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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 to electronic marionettes, and also his second to be firmly

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Season 1

6.7/1094 votes
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: Unknown
6.5/1081 votes
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
6.1/1062 votes
See No Evil
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1972
While in Rome the Protectors try to help a senator who is being blackmailed.
Director: Jeremy Summers
Writer: Donald Jonson
5.9/1057 votes
Disappearing Trick
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1972
The Contessa ends up putting her life in danger when she agrees to help an old friend win a wager by making him disappear.
Director: Jeremy Summers
Writer: Brian Clemens
6.0/1053 votes
Ceremony For the Dead
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/1972
The wife of a president hires the Protectors to guard her critically ill husband whom she fears may be kidnapped.
Director: Jeremy Summers
Writer: Donald James
6.0/1052 votes
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
6.1/1057 votes
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
6.5/1048 votes
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
6.6/1050 votes
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
6.2/1059 votes
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
6.3/1052 votes
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
6.4/1052 votes
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
5.9/1054 votes
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
5.4/1052 votes
For the Rest of Your Natural ...
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/5/1973
The Contessa is captured by a psychotic killer who puts her on trial for her life.
Director: John Hough
Writer: Tony Barwick
5.9/1052 votes
The Bodyguards
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/12/1973
The police hire the Protectors to guard the corpse of a bank robber as part of a ruse to capture his accomplices.
Director: Don Chaffey
Writer: Dennis Spooner
6.0/1046 votes
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
6.0/1051 votes
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
6.0/1047 votes
One and One Makes One
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/2/1973
The Protectors are hired to track down Bennett, a missing Canadian agent who holds valuable information about a new American-Canadian sky project.
Director: Don Chaffey
Writer: Pat Lasky, Jesse Lasky Jr.
6.1/1048 votes
Talkdown
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/9/1973
Harry must land a small plane on his own when the pilot dies.
Director: Jeremy Summers
Writer: Pat Lasky, Jesse Lasky Jr.
5.9/1046 votes
Vocal
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/16/1973
Drug dealers plan on using someone who can impersonate Harry's voice in order to get information out of a blinded Paul.
Director: Cyril Frankel
Writer: Brian Clemens
6.8/1057 votes
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
6.0/1046 votes
Chase
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/2/1973
The Contessa gives Harry a shotgun for his birthday which he soon puts to good use when while investigating political blackmail he becomes the quarry in a manhunt.
Director: Harry Booth
Writer: Brian Clemens
5.6/1045 votes
Your Witness
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/9/1973
An important witness to a murder who doesn't want the Protectors protection, vanishes soon after she is placed in the Protectors charge.
Director: Jeremy Summers
Writer: Donald James
4.4/1053 votes
It Could Be Practically Anywhere on the Island
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/16/1973
A small fluffy dog called Muffin is kidnapped from a hotel to place a microfilm in its collar. The dog is due to be ttansaported to NY. Harry saves the day.
Director: Robert Vaughn
Writer: Tony Barwick
6.6/1055 votes
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
6.0/1046 votes
A Case For the Right
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/30/1973
The Protectors end up in trouble in the Roman tombs.
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Writer: Pat Lasky, Jesse Lasky Jr.