Episode #87 - 5-16

The Fast Women

CAST:
Jan Holden - Cynthia Quillen
John Carson - Godfrey Quillen
Victor Maddern - Enrico Montesino
Kate O'Mara - Teresa Montesino
John Hollis - Tordoff
P.G. Stephens - Paddy
Valerie Bell - Thelma
Donald Morley - Inspector Daws
Patrick Durkin - Porter
Vilma Ann Leslie - Barmaid
Stan Jay - The Night Watchman
Harry Brunning - The Stage Door-keeper
Mandy Mayer - Glenda

Directed by Leslie Norman; Screenplay by Leigh Vance

STORY:
Simon meets a friend at Brands Hatch, female driver Cynthia Quillen. Her biggest rival is Teresa Montesino who has also an affair with Cynthia's husband Godfrey. When Templar takes the racing car out on the track someone shoots at one of the tyres - was the murder attempt meant for Cynthia? Who's trying to kill her? Is it Teresa because if she looses the next race her team will be bankrupt?

NOTES:
* Jan Holden also appears in Episode #67 "The Persistent Parasites"
* John Carson also appears in Episodes #7 "The Arrow of God", #30 "The Romantic Matron" and #60 "Sibao"
* Kate O'Mara also appears in Episodes #91 "The Counterfeit Countess" and #104 "The Double Take"
* John Hollis also appears in Episode #23 "The Saint Plays with Fire"
* John Hollis would later play Lobot, Lando Calrissian's assistant, in "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) and also Blofeld in the pretitle sequence of "For Your Eyes Only" (1981)
* Victor Maddern also appears in Episode #108 "The Scales of Justice"

AIRDATE:
UK: 13th January 1967

GERMAN TITLE:
S.T. und die Rivalinnen

AVAILABLE ON:
* DVD (NTSC): AAE-70349 (2001)

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Last Updated: 01/20/2018