#guest spots would become his bread and butter for a while‚ with his B7 immortality still a decade away
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A young Paul Darrow turns up to lend an expert opinion, as Omar, a conservationist at an Istanbul museum, in The Saint: The Gadic Collection (5.27, ITC, 1967)
#fave spotting#paul darrow#kerr avon#blake's 7#the saint#blakes 7#itc#classic tv#1967#the gadic collection#he's so baby!#this was an early credit for Paul‚ in fact the earliest work I've seen of his#he'd actually just finished his first regular role‚ having done a year on Emergency Ward 10‚ but if any of those episodes survive and if#network included any of them on their old releases (sob rip) then i didn't get to them (must go back and finish at some point)#guest spots would become his bread and butter for a while‚ with his B7 immortality still a decade away#he's playing a Turkish museum worker here (and he'd be playing an Egyptian in his next part for Virgin of the Secret Service) but he#doesn't appear to be particularly made up (that top pic is just poorly lit) which is a relief. the same cannot be said sadly for the#episode's main guest star Peter Wyngarde‚ here painted dark brown in truly one of the most offensive‚ most extreme examples#of an incredibly shameful aspect of old tv#so that's that on s5 of The Saint! and clearly this is the season to go to if you're looking for blorbos!#we had a doctor‚ a rani‚ a master and a polly from dw#two Champions‚ a Callan‚ and Mrs. Hopkirk and Jeff Randall#plus Edward Hammond‚ Jason King‚ and one very cute cat#let's hope s6 has some surprises in store...
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