The Saint
The Gadic Collection
TV Flash files “The Gadic Collection” as the last listed hour of season 5 — The Saint (1962–1969) on ITV, season 5, episode 27, aired 1967-06-25, 50 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E27: listed hour 98 of 118 in the The Saint guide, last listed hour of season 5. It aired 1967-06-25 (50 min). The listed hour before it is “When Spring is Sprung” (S05E26). Next is “The Best Laid Schemes” (S06E01).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
After finding a girl participating in a robbery in an Istanbul museum, the Saint soon finds the taste of Turkish delight a little hard to swallow. Somone is out to silence her and Simon soon finds himself in the gunman's sights.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Gadic Collection sit in the The Saint guide?
S05E27 is listed hour 98 of 118 — last listed hour of season 5, season 5 episode 27.
When did The Saint S05E27 air?
The Gadic Collection aired 1967-06-25 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…