The Saint
The Man Who Liked Lions
TV Flash files “The Man Who Liked Lions” as hour 79 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — The Saint (1962–1969) on ITV, season 5, episode 8, aired 1966-11-18, 50 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E08: listed hour 79 of 118 in the The Saint guide, hour 8 of 27 in season 5. It aired 1966-11-18 (50 min). The listed hour before it is “The Angel's Eye” (S05E07). Next is “The Better Mousetrap” (S05E09).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When Simon's journalist friend is murdered while on the biggest story of his life, the Saint decides to put a stop to the antics of a modern day Caesar, a man who refuses to accept that the glory of Rome is over.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Man Who Liked Lions sit in the The Saint guide?
S05E08 is listed hour 79 of 118 — hour 8 of 27 in season 5, season 5 episode 8.
When did The Saint S05E08 air?
The Man Who Liked Lions aired 1966-11-18 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…