Season 3

 

11 Build a better mousetrap

 

Writer: Brian Clemens

15 february 1964

recorded 28 August 1963

 

Synopsis

Cathy, having joined a motorcycle gang, calls on two elderly ladies, Ermintrude and Cynthia, who own a watermill and the surrounding meadows, to ask their permission for the gang to use one of the fields for scrambles. Ermintrude refuses and threatens to put a spell on the gang unles she leaves. Meanwhile, Steed, staying at the local inn, learns from the barman, Harris, about the mysterious jammings of all mechanical and electrical devices in the neighbourhood.

 

CAST

ACTOR/ACTRESS

ALSO PLAYED IN

Cynthia

Athene Seyler

Man-eater of Surrey Green

Ermyntrude

Nora Nicholson

All done with mirrors

Harris

Harold Goodwin

XXX

Colonel Wesker

John Tate

Killer whale

Caroline

Alison Seebohm

XXX

Dave

Donald Webster

Intercrime

Jessy

Marian Diamond

XXX

Stigant

Allan McClelland

The big thinker

Gordon

David Anderson

XXX