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
This is black and white television at its best. Roger Moore gives a very strong and powerful entrance as Simon Templar alias The Saint. No wonder this television series was going to be a success for the next seven years, and would leave its mark on British television for the next sixty years.
The photography for this episode is superb. The director and his cameraman did an excellent job of putting together a one hour episode that is full of tension and suspense.
Derek Farr is excellent as the talented, but psychopathic husband. His character John Clarron is charming, cold and clever, but too clever for his own good. His greatest strength is his greatest weakness, which is his performance as the kindly Mrs Jafferty.
What spoils this episode is Patrica Roc's performance as Madge, the sad and vulnerable third wife of John Clarron. Her acting is awful and it is over the top. She is upstaged by Shirley Eaton as Adrienne the sexy insurance investigator who like Simon Templar is out to stop Clarron from murdering Madge. The interplay between her and Roger Moore is an excellent on screen partnership.
This episode has all the ingredients of a good psychological thriller. It has suspense, a beautiful blonde in the form of Miss Eaton, and an excellent twist at the end of it.
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- Jun 2, 2022
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- Cookham Railway Station, Station Rise, Cookham, England, UK(Cookham Railway Station)
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- Runtime50 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1