The Diplomat's Daughter

The final episode of The Return of the Saint. There was no return for Ian Ogilvy.

This one really has a dash of James Bond in the proceedings. It also riffed from some of the older Saint stories such as The Revolution Racket.

Simon Templar comes to the assistance of pretty Marie De La Garde (Lynn Dalby) who had earlier overtaken him. She has been harassed by two men.

Her brother Pierre (Murray Head) has gambling debts and they want him to carry drugs over to Britain in the diplomatic bag by car via a ferry. Their father is an ambassador and has diplomatic immunity.

The Saint agrees to help them out from the baddie Shriber, but somehow everyone else seems to be one step ahead. At other times some vital information falls completely on his lap.

There were bound to be a few twists and double crosses. Not everyone who they seem to appear. It was a good yarn, some of the fight scenes such as in the garage where the Saint gets involved in a tyre throwing contest was a bit weird. The story does not make much sense though.

It was a shame though that Ogilvy could not continue. I guess the series was too expensive to be made and times in Britain got tougher. Escapist adventure shows seemed a bit old hat during that era.