The Golden Journey (1962) with Erica Rogers is indeed a great spanking scene. (The scene also appears in the original Leslie Charteris story in the collection The Saint in Europe, published in 1954. Interestingly the screen writer, Lewis Davidson, wrote another spanking scene in another TV series very soon afterwards.) I once saw a great photo of the scene in an old TV book, with the piquant caption, 'How to spank an unruly girl in one easy lesson.' I especially like the girl's split skirt, which she ripped in an earlier scene, meaning you get a good look at her flailing legs as she is spanked. If you look carefully you can even see the edge of her panties! Incidentally, British readers may like to know that this episode is being released in DVD here tomorrow (16 June 2001), so that it can be appreciated in even more detail than before!
The abortive spanking of Annette Andre in To Kill a Saint (1967) is obviously less satisfying, but it is interesting to note that it featured in the ITC trailer for the colour series of The Saint. 'Whether it's girls or guns,' said the commentator, 'the Saint can handle the situation.' And we saw him doing just that: beating up a gunman and apparently spanking Miss Andre, which is obviously how we're he 'handles the situation' when troubled by girls.
In fact, these two scenes were the only occasions when the Saint actually put a girl across his knee in the TV series, but there was quite a lot of peripheral spanking material in the series. For those who are interested in vintage TV stuff, here are the details:
The Bunco Artists (1964): another episode scripted by Lewis Davidson, in which the luscious Justine Lord gets a friendly smack on her swimsuited bottom.
The Lawless Lady (1964): No spanking at all, but it's interesting that when the Saint deals with the villainess (played by Dawn Addams) he tells her 'This hurts me more than it hurts you,' a line which more usually accompanies a little over-the-knee action!
The Scorpion (1964): Nyree Dawn Porter is trying to lock a door to prevent the Saint chasing her accomplice, and he stops her with a sharp smack on the bottom, followed by a classic piece of Roger Moore eyebrow acting.
The Death Penalty (1964): Wanda Ventham's boyfriend says he doesn't know what to do with her, so the Saint advises him: 'Try giving her a good spanking. Women love to be dominated.'
The Imprudent Politician (1964): A second outing for Justine Lord. She even complained about being sore from having to rehearse the sequence so often in one of the TV papers, but in fact it's just a passing slap on the bottom in a fight scene. Well, I suppose fights do need to be rehearsed more than usual.
The Frightened Innkeeper (1965): The Saint threatens to spank Suzanne Neve for disobedience, a prospect which seems to excite her.
The Checkered Flag (1965): Justine Lord comes back for more and gives her sexiest performance in the series, with lots of camera attention to her bottom. The Saint gives it a good smack, saying 'our acquaintance cannot possibly ripen until I get to the - bottom of the matter' (the smack, obviously, comes on the word 'bottom'). She seems to like it: 'Time I was smacked again,' she says later on.
The Man who Liked Lions (1966): Suzanne Lloyd makes her first entrance in the saintly spanking stakes. The Saint threatens to 'place a few well-deserved whacks on that delectable posterior of yours' and she gets out a gun to protect herself from this dreadful fate.
The Persistent Patriots (1967): Jan Waters, who was spanked on stage in 1968, gets a foretaste with a playful smack from the Saint while she's dressed as a nurse.
The Art Collectors (1967): It's pretty obvious what the Saint has in mind when he chases Ann Bell around the room after she starts throwing things at him. Unfortunately things never get that far.
The Fast Women (1967): After a piece of outrageous misbehaviour in front of the Saint, Kate O'Mara bends over to pick up a bracelet and the Saint gives her a well-deserved smack on the seat of her lace dress.
Interlude in Venice (1967): Quin O'Hara falls out with her stepmother (played by Lois Maxwell, herself threatened with a spanking by James Bond in Thunderball) and says 'she'd like to take a hairbrush to me'. Her father agrees, but says it's a bit late for that.
Simon and Delilah (1967): Suzanne Lloyd plays is a tempestuous actress who is kidnapped. At one point, one of the kidnappers, played by John Collin, gets fed up with her tantrums, grabs her, holds her under his arm and smacks her bottom.
So there we have it: 15 episodes out of 118 made have some reference to spanking. Not bad, eh?