Simon Templar is a thief known as the Saint because of his initials (ST), and because his heroic exploits fly in the face of an otherwise nefarious reputation. Templar has aliases, often using the initials S.T. such as “Sebastian Tombs” or “Sugarman Treacle”. Blessed with boyish humor, he makes humorous and off-putting remarks, and leaves a “calling card” at his “crimes,” a stick-figure of a man with a halo.
The Saint’s longest-running radio incarnation was Vincent Price, who played the character in a series between 1947 and 1951 on three networks: CBS, Mutual and NBC. Like The Whistler, the program had an opening whistle theme with footsteps. Some sources say the whistling theme for The Saint was by Leslie Charteris, while others credit RKO composer Roy Webb. |
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