Editing The Saint (Simon Templar) (section)

==On radio==<!-- This section is linked from [[Mutual Broadcasting System]] -->
Several radio drama series were produced in North America, Ireland, and Britain. The earliest was for [[RTÉ Radio|Radio Éireann]]'s Radio [[Athlone]] in 1940 and starred [[Terence De Marney]]. Radio Times dated 11 October 1940 refers to "'The Saint' Terence de Marney as the Charteris hero." Both [[NBC]] and [[CBS]] produced ''Saint'' series during 1945, starring [[Edgar Barrier]] and [[Brian Aherne]]. Many early shows were adaptations of published stories, although Charteris wrote several storylines for the series which were novelised as short stories and novellas.

The longest-running radio incarnation was [[Vincent Price]], who played the character in a series between 1947 and 1951 on three networks: [[CBS]], [[Mutual Broadcasting System|Mutual]] and [[NBC]]. Like ''[[The Whistler (radio series)|The Whistler]]'', the program had an opening whistle theme with footsteps. Price left in May 1951, to be replaced by [[Tom Conway]], who played the role for several more months; his brother, [[George Sanders]], had played Templar on film. For more about the Saint on American radio, see ''[[The Saint (radio program)]]''.

The next English-language radio series aired on Springbok Radio in South Africa between 1953 and 1957. These were fresh adaptations of the original stories and starred Tom Meehan. Around 1965 to 1966 the South African version of Lux Radio Theatre produced a single dramatization of ''The Saint''. The English service of South Africa produced another series radio adventures for six months in 1970–1971. The most recent English-language incarnation was a series of three one-hour-long radio plays on [[BBC Radio 4]] in 1995, all adapted from Charteris novels: ''Saint Overboard'', ''The Saint Closes The Case'' and ''The Saint Plays With Fire'', starring [[Paul Rhys]] as Templar.