Return of the Saint Collection (Ep. 1-24) - 7-DVD Box Set ( Return of the Saint )

Return of the Saint Collection (Ep. 1-24) - 7-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Return of the Saint
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
1300 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Photo Gallery
Production Notes
Scene Access
Special Edition
Trailer(s)
Uncut
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1978 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Leslie Norman
Peter Sasdy

Written By:
John Kruse
Leslie Charteris

Actors:
Ian Ogilvy ..... Simon Templar (24 episodes, 1978-1979)
Norman Eshley ..... Detective Caufield / ... (2 episodes, 1978)
Edward Brayshaw ..... Oscar West (2 episodes, 1979)
John Hallam ..... Bernadotti (2 episodes, 1979)
Prentis Hancock ..... Vic (2 episodes, 1979)
Gayle Hunnicutt ..... Annabelle (2 episodes, 1979)
Stratford Johns ..... George Duchamp (2 episodes, 1979)
Leon Lissek ..... Pancho (2 episodes, 1979)
Cyril Luckham ..... Coroner (2 episodes, 1979)
Joe Lynch ..... Captain Finnigan (2 episodes, 1979)
Derren Nesbitt ..... Inspector Lebec (2 episodes, 1979)
Michelle Newell ..... Genevieve (2 episodes, 1979)
Wensley Pithey ..... Franklyn (2 episodes, 1979)
Peggy Thorpe-Bates ..... Mrs. Cloonan (2 episodes, 1979)

Synopsis:

The approach is new. The stories are new. And there is a new Saint. Based on the character created by Leslie Charteris, Ian Ogilvy becomes the famous Simon Templar in 'Return of The Saint'. Whilst retaining the characteristics which caught the imagination of viewers with the original 60's television series, this is 'The Saint' of the 70's stories packed with drama, adventure and humour, filmed on location in countries including the South of France, Italy and London. A dashing daredevil, no villain is safe from his wrath, no woman is safe from his charms as The Saint fights injustice, protecting friends and strangers against a background of international intrigue. Roger Moore's Saint was a hard act to follow, but Ian Ogilvy successfully brought Simon Templar up to date with action-packed new stories and location filming that took The Saint out of the studio backlot to the most beautiful cities in Europe plus the original production team that brought the character to television in the 60's. Now, 25 years later, the sign of The Saint has returned as Umbrella Entertainment presents this special collection bringing together all 24 episodes of the ITC series for the first time, complete, uncut and digitally remastered.
List of Episodes:
The Judas Game
The Nightmare Man
Duel in Venice
One Black September
The Village That Sold Its Soul
Assault Force
Yesterday's Hero
The Poppy Chain
The Arrangement
The Armageddon Alternative
The Imprudent Professor
Signal Stop
The Roman Touch
Tower Bridge Is Falling Down
The Debt Collectors
Collision Course: The Brave Goose
Collision Course: The Sixth Man
Hot Run
The Murder Cartel
The Obono Affair
Vicious Circle
Dragonseed
Appointment in Florence
The Diplomat's Daughter

Season 1
The Judas Game
S1, Ep1 Sep. 10, 1978
The Saint is sent to rescue Selma Morell, a British secret agent captured by the Albanian secret police and held in a prison in the mountains. With the help of a local agent he is able to break into the prison and rescue Selma, but he must also identify the double agent who betrayed her.

The Nightmare Man
S1, Ep2 Sep. 17, 1978
In Paris the Saint meets a distraught woman who says that she has had a vivid dream in which her husband, the new Italian ambassador to Britain,is killed whilst travelling in an open coach in a London square. The Saint goes to London and meets the ambassador and his wife - though she is a different lady to the one he met in Paris.

Duel in Venice
S1, Ep3 Sep. 24, 1978
Whilst in Venice the Saint runs up against an old adversary looking for revenge, who kidnaps Sally, the Saint's female companion. He rings the Saint to tell him that he has put a necklace on Sally which, when the allotted time runs out, will garotte. The Saint enlists the help of a lady gondolier who knows the city well to trace Sally before she is killed.

One Black September
S1, Ep4 Oct. 1, 1978
The Saint teams up with Israeli Captain Leila Sabin, a counter-terrorist officer, to track down Abdul Hakim. He is a member of the Black September terrorist group who has defected and is in hiding in London and knows the names of anti-Israeli agents. They must reach him before other members of his gang get to him.

The Village That Sold Its Soul
S1, Ep5 Oct. 8, 1978
The Saint is met with a wall of silence when trying to investigate a murder in the remote Italian village of Santa Maria. Only young widow Sophia Castracano agrees to help him unravel the mystery, going up against Boldoni, the local police chief in the process.

Assault Force
S1, Ep6 Oct. 15, 1978
The Saint agrees to help a young Eurasian woman and her colleagues kidnap a visiting politician who, they say, is a very bad man. Only after they have taken the man does the Saint realize that he has been duped, the prisoner was actually a peace-maker whom he has delivered into the hands of terrorists and now he must save the day.

Yesterday's Hero
S1, Ep7 Oct. 22, 1978
Several years earlier the Saint was on a secret mission with three other men, Gates, Cleaver and Diskett. Gates was captured and it was assumed that he was killed. However, he now returns from the prison where he was held and tortured to gain revenge on Cleaver, the man who betrayed him and who is now an arms dealer. He turns to the Saint for help.

The Poppy Chain
S1, Ep8 Oct. 29, 1978
Following the death of a friend from a shot of impure heroin, the Saint travels to the Camargue in France to face up to the ruthless Scorbesi family who control the traffic of drugs into Britain.

The Arrangement
S1, Ep9 Nov. 5, 1978
When Greer Stevens suggests to Sheila Northcott that each woman kills the other's husband, Sheila does not take her seriously until her own spouse is killed by Greer, who then tries to coerce her into keeping her side of the 'deal'. Sheila turns to the Saint for help.

The Armageddon Alternative
S1, Ep10 Dec. 11, 1978
A deranged scientist, rejected for a top government post, gets his revenge by setting off explosions all over London. He threatens the biggest explosion of all unless sculptress Lynn Jackson is publicly executed and the Saint teams up with Commander Denning of Special Branch to stop him.

The Imprudent Professor
S1, Ep11 Nov. 19, 1978
Emma Bartlett asks the Saint to guard her father, a scientist who has recently invented a petrol substitute. She is concerned that he may be kidnapped or forced to defect because of his product. After a confrontation with a man who claims to be a secret service agent responsible for the professor's well-being, the Saint runs into the seductive Samantha, who works for the organization Genius Inc. which sells very clever people to the highest bidders. Meanwhile the professor disappears, lured by a fake telephone call to meet up with the Saint, who must rescue him before...

Signal Stop
S1, Ep12 Nov. 26, 1978
The Saint is on a train where he meets Janie Lennox. She tells him that she has just seen somebody being killed in an empty building the train passed by. The police can find no evidence of murder and inform the Saint that Janie has recently had psychiatric treatment but she sticks to her story and the Saint decides to investigate.

The Roman Touch
S1, Ep13 Dec. 3, 1978
In Rome the Saint meets up again with Michelle, a girl he has known since she was a child. She is now a successful pop singer but she is being over-stretched by her producer. She is also under threat from the local Mafia. The saint takes it upon himself to see if her twin problems are connected.

Tower Bridge Is Falling Down
S1, Ep14 Dec. 10, 1978
When Charlie Stewart is found dead on one of his demolition sites his daughter Jenny believes that he has been killed by his greedy business partner Ray Dennis, who had already defrauded him. The Saint sets a trap for Dennis.

The Debt Collectors
S1, Ep15 Dec. 17, 1978
The Saint rescues Jerri Hansen when her horse bolts in Hyde Park. She does not think it was accidental and tells the Saint that her sister has disappeared and she believes that she has been taken by agents to flush out a spy in the British Secret Service.The Saint agrees to help her locate the missing sibling.

Collision Course: The Brave Goose
S1, Ep16 Jan. 7, 1979
Oscar West is killed when his power boat blows up during a race, where the Saint has seen a shifty character of his acquaintance. Oscar's widow Annabelle sets off for the French Riviera to collect 'The Brave Goose', a luxury yacht left to her by her late husband, followed by associates of Oscar, who believe that she knows the whereabouts of the spoils of a gold bullion robbery in which he was involved. In order to get her to talk they trap her in a bull-ring with a fierce bull. Happily for her the Saint has also been on her trail.

Collision Course: The Sixth Man
S1, Ep17 Jan. 14, 1979
The Saint saves Annabelle from the bull-ring but she is adamant that she knows nothing about the gold bullion robbery. Having survived an attempt to murder him - in which a policeman is killed - the Saint takes Annabelle to the 'Brave Goose', where its captain, Captain Finnigan, tells them that Oscar West used to go to Corsica twice a year. The Saint believes that this is where the gold has been hidden and sets sail, followed by the villains and the police.

Hot Run
S1, Ep18 Jan. 21, 1979
In the ski resort of Cortina the Saint agrees to help ski instructor Diane Lang trace her brother's killer.

The Murder Cartel
S1, Ep19 Jan. 28, 1979
The Saint goes undercover to infiltrate the 'murder cartel', a gang of professional assassins who are threatening the life of the unpopular but influential oil sheik Kemal.

The Obono Affair
S1, Ep20 Feb. 4, 1979
The Saint is reluctant to act as bodyguard to the ruthless African president Obono. However he agrees to help the president's daughter Mora to discover who has kidnapped her little brother. The President's English aide, Colonel Dyson, a former S.A.S. officer seems to be a likely suspect.

Vicious Circle
S1, Ep21 Feb. 11, 1979
Roberto Lucci, a retired racing driver and husband of the successful fashion designer Renata, is killed in what appears to be a car accident. The Saint believes Roberto to have been too good a driver for his death to have been accidental and determines to investigate.

Dragonseed
S1, Ep22 Feb. 25, 1979
When a millionaire's son dies in a helicopter crash the Saint is certain that it was murder and sets out to find evidence to prove his case.

Appointment in Florence
S1, Ep23 Mar. 4, 1979
The Saint seeks to avenge his friend Christian who was killed by Italian terrorists.

The Diplomat's Daughter
S1, Ep24 Mar. 11, 1979
the Saint comes to the rescue of Marie de la Garde. She is the daughter of an ambassador and her irresponsible brother has notched up large gambling debts. Her pursuers are forcing him into smuggling drugs using their father's diplomatic immunity. The Saint agrees to help her.

Simon Templar is a modern day Robin Hood of sorts. He steals from rich criminals and keeps the loot for himself (usually in such a way as to put the rich criminals behind bars). He's dashing, suave, charming, and he's always one step ahead of the bulldog-like Inspector Claude Eustace Teal. This series chronicles his swashbuckling exploits.

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