May 15, 2022
The Saint: The Well Meaning Mayor (2.12, ITC, 1963)
"Well, that's the best I can do."
"That's fine, fine."
"It's obvious to anyone who looks at you that you've been in a fight!"
"Mrs. Purdell, I'm - I'm sorry if you disapprove."
"Mr. Templar, I think you're both out of your minds."
#the saint#the well meaning mayor#itc#1963#leslie charteris#robert banks stewart#jeremy summers#roger moore#leslie sands#mary kenton#norman bird#mandy miller#noel trevarthen#cameron hall#kenneth henry#david morrell#robert sansom#john gill#walter sparrow#ian wallace#@thisbluespirit if you haven't seen this one then i suggest you do so‚ if only for the culture clash that is The Saint entering a world#belonging more rightly to Sir John Wilder. Simon is in little england (the fictional Seatondean to be precise) where a mayoral election is#being contested amid accusations of corruption. the source of this swindling? concrete! it's a 60s concrete tv episode! happy days#on one side we have incumbent mayor Leslie Sands; a late developer as a screen actor (he'd only been acting a few years at this point)#Sands would have his own starring series in Cluff a few years later (like Wilmer's Sherlock Holmes‚ Cluff began as a pilot play in the#series Detective). opposite him is Norman Bird‚ made up to look older than he actually was (he wasn't even 40 at this point but like#Richard Vernon he seemed to be perpetually middle aged). another well staged fight scene and some unlikely high wire walking on a#construction site make up for a rather sad looking studio beach set and an appalling performance by an uncredited child who discovers a#crashed car ('MUM LOOKAT THISS'). the rest of the cast are ill served by a script which really only bothers with Templar and Sands#but it's not a bad episode by any means. a nice change of pace from international jet setting. more shows should feature concrete..
