The Saint's Return (1953 – Hayward) – aka The Saint's Girl Friday Le Saint mène la danse (1960 – Félix Marten) Le Saint prend l'affût (1966 – Jean Marais) The Fiction Makers (1968 – Roger Moore) – edited from episodes of The Saint Vendetta for the Saint (1969 – Moore) – edited from episodes of The Saint The Saint (1997 – Val Kilmer) In the 1930s, RKO purchased the rights to produce a film adaptation of Saint Overboard, but no such movie was ever produced. Television films The Saint and the Brave Goose (1979 made for TV – Ian Ogilvy) – edited from episodes of Return of the Saint The Saint in Manhattan (1987 made for TV – Andrew Clarke) The Saint – six 100-minute TV films, all starring Simon Dutton. Made for London Weekend Television (LWT) in the United Kingdom, it was postponed due to poor ratings, but went out as part of The Mystery Wheel of Adventure in the United States: The Saint: Wrong Number (21 July 1990, postponed from 14 July 1990 – Simon Dutton) The Saint: The Software Murders (4 August 1990 – Dutton) The Saint: The Brazilian Connection (2 September 1989 – Dutton) The Saint: The Blue Dulac (9 September 1989 – Dutton) The Saint: The Big Bang (28 July 1990 – Dutton) Fear in Fun Park, a.k.a. The Saint in Australia (14 July 1990, postponed from 16 September 1989 & 7 July 1990 – Dutton) The Saint (2017 made for TV – Adam Rayner) Television series This list only includes productions that became TV series, and does not include pilots. The Saint (1962–1969 – Roger Moore) Return of the Saint (1978–1979 – Ian Ogilvy) Note Three of the actors to play Templar — Roger Moore, Ian Ogilvy, and Simon Dutton — have been appointed vice presidents of "The Saint Club" that was founded by Leslie Charteris in 1936. On the stage In the late 1940s Charteris and sometime Sherlock Holmes scriptwriter Denis Green wrote a stage play titled The Saint Misbehaves. It was never publicly performed, as soon after writing it Charteris decided to focus on non-Saint work. For many years it was thought to be lost; however, two copies are known to exist in private hands, and correspondence relating to the play can be found in the Leslie Charteris Collection at Boston University. In comics The Saint appeared in a long-running series starting