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  • amateur51
    • Nov 2024
    #1

    Saint Preserved

    Glancing through the BBC iPlayer I found a little treasure trove of films featuring Leslie Charteris' Simon Templar aka The Saint

    Here's one featuring the wonderfully louche George Sanders as Templar and .. well who is it playing his friend Mr Blake?

    BBC Two - The Saint in London
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0078zsx/The_Saint_in_London/
    Currency fraud, a couple of murders and much skulduggery keep Simon Templar on his toes.



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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26536
    #2
    Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
    Glancing through the BBC iPlayer I found a little treasure trove of films featuring Leslie Charteris' Simon Templar aka The Saint

    Here's one featuring the wonderfully louche George Sanders as Templar and .. well who is it playing his friend Mr Blake?

    BBC Two - The Saint in London
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0078zsx/The_Saint_in_London/
    Currency fraud, a couple of murders and much skulduggery keep Simon Templar on his toes.



    I caught a bit of that when it was on the telly Makes a change from Roger Moore... Didn't expect it to be on iPlayer...

    Ah yes! Mr Blake!

    "Bunch of Krauts, that's what they are, all of 'em. Bad eggs!"

    How amazing!
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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    • amateur51
      #3
      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      I caught a bit of that when it was on the telly Makes a change from Roger Moore... Didn't expect it to be on iPlayer...

      Ah yes! Mr Blake!

      "Bunch of Krauts, that's what they are, all of 'em. Bad eggs!"

      How amazing!
      Bravo Cali!!

      As the late great David Coleman used to say "remarkable thing!"

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26536
        #4
        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
        Bravo Cali!!

        As the late great David Coleman used to say "remarkable thing!"
        'Evening, Major!
        "...the isle is full of noises,
        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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        • amateur51
          #5
          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          'Evening, Major!
          "Papers arrived yet Fawlty?"

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          • Beef Oven
            #6
            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            I caught a bit of that when it was on the telly Makes a change from Roger Moore... Didn't expect it to be on iPlayer...

            Ah yes! Mr Blake!

            "Bunch of Krauts, that's what they are, all of 'em. Bad eggs!"

            How amazing!
            Careful Cali, you'll get kicked off the Limpix team for posting 'jokes' like that - hope you've got a better lawyer than Voula Papachristou

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            • Pianorak
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 3127
              #7
              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
              "Papers arrived yet Fawlty?"
              Recognized the voice at once; his face seemed to have changed just a bit.
              Anyway, got all confused as I was thinking of Francis Durbridge and Paul Temple.
              My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163
                #8
                I've been meaning to mention these in the "Favourite Films for Miserable Weather" Thread (put off by the quite cheerful weather!) - aren't they priceless! The same story, the same actors playing different roles (except for the Saint himself - we've had three so far, one of them an American!), those projected backdrops behind the cars. Excellent stuff!

                I hope they also show the Falcon series that replaced this when Charteris objected!
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • amateur51
                  #9
                  Originally posted by Pianorak View Post
                  Recognized the voice at once; his face seemed to have changed just a bit.
                  Anyway, got all confused as I was thinking of Francis Durbridge and Paul Temple.
                  "Temple? I remember him Fawlty. Rather a rum cove. His wife is called Steve - now whataya make of that then, Fawlty?"

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                  • Serial_Apologist
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 37687
                    #10
                    Roger Moore as The Saint was a considerable role model to me as an early teenager: suave, witty, quick-thinking, nonchalant, really liked women as opposed to wanting first thing to get into their knickers. I've practised the eyebrow thing ever since - eye brow music, eyebrow literature, eyebrow cuisine, etc etc.....

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                    • amateur51
                      #11
                      Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                      Roger Moore as The Saint was a considerable role model to me as an early teenager: suave, witty, quick-thinking, nonchalant, really liked women as opposed to wanting first thing to get into their knickers. I've practised the eyebrow thing ever since - eye brow music, eyebrow literature, eyebrow cuisine, etc etc.....


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