The Best Episodes of The Saint Season 5
Every episode of The Saint Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Saint Season 5!
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
Season 5 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Saint" season 5 is "The Queen's Ransom", rated 7.5/10 from 226 user votes. It was directed by Roy Ward Baker and written by Leigh Vance. "The Queen's Ransom" aired on 9/30/1966 and is rated 0.5 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Interlude in Venice".
7.5/10 226 votes#1 - The Queen's Ransom
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1966
The Saint helps a disposed mid east ruler recover jewels needed to fund a counter coop.
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Writer: Leigh Vance
7.0/10 187 votes#2 - Interlude in Venice
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1966
The Saint gets involved in a gangsters revenge plot against a lawyer.
Director: Leslie Norman
Writer: Paddy Manning O'Brine
7.6/10 186 votes#3 - The Russian Prisoner
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1966
A Russian Physicist wants to defect to the United States.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Writer: Harry W. Junkin
7.0/10 162 votes#4 - The Reluctant Revolution
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1966
The Saint gets involved in a banana republic's revolution.
Director: Leslie Norman
Writer: John Stanton
7.1/10 166 votes#5 - The Helpful Pirate
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1966
A South American Dictator falls under the influence of a corrupt British scientist.
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Writer: Roy Russell
7.1/10 183 votes#6 - The Convenient Monster
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1966
The Loch Ness Monster gets blamed for murders in Scotland.
Director: Leslie Norman
Writer: Terence Feely
7.2/10 169 votes#7 - The Angel's Eye
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1966
In Amsterdam a respectable gem cutter denies ever seeing a diamond that was sent to him.
Director: Leslie Norman
Writer: Harry W. Junkin
6.5/10 165 votes#8 - The Man Who Liked Lions
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1966
Simon uncovers a strange cult that worships ancient Rome.
Director: Jeremy Summers
Writer: Harry W. Junkin
7.4/10 162 votes#9 - The Better Mousetrap
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1966
It appears that Simon is involved in a Riviera jewel robbery.
Director: Gordon Flemyng
Writer: Leigh Vance
7.2/10 168 votes#10 - Little Girl Lost
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1966
Simon helps a girl who claims to be Hitler's daughter escape from Nazis.
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Writer: Leigh Vance
7.4/10 148 votes#11 - Paper Chase
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1966
A civil servant has defected with top secret files.
Director: Leslie Norman
Writer: Harry W. Junkin
7.4/10 168 votes#12 - Locate and Destroy
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1966
In South America, the Saint helps an Israeli agent capture a fugitive Nazi.
Director: Leslie Norman
Writer: John Stanton
7.1/10 168 votes#13 - Flight Plan
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/23/1966
A nun in high heels has Simon involved with a VTOL plane theft that Simon has to learn to fly very quickly.
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Writer: Alfred Shaughnessy
7.6/10 186 votes#14 - Escape Route
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 12/30/1966
Simon gets himself put in jail to infiltrate a gang specializing in jail breaks.
Director: Roger Moore
Writer: Michael Winder
7.3/10 157 votes#15 - The Persistent Patriots
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/6/1967
Simon investigates an assignation attempt against the prime minister of a British colony.
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Writer: Michael Pertwee
7.1/10 156 votes#16 - The Fast Women
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 1/13/1967
Simon investigates murder attempt on female race car driver.
Director: Leslie Norman
Writer: Leigh Vance
7.2/10 154 votes#17 - The Death Game
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 1/20/1967
Simon tries to stop an alliance between a crime ring and psychology students who plan murders.
Director: Leslie Norman
Writer: Harry W. Junkin
7.4/10 153 votes#18 - The Art Collectors
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 1/27/1967
Simon meets several people who are after 3 lost Da Vinci's.
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Writer: Michael Pertwee
7.4/10 151 votes#19 - To Kill a Saint
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 2/24/1967
After an attempted assassination Simon tries to find out who has a contract out on him.
Director: Robert Asher
Writer: Michael Winder
7.1/10 146 votes#20 - The Counterfeit Countess
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 3/3/1967
Simon is on the trail of counterfeit money.
Director: Leslie Norman
Writer: Philip Broadley
6.7/10 166 votes#21 - Simon and Delilah
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 3/24/1967
A hated movie queen and her co-star are kidnapped.
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Writer: C. Scott Forbes
6.9/10 151 votes#22 - Island of Chance
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 4/7/1967
Simon journeys to the West Indies to find the murderer of an old friend.
Director: Leslie Norman
Writer: Leigh Vance
7.5/10 159 votes#23 - The Gadget Lovers
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 4/21/1967
Simon joins up with Russian agent in finding agent killer.
Director: Jim O'Connolly
Writer: John Kruse
7.3/10 152 votes#24 - A Double in Diamonds
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 5/5/1967
Simon is led into a plot to steal a necklace while investigating the murder of a jeweler.
Director: John Gilling
Writer: Harry W. Junkin, Derek Ford, Donald Ford
6.7/10 138 votes#25 - The Power Artists
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 5/19/1967
Simon gets framed for murder after a visit to an artist's studio.
Director: Leslie Norman
Writer: John Kruse