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Monday, September 20, 2010
On May 6, 2010, BBC Audiobooks released a CD containing two episodes of The Saint in the UK, and in August they made them available in the USA as well. These are two of the three radio shows that were made in the 1990s and star Paul Rhys as Simon Templar. The episodes included are Saint Overboard and The Saint Plays With Fire. No word yet as to why The Saint Closes the Case has not been included.
This is a two-CD set, with a running time of 2 hours for the two BBC Radio 4 dramatizations of The Saint from 1995.
Neville Teller writes: Back in 1995 I put up to the BBC the idea of dramatising some of the Saint novels. We agreed on three titles, but the commissioning editor suggested that I dramatise two of them (“Saint Overboard” and “The Saint Plays With Fire”) while the third be given to Roger Danes to dramatise (“The Saint Closes the Case”). The director of all three was to be Matthew Walters, and he cast Paul Rhys as Simon Templar. The three 60-minute plays went on air at the end of August and the beginning of September 1995, and got pretty extensive, and complimentary, coverage on Radio Times and by the national radio critics. Even so, and despite intensive efforts, I have found it impossible to persuade the powers-that-be at the Beeb to accept any further Saint material. The good news is that BBC Radio 7 accepted the three plays onto their schedules quite early on, and listeners have had several chances over the years to hear them again. Now, with my two dramatisations issued by BBC Worldwide as part of their Radio Collection, those two at least are now freely available for people to enjoy. Paul Rhys stars as The Saint in these two full-cast dramatizations, co-starring Patsy Kensit as Loretta, and Fiona Fullerton as Valerie. The series was dramatized by Neville Teller and Roger Danes. These two thrilling radio dramas of The Saint are full of the charm and verve of the original stories.
The Saint BBC Radio set is available from both Amazon USA and Amazon UKLabels: 2010, BBC, Old-Time Radio, Paul Rhys
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Saturday, September 04, 2010
On September 14, 2010, Radio Spirits will be releasing The Saint is Heard, a 10-CD audio set featuring 20 episodes from the old radio series of The Saint, starring Vincent Price. These episodes, which have been digitally remastered, are a selection from those starring Vincent Price and Barry Sullivan as the Brighter Buccaneer. The set also includes a detailed program guide by Ian Dickerson.
"The Saint--sprung from the pen of Leslie Charteris, his adventures fill thirty books, a dozen motion pictures--and now, by radio, he is yours for the next half hour."
Simon Templar, played by Vincent Price, was wealthy and refined. He was well dressed, well traveled, and well educated. He was also The Saint, the "Robin Hood of modern crime," who was not afraid to break the law if that's what had to be done to ensure that justice was served.
Larry Dobkin, who also stepped in to play The Saint in a single radio epsiode, co-stars in his usual role as Louie the Cabbie in these digitally restored and remastered tales that find Templar sailing, skiing, and delving in to the disparate worlds of mining, baseball, prizefighting, mystery writing, and more. The Saint sets all manner of matters straight, all the while maintaining excellent form.
Includes a Program Guide written by Ian Dickerson, featuring photographs and a series history.
Episodes Include: The Saint Goes Underground 07-31-49, Greed Causes Murder 08-14-49, A Schizophrenic Psychiatrist (a.k.a. The Colorblind Killer) 09-18-49, The Sinister Sneeze 06-11-50, The Problem of the Peculiar Payoff 07-09-50, Follow the Leader 07-16-50, The Frightened Author 07-23-50, The Case of the Previewed Crime 07-30-50, The Corpse Said Ouch 08-06-50, Cupid and the Corpse 08-27-50, Baseball Murder 09-03-50, The Horrible Hamburger 09-10-50, The Ghost That Giggled 09-17-50, Dossier on a Doggone Dog 09-24-50, It's Snow Use 10-29-50, Miss Godby's School for Girls 11-05-50, The Dame on the Doorstep 11-12-50, No Hiding Place 11-19-50, The Terrible Tintype 11-26-50, Martin Hickerson, Private Eye 12-03-50
There is more information about The Saint on Radio available on www.saint.org, and The Saint is Heard is available directly from Radio Spirits.Labels: 2010, CD, Ian Dickerson, Old-Time Radio, Vincent Price
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
 Steve Chaput has posted an interesting essay about The Saint on Old Time Radio.
Steve's blog, Skot's Shack, is devoted to all the things that are fun to talk about: Old Time Radio, classic television, westerns, comic strips, and comic books.
More about The Saint on Old-Time Radio.Labels: 2007, Old-Time Radio, Vincent Price
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
 On Mon, October 2, 2006, The Saint was featured in Episode 66 of the Radio Detective Story Hour.
This 42 minute show is available for download in MP3 format as a PodCast and features a brief description and history of Simon Templar, The Saint, and Leslie Charteris, with descriptions of the films, movies, books, and television shows.
There is a brief interview with Dick Fiddy, author of So You're The Famous Simon Templar.
It also features the complete March 4, 1951 radio episode, What-Not What Got Hot, with Vincent Price as The Saint.Labels: 2007, Dick Fiddy, Old-Time Radio, Vincent Price
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
LimeWire is a useful tool for finding old-time radio (OTR) shows like The Saint, starring Vincent Price.
LimeWire allows you to search for multiple files at the same time, available in several different languages, and is most famous for its ease-of-use and cross-platform compatibility. LimeWire will run on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris, and other operating systems.Labels: 2007, Old-Time Radio, Vincent Price
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Sunday, November 05, 2006
 Radiolovers.com is a site featuring free old time Radio shows
They offer hundreds of vintage radio shows for you to listen to online in mp3 format, all for free. Before the days of video games, shopping malls, MTV, and the Internet, families used to sit in their living room each night to listen to radio shows such as Abbott and Costello, The Saint, Superman, Groucho Marx, Bulldog Drummond, The Avenger, Gunsmoke, Sherlock Homes, The Shadow, and many others. When TV become popular in the 1950's, most of these shows went off the air, but they now live on at websites such as this one and on weekly nostalgia radio broadcasts worldwide.
The offer quite a nice selection of The Saint starring Vincent Price. I hope they add more from the complete list to their site in the near future!Labels: 2006, Old-Time Radio, TV, Vincent Price
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Saturday, September 02, 2006
It has been a long time in coming, and the new The Saint Radio Episodes Guide has finally been posted to this site. I have had this material in my manuscript for over 12 years, and it is finally time to make it public.Labels: 2006, Old-Time Radio
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