Season 6

 

08 Mission highly improbable

 

Writer: Philip Levene

18 November 1967

filmed September 1967

US transmission 10 january 1968

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Synopsis

On a militairy base there is a demonstration of a new kind of tank. An observer of the Eastern Block is also invited. A high official who is up to investigate the extreme high spendings of section metal fatique arrives in his white Rolls and disappears without a trace including his car. Steed finds on the place where it has happened a miniature Rolls, it appears a professor of the section metal fatique invented a machine which can reduce the size of materials. The observer of the Eastern Block who just wants to steal the new tank is now very interested in the size reducer. Another man who also works at the base is in fact a traitor and promises to the enemy the tank. To smuggle the tank out of the base, he reduces its size. Accidently Steed is inside the tank so his size is also reduced. After some size changes Steed and Emma solves that case to a happy end.

 

CAST

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Col. Drew

Richard Leech

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Joseph

Stefan Gryff

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Gifford

Nicholas Courtney

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Sir Gerald Bancroft

Kevin Stoney

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Sergeant

Peter Clay

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Corp. Johnson

Nigel Rideout

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Blonde

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Brunette

Nicole Shelby

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Henrick

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Karl

Denny Powell

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