RTBWTV Review show January 23rd 2023

We take a leisurely swim (rather than a deep dive) through the classic television that flitted across the black and white screens of the UK from the Suez crisis of 1956 until the three day week in 1974.

As is traditional, we have reviews of the black and white episodes of Roger Moore's Saint, currently going out on the UK's Talking Pictures TV.

This week, co hosts Guy Morgan and David Newell consider The Scorpion in which Nyree Dawn Porter acquits herself well, and Catweazle's Geoffrey Bayldon may not be as benign as he makes out.

Also, The Revolution Racket - tropes ahoy! Writer Terry Nation puts in twist after twist. Are Ed Bishop and Suzanne Lloyd really brother and sister? Is that a real South American dockyard? And who are the ultimate beneficiaries of Simon Templar's purloined loot?

Finally, in The Saint Steps In, self referential irony is the order of the day. And the Saint has a choice of two blonde women in their twenties, probably about 5'6". Which one should he choose, the nice one or the naughty one? There's henchmen, sinister Peter Vaughan and Geoffrey Keen warming up for his stint in The Troubleshooters. Is he really the benevolent capitalist he appears to be?

All these questions will be answered in this bumper, mega review show fandango.

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