- 4.4/1041 votesLoading...4.4/10(41)Loading...
#1 - 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
- 5.4/1030 votesLoading...5.4/10(30)Loading...
#2 - Dragon Chase
Season 2 Episode 11
Aired 11/30/1973
In Britain, Harry is called on to protect a Russian author from publishing his anti-socialist book.
Director: Charles Crichton
Writer: John Kruse
- 5.4/1031 votesLoading...5.4/10(31)Loading...
#3 - The Bridge
Season 2 Episode 16
Aired 1/4/1974
Undercover as an explosives expert, Harry seeks to rescue a kidnapped girl and prevent a bridge bombing.
Director: Jeremy Summers
Writer: Tony Barwick
- 5.5/1043 votesLoading...5.5/10(43)Loading...
#4 - 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
- 5.6/1037 votesLoading...5.6/10(37)Loading...
#5 - 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
- 5.6/1030 votesLoading...5.6/10(30)Loading...
#6 - Trial
Season 2 Episode 21
Aired 2/8/1974
The Protectors are called upon when the father of a man on trial for murdering a policeman goes after the judge.
Director: Charles Crichton
Writer: Robert Banks Stewart
If you like The Protectors, check out...
- 5.7/1038 votesLoading...5.7/10(38)Loading...
#7 - Quin
Season 2 Episode 1
Aired 9/21/1973
Harry travels to Spain in order to track down a bounty hunter named Quin.
Director: Don Leaver
Writer: Trevor Preston
- 5.7/1032 votesLoading...5.7/10(32)Loading...
#8 - Baubles, Bangles and Beads
Season 2 Episode 5
Aired 10/19/1973
In Denmark, a young woman and her father call on the Protectors to deliver a huge ransom for a stolen jewelry shipment.
Director: Jeremy Summers
Writer: Terry Nation
- 5.7/1033 votesLoading...
- 5.8/1036 votesLoading...5.8/10(36)Loading...
#10 - 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
- 5.8/1034 votesLoading...5.8/10(34)Loading...
#11 - Decoy
Season 2 Episode 12
Aired 12/7/1973
An old friend who has a new lead on an insurance scam calls Harry and the Contessa to Venice, but he is murdered just before they arrive.
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Writer: Brian Clemens
- 5.8/1033 votesLoading...5.8/10(33)Loading...
#12 - Border Line
Season 2 Episode 13
Aired 12/14/1973
The Protectors are hired by a Hungarian actress wanting to bury her now deceased revolutionary father in their homeland.
Director: Charles Crichton
Writer: Anthony Terpiloff
- 5.8/1030 votesLoading...5.8/10(30)Loading...
#13 - The Tiger and the Goat
Season 2 Episode 19
Aired 1/25/1974
The Contessa is used to lure her former lover, a British spy, out into the open.
Director: Jeremy Summers
Writer: Trevor Preston
- 5.9/1036 votesLoading...5.9/10(36)Loading...
#14 - 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
- 5.9/1039 votesLoading...5.9/10(39)Loading...
#15 - 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
- 5.9/1035 votesLoading...5.9/10(35)Loading...
#16 - The Last Frontier
Season 2 Episode 4
Aired 10/12/1973
The Protectors are hired to smuggle into Britain a Russian scientist who wishes to marry her childhood sweetheart.
Director: Charles Crichton
Writer: Tony Barwick
- 5.9/1032 votesLoading...5.9/10(32)Loading...
#17 - Implicado
Season 2 Episode 10
Aired 11/23/1973
In Spain, an English boy is framed and arrested on drug charges after a drug dealer plants some hash in his backpack.
Director: Jeremy Summers
Writer: Tony Barwick
- 6.0/1051 votesLoading...6.0/10(51)Loading...
#18 - 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
- 6.0/1045 votesLoading...6.0/10(45)Loading...
#19 - 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
- 6.0/1044 votesLoading...6.0/10(44)Loading...
#20 - 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
- 6.0/1041 votesLoading...6.0/10(41)Loading...
#21 - 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
- 6.0/1037 votesLoading...6.0/10(37)Loading...
#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
- 6.0/1035 votesLoading...6.0/10(35)Loading...
#23 - 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
- 6.0/1032 votesLoading...6.0/10(32)Loading...
#24 - Goodbye George
Season 2 Episode 7
Aired 11/2/1973
Alone in Italy, the Contessa goes to Venice to find out why the son of a wealthy Brit is making huge withdrawals from his account.
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Writer: Brian Clemens
- 6.0/1033 votesLoading...6.0/10(33)Loading...
#25 - Wheels
Season 2 Episode 24
Aired 3/1/1974
The Protectors are hired to discretely research stolen secret Swiss bank account information.
Director: David Tomblin
Writer: Tony Barwick
The Worst Episodes of The Protectors
Every episode of The Protectors ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Protectors!
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...
Genres:Action & AdventureCrimeDrama
Network:Associated Television
Episodes
52
Avg. Rating
6.1
S1
S2
S3
S4
E1
E2
E3
6.6
5.7
6.5
6.2
6.0
6.3
Worst Episodes Summary
"It Could Be Practically Anywhere on the Island" is the worst rated episode of "The Protectors". It scored 4.4/10 based on 41 votes. Directed by Robert Vaughn and written by Tony Barwick, it aired on 3/16/1973. This episode scored 1.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Dragon Chase".