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Bacchus/ Bacchanalia

Bacchus/Bacchanalia appears a few times. It is the trigger word used as part of

Steed's conditioning in Stay Tuned. The second he hears the word he is going to

kill Mother. Steed used the name as the society codename in The Danger Makers.

And a picture above Mrs. Peel bar in her first flat shows an ancient Bacchanalia.

"Hello Bruno, that's what you call a bacchanalia?" Steed asked in The Grandeur

that Was Rome.

John Steed's banker is Lord Maxted (You Have Just Been Murdered)

Battle of Balaclava 1854

Hopkirk to Steed: “Might I suggest an intrepid trapper…a Cavalryman at Balaclava

riding into the Valley of Death”. (Honey for the Prince)

That’s the painting above Steed’s mantlepiece in his fourth flat: The charge of the

Light Brigade in the battle at Balaclava.

Steed is using a Philips Philishave battery shaver with two rotary heads from 1967

in Too Many Christmas Trees.

The commercial slogan was: "For the man on the moon" - quite Bizarre!

"I hate to see a good beer go into orbit". (Quick-Quick Slow Death)

He has a pint at the inn in Built a Better Mousetrap, it's his first beer in series 2-6.

The prisoner Steed gets a drop of ale in Castle De'ath. Steed's lunchtime

refreshment was supposed to be a beer in Quick-Quick Slow Death; he would like

to have a pint of beer in TNA Angels of Death, and is has a sip of beer in TNA

Sleeper as beer is for the thirst and wine is for the soul. Steed also talked about

beer in K is for Kill - The Tiger Awakes.

Berlin the front town of the Cold War gets mentioned several times.

"Berlin is the capital town of Germany" (Obsession)

"Because of Berlin..." (Obsession)

Also in: Don't Look Behind You and The Joker, Split!, TNA Dead Men are

Dangerous,

Steed gets two Birthday Cakes during the Avengers, both in TNA The Last of the

Cybernauts...??

Steed gets blindfolded several times: The Wringer, The Living Dead, Esprit de

Corps, Escape in Time

There're several bookshelves in each of Steed's flats or his mansion and his

reading in a few books during the series.

Steed is reading "Great disappearing acts" in The Town of no Return. In The

Rotters Steed is lying on the sofa reading a book while Tara is cooking in the

kitchen. He's reading a book about fishing at the train in A Funny Thing Happened

on the Way to the Station, and a book about Ventriloquism at the end of How to

Succeed...At Murder. A book can be seen on his bed stand in Too Many

Christmas Trees and he's reading a book for boys about astronomy in The Golden

Eggs, furthermore in the Encyclopaedia Britannica in Killer Whale, he's reading in a

book from Marcel Proust which he had lent to Hal Anderson in The Wringer and

several Tintin comic books.

Steed is taking the bus and follows Henry in How to Succeed at....Murder to the

graveyard. Steed meets Mother for a briefing in a red bus in False Witness

white ones in: The Undertakers, The Frighteners, The Sell-Out, Room Without a

View, The Murder Market

red ones in: Two's a Crowd (2x), TNA Obsession, Stay Tuned intro season 5.

Steed had several "children", none of them a real one.

The Springers: Melanie

Murdersville: Albert, Julian, Gordon and baby Brian

Invasion of the Earthmen: Aubrey Neville, little boy of 18

Christmas time in Steed's flat in Dressed to Kill, series 3 and Too Many Christmas

Trees, series 4 and a third time Christmas is celebrated in February in Take-Over

at the Bassett's house.

Steed is a member of one or several clubs. Mrs Gale tried to call him at his club in

The Medicine Men and he mentioned to Kate that he's a member of several clubs

in Lobster Quadrille. It's also mentioned in Look - (Stop Me If You've Heard this

One) But There Were These Two Fellers...and in Fog.

Cleaning lady/ Charlady

Three women take care (or get mentioned) of Steed's flats or his mansion in The

Mauritius Penny (Elsie), Mrs Weir in TNA The Last of the Cybernauts...?? and Mrs

Peel is referring to a cleaning lady in series 5 episode A Funny Thing Happened

on the Way to the Station...A charlady is also mentioned in The Tale of the Big

Steed has different (more or less serious) codenames. Bacchus, New Doberman

and Cat Eye Steed (during the war).

Steed takes it black in The Removal Men but with sugar in other episodes.

John Steed is using different Russell and Hobbs coffee pots: series 3, series 4,

for Steed in The Undertakers and TNA Dead Men Are Dangerous

more coffins in: The Murder Market for Mrs Peel, in TNA Hostage for Purdey, in

The Grandeur That Was Rome (Steed hiding in a coffin), The Gravediggers,

Bizarre, TNA House of Cards

Christian name "John"

Steed is rarely called by his Christian name, it happens only a only a few times:

Mother in The Forget-Me-Knot, Mrs Gale posing as his wife in Death on the Rocks,

the Lille girl in The Medicine Men, his "girlfriend" in Brief for Murder, Mrs Peel in

Murdersville, his friend Bill and his wife in Take-Over, Hal Anderson in The Wringer

and Mark Clifford in TNA Faces, Mark Grayford in Dead Men Are Dangerous. He

said to Lovejoy in The Murder Market his name was Jonathan.

Mrs Peel also called him John: Sir John Steed in A Funny Thing Happened On

The Way to The Station.

It's strange, but Steed is doing this only one time in Two's a Crowd, when posing as

With Venus in Man in The Mirror and The Decapod, never with Cathy but dancing

on the houseparty of the Steeds in Death on The Rocks, Quick-Quick Slow Death

with Mrs Peel and the trainer, Too Many Christmas Trees with Mrs Peel, dancing in

Steed had several Doppelganger during The Avengers. The first one in Man With

Two Shadows had trained five years to become John Steed, but he was killed by

Steed when he tried to murder the agent.

Same thing happens to Steed's double in TNA Faces. There're several doubles in

They Keep Killing Steed, they all look like Steed, but the voices do not match. All

get killed or die due to false medication. Steed's robot double was rejected,

because it was not perfect in Never, Never Say Die.

Steed's double in Two's a Crowd wasn't one, because Steed played Webster to

defeat the Russian spies.

Steed is about to be executed twice. First time by a firing squad in Esprit de Corps

and the second time in The Living Dead.

John Steed is going to three funerals: Mrs Peel's faked one in The Murder Market,

Benson's funeral in Mandrake and to the funeral of his former batman in Death of a

Batman

Steed throws grenades two times: The Danger Makers - it destroys "old bucket"

and the second time in TNA K is for Kill - The Tiger Awakes. He also found some

grenades in episode The Golden Fleece in a storage room.

Bacchus/ Bacchanalia	Bacchus/Bacchanalia appears a few times. It is the trigger word used as part of Steed's conditioning in Stay Tuned. The second he hears the word he is going to kill Mother. Steed used the name as the society codename in The Danger Makers. And a picture above Mrs. Peel bar in her first flat shows an ancient Bacchanalia. "Hello Bruno, that's what you call a bacchanalia?" Steed asked in The Grandeur that Was Rome.
Banker	John Steed's banker is Lord Maxted (You Have Just Been Murdered)
Battle of Balaclava 1854	Hopkirk to Steed: “Might I suggest an intrepid trapper…a Cavalryman at Balaclava riding into the Valley of Death”. (Honey for the Prince) That’s the painting above Steed’s mantlepiece in his fourth flat: The charge of the Light Brigade in the battle at Balaclava.
Battery shaver	Steed is using a Philips Philishave battery shaver with two rotary heads from 1967 in Too Many Christmas Trees. The commercial slogan was: "For the man on the moon" - quite Bizarre!
Beer	"I hate to see a good beer go into orbit". (Quick-Quick Slow Death) He has a pint at the inn in Built a Better Mousetrap, it's his first beer in series 2-6. The prisoner Steed gets a drop of ale in Castle De'ath. Steed's lunchtime refreshment was supposed to be a beer in Quick-Quick Slow Death; he would like to have a pint of beer in TNA Angels of Death, and is has a sip of beer in TNA Sleeper as beer is for the thirst and wine is for the soul. Steed also talked about beer in K is for Kill - The Tiger Awakes.
Berlin	Berlin the front town of the Cold War gets mentioned several times. "Berlin is the capital town of Germany" (Obsession) "Because of Berlin..." (Obsession) Also in: Don't Look Behind You and The Joker, Split!, TNA Dead Men are Dangerous,
Birthday Cakes	Steed gets two Birthday Cakes during the Avengers, both in TNA The Last of the Cybernauts...??
Blindfolded	Steed gets blindfolded several times: The Wringer, The Living Dead, Esprit de Corps, Escape in Time
Books	There're several bookshelves in each of Steed's flats or his mansion and his reading in a few books during the series. Steed is reading "Great disappearing acts" in The Town of no Return. In The Rotters Steed is lying on the sofa reading a book while Tara is cooking in the kitchen. He's reading a book about fishing at the train in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station, and a book about Ventriloquism at the end of How to Succeed...At Murder. A book can be seen on his bed stand in Too Many Christmas Trees and he's reading a book for boys about astronomy in The Golden Eggs, furthermore in the Encyclopaedia Britannica in Killer Whale, he's reading in a book from Marcel Proust which he had lent to Hal Anderson in The Wringer and several Tintin comic books.
Bus	Steed is taking the bus and follows Henry in How to Succeed at....Murder to the graveyard. Steed meets Mother for a briefing in a red bus in False Witness
Carnations	white ones in: The Undertakers, The Frighteners, The Sell-Out, Room Without a View, The Murder Market red ones in: Two's a Crowd (2x), TNA Obsession, Stay Tuned intro season 5.
Children	Steed had several "children", none of them a real one. The Springers: Melanie Murdersville: Albert, Julian, Gordon and baby Brian Invasion of the Earthmen: Aubrey Neville, little boy of 18
Christmas	Christmas time in Steed's flat in Dressed to Kill, series 3 and Too Many Christmas Trees, series 4 and a third time Christmas is celebrated in February in Take-Over at the Bassett's house.
Club	Steed is a member of one or several clubs. Mrs Gale tried to call him at his club in The Medicine Men and he mentioned to Kate that he's a member of several clubs in Lobster Quadrille. It's also mentioned in Look - (Stop Me If You've Heard this One) But There Were These Two Fellers...and in Fog.
Cleaning lady/ Charlady	Three women take care (or get mentioned) of Steed's flats or his mansion in The Mauritius Penny (Elsie), Mrs Weir in TNA The Last of the Cybernauts...?? and Mrs Peel is referring to a cleaning lady in series 5 episode A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station...A charlady is also mentioned in The Tale of the Big Why.
Codenames	Steed has different (more or less serious) codenames. Bacchus, New Doberman and Cat Eye Steed (during the war).
Coffee	Steed takes it black in The Removal Men but with sugar in other episodes.
Coffee pot	John Steed is using different Russell and Hobbs coffee pots: series 3, series 4, series 5/6
Coffins	for Steed in The Undertakers and TNA Dead Men Are Dangerous more coffins in: The Murder Market for Mrs Peel, in TNA Hostage for Purdey, in The Grandeur That Was Rome (Steed hiding in a coffin), The Gravediggers, Bizarre, TNA House of Cards
Christian name "John"	Steed is rarely called by his Christian name, it happens only a only a few times: Mother in The Forget-Me-Knot, Mrs Gale posing as his wife in Death on the Rocks, the Lille girl in The Medicine Men, his "girlfriend" in Brief for Murder, Mrs Peel in Murdersville, his friend Bill and his wife in Take-Over, Hal Anderson in The Wringer and Mark Clifford in TNA Faces, Mark Grayford in Dead Men Are Dangerous. He said to Lovejoy in The Murder Market his name was Jonathan. Mrs Peel also called him John: Sir John Steed in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to The Station.
Combing Steed	It's strange, but Steed is doing this only one time in Two's a Crowd, when posing as Webster.
Dancing Steed	With Venus in Man in The Mirror and The Decapod, never with Cathy but dancing on the houseparty of the Steeds in Death on The Rocks, Quick-Quick Slow Death with Mrs Peel and the trainer, Too Many Christmas Trees with Mrs Peel, dancing in Castle De'ath
Doppelganger	Steed had several Doppelganger during The Avengers. The first one in Man With Two Shadows had trained five years to become John Steed, but he was killed by Steed when he tried to murder the agent. Same thing happens to Steed's double in TNA Faces. There're several doubles in They Keep Killing Steed, they all look like Steed, but the voices do not match. All get killed or die due to false medication. Steed's robot double was rejected, because it was not perfect in Never, Never Say Die. Steed's double in Two's a Crowd wasn't one, because Steed played Webster to defeat the Russian spies.
Execution	Steed is about to be executed twice. First time by a firing squad in Esprit de Corps and the second time in The Living Dead.
Funeral	John Steed is going to three funerals: Mrs Peel's faked one in The Murder Market, Benson's funeral in Mandrake and to the funeral of his former batman in Death of a Batman
Grenade	Steed throws grenades two times: The Danger Makers - it destroys "old bucket" and the second time in TNA K is for Kill - The Tiger Awakes. He also found some grenades in episode The Golden Fleece in a storage room.