Season 5

 

13 A funny thing happened on the way to the railwaystation

 

Writer: Bryan Sherriff
(pseudonym of Roger Marshall)

15 April 1967

filmed March 1967

US transmission 28 April 1967

 

Synopsis

There is an outrage prepared on the prime minister who is up to travel by train a certain route. In the train Emma sits opposite a woman and Emma doesn't know the woman is a member of the complot. Than the woman hears via a special knocking sound, which is in fact a kind of morsecode, she has to kill Emma, but Emma can avoid that. In the same train Steed is a prisoner just because he knows too much. After a fight where much dinner sets will be destructed, Emma comes into the same compartiment where Steed is hold as a prisoner and then the case will be happy ending.

 

CAST

ACTOR/ACTRESS

ALSO PLAYED IN

Conductor

James Hayter

XXX

Crewe

John Laurie

Death of a great dane
Brief for murder
Pandora

Groom

Drewe Henley

XXX

Bride

Isla Blair

XXX

Salt

Tim Barret

XXX

Admiral

Richard Caldicot

Wish you were here

Warren

Dyson Lovell

XXX

Servant

Peter J. Elliot

Dead man's treasure
You have just been murdered
Have guns-will haggle
The bird who knew too much

Lucas

Michael Nightingale

All done with mirrors

Secretary

Noel Davies

The rotters