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I agree. The Saint was a huge hit and actually ran on a primetime network in the U.S. for its last two seasons. Had Moore and Robert Baker not decided to end the program, its popularity in the U.S. alone would have kept it going. Whereas Remington Steele got lower and lower ratings and eventually fizzled out.
The other thing to consider is the gap between the series and when the actor was cast. It was only around three years after Moore finished The Saint that he was announced as Bond (Although The Persuaders did not do nearly as well in the States or the UK, Moore wisely only made the one season and then moved onto LIVE AND LET DIE). Brosnan, however, was trying to keep his career afloat for over six years after Remington Steele ended.
With the exception of projects like THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING and to a lesser extent THE ANDERSON TAPES, his '70s stuff consists of quality movies that nobody saw (THE OFFENCE, CUBA) or dreck like THE TERRORISTS, THE NEXT MAN, ZARDOZ, and the mega-bomb METEOR.
My take on NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN is that Connery felt he needed to make the movie to have a guaranteed hit and get his career back on track, because by the early '80s his star was fading. Why else would he be appearing in SWORD OF THE VALIANT and the absolutely unwatchable WRONG IS RIGHT?
Yeah I think The Persuaders was networked in the US too, wasn't it?
Yes, on ABC, although it didn't perform nearly as well with viewers. I edited my post to add that. Moore made a smart decision with the program and only agreed to do one season.
Who knows what may have become of the show had ABC given it a more inviting time slot on its schedule opposed to a night not as many people were watching television.
And Roger Moore was cast at a time when they needed a more famous actor with his own fanbase as Bond. Casting the unknown Lazenby hadn't worked very well and people associated Bond exclusively with Sean Connery.
Well I guess he may have done another, but Bond came along.
Regarding Brosnan, remember he had family tragedy in the early 90's, so I think his appearances in all kind of low budget films had to do with him needing money for his family. He couldn't have given a toss about quality when the urgency was keeping everything including his life afloat.
How do you mean? I believe there were early plans to do a second series, potentially recasting both and making it in the States.
He tried to get a rival Bond film with McClory going in the 90s.
From what I have read the show was very expensive to make but underperformed in America, also I believe Tony Curtis behaved terribly during the making of the serious and was mostly out of it on dope which also added to the decision to cancel it after 1 season.
The best poster in all of television:
That is indeed excellent.
Dalton appears as a main character through all seasons of Penny Dreadful. I think it's the best project outside of Bond that he's starred in.
Oh, my… I suffer from the same condition. They told me it’s chronic. For me it started with The Dreamers. Been sick ever since.
No, I haven't. I still think that Malcolm McDowell would have made (and still could) a great Bond villain.