The Best Episodes of The Persuaders! Season 1

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   5.4/10(9 votes)

   #1 - Overture

   S1:E19/17/1971

   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.

   Director:Basil Dearden

   Writer:Brian Clemens

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   Director:Basil Dearden

   Writer:Brian Clemens
2. 

   6.4/10(5 votes)

   #2 - The Gold Napoleon

   S1:E29/24/1971

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

   Director:Roy Ward Baker

   Writer:Val Guest

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   Director:Roy Ward Baker

   Writer:Val Guest
3. 

   7.2/10(4 votes)

   #3 - Take Seven

   S1:E310/1/1971

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

   Director:Sidney Hayers

   Writer:Terry Nation

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   Director:Sidney Hayers

   Writer:Terry Nation
4. 

   8.2/10(4 votes)

   #4 - Greensleeves

   S1:E410/8/1971

   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.

   Director:David Greene

   Writer:Terence Feely

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   Director:David Greene

   Writer:Terence Feely
5. 

   5.8/10(5 votes)

   #5 - Powerswitch

   S1:E510/15/1971

   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.

   Director:Basil Dearden

   Writer:John Kruse

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   Director:Basil Dearden

   Writer:John Kruse
6. 

   7.0/10(4 votes)

   #6 - The Time and the Place

   S1:E610/22/1971

   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.

   Director:Roger Moore

   Writer:Michael Pertwee

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   Director:Roger Moore

   Writer:Michael Pertwee
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7. 

   7.3/10(3 votes)

   #7 - Someone Like Me

   S1:E710/29/1971

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

   Director:Roy Ward Baker

   Writer:Terry Nation

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   Director:Roy Ward Baker

   Writer:Terry Nation
8. 

   7.0/10(4 votes)

   #8 - Anyone Can Play

   S1:E811/5/1971

   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.

   Director:Leslie Norman

   Writer:Tony Williamson

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   Director:Leslie Norman

   Writer:Tony Williamson
9. 

   6.0/10(3 votes)

   #9 - The Old, the New and the Deadly

   S1:E911/12/1971

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

   Director:Leslie Norman

   Writer:Brian Clemens

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   Director:Leslie Norman

   Writer:Brian Clemens
10. 

    6.0/10(4 votes)

    #10 - Angie... Angie

    S1:E1011/19/1971

    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.

    Director:Val Guest

    Writer:Milton S. Gelman

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    Director:Val Guest

    Writer:Milton S. Gelman
11. 

    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #11 - Chain of Events

    S1:E1111/26/1971

    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.

    Director:Peter R. Hunt

    Writer:Terry Nation

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    Director:Peter R. Hunt

    Writer:Terry Nation
12. 

    5.7/10(3 votes)

    #12 - That's Me Over There

    S1:E1212/3/1971

    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?

    Director:Leslie Norman

    Writer:Brian Clemens

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    Director:Leslie Norman

    Writer:Brian Clemens
13. 

    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #13 - The Long Goodbye

    S1:E1312/10/1971

    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.

    Director:Roger Moore

    Writer:Michael Pertwee

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    Director:Roger Moore

    Writer:Michael Pertwee
14. 

    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #14 - The Man in the Middle

    S1:E1412/17/1971

    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.

    Director:Leslie Norman

    Writer:Donald James

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    Director:Leslie Norman

    Writer:Donald James
15. 

    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #15 - Element of Risk

    S1:E1512/24/1971

    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.

    Director:Gerald Mayer

    Writer:Tony Barwick

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    Director:Gerald Mayer

    Writer:Tony Barwick
16. 

    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #16 - A Home of One's Own

    S1:E1612/31/1971

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

    Director:James Hill

    Writer:Terry Nation

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    Director:James Hill

    Writer:Terry Nation
17. 

    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #17 - Five Miles to Midnight

    S1:E171/7/1972

    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.

    Director:Val Guest

    Writer:Terry Nation

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    Director:Val Guest

    Writer:Terry Nation
18. 

    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #18 - Nuisance Value

    S1:E181/14/1972

    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.

    Director:Leslie Norman

    Writers:David Rolfe, Tony Barwick

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    Director:Leslie Norman

    Writers:David Rolfe, Tony Barwick
19. 

    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #19 - The Morning After

    S1:E191/21/1972

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

    Director:Leslie Norman

    Writer:Walter Black

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    Director:Leslie Norman

    Writer:Walter Black
20. 

    6.0/10(3 votes)

    #20 - Read and Destroy

    S1:E201/28/1972

    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.

    Director:Roy Ward Baker

    Writer:Peter Yeldham

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    Director:Roy Ward Baker

    Writer:Peter Yeldham
21. 

    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #21 - A Death in the Family

    S1:E212/4/1972

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

    Director:Sidney Hayers

    Writer:Terry Nation

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    Director:Sidney Hayers

    Writer:Terry Nation
22. 

    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #22 - The Ozerov Inheritance

    S1:E222/11/1972

    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.

    Director:Roy Ward Baker

    Writer:Harry W. Junkin

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    Director:Roy Ward Baker

    Writer:Harry W. Junkin
23. 

    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #23 - To the Death, Baby

    S1:E232/18/1972

    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.

    Director:Basil Dearden

    Writer:Donald James

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    Director:Basil Dearden

    Writer:Donald James
24. 

    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #24 - Someone Waiting

    S1:E242/25/1972

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

    Director:Peter Medak

    Writer:Terry Nation

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    Director:Peter Medak

    Writer:Terry Nation