I just love this moment....Look at Cathy’s expression as she corpses in this delightful sequence at the end of The Nutshell where Steed is explaining that there is no microfilm of “Big Ben”. Instead of sticking to the script as follows:
Steed: “The rest are pictures of you my dear, April in Corfu, I believe”Â
Cathy: “Not those ones, they were terrible”
He cheekily inserts his own humorous re-write and makes her corpse by saying:
Steed: “I think the rest were of you my dear, astride a donkey on the beach at Bognor Regis”
He had it all planned, you can see it in his face. And the wide shot production stills reveal the laughter it caused, post rolling.
This is why I love these video-ed episodes. You get an insight into what was really happening on set, rather than it getting cut, as it would have on film.
