The Persuaders!

The Persuaders!

1971
7.6
2 Seasons
Comedy Action & Adventure Crime

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

Season

Episodes

Episode 1
Ep 1

Overture

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.

Episode 2
Ep 2

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.

Episode 3
Ep 3

Take Seven

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

Episode 4
Ep 4

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.

Episode 5
Ep 5

Powerswitch

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.

Episode 6
Ep 6

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.

Episode 7
Ep 7

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.

Episode 8
Ep 8

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.

Episode 9
Ep 9

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.

Episode 10
Ep 10

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.

Episode 11
Ep 11

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.

Episode 12
Ep 12

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?

Episode 13
Ep 13

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.

Episode 14
Ep 14

The Man in the Middle

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.

Episode 15
Ep 15

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.

Episode 16
Ep 16

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.

Episode 17
Ep 17

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.

Episode 18
Ep 18

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.

Episode 19
Ep 19

The Morning After

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

Episode 20
Ep 20

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.

Episode 21
Ep 21

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.

Episode 22
Ep 22

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.

Episode 23
Ep 23

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.

Episode 24
Ep 24

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.

Cast

Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis

Danny Wilde

Roger Moore

Roger Moore

Lord Brett Sinclair