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#interest (which are the usual roles) but a witty and intelligent source of assistance to the hero.
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Honor Blackman guest stars as art expert Syd Lewis in Saber of London: Deep in the Heart of Chelsea (1.3, NBC, 1957)
#fave spotting
#honor blackman
#cathy gale
#saber of london
#the vise
#the avengers
#classic tv
#deep in the heart of chelsea
#1957
#nbc
#so im visiting parents for a week or two and taking the opportunity to catch up on my old tv watching as i have access to my beloved
#dvd collection. Saber was one of the final network releases I've located (after‚ i might say‚ a long long search for a reasonably priced
#copy). so. the story of Saber of London. (deep breath). SoL is really a development of The Vise; for more on the needlessly complex history
#of that series you can follow the appropriate tag above. in short The Vise was a crime anthology made specifically for US tv but produced
#in the UK using brit actors writers and directors. the recurring character of Mark Saber was popular enough that the show eventually became
#The Vise: Mark Saber; it then became Saber of London. some sources still regard this show as essentially being a later series of The Vise
#(and it does still use the og theme tune over the end credits) but considering the title change and (crucially) the fact that SoL saw the
#series move from ABC to NBC‚ im gonna consider this its own self contained show and number the episodes accordingly (ie. this is series 1 o
#Saber of London not series 5 or 7 (depending on your counting) of The Vise). anyway now that's all out of the way.
#there's little material difference between this series and the slightly earlier The Vise: Mark Saber episodes besides new titles and a
#different introductory spiel from star Donald Gray. our hero is still a plucky private detective undertaking modest cases that the show's
#budget will allow. this ep concerns art forgeries and an attempt to trap the criminals responsible‚ which means Saber must call on an art
#expert to help authenticate the works. enter Honor! not yet a star‚ Honor did have a decade of acting experience behind her
#which is maybe reflected in the fact that she's given an unusually meaty part for a woman in this series: she's neither victim nor love
#interest (which are the usual roles) but a witty and intelligent source of assistance to the hero.
#unlike The Vise episodes (which could take up to a decade to appear in the uk if they did at all) SoL appears to have had a fairly regular
#slot from Granada about two years after the show's US premier. this ep would have been seen by uk audiences in 1959
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