#dear old Petunia Winegum‚ having the time of his life in one of the campest episodes of the saint ever made

[mariocki]

Peter Wyngarde sprawls around being louche as a self-styled modern day Caesar, Tiberio Magadino, in The Saint: The Man Who Liked Lions (5.8, ITC, 1966)

#fave spotting #peter wyngarde #jason king #the saint #itc #the man who liked lions #1966 #classic tv #i mean look at him! #wearing a little toga and showing all that leg! #or being massaged by a half naked hunk (who he later sort of hand wrestles idk) #dear old Petunia Winegum‚ having the time of his life in one of the campest episodes of the saint ever made #this wasn't quite his first work for ITC‚ he'd done an ep of The Baron earlier in the year‚ but later he'd become one of the company stars #in Department S and its spinoff Jason King (making him an early 70s sex symbol in the process) #not that he was in any way unknown at this point; he was very much already a star‚ albeit one better known for his stage work and #rather more respectable tv drama (theatre strands etc) than the genre stuff he was now beginning to flirt with and which #would make up the majority of the rest of his career. that career‚ of course‚ was sadly largely derailed post Jason King by homophobic #scandal sheets and an unforgiving public. a shameful thing‚ but it's always a joy when he pops up to cock an eyebrow and #casually devour the scenery. he's splendid here of course; it's difficult to imagine another actor taking on 'modern day Caesar' quite #so well as Wyngarde does.