And now the star of the show Sir Roger Moore with his speech.

Above still taken from Jaz Wiseman's film shown on the Paul O’Grady Show 01/11/06

You can read the entire speech from Bob Baker and Sir Roger Moore here

You can listen to the entire speech from both Bob Baker and Sir Roger here.

As usual Roger's speech was to say the least enormously funny and entertaining, while still retaining his obvious gratitude and friendship to all these old friends and colleagues of the programme gathered together for the first time in this room.

There was an excellent band of musicians and choir who sang a very rowdy version of Nobody Does It Better BUT ! with special words for Roger. During the song everybody loved the very amusing version of this song. You can read the words of the song here

With the main part of the event now finished Roger was crowded by journalists all seeking their story and photo shoot. Roger was surrounded by people all wanting his attention, and as a professional he dealt with them charmingly and efficiently trying to give them as much of his time as possible.

There was also a group photograph which had been organised with many famous faces to be seen.

Such as Bob Baker, Johnny Goodman, Malcolm Christopher, Peter Manley, Jeremy Summers, Francis Matthews, June Randall, John Hough, Marcia Stanton, Jimmy Devis ... the list goes

Finally at the end of the evening Sir Roger made his way towards the rear of the room where there was a special cake of the Saint which just needed the gentleman himself to do the honours and signify the finale of this celebration on the series which represented one of the most successful programmes on television which is fondly remembered by millions of people throughout the world, many of which grew up watching the programme.

At this point the true life UNICEF Saint Sir Roger Moore and his wife Lady Kristina leave the room with a lot of very happy people with memories of this special evening.

Thank you Sir Roger Moore UNICEF special ambassador.

Three people from Roger Moore's official website were lucky enough to attend the event.

And you certainly can't get two more dedicated admirers of Sir Roger, than Martin and Marie-France (Brett) from the Roger Moore forum who both attended the event. Brett got four kisses from Roger on the cheek that night, Martin and myself got none… thank goodness :-)

Below myself stood with Sir Roger Moore with the blue plaque in the background.

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The Saint back to Elstree - gallery Marie-France Vienne

Martin's review