The Saint (Roger Moore) 8×10″

Before he was 007, Roger Moore was already a household name as Simon Templar, “The Saint.” The Saint was the creation of Leslie Charteris in the 1920s but in the 1960s Roger Moore gave new life and popularity to this character. Just as sauve and debonair as Bond, Simon Templar traveled the world solving crimes, wooing women and getting into plenty of scuffles with the bad guys. The show is a time capsule of style and fashion throughout the decade of the 60s and it’s fun to see how the fashions change throughout the run of this show. The show ran from 1962 to 1969, first in black and white and then in color. The openers of the shows are always a kick. Templar witnesses some evil deed or gets into a scrape and someone always ends up saying something like, “Of course everyone knows the famous Simon Templar,” and then the halo appears above Moore’s head. In the earlier episodes he even throws a glance upward as though he knows the halo is there.

In the earlier black and white episodes, Templar “breaks the fourth wall” by talking to us, the audience, and filling us in on what’s in store for us in the episode. I kind of like that.

If you’re a Roger Moore fan then you already know about The Saint. Perhaps, like me, you even feel he did a better job as Templar than as Bond.

This is a series of 11 prints.

These prints are approximately 8″x10″ on watercolor paper, All screen prints ship UNFRAMED.