6.6/1079 votes#1 - 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
6.5/1068 votes#2 - 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
5.9/1050 votes#3 - 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
6.0/1048 votes#4 - 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
5.9/1044 votes#5 - 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
6.1/1042 votes#6 - 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
6.3/1049 votes#7 - 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
6.6/1040 votes#8 - 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 votes#9 - 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
6.2/1049 votes#10 - 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
6.3/1045 votes#11 - 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
6.5/1045 votes#12 - 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
6.1/1045 votes#13 - 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
5.5/1043 votes#14 - 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
6.0/1044 votes#15 - 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
6.1/1038 votes#16 - 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
6.0/1041 votes#17 - 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
5.9/1036 votes#18 - 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
6.0/1038 votes#19 - 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
5.6/1037 votes#20 - 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
6.8/1049 votes#21 - 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
6.0/1037 votes#22 - 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
5.8/1036 votes#23 - 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
4.5/1040 votes#24 - 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
6.6/1043 votes#25 - 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
The Best Episodes of The Protectors Season 1
Every episode of The Protectors Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Protectors Season 1!
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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Network:Associated Television
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"2,000 ft to Die" is the best rated episode of "The Protectors" season 1. It scored 6.6/10 based on 79 votes. Directed by John Hough and written by N/A, it aired on 9/29/1972. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Brother Hood".