The Saint
The Miracle Tea Party
TV Flash files “The Miracle Tea Party” as a desk essential hour — The Saint (1962–1969) on ITV, season 3, episode 1, aired 1964-10-08, 50 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E01: listed hour 40 of 118 in the The Saint guide, first listed hour of season 3. It aired 1964-10-08 (50 min). The listed hour before it is “The Saint Sees It Through” (S02E27). Next is “Lida” (S03E02).
Essential hour: “The Miracle Tea Party”. The Miracle Tea Party opens season three still globetrotting: Charteris rogue craft, gadgets optional, charm mandatory.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
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.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Miracle Tea Party sit in the The Saint guide?
S03E01 is listed hour 40 of 118 — first listed hour of season 3, season 3 episode 1.
When did The Saint S03E01 air?
The Miracle Tea Party aired 1964-10-08 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…