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Release year: 1978

Storyline

This series chronicles the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.

Top credits

Cast

Ian Ogilvy — Simon Templar
Gayle Hunnicutt — Annabelle
Stratford Johns — George Duchamp
Derren Nesbitt — Inspector Lebec, Lebec

Did you know

• Every script carried an explanatory outline by The Saint's creator Leslie Charteris for the cast and crew: "I have been trying to make a picture of a man. Changing, yes. Developing, I hope. He is a roaring adventurer who loves a fight ..... a dashing dare-devil, imperturbable, debonair, preposterously handsome, a pirate or a philanthropist as the occasion demands. He lives for the pursuit of excitement .... for the one triumphant moment that is his alone. Fantastic? Improbable? ..... perhaps. It doesn't matter so long as you feel that you would recognize him if you met him tomorrow."

• Based on his performance in this series, Ian Ogilvy was at one point a leading contender to replace another former Saint, Sir Roger Moore, as James Bond.

• The brief musical notes heard at the start of every episode when the halo appears above Simon's head is from the original Saint theme used for the radio and film series in the 1940s, and also in ITC's 1960s television series. It is credited to The Saint's creator Leslie Charteris.