The Saint
The Saint Plays with Fire
TV Flash files “The Saint Plays with Fire” as hour 23 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — The Saint (1962–1969) on ITV, season 2, episode 11, aired 1963-11-28, 50 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E11: listed hour 23 of 118 in the The Saint guide, hour 11 of 27 in season 2. It aired 1963-11-28 (50 min). The listed hour before it is “The Rough Diamonds” (S02E10). Next is “The Well-Meaning Mayor” (S02E12).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
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.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Saint Plays with Fire sit in the The Saint guide?
S02E11 is listed hour 23 of 118 — hour 11 of 27 in season 2, season 2 episode 11.
When did The Saint S02E11 air?
The Saint Plays with Fire aired 1963-11-28 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…