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32 Episodes 1973 - 1974
Episode 1
Fri, Sep 21, 1973 30 mins
Rule must shoot the Contessa in a test devised by a ruthless organizer of mercenaries. Rule: Robert Vaughn. Contessa: Nyree Dawn Porter. Quin: Peter Vaughan. Paco: Henry Woolf.
Episode 2
Fri, Sep 28, 1973 30 mins
A chase over stacks of concrete pipes results when the Contessa faces a kidnapper. Contessa: Nyree Dawn Porter. Rule: Robert Vaughn.
Episode 3
Fri, Oct 5, 1973 30 mins
A film of terrorists stealing a priceless art collection sets the Protectors on the trail. Marquesa Visconti: Lisa Daniely. Rule: Robert Vaughn. Contessa: Nyree Dawn Porter.
Episode 4
Fri, Oct 12, 1973 30 mins
A plan to defect spells danger for a lovely Russian scientist the British official she plans to marry has promised she'll work for his government. Rule: Robert Vaughn. Eastbrook: William Lucas. Contessa: Nyree Dawn Porter. Buchet: Tony Anholt. Stepanich: Jan Conrad.
Episode 5
Fri, Oct 19, 1973 30 mins
A double-cross puts a man and his daughter in jeopardy. They're hunted by his partners, the police---and the Protectors. Bergen: Frederick Jaeger. Katie: Yvonne Antrobus. Rule: Robert Vaughn. Contessa: Nyree Dawn Porter.
Episode 6
Fri, Oct 26, 1973 30 mins
An ironic twist caps a case of industrial espionage. Harry Rule: Robert Vaughn. Contessa: Nyree Dawn Porter. Paul Buchet: Tony Anholt. Engelton: Basil Dignam. Wyatt: Ian Cuthbertson. Ludo Jones: John Kane.
Episode 7
Fri, Nov 2, 1973 30 mins
A prodigal son, a charity, blackmail and murder figure in a riddle for the Contessa (Nyree Dawn Porter). Casper: Paul Jones. Maria: Geraldine Moffatt. Barney Mailer: Barry Keegan.
Episode 8
Fri, Nov 9, 1973 30 mins
A cable car figures in a get-rich-quick plot that culminates in a cliffhanger ending to Part 1 of "Wam." Monica: Jill Townsend. Rule: Robert Vaughn. Contessa: Nyree Dawn Porter.
Episode 9
Fri, Nov 16, 1973 30 mins
The conclusion of "Wam" finds a cable car of tourists being held for ransom atop an Austrian mountain. Rule: Robert Vaughn. Contessa: Nyree Dawn Porter. Monica: Jill Townsend. Wolf: Prentis Hancock.
Episode 10
Fri, Nov 23, 1973 30 mins
A frame-up takes the Protectors to Madrid, where the accused smuggler refuses to cooperate in his own defense. Buchet: Tony Anholt. Contessa: Nyree Dawn Porter. Stephen: Peter Firth. Rule: Robert Vaughn.
Episode 11
Fri, Nov 30, 1973 30 mins
Abduction into the Soviet Union is in the offing for Rule and the defecting author he is guarding. Lockier: Donald Houston. Rule: Robert Vaughn. Contessa: Nyree Dawn Porter. Buchet: Tony Anholt.
Episode 12
Sun, Jan 13, 2019 30 mins
Episode 13
Tue, Jan 22, 2019 30 mins
The Protectors are hired by a Hungarian actress wanting to bury her deceased revolutionary father in their homeland.
Episode 14
Fri, Dec 7, 1973 30 mins
Jeopardy as a man thought dead turns up alive---with murder on his mind. Harry Rule: Robert Vaughn. Contessa: Nyree Dawn Porter. Nick Archer: Mark Damon.
Episode 15
Fri, Dec 14, 1973 30 mins
Smuggling the body of an exiled patriot into his homeland for burial is the mission undertaken by the Protectors. Ilona Tabori: Georgia Brown. Zoltan Kolas: Oscar Homolka. Rule: Robert Vaughn.
Episode 16
Wed, Jan 23, 2019 30 mins
Harry masquerades as a drunk to release a Canadian heiress from the clutches of a cult.
Episode 17
Thu, Jan 24, 2019 30 mins
The Protectors have to rescue a group of tourists who are being held hostage on top of an Austrian mountain.
Episode 18
Fri, Dec 21, 1973 30 mins
Rule is betrayed by an old buddy controlled by a former underworld boss. Harry Rule: Robert Vaughn. Zeke Daley: Shane Rimmer. Kasankas: Paul Curran. Contessa: Nyree Dawn Porter.
Episode 19
Fri, Dec 28, 1973 30 mins
Finding a man presumed dead is the task as they aid a journalist out to expose a politician suspected of murder. Rule: Robert Vaughn. Lena Haydon: Judy Parfitt. Contessa: Nyree Dawn Porter.
Episode 20
Fri, Jan 25, 2019 30 mins
The Protectors have to rescue a group of tourists who are being held hostage on top of an Austrian mountain.
Episode 21
Fri, Jan 4, 1974 30 mins
Rule poses as a demolitions expert to free a girl being held for a ransom---and to foil the abductor's plan to blow up a bridge. Harry Rule: Robert Vaughn. Contessa: Nyree Dawn Porter. Anna de Santos: Diana Quick. David Mitchell: Richard Morant.
Episode 22
Fri, Jan 11, 1974 30 mins
Rule poses as a tutor to protect a schoolgirl threatened by her father's business rivals. Vicky: Debbie Russ. Harry Rule: Robert Vaughn. Contessa: Nyree Dawn Porter. Paul Buchet: Tony Anholt.
Episode 23
Fri, Jan 18, 1974 30 mins
A brush with the supernatural for Rule when a missing girl leads to a religious cult. Rule: Robert Vaughn. Anne: Sinead Cusack. Mark: Ken Hutchison. Adam: Anthony Steel.
Episode 24
Fri, Jan 25, 1974 30 mins
The Contessa tries to save a man she once loved from an assassin in "The Tiger and the Goat." Contessa: Nyree Dawn Porter. David Barsella: Derek Godfrey.
Episode 25
Fri, Feb 1, 1974 30 mins
Rule discovers something rotten in Denmark as a heroin ring leads to Elsinore and a deadly trade: his information for the Contessa's life. Harry Rule: Robert Vaughn. Contessa: Nyree Dawn Porter.
Episode 26
Fri, Feb 8, 1974 30 mins
A man's disappearance spells danger for the judge presiding at the murder trial of the man's son. Arthur Gordon: Joss Ackland. Judge: Richard Hurndall. John: Paul Kelly. Harry Rule: Robert Vaughn.
Episode 27
Fri, Feb 15, 1974 30 mins
A train ride turns deadly as Rule plays into the hands of a killer who is stalking him. Harry Rule: Robert Vaughn. Shadbolt: Tom Bell. Amelia Beaumont: Georgina Hale.
Episode 28
Fri, Feb 22, 1974 30 mins
Eartha Kitt stars as a singer terrorized by weird phenomena. Is she hallucinating---or does someone want her to think she is? Mario: Kieron Moore. Rule: Robert Vaughn.
Episode 29
Tue, Apr 16, 2019 30 mins
Episode 30
Fri, Mar 1, 1974 30 mins
When Swiss bank information is stolen for ransom, the Protectors decide to stage a double exchange maneuver culminating at a motor rally. Manning: Dinsdale Landen. Harry Rule: Robert Vaughn. Contessa: Nyree Dawn Porter.
Episode 31
Fri, Mar 8, 1974 30 mins
A movie's negative and all its prints are held for ransom by a disappearing man. Smith: Stuart Wilson. Contessa: Nyree Dawn Porter. Rule: Robert Vaughn.
Episode 32
Fri, Mar 15, 1974 30 mins
Chemistry is the basic element in ingenious platinum robberies. Harry Rule: Robert Vaughn. Bailey: Christopher Neame. Contessa: Nyree Dawn Porter.