Series
The Persuaders!
“A pair of Playboys with nothing in common but trouble!”
ComedyAction & AdventureCrime
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.
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Seasons & episodes
1Overture17 Sept 1971 · 49m · ★ 6.2A 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.
2The Gold Napoleon24 Sept 1971 · 49m · ★ 6.8Danny and Brett must discover whether or not Gold Napoleon coins are the originals, or replicas as a coin dealer claims them to be.
3Take Seven1 Oct 1971 · 49m · ★ 7.3Danny and Brett try to help a girl whose ""long lost brother"" has suddenly appeared, cutting her off from her inheritance.
4Greensleeves8 Oct 1971 · 49m · ★ 8.4Brett'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.
5Powerswitch15 Oct 1971 · 49m · ★ 6.4When 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.
6The Time and the Place22 Oct 1971 · 49m · ★ 7.3Danny 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.
7Someone Like Me29 Oct 1971 · 49m · ★ 7.5After Brett loses seven days, Danny thinks Brett is acting strange but Brett thinks someone is impersonating him. They both can't be right.
8Anyone Can Play5 Nov 1971 · 49m · ★ 7.4Danny 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.
9The Old, the New and the Deadly12 Nov 1971 · 49m · ★ 6.8It seems that everyone including a former Nazi wants a German Eagle statuette, and they think that Danny is the one who has it.
10Angie... Angie19 Nov 1971 · 49m · ★ 6.5An 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.
11Chain of Events26 Nov 1971 · 49m · ★ 7.7While out camping at Brett's family estate, Danny gets chained to a brief case which he can't get off that contains a bomb.
12That's Me Over There3 Dec 1971 · 49m · ★ 6.7In order to catch a war criminal, Danny must impersonate the kidnapped Brett, but how will he explain an English Lord with a Brooklyn accent?
13The Long Goodbye10 Dec 1971 · 49m · ★ 7.2When 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.
14The Man in the Middle17 Dec 1971 · 49m · ★ 7.7When 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.
15Element of Risk24 Dec 1971 · 49m · ★ 7.2At 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.
16A Home of One's Own31 Dec 1971 · 49m · ★ 7.8Danny buys a `handy man's special' cottage in England and discovers that his neighbors are into the occult.
17Five Miles to Midnight7 Jan 1972 · 49m · ★ 7.8Trying 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.
18Nuisance Value14 Jan 1972 · 49m · ★ 7.2After 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.
19The Morning After21 Jan 1972 · 49m · ★ 7.7Brett wakes up one morning and discovers that he got married the night before.
20Read and Destroy28 Jan 1972 · 49m · ★ 6.7Seeking 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.
21A Death in the Family4 Feb 1972 · 49m · ★ 8.3Brett's relatives are being killed off one by one, so Brett and Danny decide to find the killer before he gets to Brett.
22The Ozerov Inheritance11 Feb 1972 · 49m · ★ 7.5To 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.
23To the Death, Baby18 Feb 1972 · 49m · ★ 6.4Brett 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.
24Someone Waiting25 Feb 1972 · 49m · ★ 7.3Brett resumes race car driving, only to become the target of someone who is willing to kill him in order to make him stop.
Details
- Created by
- Robert S. Baker
- First aired
- 17 Sept 1971
- Last aired
- 25 Feb 1972
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- ITV1
- Episodes
- 24
- Votes
- 136 on TMDB
Cast
Tony CurtisDanny Wilde
Roger MooreLord Brett Sinclair
