#requested to do the 100th ep i quickly realised this almost certainly was NOT the 100th in production‚ what with the screwy transmission
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The Saint: Invitation to Danger (6.2, ITC, 1968)
"Just get out of the car."
"And if I don't?"
"You can make it hard or easy. Either way you lose."
"Let's make it hard."
#the saint#invitation to danger#1968#itc#leslie charteris#terry nation#roger moore#shirley eaton#robert hutton#julian glover#warren stanhope#bryan marshall#charles houston#leslie crawford#ros drinkwater#dennis chinnery#a milestone is reached. this is the 100th episode of the saint to air. what a marathon.. when i look back on starting this journey.. i was#so young.. so naive.. it's also Moore's 7th directing job on the show‚ his first for s6‚ and while i momentarily wondered if he'd specially#requested to do the 100th ep i quickly realised this almost certainly was NOT the 100th in production‚ what with the screwy transmission#orders etc. past Moore directed eps have to my mind skewed bigger and more expensive looking‚ but actually this is a fairly modest ep in#production terms‚ with a relatively small cast and only a few brief location scenes. if it is in any way Bigger then it's in the script‚ an#unusually labyrinthine plot from Nation which features frame ups on frame ups‚ triple and quadruple crosses and red herrings by the bucket#a welcome return for Eaton‚ not seen since s1‚ and Julian Glover is playing his typically sullen henchman part to perfection. one troubling#aside; Bryan Marshall's character is clearly intended to be a young‚ inexperienced member of the villain's gang‚ and he even gets referred#to as 'the kid' by Houston. this makes a later scene‚ in which Simon engineers his own escape by CRUSHING BRYAN UNDER A BARREL AND THEN#ABANDONING HIM IN A BURNING ROOM kind of deeply fucked up. he killed that kid. Simon you done killed a damn kid. wt actual f#forgive the caps but cmon. what the hell Moore. and he directed it too! sigh. but yeah this is a pretty good one‚ if bewilderingly plotted#in places. a lot going on. Charteris (who even at this point was fairly involved with the series‚ getting a look at scripts and plot#summaries in advance of production) was a great admirer of Nation's scripts for the series. no word on what he made of Moore's directing#i think he's pretty good for what it's worth!
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