#production by this point (episodes would air until '68 but in odd dribs and drabs‚ not clear cut seasons)

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William Gaunt guests as (ex) RAF Flight Lieutenant Mike Gregory, now a potential traitor (!) in The Saint: Flight Plan (5.13, ITC, 1966)

#fave spotting #william gaunt #richard barrett #the champions #flight plan #1966 #the saint #itc #classic tv #character actors #the champions was still a year or two away at this point‚ but Bill was already a well known face on tv #for one thing he was still currently co starring in ATV's long running Victorian set police procedural Sergeant Cork #actually his Cork co star John Barrie had appeared in the previous week's Saint ep (5.12 Locate and Destroy) #it's hard to say bc the shooting and transmission dates of Sgt Cork are a little fuzzy‚ but there's a fair chance the series had finished #production by this point (episodes would air until '68 but in odd dribs and drabs‚ not clear cut seasons) #he's quite fun here as a sketchy pilot who's been thrown out of the airforce and is now working for some shadowy foreign agents #(the exact nationality of the agents is only ever alluded to; they appear to be middle eastern but acting on behalf of soviet parties in #eastern europe). anyway it's up to Simon to save the dav obviously but not before Bill gets shot in the shoulder and has a terrible #time learning his lesson (and flying a fancy plane whilst bleeding heavily)