Modesty Blaise was a 1982 American-produced one-hour television pilot produced for the ABC Network and based upon the 1963-2001 comic strip Modesty Blaise, created by Peter O'Donnell. This was the ...

The name Modesty came to him when he mistyped "modestly" one day, while "Blaise" was taken from Merlin's tutor. O'Donnell conceived Modesty as a former criminal, the retired head of an ...