The Protectors

  • Premiered: Sep 1972
  • Episodes: 52
  • Followers: 3
  • Ended
  • ITV1
  • Unknown
  • Action Adventure Crime Drama

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Season 1
1x1
2,000 ft to Die
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 29, 1972
A friend of Harry's insists on doing a dangerous skydiving trick despite the fact that gold smugglers are trying to kill him.
1x2
Brother Hood
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Air date
Oct 06, 1972
A wealthy recluse hires the Protectors to break his brother out of prison.
1x3
See No Evil
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Air date
Oct 13, 1972
While in Rome the Protectors try to help a senator who is being blackmailed.
1x4
Disappearing Trick
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Air date
Oct 20, 1972
The Contessa ends up putting her life in danger when she agrees to help an old friend win a wager by making him disappear.
1x5
Ceremony for the Dead
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Air date
Oct 27, 1972
The wife of a president hires the Protectors to guard her critically ill husband whom she fears may be kidnapped.
1x6
It Was All Over in Leipzig
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Air date
Nov 03, 1972
While investigating a plot to overthrow the government of a Mediterranean nation the Protectors end up confronting two old friends of the Contessa, one whom with she was romantically involved with.
1x7
The Quick Brown Fox
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Air date
Nov 10, 1972
The West German government hires the Protectors to put a pension fund that is supporting fugitive Nazi's out of business.
1x8
King Con
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Air date
Nov 17, 1972
The Protectors devise an elaborate con to recover a priceless antique which a woman had been conned out of.
1x9
Thinkback
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Air date
Nov 24, 1972
Harry and the Contessa are the victims of a car crash that was engineered to get information out of them.
1x10
A Kind of Wild Justice
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Air date
Dec 01, 1972
The daughter of a gangster whom Harry helped put in prison fails twice in her efforts to kill Harry.
1x11
Balance of Terror
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Air date
Dec 08, 1972
The KGB hires the Protectors to capture a renegade Russian scientist who plans on destroying London with a new virus to show the world how dangerous biological warfare can be.
1x12
Triple Cross
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Air date
Dec 15, 1972
A kidnapped Paul will be blown to bits unless Harry and the Contessa help steal jewels which they have been hired to safeguard.
1x13
The Numbers Game
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 29, 1972
The Protectors only hope of putting a drug smuggling ring out of business lies in being able to decode a coded letter.
1x14
For the Rest of Your Natural...
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 05, 1973
The Contessa is captured by a psychotic killer who puts her on trial for her life.
1x15
The Bodyguards
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Air date
Jan 12, 1973
The police hire the Protectors to guard the corpse of a bank robber as part of a ruse to capture his accomplices.
1x16
A Matter of Life and Death
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 19, 1973
In Malta, with only the body of a dead hippie as a clue, the Protectors go after smugglers despite having no idea what it is that is being smuggled.
1x17
The Big Hit
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Air date
Jan 26, 1973
After unsuccessful attempts on their lives, Paul and the Contessa are too late to warn Harry that someone is out to kill him.
1x18
One and One Makes One
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Air date
Feb 02, 1973
The Protectors are hired to track down Bennett, a missing Canadian agent who holds valuable information about a new American-Canadian sky project.
1x19
Talkdown
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Air date
Feb 09, 1973
Harry must land a small plane on his own when the pilot dies.
1x20
Vocal
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Air date
Feb 16, 1973
Drug dealers plan on using someone who can impersonate Harry's voice in order to get information out of a blinded Paul.
1x21
...With a Little Help from My Friends
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Air date
Feb 23, 1973
Harry finds his family being threatened after he agrees to guard a visiting president in London.
1x22
Chase
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Air date
Mar 02, 1973
The Contessa gives Harry a shotgun for his birthday which he soon puts to good use when while investigating political blackmail he becomes the quarry in a manhunt.
1x23
Your Witness
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 09, 1973
An important witness to a murder who doesn't want the Protectors protection, vanishes soon after she is placed in the Protectors charge.
1x24
It Could Be Practically Anywhere on the Island
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 16, 1973
A small fluffy dog called Muffin is kidnapped from a hotel to place a microfilm in its collar. The dog is due to be ttansaported to NY. Harry saves the day.
1x25
The First Circle
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 23, 1973
Harry is hired to protect a disturbed Vietnam war veteran.
1x26 Season finale
A Case for the Right
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 30, 1973
The Protectors end up in trouble in the Roman tombs.

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