The transition from b&w to color hurt some shows. It was a draw with "The Avengers" (but those were the Diana Rigg years!) The transition helped "The Saint" by largely abandoning the premise they were bringing the Charteris stories to life (actually, in the next series they would bring to the small screen the Charteris yarn of giant ants, one of his worst).
The Simon Templar dialogue at the beginning of each episode from now on becomes a voice-over.
Roger Moore, winsome as ever, sparkles in color. With the wholesale abandonment of Charteris the tales become more humorous (not all of them) and enter a Saintly la-la land. In fact, some of the stories (notably the sixth series "the Fiction Makers" might have been written for "The Avengers."
"Queen's Ransome" was a good place to start the color scheme. It's both daring and adventurous (with guest star Dawn Addams, for one, brief, shining moment a hot property in Hollywood, like Moore himself once was before getting stuck on the small screen) and conservative. With most everything still being shot in the studio.
I enjoy many of the b&w Saints but the color episodes feel more fun. Beginning with this tale of Simon Templar as a bodyguard with a queen with whom he had a prior relationship. Some nice twists; but sixty years after "The Saint" we've seen it all since.
The Simon Templar dialogue at the beginning of each episode from now on becomes a voice-over.
Roger Moore, winsome as ever, sparkles in color. With the wholesale abandonment of Charteris the tales become more humorous (not all of them) and enter a Saintly la-la land. In fact, some of the stories (notably the sixth series "the Fiction Makers" might have been written for "The Avengers."
"Queen's Ransome" was a good place to start the color scheme. It's both daring and adventurous (with guest star Dawn Addams, for one, brief, shining moment a hot property in Hollywood, like Moore himself once was before getting stuck on the small screen) and conservative. With most everything still being shot in the studio.
I enjoy many of the b&w Saints but the color episodes feel more fun. Beginning with this tale of Simon Templar as a bodyguard with a queen with whom he had a prior relationship. Some nice twists; but sixty years after "The Saint" we've seen it all since.