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Your Favourite Three?
My 'ROTS' top three episodes are:
1. Tower Bridge is Falling Down
2. The Village That Sold Its Soul
3. Hot Run
... and supporting cast:
1. Carolyn Seymour (Lady Greer Stevens) in The Arrangement
2. John Woodvine (Ray Dennis) in Tower Bridge is Falling Down
3. Carole Andree (Claudia) in Duel in Venice
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28/Aug/05, 5:16 pm
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Re: Your Favourite Three?
My top three:
SIGNEL STOP - Amazingly dark and gritty for an ITC show.
DUEL IN VENICE - The episode of ROTS that I always remembered from my childhood.
YESTERDAY'S HERO - A fine guest appearence from Ian Hendry.
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Re: Your Favourite Three?
Hello X Esquire,
Welcome to the Saint Online. 
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17/Sep/06, 7:11 pm
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Re: Your Favourite Three?
Thanks for the welcome, Claude. 
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Re: Your Favourite Three?
Having just decided to buy the RoTS DVD box set, believing that based on the few videos I had when they were released in that format years ago and the chosen episodes being just flaky, I must say I was pleasantly surprised by some of the episodes.
It appeared to me, when they removed the need for Templar to fight, and rely just on his wits, the episodes were all the better for that.
To this end, the Tower Bridge episode is by far the most obviously Saintly production - it was actually quite tense and quite interwoven. Perfect.
By contrast, the episode where Ogilvy applied a light tap to the stomach of baddie, put the ice bucket on top of his head and tapped the top of that, whereupon the bad guy fell over himself to be knocked out cold, was comical.
But generally, the eps in the video collection were perhaps the worst.
Good documentary as well - Steps into the 70s.
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Re: Your Favourite Three?
Glad you enoyed the documentary...I had great fun putting it together!
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Coming late to the party here, I realise, but it would have to be:
1) Collision Course: Brave Goose/The Sixth Man (can I have two episodes as one?) Not very sophisticated and rather cheesy (viz some hilarious funny akzent verk from Stratford Johns and Derren Nesbitt - while Prentis Han**** seems to be wearing a cast member from the Magic Roundabout on his head); but great locations and worth it to see Leslie Charteris stroll by behind Ian Ogilvy (which LC mentions in his foreward to the novelisation, Salvage for the Saint).
2) Duel in Venice. Fabulously evil mugging from Maurice Colbourne. And the line: "Last one in's a cissy."
3) The Village That Sold Its Soul. I'd like to live in that village - with Katia Christine - even though it is positively medieval.
And I'm going to cheat: Appointment in Florence isn't bad either.
Unfortunately I bought the Aussie Umbrella boxset about six months before the UK one was released. And while there are some nice extras on it, it doesn't have the Saint Steps In... documentary.
Think I'll have to get the Saint Steps In to Television DVD, if it's still available? Presumably the 70s doc is part of that?
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Re: Your Favourite Three?
It is indeed.
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Re: Your Favourite Three?
Hello everybody, it's been a long since I last posted here. I simply forgot there's such a fine forum dedicated to the Saint. Silly me!
I've been recently revisiting ROTS - not all episodes yet, that will require more time - and so far my favourite one is definitely "Murder Cartel".
There's a good plot - not too predictable. There's an impressive supporting cast (Helmut Berger, Britt Ekland) and some nice humourous touches with the Italian baddie of the Saint. There are also some finest dialogues in the series (with lots of tension and intensity - especially between the Saint and Vidal) and good action sequence with the switch of Brown.
Also Ian Ogilvy gets to stretch himself more in the role as he is playing the Saint who pretends to be someone totally else, a cold-blooded hit man. And he does a great job!
I thought this story would do well in a feature-length film.
I almost forgot to mention Tom Clegg, who also did great job directing the episode. He feels the timing of the suspense. When we first meet Laura it's not that obvious she's the head of the operation. We can of course expect she's somehow connected to the scheme but Clegg choses exectly the right moment to introduce her as the woman behind the masterplan. Had he waited longer we would easily realise it's hers who Templar is looking for. But Clegg manages to preced us solving the plot
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Hi SixtyNine,
Welcome back.
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