO
Camera Operator James Bawden regularCarry On..
Casting Director G.B. Walker regularThe Saint
Continuity June Randall regular007The Saint
Make-up George Blackler regularThe SaintCarry On..
Hairdresser Pearl Orton regularCarry On..
Wardrobe Jackie Jackson regular
Sound Editor Lionel Selwyn regular
Sound Recording Simon Kaye regular007Indiana Jones
Dubbing Mixer Len Abbott regularThe ChampionsThe SaintDepartment S
Recording Director A.W. Lumkin regularThe Saint
Stunt Arranger Ray Austin regularThe ProfessionalsThe SaintRandall and HopkirkThe ChampionsDepartment SSpace 1999
ABC Production
Credits Legend:
Credited
Credited but not listed in press
Credited in press but not on screen
Credited in paperwork only
Uncredited / unattributed rôle
® : illustrated from other sources

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