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Escape in Time

Episode Number: 107    Season Num: 5    First Aired: January 28, 1967    Prod Code: n/a
Several notorious criminals have vanished into thin air. A whisper has been received that the escape chain starts in London, but, when agent Paxton follows it, he winds up dead in the Thames with a 300-year-old bullet in him.

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Writer: Philip Levene
Director: John Krish
Star: Patrick Macnee (John Steed),  Diana Rigg (Mrs Emma Peel (seasons four and five))
Guest Star: Edward Caddick (Sweeney),  Imogen Hassall (Anjali),  Judy Parfitt (Vesta),  Geoffrey Bayldon (Clapham),  Peter Bowles (Thyssen),  Rocky Taylor (Mitchell),  Clifford Earl (Paxton),  Ricardo Montez (Jusino),  Nicholas Smith (Parker),  Roger Booth (Tubby Vincent)

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Matthew Tyson: (Believing it’s the 16th century) These strange clothes you wear, the devil’s work! Designed to daze and bewitch a man’s senses. To inflame him to lust.
Mrs. Peel: (Dressed in 18th century costume) You should see me 400 years from now.
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Steed: Remarkable. I’ve known you all this time, never knew that you could sew.
Mrs. Peel: Well our relationship hasn’t exactly been domestic, has it?
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Steed: There’s a face full of avarice. Reminds me of an auntie of mine.

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Trivia

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The opening teaser for this episode: Mrs. Peel is clearly preparing for a night out. On the mantle piece there is an invitation. It says, ’ Invitation to a Grand Hunt Ball. We request the pleasure of the company of Mrs. Peel.’ When she picks it up to re-read it, Steed takes it from her and turns it over. On the back it says, ’we’re needed.’
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The tag line used at the end of opening credits: ' Steed visits the barber and Emma has a close shave.' (edit)
Tag: A trail of arrows printed on the floor of her apartment leads Emma to Steed, who is there to take her to a party. Outside they find a veteran taxi, which Steed cranks into action before, black faced from the exhaust, he joins his partner to depart in style. (edit)

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Note the name of the barber shop as the blind in drawn: Sweeney. This is a reference to the infamous, fictional barber/ murder.
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Escape in Time
"Exactly why I watch this series"
Some major on-the-run criminals last spotted heading for British shores inexplicably disappear, the (rather outlandish) trail leading into the past...
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