Always loved those big band English opening theme music.takes me back when my parents and us kids would sit around the little black and white box ....Tv😊

Classic stylish 60s TV. Great soundtrack too

"You got brains like peanut butter" - some of the lines in this episode are unintentionally? funny. Enjoyed it. Thanks for posting these. They're good.

For those of you who are trashing these 60s series. You need to recognize that this is 1966. It was only in the early 50s that televisions were even remotely a part of people’s homes on a regular basis. Ballpark 15 years down the way. The technology we have today isn’t what these production companies have to produce a series. Cheesy settings, stock pictures of places like the Eiffel Tower and such were all they could afford. Even American series at the time were the same. So given the youth of the industry, give them a break. Approximately 15 years into the industry and they are doing this sort of thing. Grow up! Great scripts. Great actors. Their budgets would not even approach those that are available today, 50 years down the line. Recognize the context and appreciate the plots! Think Diana Rigg in the Avengers and Patrick McGoohan in The Prisoner. Never have been equaled!!!!

@johnparnell8571

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree, Kathleen. Like so much else in life, TV drama and films were very much of their time and, as an audience, we enjoyed what was screened then just as much as today's audience enjoy what is screened now.

@trevorchambers1812

Жыл бұрын

Completely agree....Television back in the Sixties was somewhere between book, radio and cinema. You had to see what was intended to be portrayed, not analyse the technicalities.

@the5thmusketeer215

Жыл бұрын

@@trevorchambers1812 Very well put, Trevor & astutely observed.

@area11committee35

Жыл бұрын

At least real acting was used rather than the cgi stuff now the Aston db5 used by mr bond the dbs and dino from the persuaders out cool the new rides of whatever cgi stunts are performed now to end the argument jack regan turns up in his mk 1 Ford consul not Granada and is pissed off punches some spotty oil and then goes to the pub

@juliemunro1

8 ай бұрын

Dad got us our first TV in 1953 so that we could watch the Queen's coronation. People nowadays don't appreciate how lucky they are with the new modern technology

Im 61 and can definitely say,even having only 3 channels we had more quality tv in the 60,s -70,s than the crap we are festooned with today.

@leonard7292

2 жыл бұрын

You are so right. I live in Sweden, I am the same age as you. In the 60s and 70s TV was superb and as you say - with 3 channels, now we have crap-tv on all channels.

@ipodscott

2 жыл бұрын

@@leonard7292 I'm 30.000 years old and we only had 3 paintings in our cave in Lascaux France and that was better quality than any of the crappy forms of entertainment you all have has created in the last 30 millennia.

@tuckergary1516

2 жыл бұрын

me to watching in laos.

@CopiousDoinksLLC

2 жыл бұрын

I'm 39. I used to watch this show back in 2006 here in Brisbane, Australia every morning at 3am before I got up for work. I had 5 channels to choose from: 2 had informercials, 1 had the weather and the other one was a broadcast of our parliament proceedings from the day before. This show was the only other option. At first I didn't get it but the more I watched, the more I loved. I only wish more people my age had seen it.

@adriansherlockdamondark.1094

2 жыл бұрын

The Baron was repeated over and over in Australia, always early morning. I’ve become a fan over the years.

Nice to see Steve Forrest in an earlier series before his success with the TV show S.W.A.T.

WOW!!! Thank you for uploading The Baron! One of many of Lew Grade's fantastic adventure dramas! My dad enjoyed them and help me collect diecast models of the hero's cars, Matchbox, Soledo, Box, Corgi, etc So much fun seeing how they 'recycle' their character actors, as baddies, henchmen, fun to ID them in different series both SciFi and dramas. I've also loved the theme songs, they play in my head through out my life specially during my career. I've also purchased DVDs of many shows, Prisoner, Champions, Man in a suitcase. The worse part when I did role play, I copied those accents! Since I'm in US I later found them hit or miss, but on several occasions got me out of a 'bit of bother'!

Drama from the time when British TV was great. Mainly due to Lou Grade. Great cast, good script and brilliant theme tune by Ed Astley. And his car, the Jenson CV8 - faster than Bond's DB5 of similar vintage. And last but not least the very attractive Sue Lloyd. "This is SCOTLAND, the stuff oughta be comin' out of the taps!". Script by Terry Nation, creator of Dr Who's Daleks. Ah life was very simple back when I was a 10 in '66...… Thank goodness for You Tube.

@jacksugden8190

3 жыл бұрын

Cheap budget series

@daveratcliffe1016

3 жыл бұрын

The baron was just an inferior version of the Saint with Roger moore

@ThePiratemachine

8 ай бұрын

@@jacksugden8190 That succeeds admirably.

@ThePiratemachine

8 ай бұрын

@@daveratcliffe1016 For you maybe. Taste?

@DeirdreMcNamara

8 күн бұрын

@@daveratcliffe1016 Ah well, who could upstage the great Roger Moore...

Still good after all these years. MiGod! Actual Scripts. Actual ACTING. No CGI and No 7 word sarcasms.

Read the books as a child/teenager, great to see them on video. And for all those below moaning about the series/quality/script, I would point out that they are so far ahead of anything you see nowadays on television as to be in a different universe. Great scripts, no undue gore or violence, no foul language, they can speak more than a couple of words (and they don't have swear words between them either), great acting - unlike most modern shows - and they are not only enjoyable but suitable for all ages to watch. Again, unlike most modern shows. I remember The Baron as a series of books (The Toff being another one, and Inspector West) and it is great to see them as a series. If they were still available - or a modern equivalent was still being made and shown - then I would probably still think it worth having a television. But as most modern shows are nothing but foul language and unnecessary violence/gore then I will continue to watch decent shows on KZread and leave the modern rubbish to those unable to appreciate decent acting and script writing. And I would point out, great scripts and actors/acting more than makes up for basic backgrounds and sets, equally great backgrounds/sets and computer generated additions are not substitute for great storylines, scripts and acting.

Guest-starring Annette Andre, soon to become famous as the bewildered widow of 'Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'. She was already a veteran of ITC hokum, including five different roles in 'The Saint'.

Never Saw _ the baron_ But i liked this episode, first time i Saw one ,and i liked IT!!! Why don't we see more series like this!!! The character makes-up for the black and White. (Jeeeee...Iam in love with the past❤️🤩)

@ThePiratemachine

8 ай бұрын

Timeless.

@DeirdreMcNamara

8 күн бұрын

They require intelligence in directing and acting. Once upon a time to join the unions you had to have a background in art, literature, photography. Nowadays it appears that ll you need is "porn" and the plotline is just an accessory.

"The Guy Outdoors" is one of the best episodes of the Baron.

Thank you Bob ❤

Excellent - great dramatic pace, very good acting and dialogue with a pinch of sauciness, overall class.

BARON TV SHOW WHEN I WAS 8 YRS OLD I LIKE ALL OLD SHOW SAINT , BARON , BAT MAN , MAN FROM UNCLE , AVENGER THE CAT N ORTHERS .

Another episode, another bash on the head for The Baron! You’d think he’s have learned to look behind him by now, wouldn’t you? Harmless fun.

I love these 60s shows as much as when I watched them when they originally aired. Yes, I am THAT old. Everyone smoking like chimneys, typewriters, dial phones. No cell phones to help you out (think how their inventions has changed plots: no more searching for a call box in the middle of nowhere). And hey! Your hair is always washed BEFORE the haircut, lady!

@DeirdreMcNamara

8 күн бұрын

Maybe it had coloring...????

...great episode...just the way I remember the 60's British spy-crime series...similar to Danger Man...Patrick McGoohan...Thanks...;-)

Steve Forest brilliant actor the roll played R.I.P

@mr29

2 жыл бұрын

and certainly easy on the eyes...

I laughed out loud when he said "You're 38 years old"! Like that was old! Especially when he looks 50+ I'm guessing that ITC had a hit with "The Saint" and decided to try for another of the same thing with an American? Notice it's ALL back screen shots with Nothing on the street of Any European country or anywhere else?

(1:00:55) "two days stuck in this dump!" A dump? looks pretty fancy and ornate to me!

ছোটবেলায় এই টেলিভিশন সিরিজটি দেখতাম। সময় ১৯৬৯

All the trappings of The Saint series including the actors

Like the braon

(53:27) the scene of the associate of Mannering getting his head smacked on the car looks real!

Cordelia says” there’s nothing that restores a girl’s confidence than a good, old fashioned wink”…… in this crazy world today, that is now a sexual offence !!!!!!

Filmed completely in the UK between 1965 and 1966. The American, Steve Forrest playing "The Baron", the answer to "The Saint"? Not really any competition for Simon Templar - "The Saint" series filmed between 1962 - 1969.

@DeirdreMcNamara

8 күн бұрын

Simon ie Roger Moor is "untouchable!"

13:16, that's something you don't see anymore-smoking in hospital.

(11:43), hilarious death scene: falling out the window!

Ow! that hit on the car roof hurt ,even just watching.

8:35, the scene with madam Dulay, the assassin, and Mannering.

Crikey, you wouldn't get that sort of willingness to help from a policeman theses days, that's for sure.

You are 38 years old? As if that puts his wife in the geriatric category. Dear heaven!

Enjoyed!

Never heard of this before.

Unlike for Jack Bauer, of 24, se05, ep01, that lady can get a chopper fired up and off the ground in an emergency :-) A masterclass on the type of dialogue that no longer applies :-)

@ThePiratemachine

8 ай бұрын

..."that no longer applies" because there's no talent.

The light-bulb that the Baron used had a bayonnet cap and not an edison screw cap, which means it was more likely filmed in England, not France. This is the period when every detective serial had to have an American star to sell the programme to America, because as everybody in the world knows, its impossible to find a decent hero outside of the good ol' USA.

Title of second episode should be Man Outside

Hi all, what type of car does the Baron drive?? ..looks cool

6:36 and 6:44 - quickest weather change ever

@McIntyreBible

5 жыл бұрын

I know, the editors didn't do a adequate job.

👍

5:47 sting chords

It seems to be a common theme that he gets hit on the head and knocked out, tied up with rope, and frees himself with broken glass. Does he do this every episode?

PARIS=stock footage=Elstree

(1:04:12) "where'd you get that ring?"

The Lindsey Hotel looks cheap on the inside

What type of car is that in the thumbnail?

@drummerboy1390

4 жыл бұрын

It's a Jensen CV-8 Mk2. Registration BAR 1.

@valeofglamman3225

3 жыл бұрын

@@drummerboy1390 fantastic car.

This is new to me, but I'm a fan of the tv dramas and movies written by the truly literate who had real life experiences imbuing the scripts with originality and invention - and compassion. Now it's rehash after rehash of same old same old late 20th century plots but with escalating s*x and violence, written by the "incestuous" families of Ho'wood...or the weinsteined... and Heaven help us now with A*I and the rest! Not objective - have brilliant scripts,

Dude you look 2 times older in that mirror than yur wife lol

The man is lamenting that his wife is 38 years old - - and looks it! I guess it’s all a matter of perspective but I think she looks pretty good for 38 and it’s prettier than his “floozy”

48:33

British actors and australian actress pretending to be French by putting on an Eastern european accent! 🤣🤣🤣

I always thought Steve Forrest resembled Errol Flynn. Not nearly as dynamic or as charismatic, but still.

To be honest - not very good. Obviously made for a US audience but it seems to fail for both English and US tastes.

Silly fake accents and obvious blue screens a feature of this series as cheap budget.

So bad its funny