Jun 20, 2022
The Saint: The Gentle Ladies (2.25, ITC, 1964)
"Now you listen to me, Freddy. You needn't start emptying your garbage pail mind for my benefit, I'm not interested. Whatever the Warshed girls did in the past they've lived down, and I don't want to know the dirty details. They're loved in this town and they're happy here, and no dirty, sewer-minded little creep like you is gonna blackmail them, you understand?"
#the saint#the gentle ladies#1964#itc#leslie charteris#john graeme#jeremy summers#roger moore#avice landone#renee houston#barbara mullen#philip o'flynn#anthony nicholls#timothy bateson#christina gregg#frank sieman#gwenda ewen#donald tandy#barry wilsher#this is another episode that stuck firmly in my head from first watching many years ago‚ but I'm not really sure why tbh#i mean it's a fine episode (barring a rather tiresome running joke about the titular ladies and their inability to drive without damaging#other cars or property har har). perhaps it's because this one has a rather unusual shape for a Saint ep‚ with Simon mostly on the#sidelines and having very little actual weight in the story; the thrust of the plot is largely unaffected by his presence and perhaps#things would have worked out much the same if he'd never popped up. nice to have some more women in main roles; Mullen was well known at#this point for her supporting role in Dr Finlay's Casebook‚ and both Houston and Landone were well known character actors with long stage#careers behind them. Nicholls was something of an ITC stock player‚ and found genre immortality a few years later as Tremayne‚ head of#Nemesis in The Champions. light on action but full of intrigue‚ this is a more Christiesque country mystery take on the series format