The Saint

Name: The Saint
Genre: Drama

1962–1969ITVDrama

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Roger Moore as Simon Templar, with the halo appearing over his head at the end of the cold open.

One opening sequence is catalogued for The Saint, covering season 1.

It arrived on ITV in 1962, when The Sooty Show, Ivor the Engine and Danger Man were also on the network.

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The opening titles

No usable clip verified. The only result failed the frame-motion check — a static image with the theme over it.

No footage of this sequence has been found yet.

1960–ITVDrama

The longest-running television soap in the world, opening on rooftops and a cornet ever since 1960.

1965–NBCDrama

"Like sands through the hourglass" — the same sentence, over the same hourglass, for sixty years.

1964–1968NBCDrama

Sixties spy graphics and a brass chart, in the register every subsequent spy show either copied or reacted against.

1965–1969CBSDrama

An animated frontier vignette that pauses on four panels of a comic strip — a western opening built like a title card for a serial.

1962–1971NBCDrama

The first ninety-minute western on American television, and the third longest-running of them all.

1968–2012ABCDrama

Llanview, and the first American daytime serial written around class and ethnicity rather than around a hospital.