The Saint: Fear in Fun Park

The Saint: Fear in Fun Park
Directed by	Donald Crombie
Written by	Patricia Johnson
Based on	character created by Leslie Charteris
Produced by	Sue Milliken John Hanrahan
Starring	Simon Dutton Rebecca Gilling Ed Devereaux
Cinematography	Andrew Lesnie
Production company	Taffner Ramsay-Templar Productions
Distributed by	Network Seven
Release date	1989
Running time	100 mins
Country	Australia
Language	English

The Saint: Fear in Fun Park (also known as The Saint in Australia and Summertime in Sydney) is a 1989 TV film featuring Simon Dutton as Simon Templar, the crimefighter also known as The Saint.^[1]

It was one of a series of Saint films produced in Australia and broadcast as part of the syndicated series Mystery Wheel of Adventure. It was set in Australia.^[2]^[3]

Plot

The Saint arrives in Sydney to look for a friend's daughter who is caught up in the Asian slave trade.

Cast

Simon Dutton as Simon Templar
Rebecca Gilling as Aileen
Ed Devereaux as Harry
Nikki Coghill as Felicity
Richard Roxburgh as Justin
Moya O'Sullivan as Madge

Production

This movie was one of six 100-minute TV films, all starring Simon Dutton made for London Weekend Television (LWT) in the United Kingdom, it was postponed due to poor ratings, but went out as part of The Mystery Wheel of Adventure in the United States:

- The Saint: The Brazilian Connection (2 September 1989)
- The Saint: The Blue Dulac (9 September 1989)
- The Saint: Wrong Number (21 July 1990)
- The Saint: The Big Bang (28 July 1990)
- The Saint: The Software Murders (4 August 1990)

Broadcast

The film was postponed for broadcasting on 16 September 1989 and on 7 July 1990, and finally broadcast on 14 July 1990.

References

^ Vagg, Stephen (31 December 2019). "Top Ten Australian James Bond Homages". Filmink.
^ Fear in Fun Park at TCMDB
^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p136

External links

The Saint: Fear in Fun Park at IMDb

v t e The Saint, created by Leslie Charteris
Characters	The Saint (Simon Templar) Patricia Holm Claud Eustace Teal
Books by Leslie Charteris	Meet the Tiger (1928) Enter the Saint (1930) The Last Hero (1930) Knight Templar (1930) Featuring the Saint (UK only – 1931) Alias the Saint (UK only – 1931) Wanted for Murder (US only – 1931) She Was a Lady (1931) The Holy Terror (1932) Getaway (1932) Once More the Saint (1933) The Brighter Buccaneer (1933) The Misfortunes of Mr. Teal (1934) Boodle (1934) The Saint Goes On (1934) The Saint in New York (1935) Saint Overboard (1936) The Ace of Knaves (1937) Thieves' Picnic (1937) Prelude for War (1938) Follow the Saint (1938) The Happy Highwayman (1939) The Saint in Miami (1940) The Saint Goes West (1942) The Saint Steps In (1942) The Saint on Guard (1944) The Saint Sees it Through (1946) Call for the Saint (1948) Saint Errant (1948) The Saint in Europe (1953) The Saint on the Spanish Main (1955) The Saint Around the World (1956) Thanks to the Saint (1957) Señor Saint (1958) The Saint to the Rescue (1959) Trust the Saint (1962) The Saint in the Sun (1963)
Collaborations (credited to Charteris)	Vendetta for the Saint (1964) The Saint on TV (1968) The Saint Returns (1968) The Saint and the Fiction Makers (1968) The Saint Abroad (1969) The Saint in Pursuit (1970) The Saint and the People Importers (1971) Catch the Saint (1975) The Saint and the Hapsburg Necklace (1976) Send for the Saint (1977) The Saint in Trouble (1978) The Saint and the Templar Treasure (1979) Count On the Saint (1980) Salvage for the Saint (1983)
Books by Burl Barer	The Saint (film novelization) (1997) Capture the Saint (1997)
Unpublished works	The Saint's Second Front (1941) Bet on the Saint (1968) The Saint's Lady (1979)
Cinema films	The Saint in New York (1938) The Saint Strikes Back (1939) The Saint in London (1939) The Saint's Double Trouble (1940) The Saint Takes Over (1940) The Saint in Palm Springs (1941) The Saint's Vacation (1941) The Saint Meets the Tiger (1943) The Saint's Return (1953) Le Saint mène la danse (1960) Le Saint prend l'affût (1966) The Saint (1997)
TV films	The Fiction Makers (1968) Vendetta for the Saint (1969) The Saint and the Brave Goose (1983) The Saint in Manhattan (1987) Fear in Fun Park (1989) The Saint: The Blue Dulac (1989) The Saint: The Brazilian Connection (1989) The Saint: Wrong Number (1990) The Saint: The Software Murders (1990) The Saint: The Big Bang (1990) The Saint (2017)
Radio and TV series	The Saint (radio program) The Saint (TV series) episodes theme music Return of the Saint "Vicious Circle"
Related articles	Daredevil (1929) (Teal's first appearance) S.W.O.R.D. (fictional organization) Hirondel (Templar's car)
Category

v t e Films directed by Donald Crombie
Films	Caddie (1976) The Irishman (1978) Cathy's Child (1979) The Killing of Angel Street (1981) Kitty and the Bagman (1983) Robbery Under Arms (1985) Playing Beatie Bow (1986) Rough Diamonds (1994) Selkie (2000)
TV Movies	Who Killed Jenny Langby? (1974) (documentary) Do I Have to Kill My Child? (1976) Slippery Slide (1980) The Saint: Fear in Fun Park (1989) The Feds: Terror (1993)
TV Mini-series	Cyclone Tracy (1986) The Alien Years (1988) The Heroes (1989) The River Kings (1991) Heroes II: The Return (1991)
TV Series	Time Trax (1993–1994) Flipper (1995–1997) Tales of the South Seas (1998) McLeod's Daughters (2001–2002)

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