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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...
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Season 1

  • 2,000 ft to Die
    6.8/1088 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

  • 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

  • See No Evil
    6.2/1057 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • King Con
    6.6/1043 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

  • Thinkback
    6.6/1045 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

  • A Kind of Wild Justice
    6.3/1054 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

  • Balance of Terror
    6.3/1048 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

  • Triple Cross
    6.5/1048 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Bodyguards
    6.1/1047 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

  • A Matter of Life and Death
    6.2/1041 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

  • The Big Hit
    6.0/1044 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

  • One and One Makes One
    6.1/1041 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

  • Talkdown
    6.0/1043 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

  • Vocal
    5.8/1041 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

  • With A Little Help From My Friends
    6.9/1053 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

  • Chase
    6.0/1041 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

  • 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

  • It Could Be Practically Anywhere on the Island
    4.4/1046 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

  • The First Circle
    6.7/1048 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

  • A Case For the Right
    6.0/1040 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