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The Persuaders!
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A pair of Playboys with nothing in common but trouble!
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An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.
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- E1 OvertureNext upSep 17, 1971 · 49 min · ★ 6.3
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: John Acheson (Triver), Imogen Hassall (Maria), Alex Scott (Coley), Bruno Barnabe (Maitre de), Laurence Naismith (Judge Fulton), Michael Godfrey (Dupont), Neal Arden (Inspector Flavel)
- E2 The Gold NapoleonSep 24, 1971 · 49 min · ★ 6.7
Synopsis
Danny and Brett must discover whether or not Gold Napoleon coins are the originals, or replicas as a coin dealer claims them to be.
Guest stars: Alfred Marks (Pullicino), Hugh Manning (Chief of Police), Susan George (Michelle Devigne), Laurence Naismith (Judge Fulton), Harold Goldblatt (Maurice Devigne), Michael McStay (Vernier), Charles Houston (Jacoby), Balbina (Sister)
- E3 Take SevenOct 1, 1971 · 49 min · ★ 7.2
Synopsis
Danny and Brett try to help a girl whose ""long lost brother"" has suddenly appeared, cutting her off from her inheritance.
Guest stars: Richard Hurndall (David Conron), Sue Lloyd (Maggie), Sinéad Cusack (Jenny Lindley), Garfield Morgan (Peter Hayward), Veronica Hurst (The Secretary), Laurence Naismith (Judge Fulton), Christian Roberts (Mark Lindley), John Kelland (Harvester)
- E4 GreensleevesOct 8, 1971 · 49 min · ★ 8.5
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Clifton Jones (Dr. Kibu), George Woodbridge (Gregory Ward), Cy Grant (Richard Congoto), Andrew Keir (Sir John Hassocks), Rosemary Nicols (Melanie Sadler), Tommy Godfrey (Benny Ryan), Tom Adams (Piers Emerson), Arthur Brough (Moorehead)
- E5 PowerswitchOct 15, 1971 · 49 min · ★ 6.4
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: John Phillips (Lanning Koestler), Annette Andre (Pekoo Rayne), Terence Alexander (Matthew Crane), Paul Whitsun-Jones (Inspector Blanchard), Lionel Blair (Quinn Travis), Angela De Bona (Julie Blake), Laurence Naismith (Judge Fulton), Leslie Crawford (Ravel)
- E6 The Time and the PlaceOct 22, 1971 · 49 min · ★ 7.4
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Robert Flemyng (Sir George), Ian Hendry (Lord Croxley), Geoffrey Toone (The General), Anna Palk (Marie), Duncan Lamont (William Benton), Basil Dignam (Prime Minister Norman Russell), Patrick O'Connell (Ryder), David Rees (TV Interviewer)
- E7 Someone Like MeOct 29, 1971 · 49 min · ★ 7.9
Synopsis
After Brett loses seven days, Danny thinks Brett is acting strange but Brett thinks someone is impersonating him. They both can't be right.
Guest stars: Gerald Sim (Dr. Gordon), Johnny Briggs (Charlie), Bernard Lee (Sam Milford), Reginald Marsh (Dr. Fowler), Tony Wright (David Alton), Anne de Vigier (Nurse Crane), Joanne Dainton (Miss Lindsay), Vivien Neves (Danny's Girl)
- E8 Anyone Can PlayNov 5, 1971 · 49 min · ★ 7.6
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Richard Vernon (Sir Maxwell Dean), Cyd Hayman (Lyn), Ed Devereaux (Ryker), Patrick Jordan (Pelli), Peter Forbes-Robertson (Inspector Langford), Dudley Foster (Heather), Patrick Connor (Train Guard), Christopher Coll (London Agent)
- E9 The Old, the New and the DeadlyNov 12, 1971 · 49 min · ★ 7.1
Synopsis
It seems that everyone including a former Nazi wants a German Eagle statuette, and they think that Danny is the one who has it.
Guest stars: Juliet Harmer (Prue), Patrick Troughton (Count Marceau), Frederick Jaeger (Luther), Jasmina Hilton (Serena), Anna Gaël (Suzy), Derren Nesbitt (Groski), Kenneth J. Warren (Verner), Gary Cockrell (Frank)
- E10 Angie... AngieNov 19, 1971 · 49 min · ★ 6.6
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Lionel Murton (Ben), Larry Storch (Angie), Laurence Naismith (Judge Fulton), Kirsten Lindholm (Marissa Nave), John Alderson (Kyle Sandor), Anna Brett (Bank Secretary), Rose Alba (Madama La Gata)
- E11 Chain of EventsNov 26, 1971 · 49 min · ★ 7.5
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Suzanna Leigh (Emily Major), Peter Vaughan (Lance Schubert), Jeremy Child (Carlton), George Baker (Britten), Morris Perry (Beecham-Bennett), James Beckett (Previn), John Glyn-Jones (Dr. Hubert Rogers), James Bree (Bill Wilton)
- E12 That's Me Over ThereDec 3, 1971 · 49 min · ★ 6.7
Synopsis
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?
Guest stars: Patrick Newell (Fat Man), Juliet Harmer (Prue), Terence Edmond (Cliff Turner), Suzan Farmer (Ann Summers), Allan Cuthbertson (Colonel Wright), Peter Gilmore (Mather), Derek Newark (Lloyd), Geoffrey Keen (Thaddeus Krane)
- E13 The Long GoodbyeDec 10, 1971 · 49 min · ★ 7.2
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Glynn Edwards (Boris), Valerie Leon (Space Queen), Madeline Smith (Carla I), Anouska Hempel (Carla II), Deborah Moore (Deborah), Leo Genn (Sir Hugo Chalmers), Nicola Pagett (Carla Wilks), Peter Sallis (Piper)
- E14 The Man in the MiddleDec 17, 1971 · 49 min · ★ 7.7
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Suzy Kendall (Kay Hunter), Frank Maher (Jones), Stephen Greif (Krilov), John Orchard (Gregor), Terry-Thomas (Archibald Sinclair Beachum), Laurence Naismith (Judge Fulton), Stanley Meadows (David Price), Geraldine Moffat (Senka)
- E15 Element of RiskDec 24, 1971 · 49 min · ★ 7.2
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: June Ritchie (Charlie), James Cosmo (Inspector Williams), Carol Cleveland (Girl at Airport), Peter Bowles (Mitchell), Shane Rimmer (Harvey Lomax), William Marlowe (Carl Harris), Bob Sherman (The Lieutenant), David Healy (Colonel Adler)
- E16 A Home of One's OwnDec 31, 1971 · 49 min · ★ 7.8
Synopsis
Danny buys a `handy man's special' cottage in England and discovers that his neighbors are into the occult.
Guest stars: Leon Greene (Abel Gaunt), Hannah Gordon (Lucy), Talfryn Thomas (The Poacher), Michael Sheard (Walden), John Ronane (Rupert Hathaway), Michael Wynne (Policeman)
- E17 Five Miles to MidnightJan 7, 1972 · 49 min · ★ 7.8
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Ferdy Mayne (Count Sangallo), Jean Marsh (Nicola), Joan Collins (Sidonie), Arnold Diamond (Brusati), Robert Rietti (Torino), Robert Hutton (Frank Rocco), Laurence Naismith (Judge Fulton), Ian Thompson (Vasile)
- E18 Nuisance ValueJan 14, 1972 · 49 min · ★ 7.2
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Ralph Bates (Michel), George Murcell (Zorakin), Sarah Lawson (Mary), Michael Culver (Kurt), George Roderick (Bodega Landlord), Ricardo Montez (Inspector Santos), Viviane Ventura (Lisa), David Cargill (Patterson)
- E19 The Morning AfterJan 21, 1972 · 49 min · ★ 7.7
Synopsis
Brett wakes up one morning and discovers that he got married the night before.
Guest stars: Catherine Schell (Kristin Hansen), Tony Bonner (Jon), Marianne Stone (Chambermaid), Yutte Stensgaard (Bibi Bergman), Griffith Jones (Lars Seelman), Bernard Horsfall (Gunar Christianson), Laurence Naismith (Judge Fulton), Frank Gatliff (Christoph Andersson)
- E20 Read and DestroyJan 28, 1972 · 49 min · ★ 6.7
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Nigel Green (John Cavendish), William Mervyn (Sir Charles Worthington), Kate O'Mara (Heidi Schulman), Joss Ackland (Felix Meadowes), George Merritt (Chivers), Elliott Sullivan (Joe Pfeiffer), Magda Konopka (Ingrid Meadowes), Harvey Hall (Col. Ivan Ivanov)
- E21 A Death in the FamilyFeb 4, 1972 · 49 min · ★ 8.3
Synopsis
Brett's relatives are being killed off one by one, so Brett and Danny decide to find the killer before he gets to Brett.
Guest stars: Moultrie Kelsall, Diane Cilento (Kate Sinclair), Denholm Elliott (Roland), Roland Culver (Duke of Caith), William Rushton (Lance), Moultrie Kelsall (Sir Angus), Christopher Sandford (Onslow), Ivor Dean (Mr. Beebe)
- E22 The Ozerov InheritanceFeb 11, 1972 · 49 min · ★ 7.3
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Joseph Fürst (Yelker), Gary Raymond (Sergei), Anouska Hempel (Carla II), Gladys Cooper (Grand Duchess Ozerov), Cyril Shaps (Professor Ganguin), Prunella Ransome (Princess Alexandra), Georgina Simpson (Magda), Timothy Parkes (Walther)
- E23 To the Death, BabyFeb 18, 1972 · 49 min · ★ 6.4
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Terence Morgan (Carl Foster), Thorley Walters (John Hatton), Roger Delgado (Estoban), Jennie Linden (Shelley Masterton), Robert Russell (Ramon), Harold Innocent (Coady), John Moreno (Waiter)
- E24 Someone WaitingFeb 25, 1972 · 49 min · ★ 7.3
Synopsis
Brett resumes race car driving, only to become the target of someone who is willing to kill him in order to make him stop.
Guest stars: Tim Barrett (John Radcliffe), Sam Kydd (Dwyer), Lois Maxwell (Louise Cornell), Jenny Hanley (Magda), Donald Pickering (Morley Lyndon), David Neal (Jerry Sandford), Penelope Horner (Carrie Bowman), John Cairney (Jenkins Brothers)
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Created by Robert S. Baker
Tony Curtis
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misubisuOct 12, 2025
## A Sun-Drenched, Champagne-Fuelled Time Capsule: Revisiting The Persuaders! Before buddy-cop movies dominated the action-comedy landscape, there was a show that perfected the formula with a jet-setting, aristocratic twist. *The Persuaders!*, a 1971 British series that ran for a single, glorious season of 24 episodes, isn't just a television show; it's a mood. It’s the feeling of sun on a sports car's bonnet, the clink of glasses in a Monaco casino, and the effortless che… Read more
mistry of two of the era's biggest stars at the peak of their charm. The premise is pure, delightful fantasy. Lord Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore), a polished, witty, and impeccably dressed British aristocrat, and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), a self-made, street-smart American millionaire from the Bronx, are two of the world's most successful playboys. A retired English judge, frustrated by the limitations of the law, manipulates them into a partnership. His reasoning? Their shared love for adventure, women, and fast living—and their contrasting backgrounds—make them the perfect duo to persuade justice where the courts cannot. ### The Magic is in the Marriage of Styles The real genius of *The Persuaders!* lies not in its plots (which are often standard caper fare), but in the electric, bickering-brothers dynamic between Moore and Curtis. * **Roger Moore as Lord Brett Sinclair:** Fresh from *The Saint* and years away from James Bond, Moore is the epitome of suave, dry wit. His Sinclair is unflappably cool, armed with a raised eyebrow and a droll one-liner for every situation. He’s the man who knows which wine to order and how to dispatch a villain without wrinkling his cuffs. * **Tony Curtis as Danny Wilde:** Curtis is all New York energy and charm. As Wilde, he’s the brash, resourceful counterpoint to Sinclair's reserve, delivering lines with a classic Curtis-style patter. He’s the guy who might solve a problem with a cheeky grin or a well-thrown punch. Their constant, good-natured ribbing—about each other's accents, backgrounds, driving skills, and fashion sense—is the engine of the show. It never feels mean-spirited; it feels like the genuine needling of two men who, despite their vast differences, have found a unique and unshakeable friendship. ### A Time Capsule of Glamour Watching *The Persuaders!* today is a form of time travel. It is a lavish, unapologetic love letter to the glamour of the early 1970s Riviera lifestyle. The production values were astronomical for a television series at the time, and it shows: * **Locations:** The show is a travelogue of the most beautiful spots in Europe, from the French Riviera and Rome to London and Alpine resorts. * **Wardrobe:** Tony Curtis's wardrobe, in particular, is a legendary parade of bold prints, leather jackets, and turtlenecks that defines an era of male fashion. * **Cars:** The opening credits alone, set to the iconic theme by John Barry, feature our heroes racing their respective sports cars (an Aston Martin DBS for Sinclair, a Ferrari Dino 246 GT for Wilde) along the coast. It is pure, automotive wish-fulfilment. ### The Verdict: A Cult Classic for a Reason **4 out of 5 Stars** *The Persuaders!* is not a complex, gritty drama. It won't keep you up at night pondering the human condition. What it will do is provide 50 minutes of utterly stylish, witty, and entertaining escapism. It’s the television equivalent of a perfect cocktail: refreshing, bubbly, and leaving you with a smile. Its cancellation after one season (due to its high cost and not performing as well as expected in the crucial American market) has only added to its legendary, cult-classic status. **Who will love it?** Fans of classic television, Roger Moore and Tony Curtis, stylish 70s aesthetics, lighthearted action-comedies, and the golden age of the "buddy" genre. **Who might not?** Viewers seeking deep, serialised storytelling or gritty, realistic action may find it too frivolous or dated. In the end, *The Persuaders!* succeeds entirely on the strength of its two leads. It is a masterclass in star power and chemistry, a sun-drenched relic from a time when television escapism meant style, charm, and the irresistible fantasy of two millionaire playboys fighting crime for the fun of it. It remains, quite simply, a blast.