#the saint

mariocki:

The Saint:The Well Meaning Mayor (2.12, ITC, 1963)

“Well, that’s the best I can do.”

“That’s fine, fine.”

“It’s obvious to anyone who looks at you that you’ve been in a fight!”

“Mrs. Purdell, I’m - I’m sorry if you disapprove.”

“Mr. Templar, I think you’re both out of your minds.”

@mariocki​ #the saint#the well meaning mayor#itc#1963#leslie charteris#robert banks stewart#jeremy summers#roger moore#leslie sands#mary kenton#norman bird#mandy miller#noel trevarthen#cameron hall#kenneth henry#david morrell#robert sansom#john gill#walter sparrow#ian wallace#@thisbluespirit if you haven’t seen this one then i suggest you do so‚ if only for the culture clash that is The Saint entering a world#belonging more rightly to Sir John Wilder. Simon is in little england (the fictional Seatondean to be precise) where a mayoral election is#being contested amid accusations of corruption. the source of this swindling? concrete! it’s a 60s concrete tv episode! happy days#on one side we have incumbent mayor Leslie Sands; a late developer as a screen actor (he’d only been acting a few years at this point)#Sands would have his own starring series in Cluff a few years later (like Wilmer’s Sherlock Holmes‚ Cluff began as a pilot play in the#series Detective). opposite him is Norman Bird‚ made up to look older than he actually was (he wasn’t even 40 at this point but like#Richard Vernon he seemed to be perpetually middle aged). another well staged fight scene and some unlikely high wire walking on a#construction site make up for a rather sad looking studio beach set and an appalling performance by an uncredited child who discovers a#crashed car (‘MUM LOOKAT THISS’). the rest of the cast are ill served by a script which really only bothers with Templar and Sands#but it’s not a bad episode by any means. a nice change of pace from international jet setting. more shows should feature concrete.. 

lol, no, i have not watched this one, but now you tell me it has corruption and concrete, well… XD

mariocki:

Barbara Murray (and her handsome hats!) guest star as Iris Lansing, theatrical hopeful and gangster’s wife, in The Saint:Iris (2.8, ITC, 1963)

mariocki:

The Saint:The Work of Art (2.7, ITC, 1963)

“Mère Lafond, I think it might be wiser if we were to co-operate.”

“Ohh, you have changed, my disreputable buccaneer, co-operate!”

“Yes, but in this case it would be better.”

“In this case, I go home. My cat is better company than this!”

#the saint#the work of art#1963#itc#leslie charteris#harry w. junkin#peter yates#roger moore#yolande turner#alex scott#martin benson#john bailey#robert cawdron#manning wilson#hamilton dyce#hazel hughes#neville becker#miki iveria#anne sharp#tom naylor#june smith#a curious case this‚ moreso for the behind the scenes elements; all the early Saint episodes were directly adapted (to greater or lesser#degrees of faithfulness) from Charteris’ own Saint novels and‚ in particular‚ the many short stories he wrote featuring the character. this#is based on a short story which concerns the Spanish Civil War (current affairs when the story was written); in adapting it for 60s tv the#writers updated the plot to be about the Algerian war of independence from France (timely stuff and a subject touched on by previous ITC#serials like The 4 Just Men). but although part of the first shooting block‚ and so probably shot in 61 or perhaps early 62‚ this was one#of the episodes held over to form part of s2 in ‘63; by which time the conflict was over and the OAS (referenced several times in dialogue)#had been rendered largely obsolete by the arrests and killings of most major operatives. for an episode steeped in current affairs it does#it’s damndest to remain apolitical (outside of being a plot device‚ the Algerian war is never really commented on) and sees Simon reconnect#with Cawdron’s Sgt Luduc and his boss Quercy (recast since s1s Covteous Headsman; Manning Wilson is sadly less fun than Eugene Deckers was)

mariocki:

The Saint:Iris (2.8, ITC, 1963)

“I’ll take you to the bank. We’ll get a list of the serial numbers.”

“Inspector, may I make a suggestion?”

“No.”

“Ask a silly question…”

#the saint#iris#itc#leslie charteris#bill strutton#john gilling#roger moore#barbara murray#david bauer#ivor dean#cyril luckham#ferdy mayne#john ronane#tony wager#barry linehan#meadows white#april wilding#larry taylor#margaret nolan#he is here! Ivor Dean finally arrives as the permanent Inspector Claud Eustace Teal (although funnily enough he goes unnamed in this debut#episode; he is definitely Teal tho‚ per the end credits). Dean is immediately Teal‚ idk i just feel like he gets the part immediately; his#absolute disdain for Templar‚ the long suffering hangdog face‚ the refusal to even entertain the idea of humouring or empathising with the#civilians brought into the case.. oh his Teal may not be entirely book accurate‚ but he fully embodies this tv character as much as Moore#does Templar. this week’s case concerns both a protection racket and blackmail‚ with a background of 60s theatre; Simon is very snobby#about the (fictional) play‚ as is p much everyone else (i thought it sounded interesting!). Bauer returns for hia third guest star stint#and baby John Ronane gets a couple of scenes‚ but of course the big attraction here is Barbara Murray. The Plane Makers was just beginning#its second series around this time (the series where Barbara joined the cast) but Babs was a genuine film star in her youth(er) so would be#well known to 60s audiences. she’s wonderful of course (need it be said) and brings her usual louche charm and array of interesting hats to#the role. ironically‚ of the cast‚ it’s probably Barry Linehan (here playing a gangland thug as he so often did on tv) who had the most#experience of the kind of budget experimental theatre the ‘actors’ in the episode are involved in

I watched this one and I even remember it!  It had Barbara Murray in and she even mostly won against the general sexism, although it was a close-run thing at some points.

The Saint:The Romantic Matron (2.18, ITC, 1964)

“Mrs. Carrington, what are you looking for? Adventure?”

“What’s wrong with that?”

“Nothing, I do it all the time. I just happen to have a little more experience than you.”

Patrick Troughton interrogates the Saint as an unnamed Buenos Aires police inspector (perhaps an ancestor of Ramón Salamander…?) in The Saint:The RomanticMatron (2.18, ITC, 1964)

The Saint:The Noble Sportsman (2.17, ITC, 1964)

“Sorry to be so mysterious.”

“Why be sorry? You know I thrive on the mysterious.”

A treacherous turn from Alfred Burke as oil prospector (and downright villain!) Harry Shannet in The Saint:The Wonderful War (2.16, ITC, 1964)

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I-I just got the joke..

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