The Saint
The Talented Husband
TV Flash files “The Talented Husband” as a desk essential hour — The Saint (1962–1969) on ITV, season 1, episode 1, aired 1962-10-04, 50 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 118 in the The Saint guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 1962-10-04 (50 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “The Latin Touch” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “The Talented Husband”. The Talented Husband is the 1962 halo: Roger Moore practicing the raised eyebrow years before Bond, ITC adventure as white-car suave.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Templar shields a woman from a murder plot during his investigation of an insurance policy and an oft-widowed actor.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Talented Husband sit in the The Saint guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 118 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did The Saint S01E01 air?
The Talented Husband aired 1962-10-04 and is listed at 50 minutes.
Where should I start?
Any Templar hour with the stick-figure halo open is the suave contract: Moore righting wrongs with charm and fists. Weekly capers, not a long revenge serial.
In the series
Why this series still plays
The Saint gave Roger Moore a haloed calling card years before Bond: Leslie Charteris's Simon Templar as a globetrotting rogue with a raised eyebrow. ITC's adventure hour is transatlantic suave without gadget overkill. Moore practices the charm that later leased 007 — white cars, stick-figure titles, thief-hero manners treating danger as dinner-jacket work.
The silhouette is a halo, a white car, and a raised eyebrow that later leased a tuxedo. *Dinner-jacket work, stick-figure titles, danger treated as a seating chart.* The Saint gave Roger Moore a calling card years before Bond: Leslie Charteris's Simon Templar as a globetrotting rogue on ITC's adventure hour (ITV, 1962–1969; six seasons, 118 episodes), widely syndicated in the U.S. Transatlantic suave without gadget overkill. **This was not a gadget closet; this was charm as the wardrobe.**
Filed against
- Roger Moore as Simon Templar
Roger Moore’s Beau Maverick practiced raised-eyebrow charm on the western that winked, then haloed Simon Templar on The Saint — Leslie Charteris’s globetrotting rogue, ITC suave without gadget overkill, white cars as a lifestyle. Garner’s…