The Persuaders!
The Persuaders!
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The Persuaders!

A pair of Playboys with nothing in common but trouble!

7.6 / 10
1971
1 season
24 episodes
ComedyAction & AdventureCrime

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

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Seasons

  • Overture

    1.Overture

    5.4
    17-09-197149m

    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...

  • The Gold Napoleon

    2.The Gold Napoleon

    6.4
    24-09-197149m

    Danny and Brett must discover whether or not Gold Napoleon coins are the originals, or replicas as a coin dealer claims them to be.

  • Take Seven

    3.Take Seven

    7.2
    01-10-197149m

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

  • Greensleeves

    4.Greensleeves

    8.2
    08-10-197149m

    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...

  • Powerswitch

    5.Powerswitch

    5.8
    15-10-197149m

    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.

  • The Time and the Place

    6.The Time and the Place

    7.0
    22-10-197149m

    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.

  • Someone Like Me

    7.Someone Like Me

    7.3
    29-10-197149m

    After Brett loses seven days, Danny thinks Brett is acting strange but Brett thinks someone is impersonating him. They both can't be right.

  • Anyone Can Play

    8.Anyone Can Play

    7.0
    05-11-197149m

    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...

  • The Old, the New and the Deadly

    9.The Old, the New and the Deadly

    6.0
    12-11-197149m

    It seems that everyone including a former Nazi wants a German Eagle statuette, and they think that Danny is the one who has it.

  • Angie... Angie

    10.Angie... Angie

    6.0
    19-11-197149m

    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.

  • Chain of Events

    11.Chain of Events

    7.5
    26-11-197149m

    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.

  • That's Me Over There

    12.That's Me Over There

    5.7
    03-12-197149m

    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?

  • The Long Goodbye

    13.The Long Goodbye

    7.0
    10-12-197149m

    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 inducem...

  • The Man in the Middle

    14.The Man in the Middle

    7.0
    17-12-197149m

    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.

  • Element of Risk

    15.Element of Risk

    6.3
    24-12-197149m

    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.

  • A Home of One's Own

    16.A Home of One's Own

    7.7
    31-12-197149m

    Danny buys a `handy man's special' cottage in England and discovers that his neighbors are into the occult.

  • Five Miles to Midnight

    17.Five Miles to Midnight

    7.7
    07-01-197249m

    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.

  • Nuisance Value

    18.Nuisance Value

    6.3
    14-01-197249m

    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...

  • The Morning After

    19.The Morning After

    7.0
    21-01-197249m

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

  • Read and Destroy

    20.Read and Destroy

    6.0
    28-01-197249m

    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.

  • A Death in the Family

    21.A Death in the Family

    7.7
    04-02-197249m

    Brett's relatives are being killed off one by one, so Brett and Danny decide to find the killer before he gets to Brett.

  • The Ozerov Inheritance

    22.The Ozerov Inheritance

    6.7
    11-02-197249m

    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...

  • To the Death, Baby

    23.To the Death, Baby

    6.0
    18-02-197249m

    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.

  • Someone Waiting

    24.Someone Waiting

    6.7
    25-02-197249m

    Brett resumes race car driving, only to become the target of someone who is willing to kill him in order to make him stop.

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