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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!

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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 21 - A Death in the Family
    8.1/10(373 votes)

    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.

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Terry Nation

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  2. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 4 - Greensleeves
    8.0/10(428 votes)

    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.

    Director:David Greene
    Writer:Terence Feely

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  3. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 11 - Chain of Events
    7.9/10(357 votes)

    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.

    Director:Peter R. Hunt
    Writer:Terry Nation

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  4. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 16 - A Home of One's Own
    7.8/10(327 votes)

    S1:E16

    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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  5. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 7 - Someone Like Me
    7.7/10(351 votes)

    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.

    Director:Roy Ward Baker
    Writer:Terry Nation

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  6. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 17 - Five Miles to Midnight
    7.6/10(335 votes)

    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.

    Director:Val Guest
    Writer:Terry Nation

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  7. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 3 - Take Seven
    7.5/10(386 votes)

    S1:E3

    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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  8. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 9 - The Old, the New and the Deadly
    7.5/10(349 votes)

    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.

    Director:Leslie Norman
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  9. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 12 - That's Me Over There
    7.5/10(313 votes)

    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?

    Director:Leslie Norman
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  10. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 13 - The Long Goodbye
    7.5/10(317 votes)

    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.

    Director:Roger Moore
    Writer:Michael Pertwee

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  11. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 14 - The Man in the Middle
    7.5/10(310 votes)

    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.

    Director:Leslie Norman
    Writer:Donald James

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  12. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 15 - Element of Risk
    7.5/10(306 votes)

    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.

    Director:Gerald Mayer
    Writer:Tony Barwick

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  13. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 20 - Read and Destroy
    7.5/10(293 votes)

    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.

    Director:Roy Ward Baker
    Writer:Peter Yeldham

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  14. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 1 - Overture
    7.4/10(552 votes)

    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.

    Director:Basil Dearden
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  15. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 5 - Powerswitch
    7.4/10(366 votes)

    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.

    Director:Basil Dearden
    Writer:John Kruse

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  16. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 6 - The Time and the Place
    7.4/10(329 votes)

    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.

    Director:Roger Moore
    Writer:Michael Pertwee

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  17. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 8 - Anyone Can Play
    7.4/10(331 votes)

    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.

    Director:Leslie Norman
    Writer:Tony Williamson

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  18. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 18 - Nuisance Value
    7.3/10(284 votes)

    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.

    Director:Leslie Norman
    Writers:David Rolfe, Tony Barwick

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  19. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 19 - The Morning After
    7.3/10(302 votes)

    S1:E19

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

    Director:Leslie Norman
    Writer:Walter Black

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  20. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 22 - The Ozerov Inheritance
    7.2/10(310 votes)

    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.

    Director:Roy Ward Baker
    Writer:Harry W. Junkin

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  21. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 23 - To the Death, Baby
    7.2/10(287 votes)

    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.

    Director:Basil Dearden
    Writer:Donald James

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  22. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 24 - Someone Waiting
    7.2/10(286 votes)

    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.

    Director:Peter Medak
    Writer:Terry Nation

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  23. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 2 - The Gold Napoleon
    7.1/10(429 votes)

    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.

    Director:Roy Ward Baker
    Writer:Val Guest

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  24. The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 10 - Angie... Angie
    7.0/10(359 votes)

    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.

    Director:Val Guest
    Writer:Milton S. Gelman

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"A Death in the Family" is the best rated episode of "The Persuaders!" season 1. It scored 8.1/10 based on 373 votes. Directed by Sidney Hayers and written by Terry Nation, it aired on 2/4/1972. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Greensleeves".