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The Best Episodes of The Persuaders! Season 1

Every episode of The Persuaders! Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Persuaders! Season 1!

The Best Episodes of The Persuaders! Season 1

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

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  1. Background image for Overture
    5.2/10(4 votes)

    #1 - Overture

    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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  2. Background image for The Gold Napoleon
    6.0/10(3 votes)

    #2 - The Gold Napoleon

    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
  3. Background image for Take Seven
    6.7/10(2 votes)

    #3 - Take Seven

    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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  4. Background image for Greensleeves
    7.5/10(3 votes)

    #4 - Greensleeves

    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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  5. Background image for Powerswitch
    5.5/10(3 votes)

    #5 - Powerswitch

    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
  6. Background image for The Time and the Place
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #6 - The Time and the Place

    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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  8. Background image for Someone Like Me
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #7 - Someone Like Me

    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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  9. Background image for Anyone Can Play
    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #8 - Anyone Can Play

    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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  10. Background image for The Old, the New and the Deadly
    6.0/10(3 votes)

    #9 - The Old, the New and the Deadly

    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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  11. Background image for Angie... Angie
    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #10 - Angie... Angie

    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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  12. Background image for Chain of Events
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #11 - Chain of Events

    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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  13. Background image for That's Me Over There
    5.7/10(3 votes)

    #12 - That's Me Over There

    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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  14. Background image for The Long Goodbye
    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #13 - The Long Goodbye

    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. Background image for The Man in the Middle
    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #14 - The Man in the Middle

    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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  16. Background image for Element of Risk
    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #15 - Element of Risk

    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
  17. Background image for A Home of One's Own
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #16 - A Home of One's Own

    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
  18. Background image for Five Miles to Midnight
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #17 - Five Miles to Midnight

    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
  19. Background image for Nuisance Value
    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #18 - Nuisance Value

    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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    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #19 - The Morning After

    S1:E19

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

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  21. Background image for Read and Destroy
    6.0/10(3 votes)

    #20 - Read and Destroy

    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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  22. Background image for A Death in the Family
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #21 - A Death in the Family

    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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  23. Background image for The Ozerov Inheritance
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #22 - The Ozerov Inheritance

    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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  24. Background image for To the Death, Baby
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #23 - To the Death, Baby

    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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  25. Background image for Someone Waiting
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #24 - Someone Waiting

    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

Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Overture" is the best rated episode of "The Persuaders!" season 1. It scored 5.2/10 based on 4 votes. Directed by Basil Dearden and written by Brian Clemens, it aired on 9/17/1971. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "The Gold Napoleon".