The Saint
Vendetta for the Saint (2)
TV Flash files “Vendetta for the Saint (2)” as hour 114 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — The Saint (1962–1969) on ITV, season 6, episode 16, aired 1969-01-12, 50 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E16: listed hour 114 of 118 in the The Saint guide, hour 16 of 20 in season 6. It aired 1969-01-12 (50 min). The listed hour before it is “Vendetta for the Saint (1)” (S06E15). Next is “The Ex-King of Diamonds” (S06E17).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The Saint is put under pressure when he starts a vendetta against syndicate bosses.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Vendetta for the Saint (2) sit in the The Saint guide?
S06E16 is listed hour 114 of 118 — hour 16 of 20 in season 6, season 6 episode 16.
When did The Saint S06E16 air?
Vendetta for the Saint (2) aired 1969-01-12 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…