• title card: white all caps text reading ‘The House That Jack Built’ outlined in black and superimposed on two marble lions flanking the front door of a large, whitewashed house
  • Centre of the maze — Emma stands near a strange, pulsing machine in a circular room with black and white concentric circles on the floor. Around it, strange arched passageways with zigzag and wavy black and whgite designs stretch away in every direction
  • Emma holds her old childhood doll as she looks the exhibit of her life
  • A plastic mould of Professor Keller’s head glows in the blackness behind Emma
  • Emma cuts through a huge photograph of herself to find a way out
  • Professor Keller’s face on the monitor, revelling in his posthumous revenge
  • The glass case surrounding Professor Keller’s preserved corpse cracks and splinters as the house breaks down
  • Steed and Mrs. Peel ride away on a tandem bicycle

Series 4 — Episode 23
The House That Jack Built

by Brian Clemens
Directed by Don Leaver

Read the shooting script (PDF 1.97MB)
Read the original synopsis (PDF 131KB)

Production No E.64.10.23
Production completed: January 18 1966. First transmission: March 1 1966.

Crew

Teleplay by Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
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 Don Leaver regularCallanPolice Surgeon
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 Lionel Banes regularThe Saint (billed as Lionel Banes B.S.C.)
Art Director Harry Pottle regular007Carry On..
Film Editor Richard Best regular
Production Manager Geoffrey Haine regularThe Champions
© Associated British Productions Limited MCMLXVI
Diana Rigg’s wardrobe designed by John Bates regular
and her shoes by Edward Rayne regular
Assistant Director Frank Hollands regularThe SaintUFO
Camera Operator Tony White regularThe SaintSpace 1999Department S
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 Jack T. Knight regular007Space 1999
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:
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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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