RTBWTV Review show December 2022

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.

Co hosts Guy Morgan and David Newell consider the final black and white episodes of UK series 2, starring Roger Moore which have been unspooling on Talking Pictures Television.We examine The Gentle Ladies where Simon Templar gets very amorous and introduces a new trope which really gets his blood boiling...

The Ever Loving Spouse, where the very same trope is the engine for this Home Counties depiction of San Francisco.

And the Season finale, The Saint Sees It Through, set in Hamburg with sinister psychiatrists, seedy bars, dodgy art history, mock Swedish sailors and more than a hint of melancholy.

We've now reached halfway with the black and white episodes and the end of the first production block of 39 which propelled The Saint to syndication success in the United States. What pleasures await? Well, Season 3 is coming up shortly.........

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