Mr Chapel and Simon Templar

Vengence Unlimited is EXACTLY what the producers need to use as a template for the proposed 'new' Saint. It is dark, sarcastic, has adventure, is extreamly well written and has a characterful appeal i.e. one man and his lady sidekick fighting injustice, wheather it be a damsel in distress, crooked Lawyer/Judge, corrupt police or a exploiting multinational company. All the elements are there i.e. the car [black 1969 Dodge Charger], smart protagonist with a mysterious past and no visible means of an income reads newspapers or watches TV in order to find a poor soul who has had some bad luck with injustice. Protagonist resides in Motels [to keep a low profile] around the country. He breaks or bends the law in order to achieve goal of bringing criminals to justice, using false identities and brutality, using plausable modern day covert equipment for info gathering/surveilance [no hi-tech CIA/MI6 issued equipment]products that are freely available in the USA.

IMHO, this was the modern day Saint on TV, and I will be using this as a gauge for the proposed 'new' Saint. Surely, the producers and writers of 'vengence Unlimited' must have used The Saint as their 'inspiration', but paying more attention to the darker pulp origins of Leslie Charteris's Saint character but grounded the hero in the gritty, real world of modern day America. Hence, more plausable real life injustice that can affect anyone are the subject matters. Overall, the similarities between Simon Templar and Mr Chapel are more than coincedental.