• title card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left reading ‘THE JOKER’ superimposed on someone wearing a mustard jumper cutting up Emma’s photo with a pair of scissors
  • subtitle card: white all caps text with black dropshadow to the left reading ‘STEED TRUMPS AN ACE
			EMMA PLAYS A LONE HAND’ superimposed on the hands feverishly chopped at the remains of the photograph with the scissors
  • Youtube video — Mr. Peel drops round to see Steed who stumbles down his stairs. She breaks in and he gasps, ‘Mrs. Peel, you’re needed’
  • The inside of the house with the ominous Death’s head ace playing card as the door at the top of the stairs
  • The Strange Young Man holds the severed telephone wires up for Emma to see
  • Emma stares wildly at the carving knife embedded in the pine wall of the kitchen by the door
  • A worried Emma stands behind a chair, the candles on the foreground are ot of focus with the narrow field
  • An extreme close-up of Prendergast, so close he entrirely fills the screen and you can’t see all of his face
  • Youtube video — Steed is playing Solitaire when Emma drops round. He shows her a card trick — the two cards she chooses add up to the year of his vintage champagne; she throws down two jokers

Series 5 — Episode 15
The Joker

by Brian Clemens
Directed by Sidney Hayers

Steed trumps an ace
Emma plays a lone hand

Production No E.66.6.15
Production completed: April 11 1967. First transmission: April 26 1967.


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