How to Succeed .... At Murder

Episode aired Jun 13, 1966
TV-14TV-14
52m

IMDb RATING

8.0/10

273

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Action Comedy Crime

Eleven businessmen and counting have been mysteriously murdered, their affairs taken over by their able secretaries. The smell of perfume lingering over one of the dead bodies leads Mrs Peel... Read allEleven businessmen and counting have been mysteriously murdered, their affairs taken over by their able secretaries. The smell of perfume lingering over one of the dead bodies leads Mrs Peel to J.J. Hooter, who quickly becomes the next man to die. With secretaries as their only c... Read allEleven businessmen and counting have been mysteriously murdered, their affairs taken over by their able secretaries. The smell of perfume lingering over one of the dead bodies leads Mrs Peel to J.J. Hooter, who quickly becomes the next man to die. With secretaries as their only clue, Steed decides to hire one, and Emma to take up the profession.

IMDb RATING

8.0/10

273

YOUR RATING

Director
- Don Leaver
Writers
- Brian Clemens(teleplay by)
- Sydney Newman(uncredited)
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Trivia
Hooter is a slang term for the nose

Goofs
When Mrs. Peel follows Ms. Merryweather to the Throgbottoms Class, You can see a cameraman's boot in the bottom left.

Quotes
J.J. Hooter: You see, I smell a great deal.
Emma Peel: You do? Eh, I mean you do.

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Featured review

9/10

Awesome episode

There is actually nothing exceptional in this episode, except the ending when the villain is revealed and the empathy that the audience can feel for him. After all, he had his reasons to do this. That changes from all other stories of lunatics of all kinds or even spies. I thought this villain would kill people for the count of a criminal organization; but not at all. SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS And the fact that this so "sympathetic" villain is killed by Steed simply by a gun shot, that's very unusual too. So far I don't remember Steed killing a villain with a gun. But I have not seen the first seasons with Honor Blackman. And we also can see in this episode some kind of criticism against any British movements for women's equal rights with men; because you have probably noticed that in nearly every episode of the series, a subject is more or less evoked, a social topic: British army, British rail net, government, advertisement, department stores....many social elements that could be mocked of.

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