The Saint
The Time to Die
TV Flash files “The Time to Die” as hour 105 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — The Saint (1962–1969) on ITV, season 6, episode 7, aired 1968-11-10, 50 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E07: listed hour 105 of 118 in the The Saint guide, hour 7 of 20 in season 6. It aired 1968-11-10 (50 min). The listed hour before it is “The Double Take” (S06E06). Next is “The Master Plan” (S06E08).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The Saint finds himself playing a deadly game of cat and mouse with a would-be killer. Simon's dilemma is twofold: why should anyone want to put a dent in his halo and who is the man known only as 'The Avenger'?
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Time to Die sit in the The Saint guide?
S06E07 is listed hour 105 of 118 — hour 7 of 20 in season 6, season 6 episode 7.
When did The Saint S06E07 air?
The Time to Die aired 1968-11-10 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…