Ian Dickerson's guest appearances

Ian Dickerson

Spies and Books - Spybrary Spy Podcast

Kasterborous Classic TV

The Passions Project

David Tennant

Jack Barsky

Andrew Smith

Neil Patrick Harris

Matthew Bradford

David Stark

Gary Oldman

William Boyd

Kate Atkinson

Hugh Grant

David Schwimmer

Paul Robinson

Tom Baker

Ian Fleming

Don Winslow

OwlTail

Ian Dickerson is a British writer, director and producer. He has written about adaptations of Leslie Charteris's The Saint and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.  He directed Randall and Hopkirk (Revisited) for Network in 2007 and the following year acted as producer on the documentaries The Saint Steps In...To Television and The Saint Steps In...To Colour also for release on Network DVDs. He wrote, produced and directed The Saint Steps In...To the 70s for Network and these were subsequently combined and released as a standalone DVD entitled The Saint Steps In...To Television later that year. His first book, The Saint on TV, was published by Hirst Publishing in 2011.[Further books include The Saint on the Radio (Purview Press, May 2015), Who is the Falcon? (Purview Press, December 2016) and "A Saint I Ain't" (Chinbeard, 2019). He lives with his wife and children in Hampshire, England.  Dickerson wrote a book about US radio adaptations of Sherlock Holmes, titled Sherlock Holmes and His Adventures on American Radio (2019). He also published previously unreleased scripts from the 1940s radio series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Dickerson explained in a 2018 interview that he was given the scripts by the family of Leslie Charteris, the creator of the Saint who also wrote Sherlock Holmes radio scripts.

Ian Dickerson is a British writer, director and producer. He has written about adaptations of Leslie Charteris's The Saint and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.  He directed Randall and Hopkirk (Revisited) for Network in 2007 and the following year acted as producer on the documentaries The Saint Steps In...To Television and The Saint Steps In...To Colour also for release on Network DVDs. He wrote, produced and directed The Saint Steps In...To the 70s for Network and these were subsequently combined and released as a standalone DVD entitled The Saint Steps In...To Television later that year. His first book, The Saint on TV, was published by Hirst Publishing in 2011.[Further books include The Saint on the Radio (Purview Press, May 2015), Who is the Falcon? (Purview Press, December 2016) and "A Saint I Ain't" (Chinbeard, 2019). He lives with his wife and children in Hampshire, England.  Dickerson wrote a book about US radio adaptations of Sherlock Holmes, titled Sherlock Holmes and His Adventures on American Radio (2019). He also published previously unreleased scripts from the 1940s radio series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Dickerson explained in a 2018 interview that he was given the scripts by the family of Leslie Charteris, the creator of the Saint who also wrote Sherlock Holmes radio scripts.

Ian Dickerson Interview

Leslie Charteris

On Episode 94 of the Spybrary Podcast, host Shane Whaley interviews Ian Dickerson, the author of The Saint I Ain't - a biography of Leslie Charteris.  In this episode, we cover aspects of Leslie Charteris's life as well as a fan's discussion about Simon Templar, aka The Saint. We chat about The Saint Books, The Saint Movies including the latest reboot Saint movie which was co-produced by Ian Dickerson and starred Adam Rayner. We run the rule over the various actors who have played Simon Templar since the 1930s.

On Episode 94 of the Spybrary Podcast, host Shane Whaley interviews Ian Dickerson, the author of The Saint I Ain't - a biography of Leslie Charteris. In this episode, we cover aspects of Leslie Charteris's life as well as a fan's discussion about Simon Templar, aka The Saint. We chat about The Saint Books, The Saint Movies including the latest reboot Saint movie which was co-produced by Ian Dickerson and starred Adam Rayner. We run the rule over the various actors who have played Simon Templar since the 1930s.

The story of Leslie Charteris ‐creator of The Saint with Ian Dickerson

Back in 2014, we took the opportunity to speak with Ian Dickerson, a gentleman closely involved with attempts to bring The Saint back to television! Following the news that the pilot episode starring Adam Rayner as Simon Templar that gained attention on YouTube in 2013 had been abandoned in favour of a new pilot written by Chris Lunt (who recently penned the superb  ITV serials Prey, the first starring John Simm, the second Philip Glenister) Ian – co-producer on the first pilot and the public face of the estate of Leslie Charteris – talked us through the current status of the production, which at the time of our discussion was in the scripting stage. We’d encourage you to click play for our first CultKast, which comes in at around 24 minutes and features Ian telling Christian who the The Saint‘s new producer is as well as give us an idea on just how they might bring Simon Templar up to date in the 21st century: “[He’s] a product of the times… we’ve got to come up with a Saint for the 21st century. Does he spend his life online, or does he not…?”

Back in 2014, we took the opportunity to speak with Ian Dickerson, a gentleman closely involved with attempts to bring The Saint back to television! Following the news that the pilot episode starring Adam Rayner as Simon Templar that gained attention on YouTube in 2013 had been abandoned in favour of a new pilot written by Chris Lunt (who recently penned the superb ITV serials Prey, the first starring John Simm, the second Philip Glenister) Ian – co-producer on the first pilot and the public face of the estate of Leslie Charteris – talked us through the current status of the production, which at the time of our discussion was in the scripting stage. We’d encourage you to click play for our first CultKast, which comes in at around 24 minutes and features Ian telling Christian who the The Saint‘s new producer is as well as give us an idea on just how they might bring Simon Templar up to date in the 21st century: “[He’s] a product of the times… we’ve got to come up with a Saint for the 21st century. Does he spend his life online, or does he not…?”

CultKast: The Saint Reboot With Ian Dickerson