The Saint (TV Series) The Ever-Loving Spouse (1963) User Reviews

To Love and to Honour

[lucyrfisher · 8/10 · 5 December 2022]

I thought Barrie Jones, the not-so-innocent husband, looked familiar. About ten years before, he played the nuclear scientist with a conscience who menaces London with a bomb in a suitcase, setting off a repeat of wartime evacuation.

Here he has a younger wife who's had enough and wants to marry her husband's deputy, but she doesn't want a Reno divorce where she'd get next to nothing. She wants to take him for all she can, so she stages a photo with a scantily clad girl. So Otis Fennick (Jones) tries to sneak out of the hotel, but is spotted by Simon, who offers to help.

Then the photographer gets shot, and the plot thickens.

An average story

[Leofwine_draca · 5/10 · 14 April 2018]

THE EVER-LOVING SPOUSE is a middling episode from the second series of THE SAINT. This time the action's in San Francisco, where a high-ranker is compromised by having his photo taken with a scantily-clad girl. The Saint comes along to investigate and soon uncovers a web of corruption and murder in high places. The American setting is an interesting one, but the plotting itself is strictly average with only a few high moments. Still, it's nice to see '50s action man Paul Carpenter showing up in support.

The Ever-Loving Spouse

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 12 January 2023]

It is convention time in San Francisco. For candy manufacturer Otis Q Fennick, life is far from sweet.

He has been set up with a young woman who enters his hotel room and then he is photographed in an uncompromising position.

Now Otis is ripe to be blackmailed. His much younger wife Liane wants to divorce him and now has ammunition to take Otis to the cleaners.

In fact it turns out the whole scheme was cooked up by Liane, she has fallen for a younger man, Otis's top salesman at the company.

The photographer, Vern Balton goes back a long way with Liane. He offers to sell the negatives for more than the agreed price. Liane is not happy.

The Saint decides to help out Otis and soon Balton turns up dead.

A hare brained scheme and story. It was all very implausible. Given Otis's behaviour, I was not convinced that he was a smart businessman.

Forget getting the Saint in. Otis should had got a smart lawyer.

I also wanted to know just how did Otis manage to leave his room so surreptitiously?