Apr 26, 2022
The Saint: The Fellow Traveller (2.1, ITC, 1963)
"Do that again."
"Do what?"
"Flutter your eyelashes - it's standard procedure when you're lying."
"Simon, darling, I never tell you a lie!"
"Magda, darling, you have not uttered one word of truth since we met."
#the saint#the fellow traveller#1962#leslie charteris#Harry W. Junkin#peter yates#roger moore#dawn addams#glyn owen#neil mccallum#michael peake#angus lennie#jeanne watts#brian oulton#michael bates#charles simon#ray austin#fred ferris#janine gray#john barrett#series 2! and this is where my rewatch gets really complicated.. the first production block of The Saint consisted of 26 episodes which#became the 12 ep series 1 and half of s2. in the US however these 26 were combined with the second production block (the rest of uk s2) to#become US season 1‚ with episode order shuffled considerably; by this point Im skipping back and forth between discs (Network have followed#the US order for some reason). hey ho‚ I made my bed so I'll lie in it. the odd thing is knowing that this belongs to the same production#block as s1 when it feels like a very different style; the Saint battles a cold war spy ring in what feels very much like a response to the#newly successful Bond franchise and the evolution of contemporary The Avengers. Simon has contacts in Whitehall‚ carries a gun again and#the fight scene in the final confrontation is much more elaborate (and physical) than anything attempted in s1 (tho that could be down to#the presence of fight arranger extraordinary Ray Austin in the cast). spy shenanigans aside this is a decent little thriller with a solid#guest cast (not least Glyn Owen‚ then a household name thanks to Emergency Ward 10‚ as the hard headed policeman of the week)#and Neil McCallum doing his best yank gangster impression (with no explanation for what he's doing in Stevenage of all places)
