Episode guide
The Saint
118 episodes · 6 seasons · 1962–1969 · ITV
Season
Season 1
12 episodes
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S01E01 The Talented Husband Templar shields a woman from a murder plot during his investigation of an insurance policy and an oft-widowed actor.
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S01E02 The Latin Touch Templar races time when the kidnappers of a Governor's daughter demand an unusual ransom.
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S01E03 The Careful Terrorist The Saint follows through with a murdered reporter's campaign against a corrupt union boss.
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S01E04 The Covetous Headsman A silver medal worn by a beautiful woman holds the key to the secret of her missing inheritance.
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S01E05 The Loaded Tourist The briefcase of a murdered man contains an expensive surprise.
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S01E06 The Pearls of Peace An old friend of Simon's believes he has found the pearls both had sought years before.
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S01E07 The Arrow of God A society gossip columnist is murdered at a lavish party.
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S01E08 The Element of Doubt Simon vows to convict the accused client of a corrupt attorney.
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S01E09 The Effete Angler Simon is "The Effete Angler" when his fishing trip is spoiled by smugglers. Templar: Roger Moore. Gloria: Shirley Eaton. Uckrose: George Pravda. Vincent: Paul Stassino.
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S01E10 The Golden Journey The Saint teaches a spoiled young woman a lesson in consideration on a 100-mile hike.
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S01E11 The Man Who Was Lucky The Saint uses a murder victim's girlfriend and a clever rendezvous to trap a killer.
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S01E12 The Charitable Countess Simon investigates a charity racket that extorts funds meant for needy children.
Season
Season 2
27 episodes
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S02E01 The Fellow Traveller Murder and espionage bring dapper Simon to the odious Blue Goose Club as he trails a mysterious man named Maris.
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S02E02 Starring the Saint A film about Simon is being made and the producer wants him to play himself.
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S02E03 Judith When a beautiful girl backs her car into Simon's roadster, he finds himself bumped into unexpected adventure and a cunning attempt at fraud.
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S02E04 Teresa Simon visits Mexico and plunges into an adventurous journey to help a proud and beautiful girl to solve the mystery of her husband's disappearance.
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S02E05 The Elusive Ellshaw What is the connection between the strange behavior and killing of a cashier separated from her husband and the attempted murder of her former employer, a wealthy shipping magnate?
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S02E06 Marcia A beautiful film actress takes her own life after her face has been disfigured, and Simon steps in when her successor is threatened with a similar fate.
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S02E07 The Work of Art Simon's visit to a girl friend in Paris results in his becoming involved in the murder of an O.A.S. undercover agent.
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S02E08 Iris A racketeer and his beautiful actress wife are among those concerned in a scheme to involve Simon in an ingenious blackmailing plot.
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S02E09 The King of the Beggars In Rome, Simon discovers a protection racket targeting the local beggars who must relinquish part of their alms to a person known as the king of the beggars.
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S02E10 The Rough Diamonds A consignment of industrial diamonds is hi-jacked after its arrival in England, and the Saint plunges into a case full of unexpected twists and turns.
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S02E11 The Saint Plays with Fire The Saint is after the leader of the British Nazi Party, following the convenient death of a journalist who intended to publish highly classified information about its members.
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S02E12 The Well-Meaning Mayor When a candidate for the Mayoral elections is conveniently out of the way, the Saint will try to expose the corruption by offering an irresistible bait.
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S02E13 The Sporting Chance With his wife and daughter being used as leverage, the inventor of a satellite guidance system is coerced to defect to the Russians.
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S02E14 The Bunco Artists The elderly Mrs. Yarmouth is tricked into handing over church funds by a plausible confidence trickster and his wife.
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S02E15 The Benevolent Burglary After a £5000 wager with the wealthy owner of a burglar-proof art gallery, the Saint decides to give him a lesson for a good purpose.
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S02E16 The Wonderful War Following the assassination of the esteemed monarch of Sayeda, the corrupt usurper and the discoverer of an immense oil field are after the young Prince and the land's oil treasure.
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S02E17 The Noble Sportsman Lord Yearley, an arrogant aristocrat whose younger wife is two-timing him, is the subject of death threats. When a shot is fired at him and he is nearly killed, his daughter asks the Saint to intervene and find the culprit.
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S02E18 The Romantic Matron A wealthy but gullible widow will seek adventure and romance in Argentina, instead, she will involve herself in the plans of the leader of an anti-government movement.
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S02E19 Luella Simon meets up with an old friend who insists on painting the town red while his wife is away and becomes the victim of a blackmail plot.
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S02E20 The Lawless Lady A penniless Countess poses as a charitable lady, but instead, she leads a ring of unstoppable jewel thieves with a flair for breaking and entering into the houses of her careless rich guests.
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S02E21 The Good Medicine A ruthless career woman will take advantage of her husband's innovative formulas to build a cosmetics empire of her own.
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S02E22 The Invisible Millionaire Incapacitated and with his face completely covered in bandages, a successful factory owner proceeds to an unusual liquidation of his shareholdings.
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S02E23 The High Fence After a successful burglary in the house of his actress friend, the Saint is after an elusive, big-time fence whose identity is still unknown.
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S02E24 Sophia While on holiday in a Greek village, Simon must settle accounts with a crook who is threatening the peace of local inhabitants.
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S02E25 The Gentle Ladies They are three charming ladies - not so young but not too old. What is the secret they dread the world will discover when a blackmailer descends on them?
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S02E26 The Ever-Loving Spouse Simon visits a San Francisco hotel and steps into a blackmailing frame-up which leads to murder.
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S02E27 The Saint Sees It Through Simon is asked to help break one of the biggest international art smuggling rings in history, and finds that a former girl friend is closely involved.
Season
Season 3
23 episodes
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S03E01 The Miracle Tea Party A man is murdered in a phone booth on Waterloo station while Simon Templar is making a call. But before his death he has managed to slip a mysterious package of "Miracle Tea" into the bag of a young nurse who works at the naval base at Portland. Now the Saint wants to know why.
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S03E02 Lida The supposed suicide of a beautiful, wealthy woman leads Templar to a blackmailer who photographs women in compromising situations.
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S03E03 Jeannine Simon becomes interested in an oriental diplomat's pearl necklace.
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S03E04 The Scorpion A petty crook is murdered after telling Simon that he has been paid to steal documents for blackmail purposes by a villain known as the Scorpion.
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S03E05 The Revolution Racket A South American police captain moonlights as an arms dealer.
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S03E06 The Saint Steps In A revolutionary new textile formula gets stolen and the developer's daughter asks Simon for help.
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S03E07 The Loving Brothers In the Australian outback the Saint tricks two greedy and quarrelsome brothers into repaying their old father money that they have long owed him when he tempts them with the offer of shares in a silver mine.
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S03E08 The Man Who Liked Toys A friend of Simon's thinks her boss is being blackmailed.
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S03E09 The Death Penalty The Saint uncovers a vicious vice ring in Southern France.
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S03E10 The Imprudent Politician The wife of an indiscreet politician asks Simon for help.
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S03E11 The Hi-Jackers A beautiful Munich woman, implicated in a murder and a daring robbery attempt, engages Templar in a battle of wits.
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S03E12 The Unkind Philanthropist Templar assumes the identity of unsuspecting Tristan Brown to catch a con man awaiting delivery of charitable funds.
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S03E13 The Damsel in Distress Templar takes a job as chauffeur for his quarry, an errant father who fled to Florence with a huge sum of money; guest Richard Tyler.
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S03E14 The Contract An American airman is seeking revenge against The Saint and starts by putting a 5,000-pound bounty on his head.
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S03E15 The Set-Up Simon interrupts an armed robbery and is told by Teal that the gang in question are are building up to a last big job.
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S03E16 The Rhine Maiden Simon helps a young woman whose father has been swindled and his conman is in Germany trying to receive illegal plastic surgery to disappear.
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S03E17 The Inescapable Word Death rays seem to be coming from a Scottish research center.
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S03E18 The Sign of the Claw The Saint confronts a terrorist gang in the South East Asian jungles.
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S03E19 The Golden Frog A quest for gold puts Templar, a seductive girl and her swindler father in the middle of an escalating revolution in Latin America.
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S03E20 The Frightened Inn-Keeper Simon steps into strange events happening in a Cornish inn when he responds to an appeal for help from the inn-keeper's daughter.
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S03E21 Sibao Templar encounters the power of Haitian voodoo when he tries to help a beautiful black woman who has mystical powers.
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S03E22 The Crime of the Century At Chief Inspector Teal's request, Templar takes advantage of his resemblance to a safecracker to infiltrate a ruthless criminal gang.
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S03E23 The Happy Suicide Murder halts the plans of an entertainer's brother to write an expose on the performer's true personality; guest Donald Sutherland.
Season
Season 4
9 episodes
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S04E01 The Checkered Flag Simon agrees to invest in Oscar Newley's racing-car deal---if Oscar (Eddie Byrne) wins an upcoming race.
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S04E02 The Abductors Simon stumbles onto a plot to abduct an English scientist and sell him to a foreign power.
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S04E03 The Crooked Ring The Saint tries to learn how a third-rate boxer has managed to win all his fights---in which his opponents have died.
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S04E04 The Smart Detective Private eye Peter Corrio so vaunts his gem-protecting talents that Simon suspects he is tempting fate---deliberately.
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S04E05 The Persistent Parasites A millionaire gives a house party and invites his three ex-wives, courtly Simon Templar---and a madly overeager murderer.
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S04E06 The Man Who Could Not Die The law is after Simon because of a blackmailer he was supposed to stop---but not kill.
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S04E07 The Saint Bids Diamonds Simon poses as a diamond cutter in an attempt to recover a stolen gem.
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S04E08 The Spanish Cow Simon gets involved in political intrigue when he meets the revolution-minded brother-in-law of a deposed monarch.
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S04E09 The Old Treasure Story Simon goes treasure hunting with three unfriendly strangers, each of whom has a third of the treasure map.
Season
Season 5
27 episodes
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S05E01 The Queen's Ransom Danger and a royal lesson in humility accompany Templar's mission to transport a queen (Dawn Addams) to Switzerland to obtain jewels.
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S05E02 Interlude in Venice Simon finds out that the sun doesn't always shine in Italy and there is always a warm welcome when you're the Saint and hot on the trail of a gang of racketeers who intend to seek revenge.
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S05E03 The Russian Prisoner A beautiful girl and a Russian professor combine to make the Saint's holiday in Switzerland one of the most memorable of his career. Someone is out to return the scientist to his homeland until the Saint intervenes.
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S05E04 The Reluctant Revolution A beautiful assassin gets Templar involved in a plot to overthrow a South American dictator, a scheme that could cost Simon his life.
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S05E05 The Helpful Pirate Few people are able to resist the attraction of money for nothing but when it is wrapped up in the guise of hidden treasure which is providing a profitable racket for confidence trikster Kolben, the Saint steps in to see fair play.
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S05E06 The Convenient Monster When the Saint encounters a monster mystery in Scotland, none other than the Loch Ness monster itself, he must decide if 'Nessie' is behind a series of macabre killings or is it the work of human hands?
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S05E07 The Angel's Eye Why should a respected Dutch jeweller lie about a valuable stone which the Saint knows he has been given for cutting? When the man refuses to acknowledge receiving the diamond, Simon determines to find out why.
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S05E08 The Man Who Liked Lions When Simon's journalist friend is murdered while on the biggest story of his life, the Saint decides to put a stop to the antics of a modern day Caesar, a man who refuses to accept that the glory of Rome is over.
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S05E09 The Better Mousetrap Simon combines romance with acute observation when he decides to expose the woman behind a series of audacious jewel thefts in the South of France but by becoming involved, he finds himself arrested and charged as the thief.
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S05E10 Little Girl Lost Templar receives a request for protection from a beautiful girl (June Ritchie) claiming to be Hitler's daughter; guest Noel Purcell.
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S05E11 Paper Chase Persuaded to follow a defecting civil servant who has been tricked into smuggling secret papers into East Germany, Simon finds himself playing the part of a British agent to save the man's life.
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S05E12 Locate and Destroy In South America to visit a friend Simon finds himself the unwilling prey of a gang of Israeli patriots who are searching for a former Nazi prisoner-of-war officer, whom they believe to be alive and living in a local village.
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S05E13 Flight Plan Saint spots a nun wearing high-heeled shoes whilst collecting for charity at a London railway station, Simon's interest is aroused and he is soon plunged into an exciting cross-London chase to thwart the schemes of a clever gang of criminals.
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S05E14 Escape Route The Saint finds himself behind bars, staring at the delighted features of Claude Eustace teal but his sentence is part of a police plan to smash a major international escape organisation.
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S05E15 The Persistent Patriots Having rescued Liskard from death, Simon discovers that the man's enemies will stop at nothing to get their man. Liskard, the Prime Minister of a former British colony, it seems, is more vulnerable than most because he has political as well as personal enemies.
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S05E16 The Fast Women The Saint finds himself caught in the crossfire between two unscrupulous women who are rivals on the motor-racing circuit and rivals in love as well. Simon's intervention pleases neither woman and he's soon in trouble.
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S05E17 The Death Game A remarkable modern-day death cult has spread among students throughout the world. But when Simon finds himself marked down as the latest victim and the threatened event becomes the real thing, he turns his attention to preventing further deaths.
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S05E18 The Art Collectors The Saint, in Paris, meets a girl who is selling her family's art treasures before someone tries to steal them. Simon doubts her fear and seeks the truth.
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S05E19 To Kill a Saint It's the most unusual assignment he's ever undertaken - Simon is hired to disguise himself as a gangster and kill... the Saint. Determined to find out who is behind the plan, Simon arranges his own death.
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S05E20 The Counterfeit Countess Templar is nearly killed when he accidentally runs afoul of counterfeiters, then is marked for death by the ringleader (Kate O'Mara).
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S05E21 Simon and Delilah A temperamental film star is kidnapped. is it a publicity stunt or something more sinister? On a visit to Rome, the Saint finds himself involved with the petty bickerings of a film production team, one of whom is a killer.
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S05E22 Island of Chance Murder is unpleasant at the best of times but when the gaiety of a west Indian holiday turns into a macabre murder enquiry, Simon finds himself dancing to the rhythm of a calypso death march.
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S05E23 The Gadget Lovers Templar impersonates the chief of the Moscow secret police to investigate the gadget-related murders of 13 intelligence operatives.
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S05E24 A Double in Diamonds Why should wealthy Lord Gillingham wish to purchase a copy of his fabulous family diamond necklace? Intrigued, the Saint attends a fashion show - and ends up preventing a robbery.
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S05E25 The Power Artists Simon gets framed for murder after a visit to an artist's studio.
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S05E26 When Spring is Sprung The combination of the French Riviera and an attractive girl lands the Saint in the unexpected position of being asked to rescue her father, a Russian spy who is being held against his will.
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S05E27 The Gadic Collection After finding a girl participating in a robbery in an Istanbul museum, the Saint soon finds the taste of Turkish delight a little hard to swallow. Somone is out to silence her and Simon soon finds himself in the gunman's sights.
Season
Season 6
20 episodes
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S06E01 The Best Laid Schemes Who is the victim of a drowning tragedy? The Saint meets with more than he bargained for when he sets out to prove that the 'dead' man is still alive. But why would anyone wish to convince his family that he's the victim of murder?
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S06E02 Invitation to Danger Is the cool blonde a secret agent or a crook? The Saint has to find out when a daring attempt is made to frame him.
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S06E03 Legacy for the Saint Ed Brown is a retired gangster with a sense of humor which includes getting his four greatest enemies at one another's throats. Simon helped to put him in jail the last time and intends to repeat the favor, providing Brown allows him to live to do it.
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S06E04 The Desperate Diplomat When diplomat Jason Douglas disappears with a million dollars of aid destined for an African country, Simon finds himself pleading his old friend's innocence to a less-than-interested Claude Eustace Teal.
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S06E05 The Organisation Man When the Saint signs on as a mercenary, and finds that things are none too healthy on the health farm where he's being trained, he decides to find out the real function of the establishment. Is it a school for murder?
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S06E06 The Double Take Which man is which? That's the problem facing Simon when a business tycoon claims he is being impersonated by a perfect double who intends to grind his business empire into obscurity.
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S06E07 The Time to Die The Saint finds himself playing a deadly game of cat and mouse with a would-be killer. Simon's dilemma is twofold: why should anyone want to put a dent in his halo and who is the man known only as 'The Avenger'?
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S06E08 The Master Plan When he discovers a plan to turn Britain into a dumping ground for some dangerous drugs, Simon sets out to crush the diabolical drugs-smuggling organisation at its source - a small island off the Chinese coast.
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S06E09 The House on Dragon's Rock Simon becomes involved when a mysterious of strange attacks plague a Welsh village where his friend lives.
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S06E10 The Scales of Justice When four directors of a large business die in mysterious circumstances, Simon finds himself investigating a fiendishly clever murder market - and racing against time to save the life of a fifth director.
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S06E11 The Fiction-Makers (1) Simon is mistaken for a mystery novelist, whom he is visiting, by a criminal gang who forces him to plot them a successful crime.
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S06E12 The Fiction-Makers (2) Simon is mistaken for a mystery novelist, whom he is visiting, by a criminal gang who forces him to plot them a successful crime.
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S06E13 The People Importers The Saint investigates a racket in which illegal immigrants are being smuggled into Britain as slave labour in various Mafia-run establishments. His involvement leads him to personal tragedy and the head of the enterprise
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S06E14 Where the Money Is When a film producer's daughter disappears and he suspects that she has been kidnapped, then an unusual ransom demand arrives in the form of scenes cut from a film, the man seeks Simon's help in obtaining his daughter's release.
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S06E15 Vendetta for the Saint (1) The Saint is put under pressure when he starts a vendetta against syndicate bosses.
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S06E16 Vendetta for the Saint (2) The Saint is put under pressure when he starts a vendetta against syndicate bosses.
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S06E17 The Ex-King of Diamonds Simon finds himself mixed up with drama on the French Riviera when he meets an ex-king who cheats at cards and a beautiful young girl with an infallible system for winning at the casino tables.
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S06E18 The Man Who Gambled with Life The Saint has led a long and adventurous life. But now he's been chosen as the subject for an experiment which entails being frozen to death and later brought back to life. Will he go along with this or give scientists the cold shoulder?
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S06E19 Portrait of Brenda Gurus, pop singers and disc jockeys combine to set the Saint spinning at 45rpm when he finds himself involved in a large-scale swindle involving a fake guru and a group of music-loving innocents.
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S06E20 The World Beater With a beautiful blonde by his side, the Saint mops up the mysterious events surrounding a series of deaths among drivers at a car rally meeting.