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The Saint logo next to P958-X2 at Volvo Museum. The Volvo P1800 received prominence in the early 1960s when a white 1962 Volvo P1800 with number plate ST1 was driven by the character Simon Templar (Roger Moore) in the TV series The Saint (1962–1969). The car became intimately linked to the show and helped raise Volvo's profile at the time. [18]
The first of these books, which gave cover credit to Charteris, but were actually written by others, was The Saint on TV, and the series of novelisations continued for several years after the television programme had ended. The Saint drove a Volvo P1800 in the series. Templar's car, when it appeared, was a white Volvo P1800 with the number ...
Together with Adrienne (Shirley Eaton), a glamorous insurance agent, Simon Templar must protect a woman from her wife-killing husband. The Saint parks his car outside The Ferry Inn, Cookham. NOTE: Shirley Eaton (in what would be many connections to the movie franchise in the series' run) played Jill Masterson in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger.
The Saint is the nickname of the fictional character Simon Templar, featured in a series of novels and short stories by Leslie Charteris published between 1928 and 1963. . After that date other authors collaborated with Charteris on books until 1983; two additional works produced without Charteris's participation were published in
Return of the Saint is a revival/updating of The Saint, a programme based upon the stories of Leslie Charteris that had originally aired from 1962 to 1969, and starred Roger Moore as Simon Templar (the character, in turn, had been introduced by Charteris in a series of novels and short stories dating back to 1928).
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The Persuaders! used many of the resources of Moore's previous show, The Saint. These included locations, and the idea of reusing many of the visible vehicles from episode to episode. The series' synth-laden theme music was composed by John Barry.
He is best known as the star of the television series Return of the Saint (1978–79), in which he assumed the role of Simon Templar from Roger Moore (1962–69). [5]The role led to his being considered a leading contender for the role of James Bond in the early 1980s, when Moore announced his intention to leave the role.