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Sting in the Tail  [View Series 2 Episodes]

Noureddine is an assassin. Such men aren’t caught without a certain amount of unpleasantness WRITTEN BY: Philip Broadley DIRECTED BY: Peter Yates FIRST BROADCAST: 14/10/1965 CAST: John Drake  ............   Patrick McGoohan Alexandros  ............   Ronald Radd Noureddine  ............   Derren Nesbitt James  ............   John Standing Marie Valedon  ............   Jeanne Roland Stephen Miller  ............   David Collings Shah of Assini  ............   Jeremy Spenser Police Inspector Roget  ............   Julian Somers Sir Alan  ............   Andrew Laurence Daphne Miller  ............   Mary Webster Bulack  ............   Ernst Ulman Michele  ............   Juliet Harmer Model  ............   Christine Child Messadi  ............   Neville Becker Café Owner  ............   Jose Berlinka Airport Clerk  ............   Zeynep Tarimer EPISODE DETAILS: ‘Sting in then Tail’ was the 26th second series episode of Danger Man to be made and the last to be completed at the MGM Borehamwood studios. Filming took place between Wednesday 31st March and Friday 9th of April 1965. There was then officially a two-week break while the production team relocated to the new Shepperton Studios. Written by Philip Broadley, we see Derren Nesbitt in his third and final Danger Man episode, as Noureddine, a ruthless assassin which is reminiscent of the first series’ episode ‘Time to Kill’. Nesbitt would later reappear in The Prisoner episode ‘It’s your Funeral’, again as a very unsavoury character. Drake’s mission is to lure assassin Noureddine from France so he can be arrested. He does this by befriending Noureddine’s girlfriend Marie Valdeon, under the guise of Stephen Miller a struggling artist. But when Marie doesn’t play ball Drake pretends that Marie has left Noureddine but he doesn’t count on the fact that she doesn’t go anywhere without Ju-Ju her Golliwog doll. In this episode Marie, played by Jeanne Roland, performs two songs in French, one being the 1964 number 12 hit ‘She’s Not There’ written by Rod Argent of ‘The Zombies’. Apparently the French version was released by RCA Victor records in 1969 but I do not have a copy. Virginia Astley, the daughter of music director Edwin Astley, was at the time dating one of the Zombie’s members so this is probably how the music became to be used in the episode.

Episode Titles: TV Magazine Listings: London Edition Oct 9th - 15th 1965 Colour Stills: Filming Locations: There are no known locations for this episode

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