May 12, 2023
The Saint: The Queen's Ransom (5.1, ITC, 1966)
"You realise that a few years ago I could have had your head chopped off for that?"
"A few years back, I wouldn't have said it."
#the saint#the queen's ransom#1966#leslie charteris#leigh vance#roy ward baker#roger moore#dawn addams#george pastell#nora nicholson#stanley meadows#catherine feller#gary hope#patrick westwood#peter madden#neville becker#john woodvine#larry taylor#john forbes robertson#john serret#andre charisse#what's that? you thought I'd given up on the saint? that I'd thrown in the towel‚ that I'm a coward and a liar? hah! well mud in your eye#bc here i am baby‚ back on my bullshit. i took a 'brief' break at the end of s4 before starting the color eps which ended up being 7 months#but actually the real gap between seasons 4 and 5 was more than a year. so what's new in Saintland? not much; immediately upon grabbing#this second boxset of colour eps and checking with my online transmission record i can see that network have liberally shuffled these eps#this first ep is on disc 2 while disc 1 features episodes from season 6 (!). as well as the shift to colour we also get a rearranged theme#(slightly more up tempo)‚ new titles and for the first time an entirely original script that doesn't even pretend to be adapted from a#Charteris story (true adaptations would be pretty rare from this point on). but it's a fun if familiar tale; Simon meets a deposed king and#his spoiled wife‚ and sets about teaching her some humility in true chauvinist fashion (as well as some stuff with jewels)#it isn't by any means a groundbreaking ep but if anything a degree of continuity between seasons 4 and 5 is somewhat welcome
