The Death Penalty

Another SAINT episode with an exotic setting, this time Marseilles. The presence of Templar in a white tuxedo makes this feel more like a Bond movie than ever, and Moore even makes a few quips along the way. There the similarities end, however. THE DEATH PENALTY is one of the weaker episodes of the show, saddled with a too-familiar tale of criminals falling out. Templar heads to the south of France and finds the beautiful Wanda Ventham (SPACE 1999) the object of a battle between rival gangsters. There's the requisite action and snarling villains, but it's all a bit passe and back-and-forth, and didn't really appeal.