The Saint on TV

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The Saint on TV
1968 Curtis Books edition
Author	Fleming Lee, based upon teleplays by John Kruse and characters by Leslie Charteris
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	The Saint
Genre(s)	Mystery, Novellas
Publisher	The Crime Club
Publication date	1968
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Preceded by	Vendetta for the Saint
Followed by	The Saint Returns

The Saint on TV is a collection of two mystery novellas by Fleming Lee, continuing the adventures of the sleuth Simon Templar aka "The Saint", created by Leslie Charteris. This book was first published in the United States in 1968 by The Crime Club, and in the United Kingdom later that year by Hodder and Stoughton. This is the first time since 1948's Call for the Saint that the novella format had been used in the series; with a few exceptions where full-length novels were published, the novella format would remain the norm until the series concluded in the early 1980s.

This was the first of several volumes of stories novelising episodes of the 1962-69 television series The Saint. As with the previous volume, Vendetta for the Saint, Charteris receives front-cover author credit, when in fact other authors actually wrote the text. In his introduction to this book, Charteris names Fleming Lee as his hand-picked successor, and indicates his preference for having original storylines by John Kruse be used whenever possible. Charteris identifies this process of ghost writing as "an unprecedented experiment in team work". Charteris remained in editorial control of the books for the remainder of the series, which continued until 1983's Salvage for the Saint.

[edit] Stories

The book consisted of the following stories:

1. The Death Game - based on the story by John Kruse and the teleplay by Harry W. Junkin
2. The Power Artist - based on the teleplay by Kruse.

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