The Persuaders - Season 1

The Persuaders - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes24
DatesSep 17, 1971 - Feb 25, 1972

Episodes

Overture
Season 1Episode 160 min

Overture

Two adventurers, Danny Wilde and Lord Brett Sinclair, determine to take the exciting and dangerous challenge of becoming an unusual law enforcement team. Judge Fulton offers to exchange a prison term for the opportunity to solve a mystery, the whereabouts of a lovely woman.

Sep 17, 1971
The Gold Napoleon
Season 1Episode 260 min

The Gold Napoleon

Danny and Brett must discover whether or not Gold Napoleon coins are the originals, or replicas as a coin dealer claims them to be.
Sep 24, 1971
Take Seven
Season 1Episode 360 min

Take Seven

Danny and Brett try to help a girl whose ""long lost brother"" has suddenly appeared, cutting her off from her inheritance.
Oct 1, 1971
Greensleeves
Season 1Episode 460 min

Greensleeves

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.
Oct 8, 1971
Powerswitch
Season 1Episode 560 min

Powerswitch

Danny and Brett investigate who is behind the accidental death of a go-go dancer. They are assisted by a girlfriend of the deceased dancer.

Oct 15, 1971
The Time and the Place
Season 1Episode 660 min

The Time and the Place

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.
Oct 22, 1971
Someone Like Me
Season 1Episode 760 min

Someone Like Me

After Brett loses seven days, Danny thinks Brett is acting strange but Brett thinks someone is impersonating him. They both can't be right.
Oct 29, 1971
Anyone Can Play
Season 1Episode 860 min

Anyone Can Play

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.
Nov 5, 1971
The Old, the New, and the Deadly
Season 1Episode 960 min

The Old, the New, and the Deadly

It seems that everyone including a former Nazi wants a German Eagle statuette, and they think that Danny is the one who has it.
Nov 12, 1971
Angie, Angie
Season 1Episode 1060 min

Angie, Angie

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.
Nov 19, 1971
Chain of Events
Season 1Episode 1160 min

Chain of Events

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.
Nov 26, 1971
That's Me Over There
Season 1Episode 1260 min

That's Me Over There

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?
Dec 3, 1971
The Long Goodbye
Season 1Episode 1360 min

The Long Goodbye

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.
Dec 10, 1971
The Man in the Middle
Season 1Episode 1460 min

The Man in the Middle

When Brett's scheme to apprehend a disloyal British spy by impersonating him backfires and leads to his own capture, Danny seeks the help of one of Brett's family members to secure his release.

Dec 17, 1971
Element of Risk
Season 1Episode 1560 min

Element of Risk

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.
Dec 24, 1971
A Home of One's Own
Season 1Episode 1660 min

A Home of One's Own

Danny buys a `handy man's special' cottage in England and discovers that his neighbors are into the occult.
Dec 31, 1971
Five Miles to Midnight
Season 1Episode 1760 min

Five Miles to Midnight

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.
Jan 7, 1972
Nuisance Value
Season 1Episode 1860 min

Nuisance Value

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.
Jan 14, 1972
The Morning After
Season 1Episode 1960 min

The Morning After

Brett wakes up one morning and discovers that he got married the night before.
Jan 21, 1972
Read and Destroy
Season 1Episode 2060 min

Read and Destroy

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.
Jan 28, 1972
A Death in the Family
Season 1Episode 2160 min

A Death in the Family

Brett's relatives are being killed off one by one, so Brett and Danny decide to find the killer before he gets to Brett.
Feb 4, 1972
The Ozerov Inheritance
Season 1Episode 2260 min

The Ozerov Inheritance

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.
Feb 11, 1972
To the Death, Baby
Season 1Episode 2360 min

To the Death, Baby

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.
Feb 18, 1972
Someone Waiting
Season 1Episode 2460 min

Someone Waiting

Brett resumes race car driving, only to become the target of someone who is willing to kill him in order to make him stop.
Feb 25, 1972

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