FREE THE SAINT PDF Tiffany Reisz | 442 pages | 24 Jun 2014 | Mira Books | 9780778316145 | English | Canada The Saint (TV Movie ) - IMDb It The Saint based on the literary character Simon Templar created by Leslie Charteris in the s [2] and featured in many novels over the years. Chief Inspector Claud Eustace Teal is his nominal nemesis who considers Templar a common criminal, but often grudgingly tolerates his actions for the greater good. NBC picked up the show as a summer replacement in its evening schedule in because of the strong performance in the United States of the first two series in first-run syndication. The programme, therefore, ended its run with both trans-Atlantic primetime scheduling and colour episodes. As with The Avengers The Saint, the colour episodes were originally broadcast in the UK in black and white before the advent of colour transmissions on ITV. Roger Moore had earlier tried to buy the production rights to the Saint books himself, and was delighted The Saint be The Saint to play the part. Moore eventually became co-owner of The Saint show with Robert S. Baker when the show moved to colour and the production credit became Bamore Productions. Most of the wardrobe Moore wore in the series was his own. The Saint was reportedly offered the role of James Bond at least twice during the run of the series, but he had to turn it The Saint both times due to his television commitments. In one early episode of the series titled "Luella"The Saint character actually mistakes Templar for Bond. Moore accepted the Bond role after The Saint The Saint its run. Moore had a few recurring co-stars, especially Ivor Deanwho played Templar's nemesis, Inspector Teal. Teal's relationship with Templar was broadly similar to that depicted in the novels, but in the series, he is often depicted as bungling, rather than merely Charteris's characterisation of him as an The Saint, unimaginative policeman. Latignant is depicted as being even less competent than Teal, and is even keener than Teal to find Templar guilty, though Templar repeatedly helps him solve the case. Unlike Teal, Latignant did not The Saint in Charteris's novels. In all, Inspector Teal featured in 26 episodes and Colonel Latignant in six. The Saint began as a straightforward mystery series, but over the years adopted The Saint secret agent - and fantasy-style plots. It also made a well-publicised switch from black-and-white to colour production midway through its run. The early episodes are distinguished by Moore breaking the fourth wall and speaking to the audience in character at the start of every episode. With the switch to colour, this was replaced by simple narration. Some episodes, such as "Iris", broke away from this formula and had Templar address the audience for the entire The Saint sequence and referring to himself by name, setting up the story that followed. Many episodes were based upon Charteris's stories, although a higher percentage of original scripts were used as the series progressed "Queen's Ransom" was both the first colour episode and the first episode not to be based on a Charteris work. The novel Vendetta for the Saintcredited to Charteris but written by Harry Harrisonwas one of the last Saint stories to be adapted. Some of the later scripts were novelised and published as part of the ongoing series of The Saint novels, such as The Fiction Makers and The People Importers. The first of these The Saint, which gave The Saint credit to Charteris, but were actually written by others, was The Saint on TVand the series of novelisations continued for several years after the television programme had ended. Templar's car, when it appeared, was a white Volvo P with the number plate ST1. This model Volvo is still often referred to as "the Saint's car", with miniature versions made by Corgi which have proved popular. Volvo The Saint pleased to supply their recently introduced car in for its promotional value, after Jaguar Cars had rejected a request from the producers to provide an E-type. Unlike its contemporary rival, The AvengersThe Saint was shot entirely on film from the beginning, whereas the first three series of the other series broadcast between and were The Saint, with minimal location shooting. All episodes of The Saint were syndicated abroad. The black-and-white series were first syndicated in the US by NBC affiliate stations in andand 32 of the 47 colour episodes were broadcast by The Saint from toand have since played in syndication in the US for many years after the '70s sequel Return of the Saint aired to high ratings on CBS in — Two two-part episodes from series 6, "Vendetta for the Saint" and "The Fiction Makers", The Saint made into feature films and distributed to theatres in Europe, and often show up on late-night television The Saint America. They are also available on DVD. Me-TV has also broadcast the series. In The Saintthe CBS-owned Decades digital cable network aired a "Series Binge" marathon of the show as part of "Countdown to Decades", a soft-launch prelude to the network's official launch in May The marathon featured every The Saint of the series aired back to back. The marathon began on 30 March at 5 pm Eastern Time and ended on 3 April at 11 pm. The broadcast network This TV has been running three or four episodes in a block on Saturday evenings since Aprilstarting at either pm or midnight depending on the running time of the movie scheduled to air ahead The Saint it. In OctoberThis TV added a two-episode-per-weekday run at am, independently The Saint of the continued Saturday night airings. Neither includes the two-part episodes referenced in the previous paragraph. In the TV series, the Saint lives in London, though the exact address The Saint never revealed, 53 Grosvenor Mews is his stated address in series 2 episode 2 and he is seen travelling to locations across London, the UK, and around the world. The whole series was shot at Associated British Elstree Studios in The Saintwith very few scenes shot on location elsewhere. This was achieved by making The Saint use of the sets at Elstree, early blue-screen technology to simulate different locations in the background, painted or projected backdrops, and revolving painted backdrops for moving scenes. A few exceptions exist, such as the extensive location shoot on the island of Malta for "Vendetta for the Saint". Look-alikes were used for location shoots where the Saint is seen The Saint the distance The Saint a well-known building or driving past the camera The Saint speed. The Saint and its books have a fan club created originally by Leslie Charteris for the The Saint of the series. The club marks events such as the publication of books or other information The Saint the series. The black-and-white episodes of The Saint were made in two production runs, the first, of 39 episodes, was split into two separate series on transmission, and the second, of 32 episodes, again split into two series on transmission. Series five, the first to be produced in colour, consisted of a production run of 32 episodes. The second colour production run consisted of 15 episodes, and has a revamped theme tune, marking it out from the first The Saint of colour episodes. However, during transmission of series five, transmission of the episodes caught up with production, meaning repeats of some of the black-and-white episodes had to be slotted into the schedule to slow the broadcast of new episodes this had little impact on viewers, as the colour episodes were being broadcast in black and white anyway. This series started transmission halfway through production, leading to only 26 of the episodes being screened. The three unscreened episodes plus "The House on The Saint Rock", which in some regions was not broadcast because it was thought unsuitable for children, were The Saint mixed in with series six for transmission. They have released two sets of monochrome episodes, the first with three The Saint, the second with four. Each disc contains four complete, unedited, uncut original broadcast episodes, meaning only 28 of the monochrome episodes are available. Each episode has been completely restored from the original 35MM film prints and digitally remastered in full colour, and was presented in its original UK broadcast presentation and their original US broadcast order. All of the colour episodes have been released in seven two-disc sets, as well as in one disc "megaset". The two-part episodes are The Saint in movie form. These are currently out of print. The disc set features all episodes of the series, as well as bonus features. In Region 2, Network Distributing has released two multidisc sets, with all the monochrome episodes available in an disc set, and all the colour ones in The Saint disc set. The colour set includes the theatrical versions of the two double-length stories, as well as the original minute two-part versions. Also The Saint are a minute documentary and isolated music tracks. The Saint to this, Carlton Video had released four separate discs, the first one with the first two episodes, and the rest with four episodes each. Also, a ten-disc set repackages the previous four discs alongside six more, containing the first 39 monochrome episodes. The Saint monochrome and colour sets are the best out there, in terms of picture, The Saint quality, and special features.