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The Best Episodes of The Protectors Season 1

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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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    #1 - The First Circle

    S1:E25

    Harry is hired to protect a disturbed Vietnam war veteran.

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    Director:Don Chaffey
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    #2 - 2,000 ft to Die

    S1:E1

    A friend of Harry's insists on doing a dangerous skydiving trick despite the fact that gold smugglers are trying to kill him.

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    Director:John Hough
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    #3 - Brother Hood

    S1:E2

    A wealthy recluse hires the Protectors to break his brother out of prison.

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    #4 - See No Evil

    S1:E3

    While in Rome the Protectors try to help a senator who is being blackmailed.

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    #5 - Disappearing Trick

    S1:E4

    The Contessa ends up putting her life in danger when she agrees to help an old friend win a wager by making him disappear.

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    #6 - Ceremony For the Dead

    S1:E5

    The wife of a president hires the Protectors to guard her critically ill husband whom she fears may be kidnapped.

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    #7 - It Was All Over in Leipzig

    S1:E6

    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.

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    Director:Don Chaffey
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    #8 - The Quick Brown Fox

    S1:E7

    The West German government hires the Protectors to put a pension fund that is supporting fugitive Nazi's out of business.

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    Director:Don Chaffey
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    #9 - King Con

    S1:E8

    The Protectors devise an elaborate con to recover a priceless antique which a woman had been conned out of.

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    #10 - Thinkback

    S1:E9

    Harry and the Contessa are the victims of a car crash that was engineered to get information out of them.

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    #11 - A Kind of Wild Justice

    S1:E10

    The daughter of a gangster whom Harry helped put in prison fails twice in her efforts to kill Harry.

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    #12 - Balance of Terror

    S1:E11

    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.

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    #13 - Triple Cross

    S1:E12

    A kidnapped Paul will be blown to bits unless Harry and the Contessa help steal jewels which they have been hired to safeguard.

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    Director:John Hough
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    #14 - The Numbers Game

    S1:E13

    The Protectors only hope of putting a drug smuggling ring out of business lies in being able to decode a coded letter.

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    Director:Don Chaffey
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    #15 - For the Rest of Your Natural ...

    S1:E14

    The Contessa is captured by a psychotic killer who puts her on trial for her life.

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    Director:John Hough
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    #16 - The Bodyguards

    S1:E15

    The police hire the Protectors to guard the corpse of a bank robber as part of a ruse to capture his accomplices.

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    #17 - A Matter of Life and Death

    S1:E16

    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.

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    Director:Don Chaffey
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    #18 - The Big Hit

    S1:E17

    After unsuccessful attempts on their lives, Paul and the Contessa are too late to warn Harry that someone is out to kill him.

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    #19 - One and One Makes One

    S1:E18

    The Protectors are hired to track down Bennett, a missing Canadian agent who holds valuable information about a new American-Canadian sky project.

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    #20 - Talkdown

    S1:E19

    Harry must land a small plane on his own when the pilot dies.

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    #21 - Vocal

    S1:E20

    Drug dealers plan on using someone who can impersonate Harry's voice in order to get information out of a blinded Paul.

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    #22 - With A Little Help From My Friends

    S1:E21

    Harry finds his family being threatened after he agrees to guard a visiting president in London.

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    #23 - Chase

    S1:E22

    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.

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    Director:Harry Booth
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    #24 - Your Witness

    S1:E23

    An important witness to a murder who doesn't want the Protectors protection, vanishes soon after she is placed in the Protectors charge.

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    #25 - It Could Be Practically Anywhere on the Island

    S1:E24

    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.

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The First Circle" is the best rated episode of "The Protectors" season 1. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Don Chaffey and written by Tony Barwick, it aired on 3/23/1973. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "2,000 ft to Die".