The Persuaders!

Name: The Persuaders!
Genre: Comedy, Action & Adventure, Crime
Released: 1971-09-17
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Tony Curtis, Roger Moore

ENDED1 Season24 Episodes★ 7.7

The Persuaders! is a comedy and action-adventure series on ITV1 that ran from 1971 to 1972, ending after 1 season and 24 episodes.

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NetworkITV1

First AiredSep 17, 1971

Last AiredFeb 25, 1972

GenreComedy, Action & Adventure, Crime

Runtime49 min

Created ByRobert S. Baker

LanguageEnglish

CountryUnited Kingdom

ProductionITC Entertainment

An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.

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Cast

Tony Curtis

Danny Wilde

Roger Moore

Lord Brett Sinclair

Seasons & Episodes1 season · 24 episodes

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E1Overture

Sep 17, 197149m★ 6.2

A 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.

E2The Gold Napoleon

Sep 24, 197149m★ 6.7

Danny and Brett must discover whether or not Gold Napoleon coins are the originals, or replicas as a coin dealer claims them to be.

E3Take Seven

Oct 1, 197149m★ 7.1

Danny and Brett try to help a girl whose ""long lost brother"" has suddenly appeared, cutting her off from her inheritance.

E4Greensleeves

Oct 8, 197149m★ 8.4

Brett'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.

E5Powerswitch

Oct 15, 197149m★ 6.4

When 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.

E6The Time and the Place

Oct 22, 197149m★ 7.3

Danny 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.

E7Someone Like Me

Oct 29, 197149m★ 7.5

After Brett loses seven days, Danny thinks Brett is acting strange but Brett thinks someone is impersonating him. They both can't be right.

E8Anyone Can Play

Nov 5, 197149m★ 7.4

Danny 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.

E9The Old, the New and the Deadly

Nov 12, 197149m★ 6.8

It seems that everyone including a former Nazi wants a German Eagle statuette, and they think that Danny is the one who has it.

E10Angie... Angie

Nov 19, 197149m★ 6.5

An 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.

E11Chain of Events

Nov 26, 197149m★ 7.7

While out camping at Brett's family estate, Danny gets chained to a brief case which he can't get off that contains a bomb.

E12That's Me Over There

Dec 3, 197149m★ 6.7

In order to catch a war criminal, Danny must impersonate the kidnapped Brett, but how will he explain an English Lord with a Brooklyn accent?

E13The Long Goodbye

Dec 10, 197149m★ 7.2

When 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.

E14The Man in the Middle

Dec 17, 197149m★ 7.7

When 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.

E15Element of Risk

Dec 24, 197149m★ 7.2

At 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.

E16A Home of One's Own

Dec 31, 197149m★ 7.8

Danny buys a `handy man's special' cottage in England and discovers that his neighbors are into the occult.

E17Five Miles to Midnight

Jan 7, 197249m★ 7.8

Trying 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.

E18Nuisance Value

Jan 14, 197249m★ 7.2

After 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.

E19The Morning After

Jan 21, 197249m★ 7.7

Brett wakes up one morning and discovers that he got married the night before.

E20Read and Destroy

Jan 28, 197249m★ 6.7

Seeking 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.

E21A Death in the Family

Feb 4, 197249m★ 8.3

Brett's relatives are being killed off one by one, so Brett and Danny decide to find the killer before he gets to Brett.

E22The Ozerov Inheritance

Feb 11, 197249m★ 7.5

To 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.

E23To the Death, Baby

Feb 18, 197249m★ 6.4

Brett 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.

E24Someone Waiting

Feb 25, 197249m★ 7.3

Brett resumes race car driving, only to become the target of someone who is willing to kill him in order to make him stop.

About The Persuaders!

The Persuaders! is a comedy, action & adventure, crime series on ITV1. The show first aired on Sep 17, 1971 and currently has 1 season and 24 episodes. The Persuaders! has ended. It has a rating of 7.7/10 based on 136 votes. The cast includes Tony Curtis, Roger Moore. Created by Robert S. Baker.