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The Best Episodes of The Persuaders!

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The Best Episodes of The Persuaders!

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

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  1. 8.1/10(324 votes)

    #1 - A Death in the Family

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    S1:E21

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

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  2. 8.0/10(364 votes)

    #2 - Greensleeves

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    S1:E4

    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.

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  3. 7.9/10(307 votes)

    #3 - Chain of Events

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    S1:E11

    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.

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  4. 7.8/10(279 votes)

    #4 - A Home of One's Own

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    S1:E16

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

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    Director:James Hill
  5. 7.7/10(310 votes)

    #5 - Someone Like Me

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    S1:E7

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

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  6. 7.7/10(288 votes)

    #6 - Five Miles to Midnight

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    S1:E17

    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.

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    Director:Val Guest
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  8. 7.6/10(269 votes)

    #7 - That's Me Over There

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    S1:E12

    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?

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  9. 7.6/10(268 votes)

    #8 - The Man in the Middle

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    S1:E14

    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.

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  10. 7.6/10(261 votes)

    #9 - Element of Risk

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    S1:E15

    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.

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    Director:Gerald Mayer
  11. 7.5/10(334 votes)

    #10 - Take Seven

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    S1:E3

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

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  12. 7.5/10(286 votes)

    #11 - Anyone Can Play

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    S1:E8

    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.

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  13. 7.5/10(303 votes)

    #12 - The Old, the New and the Deadly

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    S1:E9

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

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  14. 7.5/10(270 votes)

    #13 - The Long Goodbye

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    S1:E13

    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.

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  15. 7.5/10(251 votes)

    #14 - Read and Destroy

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    S1:E20

    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.

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  16. 7.4/10(471 votes)

    #15 - Overture

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    S1:E1

    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.

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  17. 7.4/10(320 votes)

    #16 - Powerswitch

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    S1:E5

    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.

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    Director:Basil Dearden
    Writer:John Kruse
  18. 7.4/10(286 votes)

    #17 - The Time and the Place

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    S1:E6

    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.

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  19. 7.4/10(242 votes)

    #18 - Nuisance Value

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    S1:E18

    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.

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  20. 7.3/10(257 votes)

    #19 - The Morning After

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    S1:E19

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

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  21. 7.3/10(270 votes)

    #20 - The Ozerov Inheritance

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    S1:E22

    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.

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  22. 7.3/10(249 votes)

    #21 - To the Death, Baby

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    S1:E23

    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.

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  23. 7.3/10(246 votes)

    #22 - Someone Waiting

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    S1:E24

    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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    Director:Peter Medak
  24. 7.2/10(378 votes)

    #23 - The Gold Napoleon

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    S1:E2

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

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    Writer:Val Guest
  25. 7.1/10(316 votes)

    #24 - Angie... Angie

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    S1:E10

    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.

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Best Episodes Summary

"A Death in the Family" is the best rated episode of "The Persuaders!". It scored 8.1/10 based on 324 votes. Directed by Sidney Hayers and written by Terry Nation, it aired on 2/4/1972. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Greensleeves".