The Saint
The Art Collectors
TV Flash files “The Art Collectors” as a desk essential hour — The Saint (1962–1969) on ITV, season 5, episode 18, aired 1967-01-27, 50 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E18: listed hour 89 of 118 in the The Saint guide, hour 18 of 27 in season 5. It aired 1967-01-27 (50 min). The listed hour before it is “The Death Game” (S05E17). Next is “To Kill a Saint” (S05E19).
Essential hour: “The Art Collectors”. The Art Collectors is a late-color hour of marquee theft: Moore's suave without the later 007 overkill.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The Saint, in Paris, meets a girl who is selling her family's art treasures before someone tries to steal them. Simon doubts her fear and seeks the truth.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Art Collectors sit in the The Saint guide?
S05E18 is listed hour 89 of 118 — hour 18 of 27 in season 5, season 5 episode 18.
When did The Saint S05E18 air?
The Art Collectors aired 1967-01-27 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…