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The Persuaders!
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.
- Created by:
- Robert S. Baker
- Cast:
- Tony Curtis, Roger Moore
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Network:
- ITV1
Episode guide
Seasons
Season 1
Episodes
E01
Episode 1
★ 6.3Overture
1971-09-17 · 49mA retired judge who regrets those criminals he had to let get away arranges for Brett and Danny to meet, and then gets them arrested so that they have the choice of either helping him out in his fight against crime or staying in jail. Their first assignment is to locate an heiress by her heart-shaped birthmark.
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E02
Episode 2
★ 6.7The Gold Napoleon
1971-09-24 · 49mDanny and Brett must discover whether or not Gold Napoleon coins are the originals, or replicas as a coin dealer claims them to be.
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E03
Episode 3
★ 7.2Take Seven
1971-10-01 · 49mDanny and Brett try to help a girl whose ""long lost brother"" has suddenly appeared, cutting her off from her inheritance.
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E04
Episode 4
★ 8.5Greensleeves
1971-10-08 · 49mBrett's family mansion seems to have been restored without his knowledge, and taken over by strangers. To find out why, he pretends to be the actor they have hired to impersonate him, and ends up helping the Prime Minister.
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E05
Episode 5
★ 6.4Powerswitch
1971-10-15 · 49mWhen the Judge tricks Brett and Danny into identifying a dead woman found floating in the waters of the French Riviera, they end up investigating an international stock swindle.
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E06
Episode 6
★ 7.4The Time and the Place
1971-10-22 · 49mDanny runs into political intrigue when he discovers the dead body of a reporter, then can't find it until it turns up in a car crash hours later.
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E07
Episode 7
★ 7.9Someone Like Me
1971-10-29 · 49mAfter Brett loses seven days, Danny thinks Brett is acting strange but Brett thinks someone is impersonating him. They both can't be right.
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E08
Episode 8
★ 7.6Anyone Can Play
1971-11-05 · 49mDanny has to go on the run from enemy agents after his gambling winnings at a Brighton casino turn out to be part of a communist plot to pay off spies when they use the right code words.
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E09
Episode 9
★ 7.1The Old, the New and the Deadly
1971-11-12 · 49mIt seems that everyone including a former Nazi wants a German Eagle statuette, and they think that Danny is the one who has it.
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E10
Episode 10
★ 6.6Angie... Angie
1971-11-19 · 49mAn childhood friend of Danny's from the Bronx turns out to be a hit man hired to kill an American labor leader on holiday at the Cannes Film Festival.
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E11
Episode 11
★ 7.5Chain of Events
1971-11-26 · 49mWhile out camping at Brett's family estate, Danny gets chained to a brief case which he can't get off that contains a bomb.
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E12
Episode 12
★ 6.7That's Me Over There
1971-12-03 · 49mIn order to catch a war criminal, Danny must impersonate the kidnapped Brett, but how will he explain an English Lord with a Brooklyn accent?
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E13
Episode 13
★ 7.2The Long Goodbye
1971-12-10 · 49mWhen Danny and Brett find the decade-old dead body of a scientist in a crashed plane in the Scottish Highlands, several women claiming to be his daughter offer them various inducements to part with the formula they found.
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E14
Episode 14
★ 7.7The Man in the Middle
1971-12-17 · 49mWhen Brett's plan to capture a traitorous British spy by pretending to be him results in his own capture, Danny enlists the aid of one of Brett's relatives to rescue him.
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Episode 15
★ 7.2Element of Risk
1971-12-24 · 49mAt a London airport, a gang of crooks who are planning a bullion heist mistake Danny for a criminal mastermind when the man's suitcase accidentally ends up in Danny's luggage cart.
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E16
Episode 16
★ 7.8A Home of One's Own
1971-12-31 · 49mDanny buys a `handy man's special' cottage in England and discovers that his neighbors are into the occult.
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E17
Episode 17
★ 7.8Five Miles to Midnight
1972-01-07 · 49mTrying to open a travel business, Danny and Brett encounter a New York hoodlum who needs to be smuggled out of Italy after he killed an Italian gangster.
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Episode 18
★ 7.2Nuisance Value
1972-01-14 · 49mAfter Danny is accused of kidnapping his blind date, a rich man's spoiled daughter, Brett and Danny decide to help rescue her from the real kidnappers but have problems keeping her rescued.
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Episode 19
★ 7.7The Morning After
1972-01-21 · 49mBrett wakes up one morning and discovers that he got married the night before.
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Episode 20
★ 6.7Read and Destroy
1972-01-28 · 49mSeeking sanctuary with his old friend Brett is a spy who plans to publish his memoirs, which contain the name of every NATO, SEATO, and ANZUS agent.
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Episode 21
★ 8.3A Death in the Family
1972-02-04 · 49mBrett's relatives are being killed off one by one, so Brett and Danny decide to find the killer before he gets to Brett.
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Episode 22
★ 7.3The Ozerov Inheritance
1972-02-11 · 49mTo retain the family jewels, an elderly Russian duchess must present proof of her marriage into the Russian Royal Family, which she says she can do with the help of a journal kept by one of Brett's uncles.
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Episode 23
★ 6.4To the Death, Baby
1972-02-18 · 49mBrett and Danny both end up wooing an heiress after they are asked to break up a romance between a her and a gigolo who is courting her.
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Episode 24
★ 7.3Someone Waiting
1972-02-25 · 49mBrett resumes race car driving, only to become the target of someone who is willing to kill him in order to make him stop.
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Tony Curtis
Danny Wilde
Roger Moore
Lord Brett Sinclair