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The Persuaders Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1971 - 1972
Episode
The Old, The New and the Deadly
Fri, Nov 12, 1971 50 mins
Shades of "The Maltese Falcon" in a drama about a German eagle statuette. Filmed in Paris. Danny: Tony Curtis. Brett: Roger Moore. Suzy: Anna Gael. Marceau: Patrick Troughton. Groski: Derren Nesbitt. Verner: Kenneth J. Warren.
Episode 1
Overture
Fri, Sep 17, 1971 50 mins
Adventure on the French Riviera over a killer who's supposedly dead. Danny: Tony Curtis. Brett: Roger Moore. Robert: Michael Godfrey. Vevrey: Cliff Diggins. Gallard: Richard Lester. Brunette: Beulah Hughes. Fulton: Laurence Naismith. Maitre D': Bruno Barnabe.
Episode 2
The Gold Napoleon
Fri, Sep 24, 1971 55 mins
Danny and Brett in a mad chase through the south of France. Their quarry: gold smugglers. Michelle: Susan George. Danny: Tony Curtis. Devigne: Harold Goldblatt.
Episode 3
Take Seven
Fri, Oct 1, 1971 50 mins
A damsel in distress over the loss of her inheritance brings Danny and Brett to England. Jenny Lindley: Sinead Cusack. Mark Lindley: Christian Roberts. Danny: Tony Curtis. Brett: Roger Moore. Peter Hayward: Garfields Morgan. Maggie: Sue Lloyd. David: Richard Hurndall. Fulton: Laurence Naismith.
Episode 4
Greensleeves
Fri, Oct 8, 1971 50 mins
Wilde and Sinclair investigate a killer who's supposed to be dead. Robert: Michael Godfrey. Wilde: Tony Curtis. Sinclair: Roger Moore. Vevrey: Cliff Diggins.
Episode 5
Powerswitch
Fri, Oct 15, 1971 50 mins
Clues to a dancer's murder lead to revelations of an international stock swindle. Danny: Tony Curtis. Brett: Roger Moore. Pekoe: Anette Andre. Lisa: Melissa Stribling. Koestler: John Phillips. Crane: Terence Alexander. Blanchard: Paul Whitsun-Jones. Fulton: Laurence Naismith. Travis: Lionel Blair.
Episode 6
The Time and the Place
Fri, Oct 22, 1971 55 mins
Ian Hendry as a right-wing extremist out to assassinate the prime minister. Filmed in London. Danny: Tony Curtis. Brett: Roger Moore. Marie: Anna Palk. Ryder: Patrick O'Connell.
Episode 7
Someone like Me
Fri, Oct 29, 1971 55 mins
A scheme to brainwash Brett (Roger Moore) into killing a shipping magnate. Filmed in England. Danny: Tony Curtis. Scott Maskell: Jeremy Burnham. Miss Lindsay: Joanne Dainton. Dr. Fowler: Reginald Marsh. Sam Milford: Bernard Lee. Dr. Gordon: Gerald Sim.
Episode 8
Anyone Can Play
Fri, Nov 5, 1971 50 mins
Enemy agents aren't too pleased when Danny mistakenly wins a payroll at a rigged roulette table. Danny: Tony Curtis. Heather: Dudley Foster. Lyn: Cyd Hayman.
Episode 10
Angie, Angie
Fri, Nov 19, 1971 60 mins
Comic actor Larry Storch plays it straight as a hit man hired to kill a double-crossing ex-union boss. Danny: Tony Curtis. Sandor: John Alderson. Brett: Roger Moore.
Episode 11
Chain of Events
Fri, Nov 26, 1971 50 mins
The baddies want the attache case attached to Danny's wrist. Filmed in England. Emily Majors: Suzanna Leigh. Franz Schubert: Peter Vaughan. Danny: Tony Curtis. Brett: Roger Moore. Fulton: Laurence Naismith. Britten: George Baker. Dr. Rogers: John Glyn-Jones. Beecham-Bennett: Morris Perry.
Episode 12
That's Me over There
Fri, Dec 3, 1971 50 mins
A masquerade scheme at an elegant art auction: Danny poses as Brett and Brett as Danny to get the goods on a crooked business conglomerate. Danny: Tony Curtis. Brett: Roger Moore. Judge: Laurence Naismith.
Episode 13
The Long Good-bye
Fri, Dec 10, 1971 55 mins
Three lovelies claim to be the daughter of a dead inventor. His legacy: a secret formula that could revolutionize the oil industry. Directed in Scotland by Roger Moore (Brett). Danny: Tony Curtis. Sir Hugo: Leo Genn. The "Daughters": Nicola Pagett, Madeline Smith, Anouska Hempel.
Episode 14
Man in the Middle
Fri, Dec 17, 1971 50 mins
Terry-Thomas lends some levity and Suzy Kendall glamour to a cloak-and-dagger episode filmed in Rome. Danny: Tony Curtis. Brett: Roger Moore. Krilov: Stephen Greif. Gregor: John Orchard. Price: Stanley Meadows. Senka: Geraldine Moffatt.
Episode 15
An Element of Risk
Fri, Dec 24, 1971 55 mins
A case of mistaken identity plunges Danny into a plot to hijack a bullion shipment from the Air Force. Filmed in England. Danny: Tony Curtis. Charlie: June Ritchie. Brett: Roger Moore. Mitchell: Peter Bowles.
Episode 16
A Home of One's Own
Fri, Dec 31, 1971 50 mins
Danny's marked for murder at his country cottage---it's being used to smuggle counterfeit currency out of England. Danny: Tony Curtis. Brett: Roger Moore.
Episode 17
Five Miles to Midnight
Fri, Jan 7, 1972 50 mins
In a frenzied chase across the Italian Alps, Danny and Brett are entangled with an American mobster on the run from an Italian hit man. Filmed on location. Danny: Tony Curtis. Sidonie: Joan Collins. Brett: Roger Moore. Frank Rocco: Robert Hutton. Judge Fulton: Laurence Naismith. Torino: Robert Rietty.
Episode 18
Nuisance Value
Fri, Jan 14, 1972 50 mins
Danny (Tony Curtis) tries to rescue the daughter of a millionaire, only to find that the girl is in love with her kidnapper. Lisa: Viviane Ventura. Kurt: Michael Culver.
Episode 19
The Morning After
Fri, Jan 21, 1972 50 mins
About Brett's unwitting marriage to a blonde beauty and a devious scheme to kidnap a Swedish diplomat. Filmed in Sweden and England. Brett: Roger Moore. Danny: Tony Curtis. Kristin: Catherine Schell. Bibi: Yutte Stensgaard.
Episode 20
Read and Destroy
Fri, Jan 28, 1972 50 mins
Double cross: a freelance spy, exchanged over the East-West German border, has disappeared. His ploy: sell his memoirs to the highest bidder. Danny: Tony Curtis. Brett: Roger Moore. Double Agent: Joss Ackland.
Episode 21
A Death in the Family
Fri, Feb 4, 1972 50 mins
Roger Moore plays four members of the Sinclair clan: all marked for death by another Sinclair out to get the family riches. Danny: Tony Curtis. Kate: Diane Cilento. Roland: Denholm Elliott. Undertaker Beebe: Ivor Dean. Duke of Caith: Roland Culver. Sir Angus: Moultrie Kelsall. Lance: William Rushton.
Episode 22
The Ozerov Inheritance
Fri, Feb 11, 1972 60 mins
Gladys Cooper plays a Russian grand duchess seeking to prove her claim to a rich estate. Filmed in Switzerland. Danny: Tony Curtis. Brett: Roger Moore. Princess Ozerov: Prunella Ransome. Sergei: Gary Raymond.
Episode 23
To Death, Baby
Fri, Feb 18, 1972 50 mins
A notorious gigolo and a ruthless gangster are both courting a soap heiress (Jennie Linden). Danny: Tony Curtis. Foster: Terence Morgan. Brett: Roger Moore.
Episode 24
Someone Waiting
Fri, Feb 25, 1972 50 mins
Attempted murder, brutal beatings and arson---somebody's after Lord Brett Sinclair. It looks like a crazed Grand Prix driver, disabled years ago in a race with Brett. Filmed in England. Brett: Roger Moore. Carrie: Penelope Horner. Danny: Tony Curtis.
