The Saint
The Man Who Gambled with Life
TV Flash files “The Man Who Gambled with Life” as hour 116 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — The Saint (1962–1969) on ITV, season 6, episode 18, aired 1969-01-26, 50 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E18: listed hour 116 of 118 in the The Saint guide, hour 18 of 20 in season 6. It aired 1969-01-26 (50 min). The listed hour before it is “The Ex-King of Diamonds” (S06E17). Next is “Portrait of Brenda” (S06E19).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The Saint has led a long and adventurous life. But now he's been chosen as the subject for an experiment which entails being frozen to death and later brought back to life. Will he go along with this or give scientists the cold shoulder?
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Man Who Gambled with Life sit in the The Saint guide?
S06E18 is listed hour 116 of 118 — hour 18 of 20 in season 6, season 6 episode 18.
When did The Saint S06E18 air?
The Man Who Gambled with Life aired 1969-01-26 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…