The Persuaders! — Season 1
A pair of Playboys with nothing in common but trouble!
About this season
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.
Episodes (24)
1. Overture
5.6Aired 17 September 1971 • 49 min
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.
2. The Gold Napoleon
6.3Aired 24 September 1971 • 49 min
Danny and Brett must discover whether or not Gold Napoleon coins are the originals, or replicas as a coin dealer claims them to be.
3. Take Seven
7.2Aired 1 October 1971 • 49 min
Danny and Brett try to help a girl whose ""long lost brother"" has suddenly appeared, cutting her off from her inheritance.
4. Greensleeves
8.4Aired 8 October 1971 • 49 min
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.
5. Powerswitch
6.0Aired 15 October 1971 • 49 min
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.
6. The Time and the Place
7.0Aired 22 October 1971 • 49 min
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.
7. Someone Like Me
7.5Aired 29 October 1971 • 49 min
After Brett loses seven days, Danny thinks Brett is acting strange but Brett thinks someone is impersonating him. They both can't be right.
8. Anyone Can Play
6.8Aired 5 November 1971 • 49 min
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.
9. The Old, the New and the Deadly
6.3Aired 12 November 1971 • 49 min
It seems that everyone including a former Nazi wants a German Eagle statuette, and they think that Danny is the one who has it.
10. Angie... Angie
6.6Aired 19 November 1971 • 49 min
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.
11. Chain of Events
7.6Aired 26 November 1971 • 49 min
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.
12. That's Me Over There
6.0Aired 3 December 1971 • 49 min
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?
13. The Long Goodbye
6.8Aired 10 December 1971 • 49 min
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.
14. The Man in the Middle
7.0Aired 17 December 1971 • 49 min
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.
15. Element of Risk
6.5Aired 24 December 1971 • 49 min
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.
16. A Home of One's Own
7.8Aired 31 December 1971 • 49 min
Danny buys a `handy man's special' cottage in England and discovers that his neighbors are into the occult.
17. Five Miles to Midnight
7.8Aired 7 January 1972 • 49 min
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.
18. Nuisance Value
6.5Aired 14 January 1972 • 49 min
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.
19. The Morning After
7.3Aired 21 January 1972 • 49 min
Brett wakes up one morning and discovers that he got married the night before.
20. Read and Destroy
6.3Aired 28 January 1972 • 49 min
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.
21. A Death in the Family
8.3Aired 4 February 1972 • 49 min
Brett's relatives are being killed off one by one, so Brett and Danny decide to find the killer before he gets to Brett.
22. The Ozerov Inheritance
6.8Aired 11 February 1972 • 49 min
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.
23. To the Death, Baby
6.3Aired 18 February 1972 • 49 min
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.
24. Someone Waiting
7.0Aired 25 February 1972 • 49 min
Brett resumes race car driving, only to become the target of someone who is willing to kill him in order to make him stop.