This starts excitingly, with cutting edge transistorised pagers being used to assassinate people for financial advantage, but tails off disappointingly into a series of wine tastings, dinner parties and gunfights. On the plus side, there's an excitingly shot scene where Steed is attacked by motorcyclists; I liked the reminder that for all his languid charm, when things get tough he doesn't hesitate to get his shooter out. And the pager killings are accompanied by eerie shots of automatic phone exchange equipment clicking away inexorably.
John 'Ambril' Carson is pretty good as the sinister Fitch - making his third appearance. Gerald Sim also gets his hat-trick, and there's a fine haul of other familiar faces: Tina 'Ann Travers' Packer, Clifford 'Number Two in Do Not Forsake Me' who also played one of my ancestors in Kilvert's Diary, John 'Edward Waterfield' Bailey returning from Killer Whale, Peter Bowles from Second Sight, Norman Chappell from The Gilded Cage, Jan Holden from The Undertakers and also Alan Chuntz, who was the chauffeur in Seeds of Doom.
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