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Was Simon Templar ever knocked out?

posted 11 years ago by marik4me
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I heard that the author of the books gave as a stipulation for the TV show that Simon Templar could never be badly injured. But what about mildly injured? Say, the common practice in detective shows of the main character getting knocked out but not really being too much the worse for wear for it. (Okay, not realistic, but eh.) It's admittedly hard to imagine the clever and crafty Simon being knocked out by anyone, but since it happens to so many of the best, did it ever happen to him?

[–] marik4me 11 years ago

I can now answer my own question. Simon is briefly knocked out in The Inescapable Word. Any other instances?

[–] marik4me 11 years ago

LOL, The Man Who Liked Lions. Certainly one of the strangest episodes, but a lot of fun. And knockouts ... oh man. First poor Simon gets clonked on the head by his friend, who was really trying to hit a crook. Later Simon drinks some drugged wine.

[–] marik4me 11 years ago

Simon is chloroformed in The Persistent Patriots. Later, they try to do it again and he fakes being knocked out by it.

Priceless dialogue:

Attacker: How to lose your halo in one easy lesson!
Simon **comes to life**: Lesson 2, when to hold your breath! **attacks.**

ROTFLOL.

[–] marik4me 11 years ago

Simon is clunked on the head in Vendetta for the Saint, when he is in the crypt.

[–] marik4me 11 years ago

Two knockouts: In The Counterfeit Countess, Simon is hit on the head with what looks like a mallet in the wine cellar. In The Art Collectors, Simon is whacked with a blackjack or something similar in the criminals' hideout.

[–] marik4me 11 years ago

Simon is again hit with a blackjack on the train in A Double in Diamonds.

[–] JaneBingley 10 years ago

I have nothing to add, you seem to have a nice conversation with yourself :)

[–] pstephenparkin 9 years ago

Coshed from behind by an Italian gangster in the second ever episode, "The Latin Touch."

[–] Leda74 10 years ago

He was also attacked and knocked out in The Romantic Matron.

[–] LarrupinLou 10 years ago

Another episode where Simon gets it is The Saint Plays With Fire.

No blah, blah, blah!

[–] msgthayes 10 years ago

He was drugged on the street (the old "knock-out powder in the fake cigarette" trick), in When Spring is Sprung.

[–] todd19591994 10 years ago

Try watching "The Wonderful War" He's laid out cold in a jail when someone tries to take something from his coat.

[–] mtevens 10 years ago

He was also drugged in King of the Beggars.

[–] mtevens 9 years ago

It just happened in The Art Collectors.

Really, having the hero knocked out is a bit of a cliche. In the series Mannix, poor Mike hit on the head once a week. When the character showed up years later on Diagnosis Murder as a patient of Dick Van Dyke's doctor/detective, I expected to hear that he was suffering from brain damage for all those clunks to the head. The writers gave him a heart condition instead.

[–] peter-weatherley2 8 years ago

I seem to remember Templar being pistol whipped (by Tony Booth) in one of my favourite episodes, The Rhine Maiden, after a brief tussle with Booth, Nigel Davenport and Victor Beaumont. They put him in a drawer (in the mortuary of a hospital). Great scene! Highly recommended episode.

[–] louiseculmer 8 years ago

He's always getting knocked out. It happens in about every other episode as far as I can tell.