6.8/1048 votesLoading...#1 - With A Little Help From My Friends
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/23/1973
Harry finds his family being threatened after he agrees to guard a visiting president in London.
Director: Jeremy Summers
Writer: Sylvia Anderson
6.8/1040 votesLoading...#2 - Shadbolt
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/15/1974
Harry is stalked on a train by Shadbolt, a professional assassin.
Director: John Hough
Writer: Tony Barwick
6.8/1034 votesLoading...#3 - A Pocketful of Posies
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/22/1974
Harry Rule is called upon to see if Eartha Kitt's (guest star)home is haunted.
Director: Cyril Frankel
Writer: Terry Nation
6.6/1079 votesLoading...#4 - 2,000 ft to Die
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1972
A friend of Harry's insists on doing a dangerous skydiving trick despite the fact that gold smugglers are trying to kill him.
Director: John Hough
Writer: N/A
6.6/1040 votesLoading...#5 - King Con
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1972
The Protectors devise an elaborate con to recover a priceless antique which a woman had been conned out of.
Director: Jeremy Summers
Writer: Tony Barwick
6.6/1042 votesLoading...#6 - Thinkback
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1972
Harry and the Contessa are the victims of a car crash that was engineered to get information out of them.
Director: Cyril Frankel
Writer: Brian Clemens
6.6/1043 votesLoading...#7 - The First Circle
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/23/1973
Harry is hired to protect a disturbed Vietnam war veteran.
Director: Don Chaffey
Writer: Tony Barwick
6.5/1068 votesLoading...#8 - Brother Hood
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1972
A wealthy recluse hires the Protectors to break his brother out of prison.
Director: Don Chaffey
Writer: John Goldsmith
6.5/1045 votesLoading...#9 - Triple Cross
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/1972
A kidnapped Paul will be blown to bits unless Harry and the Contessa help steal jewels which they have been hired to safeguard.
Director: John Hough
Writer: Lewis Davidson
6.4/1032 votesLoading...#10 - Zeke's Blues
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/21/1973
Harry's college friend Zeke, a pianist, is blackmailed into setting Harry up by mobsters.
Director: Jeremy Summers
Writer: Shane Rimmer
6.4/1029 votesLoading...#11 - The Insider
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 2/25/1974
The Protectors aid a movie director in the retrieval of film being held for ransom.
Director: Don Leaver
Writer: Trevor Preston
6.3/1049 votesLoading...#12 - The Quick Brown Fox
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1972
The West German government hires the Protectors to put a pension fund that is supporting fugitive Nazi's out of business.
Director: Don Chaffey
Writer: Donald James
6.3/1045 votesLoading...#13 - Balance of Terror
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1972
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.
Director: Don Chaffey
Writer: John Goldsmith
6.3/1039 votesLoading...#14 - Bagman
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1973
The Protectors are called to deliver the ransom for the kidnapped daughter of a Danish aristocrat.
Director: John Hough
Writer: Terry Nation
6.3/1039 votesLoading...#15 - Fighting Fund
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1973
A revolutionary group steals and auctions off a priceless art collection in order to purchase dynamite to fund their cause.
Director: Jeremy Summers
Writer: John Kruse
6.3/1040 votesLoading...#16 - Sugar and Spice
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/11/1974
In order to protect the daughter of a rich industrialist who has received threats against her life, Harry poses as her tutor.
Director: Charles Crichton
Writer: David Butler
6.2/1049 votesLoading...#17 - A Kind of Wild Justice
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1972
The daughter of a gangster whom Harry helped put in prison fails twice in her efforts to kill Harry.
Director: Jeremy Summers
Writer: Donald James
6.2/1034 votesLoading...#18 - Petard
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1973
The Protectors go after industrial spies who are threatening to topple a chemical company by scooping their best products.
Director: Cyril Frankel
Writer: Tony Barwick
6.2/1036 votesLoading...#19 - Wam (1)
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1973
In Salzburg, the Protectors must rescue a group of vacationers whom are unknowingly being held hostage on top of an Austrian mountain.
Director: Jeremy Summers
Writer: Tony Barwick
6.2/1032 votesLoading...#20 - Wam (2)
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1973
In Salzburg, the Protectors must rescue a group of vacationers whom are unknowingly being held hostage on top of an Austrian mountain.
Director: Jeremy Summers
Writer: Tony Barwick
6.2/1032 votesLoading...#21 - Route 27
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/1/1974
Knowing where a huge stash of heroin is hidden, Harry confronts the drug dealers.
Director: Don Leaver
Writer: Terry Nation
6.1/1042 votesLoading...#22 - It Was All Over in Leipzig
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1972
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.
Director: Don Chaffey
Writer: Donald James
6.1/1045 votesLoading...#23 - The Numbers Game
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/29/1972
The Protectors only hope of putting a drug smuggling ring out of business lies in being able to decode a coded letter.
Director: Don Chaffey
Writer: Ralph Smart
6.1/1037 votesLoading...#24 - A Matter of Life and Death
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/19/1973
In Malta, with only the body of a dead hippie as a clue, the Protectors go after smugglers despite having no idea what it is that is being smuggled.
Director: Don Chaffey
Writer: Donald James
6.1/1040 votesLoading...#25 - The Big Hit
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/26/1973
After unsuccessful attempts on their lives, Paul and the Contessa are too late to warn Harry that someone is out to kill him.
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Writer: Donald James
The Best Episodes of The Protectors
Every episode of The Protectors ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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...
Genres:Action & AdventureCrimeDrama
Network:Associated Television
Best Episodes Summary
"With A Little Help From My Friends" is the best rated episode of "The Protectors". It scored 6.8/10 based on 48 votes. Directed by Jeremy Summers and written by Sylvia Anderson, it aired on 2/23/1973. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Shadbolt".