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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!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Protectors Season 1 Episode 21 - With A Little Help From My Friends
    6.8/10(57 votes)

    S1:E21

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

    Director:Jeremy Summers
    Writer:Sylvia Anderson

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  2. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 1 - 2,000 ft to Die
    6.7/10(94 votes)

    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.

    Director:John Hough
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 9 - Thinkback
    6.6/10(50 votes)

    S1:E9

    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

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  4. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 25 - The First Circle
    6.6/10(55 votes)

    S1:E25

    Harry is hired to protect a disturbed Vietnam war veteran.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Tony Barwick

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  5. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 2 - Brother Hood
    6.5/10(81 votes)

    S1:E2

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

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:John Goldsmith

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  6. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 8 - King Con
    6.5/10(48 votes)

    S1:E8

    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

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  7. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 12 - Triple Cross
    6.4/10(52 votes)

    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.

    Director:John Hough
    Writer:Lewis Davidson

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  8. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 11 - Balance of Terror
    6.3/10(52 votes)

    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.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:John Goldsmith

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  9. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 10 - A Kind of Wild Justice
    6.2/10(59 votes)

    S1:E10

    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

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  10. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 3 - See No Evil
    6.1/10(62 votes)

    S1:E3

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

    Director:Jeremy Summers
    Writer:Donald Jonson

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  11. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 7 - The Quick Brown Fox
    6.1/10(57 votes)

    S1:E7

    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

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  12. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 19 - Talkdown
    6.1/10(48 votes)

    S1:E19

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

    Director:Jeremy Summers
    Writers:Pat Lasky, Jesse Lasky Jr.

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  13. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 5 - Ceremony For the Dead
    6.0/10(53 votes)

    S1:E5

    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

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  14. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 6 - It Was All Over in Leipzig
    6.0/10(52 votes)

    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.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Donald James

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  15. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 16 - A Matter of Life and Death
    6.0/10(46 votes)

    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.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Donald James

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  16. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 17 - The Big Hit
    6.0/10(51 votes)

    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.

    Director:Roy Ward Baker
    Writer:Donald James

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  17. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 18 - One and One Makes One
    6.0/10(47 votes)

    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.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writers:Pat Lasky, Jesse Lasky Jr.

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  18. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 22 - Chase
    6.0/10(46 votes)

    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.

    Director:Harry Booth
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  19. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 26 - A Case For the Right
    6.0/10(46 votes)

    S1:E26

    The Protectors end up in trouble in the Roman tombs.

    Director:Michael Lindsay-Hogg
    Writers:Pat Lasky, Jesse Lasky Jr.

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  20. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 4 - Disappearing Trick
    5.9/10(57 votes)

    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.

    Director:Jeremy Summers
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  21. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 13 - The Numbers Game
    5.9/10(54 votes)

    S1:E13

    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

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  22. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 15 - The Bodyguards
    5.9/10(52 votes)

    S1:E15

    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

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  23. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 20 - Vocal
    5.9/10(46 votes)

    S1:E20

    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

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  24. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 23 - Your Witness
    5.6/10(45 votes)

    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.

    Director:Jeremy Summers
    Writer:Donald James

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  25. The Protectors Season 1 Episode 14 - For the Rest of Your Natural ...
    5.4/10(52 votes)

    S1:E14

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

    Director:John Hough
    Writer:Tony Barwick

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"With A Little Help From My Friends" is the best rated episode of "The Protectors" season 1. It scored 6.8/10 based on 57 votes. Directed by Jeremy Summers and written by Sylvia Anderson, it aired on 2/23/1973. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "2,000 ft to Die".