• title card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left reading ‘THE SUPERLATIVE SEVEN’ superimposed on a view through a red and white circular door of ranks of male and female martial artists dressed in black, flanking a dead man lying on a mat between them; a red lattice hangs from the ceiling in the background, before white curtains
  • subtitle card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left reading ‘STEED FLIES TO NOWHERE EMMA DOES HER PARTY PIECE’ superimposed on a view from further down the round corridor, now predominantly red
  • Youtube video — Steed is hunting in the woods and thinks he’s bagged a catch, only to find Mrs. Peel hiding in the bushes when he finds a yellow rubber duck emblazoned ‘Steed’. ‘We’re needed’, she quips
  • Steed, seated in the aeroplane and dressed as one of Wellington’s officers, straightens a bent poker as Dayton looks on thoughtfully
  • Joe Smith is impaled on a pitchfork
  • Steed and Wade fight in the main hall
  • Emma, in an orange catsuit, points one of Hannah Wilde’s revolvers at her as she tells her Steed is innocent
  • Hannah Wilde shoots away the revolver as Jessel tries to pick it up
  • Youtube video — Emma thinks she’s ‘winged Santa Claus’ when she bags a teddy bear, but Steed says she’s missed and bags a bottle of champagne; she counters with a pair of glasses

Series 5 — Episode 12
The Superlative Seven

by Brian Clemens
Directed by Sidney Hayers

Steed flies to nowhere
Emma does her party piece

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 464KB)

Production No E.66.6.12
Production completed: March 13 1967. First transmission: April 5 1967.

Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Emma Peel Diana Rigg regular007Doctor Who
Mrs. Hana Wild Charlotte Rampling
Mark Dayton Brian Blessed regularDoctor WhoBlake’s 7Randall and HopkirkStar WarsSpace 1999The Sweeney
Jason Wade James Maxwell regularDoctor WhoDanger ManThe SaintThe Champions
Max Hardy Hugh Manning regular
Freddy Richards Leon Greene The SaintCarry On..
Joe Smith Gary Hope regularDanger ManThe Saint
Jessel Donald Sutherland The SaintThe Champions
Kanwitch John Hollis regularDoctor Who007Blake’s 7The SaintAdam AdamantStar Wars
Stewardess Margaret Neale
Toy Sung Terry Plummer regular007The SaintPink Panther
killer unknown
killer Bill Hibbert regularThe SaintCarry On..
killer Cliff Diggins regular007Blake’s 7The SweeneySpace 1999
killer Royston Farrell regularDoctor Who
killer unknown
killer Don Archell regularDanger ManThe Saint
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® : illustrated from other sources

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