The Saint
The Benevolent Burglary
TV Flash files “The Benevolent Burglary” as hour 27 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — The Saint (1962–1969) on ITV, season 2, episode 15, aired 1963-12-26, 50 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E15: listed hour 27 of 118 in the The Saint guide, hour 15 of 27 in season 2. It aired 1963-12-26 (50 min). The listed hour before it is “The Bunco Artists” (S02E14). Next is “The Wonderful War” (S02E16).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
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.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Benevolent Burglary sit in the The Saint guide?
S02E15 is listed hour 27 of 118 — hour 15 of 27 in season 2, season 2 episode 15.
When did The Saint S02E15 air?
The Benevolent Burglary aired 1963-12-26 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…