Apr 27, 2022
The Saint: Judith (2.3, ITC, 1963)
"Monsieur Templar, I have for you a high regard."
"Thank you."
"But yesterday you sit behind Monsieur Northwade at a hockey game and today you have an accident right in front of his house; it is a coincidence, no?"
"It's a coincidence, yes - and that's all."
#the saint#judith#1963#itc#leslie charteris#Leonard Grahame#robert lynn#roger moore#julie christie#david bauer#margo johns#john mclaren#john serret#ross parker#warren stanhope#robert macleod#william greene#andre boulay#ronald wilson#georges robin#i had it in the back of my head from my last time watching the bw Saint episodes that the ones named after a woman (and there's quite a few#of these) are usually pretty bad episodes. I'm not sure why i remembered that way and if it's even true‚ but this is by no means a dud#episode; it's not a classic either‚ but a rather middling entry which concentrates more on familial melodrama than any real mystery plot#(save a last minute twist). a rare tv role for Julie Christie (she'd quit tv for the movies shortly after her starring role in 1961's A for#Andromeda‚ and when this aired she'd just made her first big splash in Billy Liar; hollywood's gain was the small screen's loss)#john serret's French Canadian policeman is (at least initially) much more Simon friendly than the usual cop; his subordinate Ross Parker#gets some nice moments as the hapless tail that Templar ends up treating to fancy dinners and cognac. the fight budget seems to have gone#up yet again‚ leading to a highly unlikely scene of Moore diving through a plate glass window and sprinting away without a scratch#oh‚ and whilst Simon has done a lot of smooching of his love interests of the week‚ this is the first episode to heavily imply that they#actually sleep together (must be the Canada air)
