Series 6 — Episode 19
Wish You Were Here

Regional broadcasts

Broadcaster	Date	Time
Thames Television	12/02/1969	8.00pm
ATV Midlands	7/02/1969	7.30pm
Granada Television	25/05/1969	8.25pm
Anglia Television	9/07/1969	8.00pm
Border Television	19/02/1969	8.00pm
Channel Television	7/02/1969	7.30pm
Grampian Television	7/02/1969	7.30pm
Southern Television	2/07/1969	8.00pm
Scottish Television
Tyne Tees Television	12/02/1969	8.00pm
Ulster Television	7/02/1969	7.30pm
Westward Television	7/02/1969	7.30pm
Harlech Television	7/02/1969	7.30pm
Yorkshire Television	15/02/1969	8.30pm

TV Times listing

The TV Times has accidentally printed Brook Williams instead of Brook William.

International broadcasts

Broadcaster	Date	Time
ABN2 Sydney, Australia	14/02/1969	8.00pm
ABQ2 Brisbane, Australia	11/04/1969	8.00pm
ABV2 Melbourne, Australia	4/03/1969	8.30pm
ABS2 Adelaide, Australia	20/02/1969	8.00pm
ABC New York, USA	18/11/1968	7.30pm
ORTF2 France	1/11/1969	9.55pm
Suisse Romande, Switzerland	5/08/1969	8.20pm
French title	Étrange hôtel
ZDF Germany
German title	Willkommen im Shakespear's Inn
KRO Netherlands	14/04/1970	9.10pm
Dutch title	Hotel met alle comfort
TTI Italy	6/12/1980 C51
Italian title	Elizabethan Hotel
Spain	12/1/1970	10.35pm
Spanish title	Quisiera que estuvieras aqui

Wish You Were Here was originally scheduled as a stand-by on 1/12/69 around 11.00pm in Spain but must not have been used as it is in the schedule again at 10.35pm on January 12 1970.
ABC Madrid reported:

La serie “Los vengadores”, con el episodio “Quisiera que estuvieras aqui”, se emitira despues de “Los hombres saben.. los pueblos marchan” caso de que el boxeo se resolviese antes de lo previsto.

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The series “The Avengers”, with the episode “Wish you were here”, will be broadcast after “Men know... the towns march” in case the boxing is resolved earlier than expected.

Continuity & Trivia

1. 1:10 — The episode starts with a suggestion that the men are in a prison, with the shadow of the bars of the window on the wall.
2. 2:43 — The caption scanner must have been dirty as there’s grit and hair on the screen when the titles come up.
3. 3:46 (4:40) — Maples has the silhouette version of the painting seen in From Venus with Love on his office wall.
4. 5:43 — It looks like there’s a hair top centre in the establishing shot of hotel, unless the hotel had a very large antenna on the roof (EDIT: In fact it is a large antenna, thanks to the blu ray picture detail).
5. 13:53 — they even have striped shirts for the staff to wear
6. 13:57 — Mother sits in his control room on one end of an outsized scale, in an outright parody of the swivelling control operator’s boom in The Prisoner, the huge photographs around the room are reminiscent of scenes at Number 2’s house as well.
7. 19:26 — Product placement for “The Times” ?
8. 19:39–19:52 — there are a couple of hairs along the bottom edge of the screen as we pan across from the lift, they disappear after the close-up of the door on the change of shot, so they were probably on the camera lens.
9. 21:46 — The top two cards of the card house are more widely spaced on the change of shot than Tara had made them. At 22:00 they’re back to the original position on the change back to the other shot. The reverse shot was obviously filmed later.
10. 28:15 — Basil’s car is laden with all manner of sporting equipment, reminsiscent of Steed’s cab in The Girl From Auntie.
11. Music from Escape In Time in this scene.
12. 34:38 — Another reference to “The Prisoner”? Rover as a beach ball?
13. 35:18 — Is that the same wallpaper as in Bristow’s study in The Avengers : Series 6 : Game?
14. 41:00 — The contract between Kendrick and Parker reveals their first names and addresses (more or less). It reads:

    This Agreement is made this thrity-first day of August one thousand nine hundred and sixty eight between Stephen Kendrick of 3 Augustus Place in the county of London and Michael Parker of the Elizabethan Hotel, Berkshire. The terms of the aforesaid contract shall be as follows.

    On the confirmation of the death of Charles Merrydale, I Stephen Kendrick shall pay Michael Parker the sum of Five Thousand Pounds.

15. 41:47 — Basil says, “Artichoke, Mr. Bagthorpe?” Is this a reference to a play?
16. 42:25 — The footage of the guests leaving has been shuffled around in post-production to suggest there were more people in the scenes. You can see most of them repeatedly and it’s most obvious with the old lady in the tuban — she’s inside at one point, but a moment earlier she had been outside, threading her way between the cars.
17. 48:30 — Is that a water stain on Steed’s ceiling above the fireplace?
18. Running time: 50′15″
19. This rollicking pastiche of Patrick Macgoohan’s masterwork The Prisoner is even directed by regular The Prisoner and Danger Man director, Don Chaffey.
    A call sheet reveals this episode was even originally titled “The Prisoner” as was slated to be episode 19. It was subsequently moved up the order to officially be episode 16 but ended up back in 19^th spot in the broadcast schedule anyway.

The Transport

Marque	Colour	Number
Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow I	grey	MWF 435F
Lotus Europa S2 Pre-production [Type 54] 1968	red	PPW 999F
bicycle	black	-
bicycle	red	-
Austin Wandsworth/LDO ambulance	white	?
Renault 12	taupe	?
Rolls-Royce 40/50 h.p. ‘Silver Ghost’ 1923 H.J.Mulliner tourer (chassis number 46LK)	pale lemon	KK 4976
Austin Seven Short Wheelbase Steel Saloon 1930	red and black	JH 355
Jaguar Mk II 3.8 litre 1963	brown	501 FGF
Jaguar S Type 1964	navy	SLC 227F
Vanden Plas Princess 4 litre R 1964	blue	ALL 821B
Rover P6	blue	PLF 906E
Rover P5 3 litre Saloon Mk I 1959	cream	2526 ME
Jaguar E Type roadster	white	JLN 4D
bicycle	blue	-

Who’s Killing Whom?

Victim	Killer	Method
James Brevitt	Vickers ?	?
Maple	Kendrick	hit and run

The Fashions

Tara lime minidress with lemon peter pan collar and polo buttons, tan boots green rollneck skivvy and palazzo pants with white and green hooped cardigan blue towelling bathrobe with paisley stitch maid’s uniform (high-waisted black slacks, white blouse with black collar, cuffs and pinstripes) above, with chef’s tunic and hat white bouse and black slacks with a navy cravat with white spot

Steed brown three-piece suit (dark brown felt collar) with pale yellow shirt and metallic gold tie, dark browm bowler and black umbrella grey three-piece suit (felt collar collar) with pale pink shirt and pink/yellow/tan paisley tie navy suit with lavender shirt and burgundy tie, blue bowler dark grey three-piece suit with pale blue shirt, steel blue tie and handkerchief