The Persuaders!

  • Premiered: Sep 1971
  • Episodes: 24
  • Followers: 25
  • Ended
  • ITV1
  • Friday
  • Action Adventure Comedy Drama

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Season 1
1x1
Overture
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 17, 1971
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 .. show full overview
1x2
The Gold Napoleon
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 24, 1971
Danny and Brett must discover whether or not Gold Napoleon coins are the originals, or replicas as a coin dealer claims them to be.
1x3
Take Seven
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Air date
Oct 01, 1971
Danny and Brett try to help a girl whose "long lost brother" has suddenly appeared, cutting her off from her inheritance.
1x4
Greensleeves
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 08, 1971
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.
1x5
Powerswitch
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 15, 1971
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.
1x6
The Time and the Place
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 22, 1971
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.
1x7
Someone Like Me
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 29, 1971
After Brett loses seven days, Danny thinks Brett is acting strange but Brett thinks someone is impersonating him. They both can't be right.
1x8
Anyone Can Play
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 05, 1971
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.
1x9
The Old, the New and the Deadly
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 12, 1971
It seems that everyone including a former Nazi wants a German Eagle statuette, and they think that Danny is the one who has it.
1x10
Angie...Angie...
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 19, 1971
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.
1x11
Chain of Events
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 26, 1971
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.
1x12
That's Me Over There
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 03, 1971
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?
1x13
The Long Goodbye
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 10, 1971
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.
1x14
The Man in the Middle
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 17, 1971
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.
1x15
Element of Risk
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 24, 1971
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.
1x16
A Home of One's Own
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 31, 1971
Danny buys a `handy man's special' cottage in England and discovers that his neighbors are into the occult.
1x17
Five Miles to Midnight
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 07, 1972
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.
1x18
Nuisance Value
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 14, 1972
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.
1x19
The Morning After
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 21, 1972
Brett wakes up one morning and discovers that he got married the night before.
1x20
Read and Destroy
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 28, 1972
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.
1x21
A Death in the Family
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 04, 1972
Brett's relatives are being killed off one by one, so Brett and Danny decide to find the killer before he gets to Brett.
1x22
The Ozerov Inheritance
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 11, 1972
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.
1x23
To the Death, Baby
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 18, 1972
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.
1x24 Show finale
Someone Waiting
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 25, 1972
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