The Persuaders!

49min

Comedy

Action & Adventure

Crime

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

Episodes

Cast

Overture

1. Overture

49min

17th Sep 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 out in his fight against crime or staying in jail. Their first assignment is to locate an heiress by her heart-shaped birthmark.

The Gold Napoleon

2. The Gold Napoleon

49min

24th Sep 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.

Take Seven

3. Take Seven

49min

1st Oct 1971

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

Greensleeves

4. Greensleeves

49min

8th Oct 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.

Powerswitch

5. Powerswitch

49min

15th Oct 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.

The Time and the Place

6. The Time and the Place

49min

22nd Oct 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.

Someone Like Me

7. Someone Like Me

49min

29th Oct 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.

Anyone Can Play

8. Anyone Can Play

49min

5th Nov 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.

The Old, the New and the Deadly

9. The Old, the New and the Deadly

49min

12th Nov 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.

Angie... Angie

10. Angie... Angie

49min

19th Nov 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.

Chain of Events

11. Chain of Events

49min

26th Nov 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.

That's Me Over There

12. That's Me Over There

49min

3rd Dec 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?

The Long Goodbye

13. The Long Goodbye

49min

10th Dec 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.

The Man in the Middle

14. The Man in the Middle

49min

17th Dec 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.

Element of Risk

15. Element of Risk

49min

24th Dec 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.

A Home of One's Own

16. A Home of One's Own

49min

31st Dec 1971

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

Five Miles to Midnight

17. Five Miles to Midnight

49min

7th Jan 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.

Nuisance Value

18. Nuisance Value

49min

14th Jan 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.

The Morning After

19. The Morning After

49min

21st Jan 1972

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

Read and Destroy

20. Read and Destroy

49min

28th Jan 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.

A Death in the Family

21. A Death in the Family

49min

4th Feb 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.

The Ozerov Inheritance

22. The Ozerov Inheritance

49min

11th Feb 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.

To the Death, Baby

23. To the Death, Baby

49min

18th Feb 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.

Someone Waiting

24. Someone Waiting

49min

25th Feb 1972

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

First air date

17th Sep 1971

Last air date

25th Feb 1972

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks