The Saint
The World Beater
TV Flash files “The World Beater” as a desk essential hour — The Saint (1962–1969) on ITV, season 6, episode 20, aired 1969-02-09, 50 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E20: listed hour 118 of 118 in the The Saint guide, last listed hour of season 6. It aired 1969-02-09 (50 min). The listed hour before it is “Portrait of Brenda” (S06E19). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “The World Beater”. The World Beater closes 1969: catalog tail of the haloed rogue who leased a Bond posture on ITV first.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
With a beautiful blonde by his side, the Saint mops up the mysterious events surrounding a series of deaths among drivers at a car rally meeting.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The World Beater sit in the The Saint guide?
S06E20 is listed hour 118 of 118 — last listed hour of season 6, season 6 episode 20.
When did The Saint S06E20 air?
The World Beater aired 1969-02-09 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…