History Trivia / TheSaint

* RecastAsARegular: Ivor Dean appeared as a villain in "Starring the Saint" before becoming the third and final actor to play Inspector Teal.

* FakeAmerican: In "The Latin Touch", Simon Templar has to rescue a kidnapped American girl in Rome. Said girl, played by English actress Suzan Farmer, is the definition of NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent.

* FakeAmerican: In a very early episode, Simon Templar has to rescue a kidnapped American girl in Rome. Said girl, played by English actress Sally Bazely, is the definition of NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent.

* CreatorChosenCasting: Leslie Chateris was very pleased with Creator/RogerMoore, saying that he was by far the best Saint, but that he looked much more like the Saint in the early books rather than the ones from the 1950's and 60's.

* UncreditedRole: Creator/HughFutcher as Rudy in "The Happy Suicide".

* RecursiveAdaptation: Many comic strip arcs and TV episodes received prose adaptations by Leslie Charteris and other writers. These adaptations fit into the Saint's literary continuity. Examples include "The Saint in Trouble" (has a footnote to the events of "The Last Hero") and "Salvage for the Saint".

** Creator/PatrickMcGoohan was offered the role of Simon Templar, but turned it down.

-->But by the time we came to the end of the series we were often writing the scenes in the office and sending them straight down to the floor to shoot.[...] One of the last episodes we did, "Island of Chance", Harry [Junkin] was practically finishing off the script as they shot it downstairs. In the story the three characters were wandering through caves and one of them says, 'What's that I smell?' I wrote back, 'It's the script!' gave it to Harry and he cracked up.

* TheOtherDarrin: Chief Inspector Teal, the only character from the Charteris works other than guess who to appear on [[DropInCharacter a recurring basis]], was recast ''three times'' before settling on Ivor Dean to play the role.

* MissingEpisode: The 47 colour episodes show up much more often in syndication (on British TV, anyway) than the '''71''' black-and-white ones. (However, the entire series is available on DVD.)

* ApprovalOfGod: Leslie Chateris was very pleased with Creator/RogerMoore, saying that he was by far the best Saint, but that he looked much more like the Saint in the early books rather than the ones from the 1950's and 60's.

** Leslie Charteris originally wanted Creator/DavidNiven to star as Simon Templar. Creator/PatrickMcGoohan was offered the role, but turned it down.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Charteris suggested such actors as Creator/RonaldColman, Creator/CaryGrant, or Creator/DouglasFairbanksJr would have been good picks for the Saint.

* MissingEpisode: The 47 colour episodes show up much more often in syndication (on British TV, anyway) than the '''71''' black-and-white ones. (However, the entire series is on DVD.)