YMMV / Man in a Suitcase

• Bizarro Episode: The episode "Brainwash", which would feel more at home in The Prisoner.^note Ironically, it was first broadcast two days before the opening episode of The Prisoner. It abandons the grounded realism of the rest of the series, instead putting McGill through elaborate psychedelic torture designed to mentally break him into making a false confession.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Donald Sutherland appears in two episodes as two separate guest characters: "Day of Execution" as Willard and "Which Way Did He Go, McGill?" as Keith Earle.
  • Carol Cleveland appears as Miss Dinsdale in "The Sitting Pigeon", two years before Monty Python's Flying Circus debuted.
  • Roger Delgado appears in the episode "Burden of Proof", three years before he became The Master on Doctor Who.
  • Jacqueline Pearce guests in two episodes as two separate characters: Miss Brown in "Sweet Sue" and Ruth Klinger in "Somebody Loses, Somebody... Wins?". This was over a decade before she became known as Servalan.
  • Lord Gormond from "The Bridge" is played by Bill Owen, who would later be best known for playing Compo Simmonite in Last of the Summer Wine.
  • Eddy from "Flight Night to Andorra" is played by Ewan Hooper, who would later be best known for playing Alec Foster in Hi-de-Hi!.
  • Berger from "Jigsaw Man" is played by John Bluthal, who would later be best known for playing Frank Pickle in The Vicar of Dibley.
  • Leon from "Blind Sport" is played by Keith Marsh, who would later be best known for playing Jacko in Love Thy Neighbour.
  • Harry from "Dead Man's Shoes" is played by Larry Martyn, who would later be best known for playing Mr. Mash in Are You Being Served?.
  • Delacroix from "Blind Spot" is played by Michael Bates, who would later be best known for playing Blamire in Last of the Summer Wine and Rangi Ram in It Ain't Half Hot, Mum.
  • A girl at the cleaners from "Day of Execution" is played by Sally Geeson, who would later be best known for playing Sally Abbott in Bless This House.
  • A lodger from "Why They Killed Nolan" is played by Trevor Peacock, who would later be best known for playing Jim Trott in The Vicar of Dibley.
  • A behind the camera example: John Glen, who would later become famous for directing five James Bond films directed the episode "Somebody Loses, Somebody...Wins?" and is credited as an editor on nine other episodes.
• Special Effect Failure:
  • Outdoor night-time scenes were usually shot day-for-night with a blue filter on the camera, for example, the climaxes of the episodes "The Sitting Pigeon" and "Why They Killed Nolan". Unfortunately, this was often done while the sun was shining, and the shadows make it painfully obvious.
  • Like many series of its era, back projection is often used for driving scenes. This would likely not have been noticeable to viewers at the time but is all too obvious to those watching the remastered Blu-Ray edition.

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