S4.E5

Castle De'ath

Episode aired Jul 3, 1991
TV-14
52m

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Patrick Macnee and Robert Urquhart in Chapeau melon et bottes de cuir (1961)

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When an agent in diving gear is found dead in a Scottish loch yet substantially taller than he was whilst he was alive Steed and Mrs. Peel visit a remote castle owned by the feuding De'ath c... Read allWhen an agent in diving gear is found dead in a Scottish loch yet substantially taller than he was whilst he was alive Steed and Mrs. Peel visit a remote castle owned by the feuding De'ath cousins, Ian and Angus, to investigate the sinister goings-on.When an agent in diving gear is found dead in a Scottish loch yet substantially taller than he was whilst he was alive Steed and Mrs. Peel visit a remote castle owned by the feuding De'ath cousins, Ian and Angus, to investigate the sinister goings-on.

Director
- James Hill
Writers
- John Lucarotti
- Sydney Newman
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7.7/10

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Director
- James Hill
Writers
- John Lucarotti
- Sydney Newman
Stars

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Patrick Macnee

John Steed

Diana Rigg

Emma Peel

Gordon Jackson

Ian D'eath

Robert Urquhart

Angus D'eath

Jack Lambert

McNab

James Copeland

Roberton

Russell Waters

Controller

Joe Farrar

Guard
(uncredited)

Terence Mountain

Gillie
(uncredited)

Michael Stevens

Guard watching Steed
(uncredited)

Rocky Taylor

Gillie
(uncredited)

Director
- James Hill
Writers
- John Lucarotti
- Sydney Newman
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6/10

Castle De'ath

When a frogman is found drowned, Steed and Mrs Peel go and stay at a supposedly Scottish haunted castle.

Castle De'ath is easily my least favorite episode so far. It's a rather mundane plot, and even the performances of Macnee and Rigg can't salvage it. However, there's good guest performances from Gordon Jackson and Robert Urquhart as feuding cousins.

There's a couple of good fight scenes (there's some terrible stunt-doubling though), and the set design is rather nice. It's a pretty bloodthirsty episode; all of the credited guest characters end up dead by the episodes conclusion.