The Saint
The Counterfeit Countess
TV Flash files “The Counterfeit Countess” as hour 91 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — The Saint (1962–1969) on ITV, season 5, episode 20, aired 1967-03-03, 50 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E20: listed hour 91 of 118 in the The Saint guide, hour 20 of 27 in season 5. It aired 1967-03-03 (50 min). The listed hour before it is “To Kill a Saint” (S05E19). Next is “Simon and Delilah” (S05E21).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Templar is nearly killed when he accidentally runs afoul of counterfeiters, then is marked for death by the ringleader (Kate O'Mara).
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Counterfeit Countess sit in the The Saint guide?
S05E20 is listed hour 91 of 118 — hour 20 of 27 in season 5, season 5 episode 20.
When did The Saint S05E20 air?
The Counterfeit Countess aired 1967-03-03 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…