• title card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left reading ‘NEVER, NEVER SAY DIE’ superimposed on Whittle, who has fainted and fallen against the wall
  • subtitle card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left reading ‘STEED MEETS A DEAD MAN EMMA FIGHTS THE CORPSE’ superimposed on Whittle, who has fainted and fallen against the wall
  • Youtube vide — Mrs. Peel is watching ‘The Cybernauts’ on television when Steed interrupts the broadcast to tell her, ‘Mrs. Peel, we’re needed!’
  • Professor Frank N. Stone marches solidly on in a deliberate echo of FRankenstein, bullet holes from machinegun fire through his coat.
  • Close-up of the cover of Professor Frank N. Stone’s diary.
  • Mrs. Peel re-enters Aerial Cottage to find all the radios smashed and George Eccles dead.
  • Dr. Penrose’s duplicate is strapped to the brain transfuser by Professor Stone to have his memory is drained, the red curtain behind accentuates the drama of the scene.
  • Emma and Steed stand back to back with hands on hips, he facing away, as Professor Stone approaches from behind; Penrose is off-screen approaching from behind the camera.
  • video — Emma and Steed share a bottle of champagne and watch a party political broadcast — and they wonder if anyone would ever notice if politicians were replaced with robots.

Series 5 — Episode 10
Never, Never Say Die

by Philip Levene
Directed by Robert Day

Steed meets a dead man
Emma fights the corpse

Read the shooting script (PDF 1.47MB )

Production No E.66.6.10
Production completed: February 14 1967. First transmission: March 15 1967.

Crew

Produced by Albert Fennell regularThe Professionals
and Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
Executive Producer Julian Wintle regular
Directed by Robert Day regularDanger Man
Teleplay by Philip Levene regular
All characters and events in this teleplay are fictitious and any similarity to actual events or persons, living or dead, is purely co-incidental.
Music by Laurie Johnson regularThe ProfessionalsJason King
Production Controller Jack Greenwood regular
Production Designer Robert Jones regular
Director of Photography Ernest Steward regularCarry On..Callan (Ernest Steward B.S.C.)
Supervising Editor Peter Tanner regular
Production Manager Geoffrey Haine regularThe Champions
Principal items of Mr. Macnee’s wardrobe designed by Pierre Cardin regular
Miss Rigg’s costumes designed by Alun Hughes regular
Casting Director G.B. Walker regularThe Saint
Unit Manager Richard Dalton regular
Unit Manager Laurie Greenwood regularThe Sweeney
Assistant Director Ron Purdie regularThe Professionals
Camera Operator James Bawden regularCarry On..
Art Director Len Townsend regular
Continuity Mary Spain regular
Hairdressing Hilda Fox regular
Make-up Jim Hydes regularCarry On.. (billed as Jim Hyde)
Wardrobe Jean Fairlie regularUFO
Recording Director A.W. Lumkin regularThe Saint
Sound Recordist Ken Rawkins regularUFO
Dubbing Mixer Len Abbott regularThe ChampionsThe SaintDepartment S
Sound Editor Jack T. Knight regular007Space 1999
Music Editor Karen Heward regular
Construction Manager Charles Hammerton regular
Supervisory Electrician Steve Birtles regularThe Saint
Stunt Arranger Ray Austin regularThe ProfessionalsThe SaintRandall and HopkirkThe ChampionsDepartment SSpace 1999
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