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The Best Episodes of The Protectors

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The Best Episodes of The Protectors

The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed...
  1. 6.9/10(51 votes)

    #1 - With A Little Help From My Friends

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    S1:E21

    Harry finds his family being threatened after he agrees to guard a visiting president in London.

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  2. 6.8/10(42 votes)

    #2 - Shadbolt

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    S2:E22

    Harry is stalked on a train by Shadbolt, a professional assassin.

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    Director:John Hough
  3. 6.8/10(37 votes)

    #3 - A Pocketful of Posies

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    S2:E23

    Harry Rule is called upon to see if Eartha Kitt's (guest star)home is haunted.

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  4. 6.7/10(83 votes)

    #4 - 2,000 ft to Die

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    S1:E1

    A friend of Harry's insists on doing a dangerous skydiving trick despite the fact that gold smugglers are trying to kill him.

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    Director:John Hough
    Writer:N/A
  5. 6.7/10(46 votes)

    #5 - The First Circle

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    S1:E25

    Harry is hired to protect a disturbed Vietnam war veteran.

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    Director:Don Chaffey
  6. 6.6/10(72 votes)

    #6 - Brother Hood

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    S1:E2

    A wealthy recluse hires the Protectors to break his brother out of prison.

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  8. 6.6/10(42 votes)

    #7 - King Con

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    S1:E8

    The Protectors devise an elaborate con to recover a priceless antique which a woman had been conned out of.

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  9. 6.6/10(44 votes)

    #8 - Thinkback

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    S1:E9

    Harry and the Contessa are the victims of a car crash that was engineered to get information out of them.

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  10. 6.5/10(47 votes)

    #9 - Triple Cross

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    S1:E12

    A kidnapped Paul will be blown to bits unless Harry and the Contessa help steal jewels which they have been hired to safeguard.

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    Director:John Hough
  11. 6.4/10(35 votes)

    #10 - Zeke's Blues

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    S2:E14

    Harry's college friend Zeke, a pianist, is blackmailed into setting Harry up by mobsters.

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  12. 6.4/10(31 votes)

    #11 - The Insider

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    S2:E25

    The Protectors aid a movie director in the retrieval of film being held for ransom.

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    Director:Don Leaver
  13. 6.3/10(51 votes)

    #12 - The Quick Brown Fox

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    S1:E7

    The West German government hires the Protectors to put a pension fund that is supporting fugitive Nazi's out of business.

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    Director:Don Chaffey
  14. 6.3/10(47 votes)

    #13 - Balance of Terror

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    S1:E11

    The KGB hires the Protectors to capture a renegade Russian scientist who plans on destroying London with a new virus to show the world how dangerous biological warfare can be.

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  15. 6.3/10(41 votes)

    #14 - Fighting Fund

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    S2:E3

    A revolutionary group steals and auctions off a priceless art collection in order to purchase dynamite to fund their cause.

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    Writer:John Kruse
  16. 6.3/10(38 votes)

    #15 - Wam (1)

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    S2:E8

    In Salzburg, the Protectors must rescue a group of vacationers whom are unknowingly being held hostage on top of an Austrian mountain.

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  17. 6.3/10(42 votes)

    #16 - Sugar and Spice

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    S2:E17

    In order to protect the daughter of a rich industrialist who has received threats against her life, Harry poses as her tutor.

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  18. 6.3/10(34 votes)

    #17 - Route 27

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    S2:E20

    Knowing where a huge stash of heroin is hidden, Harry confronts the drug dealers.

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    Director:Don Leaver
  19. 6.2/10(51 votes)

    #18 - A Kind of Wild Justice

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    S1:E10

    The daughter of a gangster whom Harry helped put in prison fails twice in her efforts to kill Harry.

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  20. 6.2/10(37 votes)

    #19 - A Case For the Right

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    S1:E26

    The Protectors end up in trouble in the Roman tombs.

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  21. 6.2/10(43 votes)

    #20 - Bagman

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    S2:E2

    The Protectors are called to deliver the ransom for the kidnapped daughter of a Danish aristocrat.

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    Director:John Hough
  22. 6.2/10(36 votes)

    #21 - Petard

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    S2:E6

    The Protectors go after industrial spies who are threatening to topple a chemical company by scooping their best products.

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  23. 6.2/10(34 votes)

    #22 - Wam (2)

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    S2:E9

    In Salzburg, the Protectors must rescue a group of vacationers whom are unknowingly being held hostage on top of an Austrian mountain.

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  24. 6.1/10(51 votes)

    #23 - Disappearing Trick

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    S1:E4

    The Contessa ends up putting her life in danger when she agrees to help an old friend win a wager by making him disappear.

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  25. 6.1/10(45 votes)

    #24 - It Was All Over in Leipzig

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    S1:E6

    While investigating a plot to overthrow the government of a Mediterranean nation the Protectors end up confronting two old friends of the Contessa, one with whom she was romantically involved.

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    Director:Don Chaffey
  26. 6.1/10(48 votes)

    #25 - The Numbers Game

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    S1:E13

    The Protectors only hope of putting a drug smuggling ring out of business lies in being able to decode a coded letter.

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    Director:Don Chaffey

Best Episodes Summary

"With A Little Help From My Friends" is the best rated episode of "The Protectors". It scored 6.9/10 based on 51 votes. Directed by Jeremy Summers and written by Sylvia Anderson, it aired on 2/23/1973. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Shadbolt".