The Saint
The Persistent Parasites
TV Flash files “The Persistent Parasites” as hour 67 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — The Saint (1962–1969) on ITV, season 4, episode 5, aired 1965-07-29, 50 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E05: listed hour 67 of 118 in the The Saint guide, hour 5 of 9 in season 4. It aired 1965-07-29 (50 min). The listed hour before it is “The Smart Detective” (S04E04). Next is “The Man Who Could Not Die” (S04E06).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A millionaire gives a house party and invites his three ex-wives, courtly Simon Templar---and a madly overeager murderer.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Persistent Parasites sit in the The Saint guide?
S04E05 is listed hour 67 of 118 — hour 5 of 9 in season 4, season 4 episode 5.
When did The Saint S04E05 air?
The Persistent Parasites aired 1965-07-29 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…