A COMPASSIONATE LOG OF THE SAINT

Charles Laughlin

Here is a partial log of only the available episodes of THE SAINT. No attempt is made here to list episodes not available to collectors from our beloved vendors.

This has been very much a team effort. I wish to acknowledge the valuable assistance of Steve Finkelstein, Arlene Osborne, Jack Mann and Randy Minnehan in bringing this project this far. Thanks also to Ted Davenport of Radio Memories for supplying much needed material.

Every OTR collector's good friend, Frank Passage, shared a partial log he had started some time ago, but was unable to complete due to the lack of the official script titles. I especially want to thank Ian Dickerson of the Saint Club for his generous help in providing the crucial official script titles, dates and other information. We all look forward to his biography of Leslie Charteris.

Each episode is listed first in chronological order, and then alphabetically under the official script title, followed in parentheses by alternate titles as sold by various vendors. There

follows the date of broadcast and the star who played Simon Templar.

There is still some confusion about whether some of the available early episodes were the CBS versions, or the later repeats on MBS.

I call this a "compassionate" log because it gives the opening scene and dialogue for each episode for aid in identification. Just listen to the first moments of your tape and you should be able to match up the correct script title.

Saint, The (w/ Vincent Price, Tom Conway, Barry Sullivan in the title

role; official script and alternate titles noted; dates written

Mo/D/Yr; notes on opening scene to aid identification)

CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER:

10/15/47 Gangster District Attorney, A (Mr. Important)

7/31/49 Saint Goes Underground (orig. 12/17/47; Silver

Mine; Connolly Silver Mine)

8/14/49 Greed Causes Murder (Mr. Imperfect; Old Man's

Car; Mr. Ritchie's Loss)

9/18/49 Schizophrenic Psychiatrist, A (Color Blind Killer;

Barbara Brooks Case)

11/6/49 Case of the Unhappy Homicide (Prove I Killed

Carter; Prove I Did It)

11/13/49 Blond Who Lost Her Head (Fake Amnesia Killer;

Dorothy Moore)

1/8/50 Cake That Killed, The (Case of the Missing Cake;

Purloined Pastry)

6/11/50 Sinister Sneeze, The (Knockout Can Be Murder; The

Prize Fighter; Breckenridge Is Afraid)

6/18/50 Sonata For Slayers (Music Names a Killer; Music

Murder; Music Manuscript Murder; Beethoven)

7/2/50 Real Gone Guy (Search For a Killer; Music Can Be

Murder)

7/9/50 Problem of the Peculiar Payoff (Contract on the

Saint; Contract for a Saint)

7/16/50 Follow the Leader (Death of the Saint; Hunt For

Carl Bruder; Hitler Protege)

7/23/50 Frightened Author, The (Murder Is Stranger Than

Fiction; The Fighter's Contract; The Fighter's

Story; The Fighter's Storybook)

7/30/50 Case of the Previewed Crime (Prescription for

Murder; Author of Murder)

8/6/50 Corpse Said Ouch, The (Dead Girl's Diamonds;

Frances Blake Case)

8/13/50 Reflection on Murder (Murder in the Theater)

8/27/50 Cupid & the Corpse (Tony Cartega Case; Counterfeit

Bonds)

9/3/50 Baseball Murder (Alias, The Fixer)

9/10/50 Horrible Hamburger (The Mislaid Corpse)

9/17/50 Ghost That Giggled, The (The Key)

9/24/50 Dossier on a Doggone Dog (It Shouldn't Happen To a

Dog; Dognappers)

10/29/50 It's Snow Use (Wanted As a Husband; The Saint Gets

Married)

11/5/50 Miss Godby's School for Girls (The Kidnapped

Daughter)

11/12/50 Dame on the Doorstep, The (Return of Harry Morgan;

Harry Morgan's Revenge)

11/19/50 No Hiding Place (Everyone Wants to Kill Tommy;

Murder Plot in Prison; Murder Plot; Nancy

Pacheck Case)

11/26/50 Terrible Tintype, The (The Missing Picture; Picture

of Murder)

12/3/50 Martin Hickerson, Private Eye (The Detective, the

Colonel and $50,000; The Young Detective; Playing

At Detective)

12/10/50 Chiseling Chimpanzee, The (Don't Monkey with

Murder; The Monkey; Monkey Business)

12/17/50 Simon Minds the Baby (The Fight; The Champ's Kid)

12/24/50 Santa Claus Is No Saint (Christmas Eve Problems;

Christmas Jewels)

1/7/51 Ladies Never Lie -- Much (Early Confession; The

Alive Dead Husband)

1/14/51 Simon Takes a Curtain Call (Mercer Bennett; The

Actor; The Aging Actor)

1/21/51 Tuba or Not Tuba, That's the Question (The Tuba

Player)

2/4/51 Carnival Murder, The (The Carnival; Under the

Carnival)

2/11/51 Bride Who Lost Her Groom, The (The Missing

Bridegroom)

2/18/51 Next of Kin (Noon Deadline)

2/25/51 Big Swindle, The (The Amnesia Victim; Mr. Sugar)

3/4/51 What-Not what got Hot, The (The Furniture Move;

Stolen Furniture; Claire Wayne Case)

3/11/51 Button, Button (The Shipboard Mystery; Stolen

Paintings; The Orlando Button Case)

3/18/51 Birds and Bees of East Orange, The (The Bookstore

Murder; Mae Owen Case)

3/25/51 Formula For Death (The Intruder; The Formula;

Roland P. Archibald Case)

4/1/51 Simon Carries the Ivy (College Campus Threat)

4/8/51 Ghosts Who Came to Dinner (Hawthorne House Mystery)

4/15/51 Strange Bedfellows (The Mayor's Son)

4/22/51 Lady Who Leaned, The (Lady Has a Gun; Missing

Gun)

4/29/51 Fishes Gotta Eat (Missing Husband)

5/20/51 Pin No Roses On My Corpse (The Red Rose)

5/27/51 Children's Crusade (The Military Instructor)

6/3/51 Girl With the Lower Berth (Train of Events; The

Train)

7/1/51 Death of a Cowboy (The Cowboy; Eyewitness to Murder)

7/8/51 Satan's Angels (Missing Angels; Angels and the

Missing Second Trombone)

7/15/51 No, My Darling Daughter (The Nursemaid; Win, Place,

Show and Murder)

ALPHABETICAL ORDER, WITH ACTOR & INITIAL SCENE:

Baseball Murder (Alias, The Fixer)

9/3/50 V. Price

Tires screech, "Going to the ball game, huh Mr. Templar?"

Big Swindle, The (The Amnesia Victim; Mr. Sugar)

2/25/51 V. Price

Door bell. "Just a moment." Door opens, "Yes?" Man's voice, "Are you Simon Templar, the man they call the Saint?" "Yes, I am." "Who am I?" "Ah, what do I get if I come up with the right answer?"

Birds and Bees of East Orange, The (The Bookstore Murder; Mae

Owen Case)

3/18/51 V. Price

A man hums "Farmer in the Dell" as he walks into a bookstore and is killed.

Blond Who Lost Her Head (Fake Amnesia Killer; Dorothy Moore)

11/13/49 V. Price

Steps and street sounds. "Taxi! Taxi!" Car stops. "4500 Sutter, please."

Bride Who Lost Her Groom, The (The Missing Bridegroom)

2/11/51 V. Price

Traffic noise. Woman yells, "Taxi! Taxi!" "Personally, lady, the name is Louie, but ah..." Lady jumps in, "Please hurry!"

Button, Button (The Shipboard Mystery; Stolen Paintings;

The Orlando Button Case)

3/11/51 V. Price

Doorbell. The Saint says, "Just a moment please." Opens door. Oriental voice, "Mr. Templar, Mr. Simon Templar?" "And if I say yes?" "Ah, I am a George." "Congratulations."

Cake That Killed, The (Case of the Missing Cake; Purloined

Pastry)

1/8/50 V. Price

Shop door opens. "Evening, Sir, and welcome to the Bachelor's Friend."

Carnival Murder, The (The Carnival; Under the Carnival)

2/4/51 V. Price

Carnival sounds. "Just step a little closer if you will my friend, you might be the start of a mighty insurgent throng."

Case of the Previewed Crime (Prescription for Murder; Author

of Murder)

7/30/50 V. Price

"Mr. Templar, Mr. Templar!" "I'm asleep." "Mr. Templar!" "Noisy dream."

Case of the Unhappy Homicide (Prove I Killed Carter; Prove I

Did It)

11/6/49 (rerun of 3/3/48) V. Price

"Waiter!" "Yes, Monsieur?" "Waiter, would you tell the chef of this unhappy restaurant that he'd make a better shoemaker?"

Children's Crusade (The Military Instructor; 1st T. Conway

episode)

5/27/51 T. Conway

Door bell rings. Steps, and the Saint says, "Coming, coming." Door opens. A woman's voice, "Mr. Templar?" "Yes. And you of course are Miss Kitridge."

Chiseling Chimpanzee, The (Don't Monkey with Murder; The

Monkey; Monkey Business)

12/10/50 V. Price

Telephone rings. Saint says sleepily,"I'mout of town!" Ring. "I'm curled up in front of a fire with a good book!"

Corpse Said Ouch, The (Dead Girl's Diamonds; Frances Blake Case)

8/6/50 V. Price

Pounding on door. "I'm not home!" More pounding. "It's the middle of the night and I'm asleep!"

Cupid & the Corpse (Tony Cartega Case; Counterfeit Bonds)

8/27/50 V. Price

Sound of car. "You know something, Simon Darling?" "Some things, Ann..."

Dame on the Doorstep, The (Return of Harry Morgan; Harry Morgan's Revenge)

11/12/50 V. Price

Steps. Saint singing, "If a body meets a body..."

Death of a Cowboy (The Cowboy; Eyewitness to Murder)

7/1/51 Tom Conway

Door bell rings, steps. "Coming." Door opens. "Yes?" "Ain't you gonna ask me in..."

Dossier on a Doggone Dog (It Shouldn't Happen To a Dog; Dognappers)

9/24/50 B. Sullivan

Steps and street noise. "Hey Mr. Templar!" "Well, Louie, that's what I call service, parked right in front of my apartment."

Fishes Gotta Eat (Missing Husband)

4/29/51 V. Price

Waterfront sounds. Man's voice, "I Don't like it around here, Rico." "The waterfront? What's the matter with it?"

Follow the Leader (Death of the Saint; Hunt For Carl Bruder; Hitler Protege)

7/16/50 V. Price

Frantic knocking on door. Woman's voice,"Oh, open up, hurry!"

Formula For Death (The Intruder; The Formula; Roland P. Archibald Case)

3/25/51 V. Price

Door opens and sound of steps. Man's voice, "Ah, good afternoon, Mr. Templar." "Oh, good afternoon," replies the Saint. "Come in sir."

Frightened Author, The (Murder Is Stranger Than Fiction; The Fighter's Contract; The Fighter's Story; The Fighter's Storybook)

7/23/50 V. Price

"Templar!" "Well, if it isn't Randy Paterson."

Gangster District Attorney, A (Mr. Important)

10/15/47 V. Price

Knocks on door. "Come in!" "Oooh...Oh, it's you again." "Yeah, its me again,

Saint. I told you I'd be back for an answer."

Ghost That Giggled, The (The Key)

9/17/50 B. Sullivan

Birds chirping, Saint walking in park, humming and bumps into a lady. "Oh, I beg your pardon!"

Ghosts Who Came to Dinner (Hawthorne House Mystery)

4/8/51 V. Price

Car sounds and thunder. "Hey, Mr. Templar, it's starting to rain."

Girl With the Lower Berth (Train of Events; The Train)

6/3/51 Tom Conway

Train whistle. Girl's voice, "Mind if I sit down here, Mister?"

Greed Causes Murder (Mr. Imperfect; Old Man's Car; Mr. Ritchie's Loss)

8/14/49 V. Price

Steps and street noise. Door opens. "Help, help!" "Hey, what's going on here?" "Keep outa this buddy, its...well if it ain't the Saint."

Horrible Hamburger (The Mislaid Corpse)

9/10/50 V. Price

Street noises. "Taxi! Taxi!" Screech of tires. "Among men who know locomotion

best, it's Louie three to one."

It's Snow Use (Wanted As a Husband; The Saint Gets Married)

10/29/50 V. Price

Train whistle. The Saint says, "Ummm. Snow sports. Who likes them? Ski trains, ha!"

Ladies Never Lie -- Much (Early Confession; The Alive Dead Husband)

1/7/51 V. Price

Doorbell. "Coming." Door opens, woman's voice, "Mr. Templar." "Yes?" "Let me in,

quickly!"

Lady Who Leaned, The (Lady Has a Gun; Missing Gun)

4/22/51 V. Price

Restaurant sounds. "Mr. Templar!" "Yes Dugan?" "You ever think much about life?

Martin Hickerson, Private Eye (The Detective, the Colonel and $50,000; The Young Detective; Playing At Detective)

12/3/50 V. Price

Dishes rattle in restaurant. "Will there be anything for desert, Mr. Templar?"

Miss Godby's School for Girls (The Kidnapped Daughter)

11/5/50 V. Price

Phone rings. The Saint groans and fumbles with it and says, "Hu-hu-hullo." Male voice, "Good morning, this Simon Templar, the Saint?" "Good morning," replies the Saint, "I'll tell him when he comes in."

Next of Kin (Noon Deadline)

2/18/51 V. Price

Insistent buzzing at door. Saint yawns and groans. "Alright, alright, I'mcoming. Wait until I put my head on, can't ya?"

No Hiding Place (Everyone Wants to Kill Tommy; Murder Plot in Prison; Murder Plot; Nancy Paycheck Case)

11/19/50 V. Price

Steps, cell doors open. "Right in here."

No, My Darling Daughter (The Nursemaid; Win, Place, Show and Murder)

7/15/51 Tom Conway

Doorbell, door opens. "Yes?" "I'm Simon Templar. I have an appointment with, ahhh, ..."

Pin No Roses On My Corpse (The Red Rose)

5/20/51 V. Price (his last episode)

Dishes rattle. "Would you like some more coffee, madam?" "No thank you, Chester."

Doorbell rings.

Problem of the Peculiar Payoff (Contract on the Saint; Contract for a Saint)

7/9/50 V. Price

Street noises. Saint yells, "Taxi! Taxi!" "You don't want a taxi, Mr. Templar. I've got a car right here."

Real Gone Guy (Search For a Killer; Music Can Be Murder)

7/2/50 V. Price

Clock ticking, phone rings waking Saint.

"Oh...Hello, Templar's Mortuary."

Reflection on Murder (Murder in the Theater)

8/13/50 V. Price

Two shots. A woman screams. "What's happened? What's wrong?"

Saint Goes Underground (orig. 12/17/47; Silver Mine; Connolly Silver Mine)

7/31/49 V. Price

Airplane sounds. "Anything wrong, captain?"

Santa Claus Is No Saint (Christmas Eve Problems; Christmas Jewels)

12/24/50 V. Price

Doorbell rings. The Saint calls, "Come in!" "Hi, Mr. Templar." "Oh, hello

Louie." "Where are your?" "I'm in my room, I'll be ready in a minute."

Satan's Angels (Missing Angels; Angels and the Missing Second Trombone)

7/8/51 Tom Conway

Tinkling of glasses, "Here you are, Mr

Templar!" "Thanks, Julius."

Schizophrenic Psychiatrist, A (Color Blind Killer; Barbara Brooks Case)

9/18/49 V. Price

Ship noises. "Hello! How is my favorite shipboard acquaintance this evening?"

Simon Carries the Ivy (College Campus Threat)

4/1/51 V. Price

Door buzzer (twice). "Coming, coming!"

Door opens. Man's voice, "Good morning Templar"

Simon Minds the Baby (The Fight; The Champ's Kid)

12/17/50 V. Price

Phone rings. Steps, then Saint answers,

"Hello?" "Mr. Templar?" "Yes." "Joe Collins."

Simon Takes a Curtain Call (Mercer Bennett; The Actor; The Aging Actor)

1/14/51 V. Price

"They say, each man kills the thing he loves."

Sinister Sneeze, The (Knockout Can Be Murder; The Prize Fighter; Breckenridge Is Afraid)

6/11/50 V. Price

Saint on street humming the theme song.

Girl's voice, "Excuse me, but is the seat next to you taken?"

Sonata For Slayers (Music Names a Killer; Music Murder; Music Manuscript Murder; Beethoven)

6/18/50 V. Price

Bar scene, piano music. "Proof that the language of music is a truly universal

one, Mr. Templar."

Strange Bedfellows (The Mayor's Son)

4/15/51 V. Price

Phone rings. Steps. "Hello?" "This is long distance, I have a call for Mr. Simon

Templar." "This is he." "One moment please. Hello Kenton, I have your party on the line."

Terrible Tintype, The (The Missing Picture; Picture of Murder)

11/26/50 V. Price

Louie's voice, "Ya ta ta ta, ya dam, ..."

Door bell rings. "On my way, Mr. Templar." Door opens. Woman's voice,

"Hands up!"

Tuba or Not Tuba, That's the Question (The Tuba Player)

1/21/51 V. Price

Doorbell rings. Saint goes to answer it humming his theme song. Opens the door.

"Hi, Mr. Templar!" "Well, Theodore!"

What-Not what got Hot, The (The Furniture Move; Stolen Furniture; Claire Wayne Case)

3/4/51 V. Price

Sound of car engine. "Hey, Mr. Templar!"

"Yes Louie?" "You look tired." "I am a bit."

***END OF LOG***

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Carleton University CANADA J0X 3G0

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