The Saint
The People Importers
TV Flash files “The People Importers” as hour 111 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — The Saint (1962–1969) on ITV, season 6, episode 13, aired 1968-12-22, 50 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E13: listed hour 111 of 118 in the The Saint guide, hour 13 of 20 in season 6. It aired 1968-12-22 (50 min). The listed hour before it is “The Fiction-Makers (2)” (S06E12). Next is “Where the Money Is” (S06E14).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The Saint investigates a racket in which illegal immigrants are being smuggled into Britain as slave labour in various Mafia-run establishments. His involvement leads him to personal tragedy and the head of the enterprise
Viewer FAQ
Where does The People Importers sit in the The Saint guide?
S06E13 is listed hour 111 of 118 — hour 13 of 20 in season 6, season 6 episode 13.
When did The Saint S06E13 air?
The People Importers aired 1968-12-22 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…