Season 6, Episode 20
The Saint spins a record no disc jockey would play - a record that beats out a rhythm of murder and mystery, with pop singing and meditation as the instruments.An artist named Alan Williams asks Simon Templar, the Saint (ROGER MOORE), to visit him, hinting that he has discovered a large-scale swindle. But Williams is dead, knifed in the back, when the Saint arrives. The Saint's search of the artist's studio is interrupted by a model, Josephine (ANNE DE VIGIER), from downstairs, and together they examine a message which Williams has scrawled in yellow ochre on the floor: 'BRENDA's P....A....' Josephine identifies this as referring to the painting of a very beautiful girl, but all she knows is that this is the Portrait of Brenda.The telephone rings. It is a recorded message asking Williams to take his friend to the recording studios. The message is from pop singer Diane Huntley (ANNA CARTERET), and the friend is obviously the Saint, who leaves Josephine to telephone Inspector Claude Eustace Teal (IVOR DEAN) while he goes to meet Diane. Quite unaware that Williams is dead, she assumes that he has told the Saint that she will take him to a meditation session held by a Guru by a Guru (MARNE MAITLAND).The Guru, the Saint surmises, is in some way connected with the racket Williams has stumbled on, and he is astonished to realise how large the sums are that are being donated by 'disciples.' The money is collected by the Guru's assistant, Mrs. White (PETRA DAVIES).The Saint, breaking the news of Williams' death to Diane, takes her with him to the artist's studio,and Diane is able to give more information about Brenda, the girl in the portrait. She was a singer who committed suicide - and she was Williams' sister. They shared the same agent, Johnny Fox (TREVOR BANNISTER). When the Saint returns to the studio to investigate, he is surprised by a man named Tony (DAVID PROWSE).They fight, then another man steps in and t
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Posted: 10/13/2011
Season 6, Episode 19
Icy immortality faces the Saint when he is chosen as the subject for an eerie experiment by being frozen to death and then brought back to life.Keith Longman (CLIFFORD EVANS), head of a leading engineering firm, has a strange obsession about death - particularly his own. He has a plan to become immortal by being frozen to death and then brought back to life. But will the plan work? He needs a guinea-pig to try it out first, and the man he selects is Simon Templar, the Saint (ROGER MOORE).But Keith Longman and those who are helping him hesitate to put forward the proposition in cold blood. They propose to condition him.Among those co-operating with him are his daughters Vanessa (VERONICA CARLSON) and Stella (JAYNE SOFIANO). Among a silent procession of five people who approach the Saint is Vanessa, who presents him with a small box and tells him: We want you to think very hard and very deeply....about death.' In the box, a small white mouse nibbles lettuce.But a medical warning that Longman's heart is in a precarious state means that the time for the experiment has to be put forward. Longman rejects Stella's plea that the Saint should be persuaded, not forced. One thing Longman has not reckoned with is the Saint's curiosity. Realising that he is being 'conditioned' for something, Simon sets out in search of Longman's base. The trail takes him to Cornwall - and eventually to facing Longman and receiving the offer of a million pounds if he will agree to the experiment.But it seems that there is no option. The Saint finds himself sprayed with a deadly liquid and falls unconscious. When he comes round, he finds Stella trying to rouse him and telling him that she will help him get away. But when sisters disagree, anything can happen .
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Season 6, Episode 18
When an ex-king cheats at cards, it's not merely for greed. The Saint runs into drama on the Riviera.His reputation as a gambler leads to Simon Templar, the Saint (ROGER MOORE), receiving an invitation to an international baccarat party being held by the deposed King Boris (WILLOUGHBY GODDARD) in Monte Carlo. And it is whilst on his way there that the Saint meets up with a Texan millionaire named Rod Huston (STUART DAMON) and also an extremely attractive girl named Janine Flambeau (ISLA BLAIR), who rejects their joint invitation to dine with them.They learn more about Janine later. Her father, Professor Flambeau (RONALD RADD) has perfected a complicated mathematical system for winning at the gaming tables - a great strain on the temptation to make a fortune, but used by them only to obtain money to pay their most pressing bills.The Professor and Janine are present when the ex-king begins his game with the international gambling set. The banque, run by Boris, has an unprecendented number of wins, and the Professor begins to make calculations which intrigue and excite him so much that he asks the Saint if there are any rough edges on the cards. When he takes part in the game, he suddenly tosses his cards on the table and refuses to play on.The Saint, by now convinced that the game is crooked, quits; but Rod Huston loses a vast amount. He and the Saint decide that an interview with the Professor is called for - and then discover that Janine has been abducted. The trail takes them tc a card factory. There's no sigh of Janine; but they discover cards with slightly tinted backs. The marking is an infra-red principle, and explains how ex-King Borishac been winning so easily.But before dealing with Boris, Janine has to be found. They trace her to Boris's luxurious yacht.The lights go out for Boris when the Saint fixes the lights so that they won't give him any help. But why has he been cheating? It's not mere greed but something far, far more
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Season 6, Episode 15
A film producer's daughter disappears. An unusual form of ransom note arrives. But has she really been kidnapped?Ben Kersh (KENNETH J. WARREN) is an American movie tycoon who, somewhere along the line of his many marriages, has become the father of a daughter, Jenny (JUDEE MORTON), now a highly attractive if wayward young lady with a mind of her own and a special place in Ben Kersh's affections.His reactions are predictable when Jenny is kidnapped: he's worried out of his life, but canny enough to realise that the ransom demand may not necessarily mean the return of his daughter when the money is handed over. That's why he appeals to Simon Templar, the Saint (ROGER MOORE), for help.The ransom note takes an unusual form. It's a short film showing Jenny being held prisoner and pleading for her father to pay over the ransom money.The film has arrived with the 'rushes' of film shot on location in Nice, and though all members of the unit deny any knowledge of it, the Saint can't help feeling that someone from the studios must be implicated.The kidnappers' instructions are followed, with the Saint as the go-between who goes to the Nice hotel with the ransom money. Once there, he receives further instructions to go to a deserted airfield at a fixed time. The Saint takes his own precautions, among them a skilfully-designed wristwatch gadget provided by the film's special effects expert, Frank Lomax (JOHN SAVIDENT), which is in fact a miniature camera.He foils an attempt to hi-jack the money on his way to the airfield and arrives there to find two men waiting for him. One is a young man named Jean Latour (S,4NDOR ELES); the other, a tough German (DEREK NEWARK). Their demand for the money is met with the Saint's insistence that he should first be taken to Jenny. The two men reluctantly agree. The Saint is blind?folded and taken to a remote farmhouse, where Jenny is being guarded by a tough named Largo (TONY WRIGHT).
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Length: 49:00
Posted: 10/13/2011