OTR

I admit, I wasn't initially sold on the old radio programme with Vincent Price as Simon Templar - he is so very unabashedly British in my mind, you know, and Vincent Price is so very unabashedly not, that at first I had difficulty overcoming my prejudice against the non-English.  But the character isn't necessarily a limey - there's really nothing in the personality that requires a British background - and Saintly escapades work just as well in New York City, after all - and so once I'd given it a fair open-minded listen, the performance really won me over.  Price's portrayal is spot-on, with that peculiar mix of whimsy and cunning which I so adore, and the scripts are generally quite humourous.

"Men rarely commit suicide by stabbing themselves in the back; they find it inconvenient or something."

Amusingly, the programme seems to have been sponsored by Organized Religion.

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( Contains extremely mild spoilers for one of the Saint books - I mean MILD, it's something that is mentioned in the prologue AND the chapter titles, so it doesn't count. )