Season 4

 

08 The gravediggers

 

Writer: Malcolm Hulke

9 October 1965

filmed March/April 1965

US transmisssion 4 August 1966

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Synopsis

A failure in the radarsystem of the government makes suspect Steed and Emma there has been cheated by the enemy. A man named Marlowe worked on such a system till his recent death. Steed goes to Pringby, a village on the way to the radar. He meets Sir Horace who offers him a drive in a simulating train. Meanwhile Emma is infiltrating at Sir Horace Winslip Hospital as a nurse. When her real identity is discovered she will be tied up on the rails of a minitrain. Steed can rescue her just in time.

 

CAST

ACTOR/ACTRESS

ALSO PLAYED IN

Sir Horace Winslip

Ronald Fraser

XXX

Johnson

Paul Massie

XXX

Miss Thirwell

Caroline Blackiston

Dance with death
The positive negative man

Sexton

Victor Platt

A change of bait

Fred

Charles Lamb

XXX

Nurse Spray

Wanda Ventham

XXX

Baron

Ray Austin

The hour that never was

Sager

Steven Berkhoff

XXX

Miller

Bryan Mosley

Homicide and old lace

Dr. Marlowe

Lloyd Lamble

XXX

Pallbearer

Peter J. Elliot

XXX

Pallbearer

Harvey Hall

The master minds
The see-through man