 Sir Roger Moore features throughout in cameo as the BBC Newsreader heard in Simon Templar's Volvo.Actor Roger Moore brought Simon Templar to the new medium of television in the series "The Saint", which ran from 1962 to 1969, and Moore remains the actor most closely identified with the character.According to the book Spy Television by Wesley Britton, the first actor offered the role was Patrick McGoohan of "Danger Man" and "The Prisoner."