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7	->''"You're the famous Simon Templar!"''
8	-->-- The end of [[OncePerEpisode every]] pre-credits sequence
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10	The series started in 1962. Its hero is charming, well-dressed, intelligent, British and ready to fight the bad guys--[[Film/JamesBond not to mention played by]] Creator/RogerMoore.
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12	[[JustForFun/SurprisinglySimilarStories We are talking, of course]], about ''The Saint''.
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14	There was also a successful RadioDrama version made in three series in 1947, 1949, and 1950, starring Creator/VincentPrice.
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16	[[Franchise/TheSaint Created by Leslie Charteris]] in [[Literature/TheSaint a series of books]], Simon Templar, nicknamed The Saint ([[DontExplainTheJoke because of his initials]]), is a world-famous amateur detective who operates as a modern-day Myth/RobinHood. Many episodes of the Moore series adapted short stories and novels from the book series.
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18	Aside from providing Moore with his defining pre-007 role (by the time the series came to an end in 1969, Moore was the highest-paid television actor in the world), ''The Saint'' was also a significant milestone for Creator/LewGrade and his production company, Creator/ITCEntertainment; with 118 episodes, it was outlasted only by ''Series/{{The Avengers\|1960s}}'', and enjoyed enormous success internationally. It has been credited as earning ITC as much as $350 million, and along with the aforementioned ''Avengers'' paved the way for ITC's sprawling catalogue of (usually much shorter-lived) adventure and mystery shows, including ''Series/{{The Champions\|1968}}'', ''Series/DepartmentS'', ''Series/JasonKing'', ''Series/TheBaron'', ''Series/ManInASuitcase'' and many others.
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20	After it finished in 1969, it was followed in 1978 by a revival titled ''Return of the Saint'' starring Ian Ogilvy. Virtually identical to the Moore series (right down to the opening narration), except for being set in the late 1970s, the revival lasted a single season. Additional attempts have been made to bring Simon back to TV, the most successful (to a degree) being a series of Australian-made TV movies that were syndicated in North America in the late 1980s.
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22	!!''The Saint'' provides examples of the following tropes:
23	* AdaptedOut: Inspector Teal is the only recurring character from the books to appear in the series.
24	* AdaptationalDumbass: In the books, Inspector Teal is a brilliant detective, and one whom Templar occasionally underestimates. In the series, he is presented as almost incompetent, with his success in solving cases always down to the efforts of Simon Templar.
25	* AdaptationalHeroism: Simon Templar in the series differed from that of the books. The character of the original stories had a more hard edge and had no qualms about committing murder. Therefore, as written in the series, Templar had to be made more likable and less inclined to kill.
26	* AdaptationalJobChange: In the books Templar was a thief who steals from other criminals, but in the TV version he is a rich unemployed "adventurer" who hangs around in casinos and hotel lobbies waiting for the week's plot to arrive, while making Inspector Teal of the Yard angry because he has no reason to arrest Templar yet again.
27	* AdaptationalLocationChange: "Starring The Saint" is set in Britain, the novella the episode is based on is called "{{Hollywood}}". Guess where it's set.
28	* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Simon Templar was considerably less ruthless and morally gray than in the books, being more altruistic and heroic. While he still had no qualms about killing, it was largely in self-defense.
29	* AdvancingWallOfDoom: In "The Gadic Collection", Simon is locked in a cell with spikes on the walls that close in on him. He manages to free himself by using his necktie to pull the outside lever.
30	* AesopEnforcer: In "The Golden Journey", Simon Templar encounters his friend's beautiful, rich, and very spoilt fiancee Belinda. He sets her up for a life-changing lesson by stealing her money and possessions, leaving her no choice but to undertake a long journey with him on foot. After encountering many hardships on the way, she learns that there are more important things than money, and becomes much more pleasant.
31	* AlmostDeadGuy: In "Teresa", a trapeze artist is killed during his act. Right before he dies he offers a woman who was visiting him too some clues about the whereabouts of her missing husband.
32	* AmoralAttorney: Cartlon Rood in "The Element of Doubt". He is a brilliant attorney; but he is also entirely corrupt. In a matter of months, he has won acquittals for murderers and embezzlers. He doesn't care how guilty his clients are - as long as they pay his astronomical fees. And he doesn't mind what methods he uses - so long as he gains the acquittals.
33	* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: In "The Saint Steps In", Simon arrives just as the GirlOfTheWeek is being kidnapped by two thugs disguised as plainclothes policemen. When the explain that they're police, Simon replies, "And I'm the Home Secretary".
34	* AssholeVictim: {{Jerkass}} gossip columnist Floyd Vosper in "The Arrow of God" - ''no one'', including the police was sorry he was found a beach with the titular arrow in his chest. [[spoiler: It's not what killed him.]]
35	* AvengingTheVillain: "The Time to Die" sees the brother of one of Simon's deceased adversaries (unseen in the series) conduct an elaborate revenge scheme
36	* BadassInANiceSuit: Simon Templar. This trope really was enforced, because the production could not pay for the fancy suits Roger Moore wore in real life. Being the best paid actor of his time, Roger Moore used his own clothes.
37	* BlindfoldedTrip: "Simon and Delilah" had Simon Templar made prisoner and driven around a city. Too bad they passed some locations that made very characteristic sounds.
38	* BlindWithoutEm: "Lida" has Simon defeat a henchmen by knocking his glasses off. He's polite enough to return them when he has him at his mercy.
39	* TheBluebeard: John Clarron of "The Talented Husband" had two previous wives die in mysterious circumstances. Turns out he murdered them while disguised as his housekeeper.
40	* TheBoxingEpisode: "The Crooked Ring" has Simon investigating the death of a boxer in the ring. Turns out that a crooked manager is fixing the fights. Naturally, the climax has Simon stepping into the ring himself.
41	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Early seasons began each episode with Simon Templar talking directly to the audience to set the scene for the episode. When the series moved to colour production, this was dropped in favor of off-screen narration. Upon people recognising him, the Saint will often look upwards (and then often at the camera) as an animated halo appears to segue into the TitleSequence.
42	* CassandraTruth:
43	** In "The Well-Meaning Mayor", council member George Hackett is trying to prove that the mayor of Seatondean, Sam Purdell, is embezzling money from the city by means of the construction of the new city hall. Unfortunately he has an uncontrollable temper so no one believes him.
44	** In "The Saint Steps In", Simon is convinced that the GirlOfTheWeek telling him her trouble is part of a prank put on by some undergraduates and dismisses her. He realises she was telling the truth when the undergraduates don't know her.
45	* CasualtyInTheRing: In "The Crooked Ring", Connie Grady calls Simon for help because she believes that her friend, the boxer Steve Nelson, is in danger. As they watch a fight of Torpedo Smith against Steve's next opponent The Angel, Smith is clearly the better boxer. But suddenly Torpedo Smith begins to stagger and is knocked down and dies. Nelson didn't intend to kill him and is horrified, but his crooked manager is unconcerned.
46	* TheCavalry: In one episode, Simon Templar actually refers to a useful group of friendly sailors as "the cavalry" after they burst in and beat up the bad guy's {{Mooks}} for him.
47	* ChannelHop: The Radio version switched from [=NBC=] to Mutual then back to [=NBC=].
48	* ColdOpen: Home of the aforementioned fourth wall breaking.
49	* ComedicSpanking: "The Golden Journey" sees Simon teach a SpoiledBrat some manners by ''putting her across his knee and spanking her''. A nearby peasant mistakes her screams for TheImmodestOrgasm.
50	* CompilationMovie: Two two-part episodes from series 6, "Vendetta for the Saint" and "The Fiction Makers", were made into feature films and distributed to theatres in Europe, and often show up on late-night television in America.
51	* ConMan: "The Bunco Artists" sees Simon punish a pair of con artists who scam a church secretary out of money that was to restore the church. By the episode's end, Simon has shaken down the con artist team out of enough money to restore the church roof as well.
52	* ContrivedCoincidence: The Series. Dude cannot go for a coffee without getting mixed up in an ongoing crime/conspiracy...
53	** In fairness this is averted in some episodes like "The Talented Husband" and "Crime Of The Century" - in the former he's already suspicious of the tendency of John Clarron to be left a rich widower by his wives... in the latter he's working with Inspector Teal.
54	* CoolCar: Templar's car, when it appeared, was a white Volvo P1800 with the number plate ST1. This model Volvo is still often referred to as "the Saint's car", with miniature versions made by Corgi which have proved popular.
55	* CouldntFindAPen: In "The Inescapable Word", a man is found dead in a pool of blood at his laboratory with the word "COP" written in his own blood. We're led to assume that he was writing the word "cop", as he'd argued with a policeman earlier. It turns out he was a Russian, who was writing the murderer's name in Russian, but died before he could complete it.
56	* CoverIdentityAnomaly: In "The Organisation Man", Templar, working undercover for British military intelligence, has infiltrated a small private army whose current assignment is to liberate a captured, high-profile spy. They're disguised in the stolen tartans of a detachment of Scottish soldiers who were due to take over guard duty, and on handover, are being inspected by the current guard commander. Their disguises are perfect (as befits a regiment known for their punctilious attention to detail), up until the point when the commander notices that they've all placed their sgian-dubh knives in the wrong sock - the right rather than the left.
57	* CreepyCrossdresser: "The Talented Husband" sees a failed actor disguise himself as his female housekeeper so he can murder his spouses.
58	* DatingWhatDaddyHates: In "The Benevolent Burglary", a drummer is in love with a girl whose millionaire father refuses to let them marry. He does everything to foil every chance for Fulton to get an employment in a band.
59	* DeathRay: In "The Inescapable Word", a defecting Soviet scientist is murdered with his own weapon for the secrets of the death ray he has just invented; at the end of the episode, the killer runs away with the only working prototype; he trips, falls, drops the device, the beam accidentally activates, [[KarmicDeath and....]]
60	* DemotedToExtra:
61	** Hoppy, Simon's dim-witted sidekick from the novels, makes only one appearance in the series; Season 1's "The Careful Terrorist", played by Percy Herbert.
62	** Templar's regular NYPD foil Inspector John Henry Fernack (played by Alan Gifford) appears in only two episodes, "The Careful Terrorist" and "The Element of Doubt".
63	* DenserAndWackier: Much like ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'', the series started out with grounded mystery plots and got very outlandish in its later seasons.
64	* DisguisedInDrag: [[spoiler:The villain of the first episode drags up as an old woman so he can murder his wife.]]
65	* DragonLady: Oriental diplomat Madame Chen in "Jeanine" is this, although rather than being the villain of the story, she's a target for her valuable pearl necklace.
66	* FakeShemp: Look-alikes for Moore were used for location shoots where the Saint is seen in the distance entering a well-known building or driving past the camera at speed
67	* FakingTheDead: "The Rhine Maiden" concerns an English businessman conducting a scheme to stage his death and escape to Switzerland with a quarter of a million pounds he'd embezelled from his late business partner, with the aid of his crooked medical adviser. Simon and the GirlOfTheWeek (the dead partner's daughter) see the body, which Simon discovers is a different corpse with a mask on.
68	* FascinatingEyebrow: Being played Creator/RogerMoore, Simon Templar is a natural at this.
69	* FriendToAllChildren: "The Charitable Countess" sees Simon help street urchins in Rome.
70	* TheGamblingAddict: "The Fellow Traveller" sees Simon help an electronics engineer whose gambling addiction leads him to selling secrets from his work in exchange for them. But before he can reveal more he gets killed.
71	* GentlemanAdventurer: Simon Templar, of course.
72	* GentlemanDetective: This incarnation of Simon Templar is a rich unemployed "adventurer" and amateur detective who hangs around in casinos and hotel lobbies waiting for the week's plot to arrive. In the books, he's more of a GentlemanThief.
73	* GetIntoJailFree: In "Escape Plan", Simon gets arrested for burglary and is sentenced to ten years in Princetown prison. It turns out that he's working undercover to find out who organized several prison breaks.
74	* GladiatorGames: "The Man Who Liked Lions" has Simon Templar running afoul of a thuggish Roman revivalist.
75	* HeKnowsTooMuch: In "The Saint Plays with Fire", a journalist is murdered before he can expose a new Nazi party that has risen in England, A photographer who had unearthed the names of the financial supporters of the party is also murdered.
76	* HiredToHuntYourself: This happens to Simon Templar in "To Kill a Saint". When nightclub owner Paul Verrier is tricked into believing that The Saint has tried to murder him, Templar goes to see him to try to resolve the situation. However, Verrier assumes that he's Braddock, a hitman whom Verrier has hired to kill Templar. Templar quickly adopts the role, and so becomes the hitman with a contract on himself.
77	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In "The Inescapable Word", the villain has created a powerful atomic DeathRay. Three guesses as to how he dies.
78	* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Simon in "The Checkered Flag", when the SpoiledSweet Mandy (the sister of the man Simon thinks is the week's villain) comes on io him [[spoiler: the brother ''isn't'' the villain. Mandy's dinner partner at the end of the episode is, yep, Simon.]]
79	* HowWeGotHere: "Pearls Of Peace" starts with Simon receiving a telegram... cue an episode-length flashback revealing the events that led to that telegram being sent.
80	* HumanPopsicle: In "The Man Who Gambled with Life", wealthy industrialist Keith Longman is dying soon because of his weak heart, so he devises a plan to freeze himself with liquid nitrogen until a cure will be found.
81	* INeverSaidItWasPoison: This happens in a number of episodes:
82	** In the wrap-up of "The Gadic Collection", Ahmed Bayer gives himself away when he mentions the main villain's name when he had no way of knowing who he is.
83	** In 'The Fast Woman', the perp commits a string of these blunders while being interrogated by the Saint & a police inspector. First of all he tells them there's no way that they can get the sniper he hired to testify against him, since he is "a dead man". The Saint's reply? "How did you know he was dead? It wasn't published in the papers." Next up, the perp swears he "wasn't anywhere near Brighton last night" (where the sniper's murder took place). The inspector's reply? "Who said anything about Brighton?". The perp then suggests he knows it happened in Brighton because "Paddy" (another character) must have told him. The Saint's reply? "Paddy? What's he got to do with it? The only reason you know he was there at the shooting was because you - as shooter - saw him there".
84	* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Robert Brown, who played the squire to Creator/RogerMoore's Literature/{{Ivanhoe}}, appeared in "The Saint Plays With Fire" and "The Miracle Tea Party". He would later play M to Moore's James Bond.
85	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: From 1966 onwards, there were various episodes that featured some rather fanciful storylines. The following examples: "The Convenient Monster", "The House on Dragon's Rock", and "The Power Artists" are testaments to this.
86	* TheIllegal: The villain of "The People Importers" is an unsuccessful boat-builder who is nonetheless in the money because he is in the business of smuggling illegal immigrants into Britain. Additionally it is revealed that one of the immigrants who has gone on the run was suffering from small-pox and the Saint must locate him before he can spread the disease.
87	* ImposterForgotOneDetail: In "When Spring is Sprung", Simon deduces that Colonel Hannerly is an imposter by pointing out that he claims to be in the Royal Artillery, when he wears the tie of the Horse Artillery.
88	* InspectorAntagonist: Chief Inspector Teal.
89	* ItWasHereISwear: In "The Gadic Collection", Simon takes the Turkish police back to the apartment he went to earlier, only to find it cleaned out and the old couple having been bribed to deny anyone was ever there.
90	* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: In "The Revolution Racket", Simon teams up with a husband-and-wife team to sell fake guns to some Cuban revolutionaries. The wife double-crosses him and takes his gun - but he was on to them and had the good sense to take the bullets out.
91	* JustLikeRobinHood
92	* KarmaHoudini: "Pearls Of Peace" [[spoiler: the man swindles Simon's friend Brad and is responsible for causing Brad's blindness never gets caught.]]
93	* KillItWithFire: In "The Saint Plays with Fire", the British Nazi Party silence a newspaper man by killing him in a housefire.
94	* LandDownunder: "The Loving Brothers" takes place in Australia.
95	* LargeHam: "Island of Chance" has Dr. Charles Krayford (David Bauer) - a disgraced, reclusive scientist working to create a panacea to share with the world (using, of course, [[GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks flasks of bubbling, coloured liquids and sundry interconnected glassware]]). He's utterly dedicated to his research, and earnestly chews the scenery whenever pleading his case. He goes all-out in his death scene, which ends up being rather {{narm}}y as a result.
96	* LaResistance: in "The Covetous Headsman" Simon is revealed to have spent time in the French Resistance during WWII. The plot of the episode revolves around other former resistance members finding the villain of the episode, an unknown traitor who had betrayed and caused the death of a number of men during the war.
97	* LaserHallway: Done rather well and "realistic" in the two-part episode "The Fiction Makers", which first aired in December 1968 and was later released as a theatrical film. Instead of a hallway, it was a corridor between two fences.
98	* LaserGuidedKarma: Brad Ryan's ambitious and money-hungry ex-girlfriend Joss in "Pearls Of Peace" is much more attached to her jewels [[spoiler: years later she STILL doesn't know Simon swapped her pearls with fakes in order to friend Brad.]]
99	* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: In "The Master Plan", Simon Templar and GirlOfTheWeek Jean find themselves locked in a hidden cell which can only be opened by sliding a sculpture, visible through a small viewing hole, on the wall opposite the entrance. He happens to notice Jean fiddling with the beads of her necklace - by pulling the string taut, he uses it to reach the switch and release the door.
100	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In “The Convenient Monster” the VillainOfTheWeek is committing murders and blaming them on the Loch Ness Monster. While attempting to escape in a rowboat, the the water starts to roil around the boat and the villain begins to scream. The villains body is later found badly mutilated, which is attributed to the ferry boat catching the body in its propeller, only for Templar to point out that the ferry wasn’t running that night. The episode ends without revealing if there is a rational explanation or if the monster was RealAfterAll.
101	* MayDecemberRomance: Lord Yeardley of "The Noble Sportsman" has a wife thirty years his junior.
102	* MyGirlIsNotASlut: Patricia Holm was always ready to wait for The Saint in his early adventures.
103	* NoFourthWall: The black-and-white seasons began each episode with Simon Templar addressing the audience and setting the scene for each week's adventure. After the show moved to colour production, this was replaced by narration.
104	* NotSoHarmlessVillain: [[spoiler: candy manufacturer Otis Q. Fennick]] in "The Ever-Loving Spouse".
105	* {{Novelization}}: Although many episodes of the series actually adapted short stories, novellas and novels already published as part of the long-running book series, a number of original episode storylines were in turn adapted as part of the Saint book series. Several ''Return of the Saint'' episodes were also adapted.
106	OohMeAccentsSlipping: The foreign accents can be...variable.
107	* PetTheDog: All the series is this for Simon Templar. If you are the VictimOfTheWeek, Simon Templar will help you completely free of charge, maybe he will accept that you pay for his expenses or, as ''"The unkind philantrophist"'', he will accept you to pay for his hotel, but no more than a week.
108	* PhraseCatcher:
109	** Right before the opening credits, somebody would always refer to "... the _____ Simon Templar." (Fill in the blank with 'illustrious', 'infamous', or something like that.) Which would cause Simon to glance up and note the halo appearing over his head, leading into the TitleSequence.
110	** Templar always greets Teal with mock respect: "Claud Eustace Teal, pride of Scotland Yard". Whilst Teal always gruffly refers to Templar by his surname only, Templar addresses Teal with the much more chummy "my dear Claud".
111	* ThePrimaDonna: "Simon and Delilah" focuses on the kidnapping of a temperamental and demanding movie star who, according to the studio publicist, is on her 85th fight to date and is on her fifth husband.
112	* PrincessInRags: "The Golden Journey" is about Simon teaching a spoilt, entitled bride-to-be some humility by her money, her jewels and her passport and taking her on a long journey.
113	* ProfessorGuineaPig: Initially averted in "The Man Who Gambled with Death" where a millonaire with a heart condition wanted to use cryogenics until open heart surgery was commonplace. He did several animal tests, and wanted to start human testing with somebody else, but at the end of the episode, Simon Templar escaped and a heart attack forced the man to enter his machine in emergency.
114	* ProtagonistTitle: Simon Templar, a.k.a The Saint, is the protagonist.
115	* RealAfterAll: "The Convenient Monster" involves a villain faking attacks by the Loch Ness Monster. At the end the villain is [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane implied to have been]] eaten by the Loch Ness Monster.
116	* RoadTripRomance: "The Golden Journey" was loosely based on this idea. Simon Templar manipulated circumstances in such a way that the spoilt, entitled fiancee of his friend would be compelled to travel rough with him and learn to be more kind and sensitive.
117	* RussianRoulette: In "Island of Chance", Simon interrogates a pair of goons with a pistol and one bullet. It later turns out that the gun was empty all along.
118	* SawItInAMovieOnce: In "The Man Who Gambled with Life", Simon's ladyfriend knocks out a guard with a karate chop and proudly states that she saw it on television. Simon then calls her [[Series/TheAvengers1960s Emma Peel]].
119	* SequelEpisode: "The Death Game"'s main villain Adolph Volger returns several episodes later in "The Power Artists", where he concucts a revenge scheme against Simon.
120	* SettingUpdate: The stories are contemporary, despite being based on a book series that started in the 1920s.
121	* ShoutOut: "Luella" features a rare case of a ''predictive'' shout out. At the end of an episode, a middle-aged woman tells Templar she knows who he really is: Franchise/JamesBond. After this, Templar breaks the fourth wall as the Saint halo appears above his head (a rare case of this happening at the ''end'' of an episode). Moore, of course, would go on to play Bond in the 1970s, though he ''did'' appear as Bond in a spoof for a British TV show during his time as the Saint.
122	** Moore was also the first choice to play Film/JamesBond in ''Film/DrNo'', but he was tied in to his contract to play The Saint, and they had to go with Creator/SeanConnery instead.
123	* SiblingRivalry:
124	** "Judith" involves an industrialist who despises and envies his less successful brother - the envy stemming from the fact that he has a daughter and his own marriage is childless.
125	** "The Loving Brothers" features a pair of feuding brothers who are wealthy industrialists whose poor father discovers a silver mine. Simon scams both of them.
126	* SpoiledBrat: "The Golden Journey" sees Simon deal with one of these about to get married. To teach her humility, he steals all her money and jewelry so that Belinda has to rely on him. His plan is to hike one week with her to Tormes where Belinda is supposed to meet Jack.
127	* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Chief Inspector Teal.
128	* TapOnTheHead: This happens to Simon quite often.
129	* TaughtByTelevision: In "The Man Who Gambled with Life", Simon asks the girl of the week where she learned karate moves and she replies that she saw it on television. Simon then refers to her as [[Series/TheAvengers1960s Mrs. Peel]].
130	* TemptingFate: In a bit of self-awareness, "The Saint Steps In" opens with Simon Templar in a cocktail bar in London, where a pair of undergraduates make fun of his reputation for many a DamselInDistress coming to him for help. He delivers his monologue to the camera about how women don't always come up to him and say they need his help...only for the GirlOfTheWeek to appear and say it before he can.
131	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: "The Contract" has a hit being put out on Templar's life. You'd expect this would result in Simon spending the episode coming up against different would be assassins, each attempting unique ways to try and kill him. Alas, the contract becomes largely irrelevant to the plot after the ten minute mark.
132	* ThoseWackyNazis: "The Saint Plays with Fire" sees Simon deal with the British Nazi Party after a journalist is murdered trying to expose them.
133	* TwoPartEpisode: "The Fiction Makers" and "Vendetta for the Saint".
134	* VictoryThroughIntimidation: One episode had Simon Templar holding off a few mobsters:
135	-->'''Mobsters''': You can't shoot all of us!
136	--> '''Templar''': Which of you wants to be a hero?
137	* VocalEvolution: During the black and white series, Roger Moore played Simon Templar with an American accent (as the character from the stories hailed from the United States). By the time the colour series went into production, the accent became more British.
138	* WaxMuseumMorgue: In "The Power Artists", Simon Templar has to hide a corpse in plain sight by covering it in plaster of Paris and leaving it on display in a studio. Inevitably, the sculpture gets knocked over.
139	* WeaponStomp: The opening credits of the colour seasons showed people fighting in colored silhouette. One of the images shows a man reaching for a gun, only to have his hand stomped on.
140	* WouldHitAGirl: In "The Golden Journey", Simon monologues about how his friend Jack's bratty fiancée Belinda could be cured with a good slap, but Jack loves her too much to do so. Simon later takes it upon herself to spank her when she tries to hit him, telling her that women who hit men are relying on a false sense of chivalry for the men to not return in kind.
141	* WhoMurderedTheAsshole: In "The Arrow of God", a {{jerkass}} newspaper columnist is a guest at a party in Nassau when he is murdered. The guests all have a motive, as he had a lot of dirt on them.
142	* WeaponStomp: In the opening credits!

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