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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

  • With A Little Help From My Friends
    6.9/1052 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

  • The First Circle
    6.8/1048 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

  • 2,000 ft to Die
    6.7/1089 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

  • Thinkback
    6.7/1044 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

  • Brother Hood
    6.6/1077 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

  • King Con
    6.6/1042 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

  • Triple Cross
    6.6/1047 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

  • Balance of Terror
    6.4/1046 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

  • The Quick Brown Fox
    6.3/1052 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

  • A Kind of Wild Justice
    6.3/1053 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

  • See No Evil
    6.2/1058 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

  • A Matter of Life and Death
    6.2/1040 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

  • One and One Makes One
    6.2/1040 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: Jesse Lasky Jr., Pat Lasky

  • Disappearing Trick
    6.1/1053 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

  • It Was All Over in Leipzig
    6.1/1046 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

  • The Numbers Game
    6.1/1049 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

  • The Bodyguards
    6.1/1046 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

  • The Big Hit
    6.1/1043 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

  • Talkdown
    6.1/1042 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: Jesse Lasky Jr., Pat Lasky

  • Chase
    6.1/1041 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

  • A Case For the Right
    6.1/1040 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: Jesse Lasky Jr., Pat Lasky

  • Ceremony For the Dead
    6.0/1049 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

  • Your Witness
    5.9/1040 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

  • Vocal
    5.8/1040 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

  • For the Rest of Your Natural ...
    5.6/1047 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

  • It Could Be Practically Anywhere on the Island
    4.3/1046 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