The Talented Husband
- Episode aired Oct 4, 1962
- 50m
Simon finds himself with a glamorous partner when circumstances lead him into protecting a lovely woman from her wife-killing husband.Simon finds himself with a glamorous partner when circumstances lead him into protecting a lovely woman from her wife-killing husband.Simon finds himself with a glamorous partner when circumstances lead him into protecting a lovely woman from her wife-killing husband.
- Detective
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- Club Patron
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- Club Patron
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- Policeman
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- Club Patron
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- Bar Patron
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- Club Patron
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- Club Patron
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Did you know
- TriviaThis episode has two actors who would go on to have eternal associations with the James Bond series. As well as Sir Roger Moore, there is also Shirley Eaton, who would play Jill Masterson in Goldfinger (1964), the Bond girl with the most famous death of all: covered head to toe in gold paint. Eaton would make three further appearances in The Saint.
- GoofsWhen Mrs. Jafferty delivers the parcel from the butcher to Adrienne Halberd, she takes all the packages out of her shopping bag and places them on the table, until she finds the correct one. The small tin can that Adrienne palms, just as Mrs. Jafferty prepares to leave, appears in front of her parcel of meat in the wide shot, but at the end of the parcel in the close-up.
- Quotes
[first line of the show]
Simon Templar aka The Saint: [to the viewers] Thank heavens for English theatre bars - we've had 2 acts of this play, complete suffering both onstage... and off. I don't know what your tastes are in theatre, maybe you like the... sweat and the grunt school of acting. Me, I come to the theatre for fun, for laughs, for excitement.
- SoundtracksOut to Get You
by Chris Andrews
It launched Roger Moore into superstardom as he took the role of Simon Templar, the Saint.
The first episode has the Saint talking to the camera as he has gone to the west end of London to see a terrible stage play.
He is interested in Madge who has recently been married to John Clarron, the producer of the flop play.
Clarron has been married twice before. Both of his wives died in suspicious circumstances, both women took out large life insurances after getting married.
The Saint fears that Madge could be next. She already has had a near miss after an incident. Now recovering in bed, her husband has hired a strange housekeeper, Mrs Rafferty.
This was a pedestrian episode with a distinct lack of action and dynamism.
There are two people who are concerned about Madge and they make no effort to see her despite her husband being out of the house. Everyone seems to be passive.
Mrs Rafferty was more Mrs Brown's Boys.
At least Shirley Eaton was suitable eye candy.
- Prismark10
- Mar 19, 2022
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- Cookham Railway Station, Station Rise, Cookham, England, UK(Cookham Railway Station)
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- Runtime50 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1