Jul 29, 2023
The Saint: The Master Plan (6.8, ITC, 1968)
"You have the key to the whereabouts of a million pounds worth of heroin."
"Interesting, isn't it?"
"You will tell us."
"Oh, I doubt that."
"I do not."
#the saint#the master plan#1968#classic tv#leslie charteris#leslie norman#harry w. junkin#roger moore#john turner#lyn ashley#burt kwouk#christopher benjamin#robert morris#paul greenhalgh#james locker#brenda kempner#leslie anderson#prudence drage#edwin brown#eh. a fine one‚ no real plot complaints‚ but it does feel a little like going through the motions. maybe that's just the inevitable#exhaustion setting in after 100+ episodes of one show: Simon's helping a young lady acquaintance look for her missing brother (again)#he's fallen in with a criminal organisation (again) who are smuggling drugs into the uk disguised inside antiques (again!)#the ubiquitous Burt Kwouk had already done two eps in small support roles but here he gets to be the main villain at last#and he's (as always) a great deal of fun; unfortunately‚ he has to contend with a script which is eye rollingly patronising in its#depiction of Chinese people and culture‚ and which more than once skirts close to tipping into full on racism#Chris Benjamin fares a little better as his typically eccentric character type (approaching Avengers level of strangeness)
