The Saint
The Noble Sportsman
TV Flash files “The Noble Sportsman” as hour 29 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — The Saint (1962–1969) on ITV, season 2, episode 17, aired 1964-01-09, 50 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E17: listed hour 29 of 118 in the The Saint guide, hour 17 of 27 in season 2. It aired 1964-01-09 (50 min). The listed hour before it is “The Wonderful War” (S02E16). Next is “The Romantic Matron” (S02E18).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
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.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Noble Sportsman sit in the The Saint guide?
S02E17 is listed hour 29 of 118 — hour 17 of 27 in season 2, season 2 episode 17.
When did The Saint S02E17 air?
The Noble Sportsman aired 1964-01-09 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…