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The Worst Episodes of The Protectors

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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...

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  1. Background image for It Could Be Practically Anywhere on the Island
    4.4/10(45 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Background image for Dragon Chase
    5.5/10(34 votes)

    #2 - Dragon Chase

    S2:E11

    In Britain, Harry is called on to protect a Russian author from publishing his anti-socialist book.

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  3. Background image for The Bridge
    5.5/10(34 votes)

    #3 - The Bridge

    S2:E16

    Undercover as an explosives expert, Harry seeks to rescue a kidnapped girl and prevent a bridge bombing.

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  4. Background image for For the Rest of Your Natural ...
    5.6/10(47 votes)

    #4 - For the Rest of Your Natural ...

    S1:E14

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

    Director:John Hough
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  5. Background image for Blockbuster
    5.7/10(37 votes)

    #5 - Blockbuster

    S2:E26

    The Protectors chase after a stolen platinum shipment.

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  6. Background image for Vocal
    5.8/10(41 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. Background image for Quin
    5.8/10(41 votes)

    #7 - Quin

    S2:E1

    Harry travels to Spain in order to track down a bounty hunter named Quin.

    Director:Don Leaver
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  9. Background image for Baubles, Bangles and Beads
    5.8/10(35 votes)

    #8 - Baubles, Bangles and Beads

    S2:E5

    In Denmark, a young woman and her father call on the Protectors to deliver a huge ransom for a stolen jewelry shipment.

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  10. Background image for Trial
    5.8/10(34 votes)

    #9 - Trial

    S2:E21

    The Protectors are called upon when the father of a man on trial for murdering a policeman goes after the judge.

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  11. Background image for Your Witness
    5.9/10(40 votes)

    #10 - 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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  12. Background image for Decoy
    5.9/10(38 votes)

    #11 - Decoy

    S2:E12

    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.

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  13. Background image for Border Line
    5.9/10(36 votes)

    #12 - Border Line

    S2:E13

    The Protectors are hired by a Hungarian actress wanting to bury her now deceased revolutionary father in their homeland.

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  14. Background image for The Tiger and the Goat
    5.9/10(34 votes)

    #13 - The Tiger and the Goat

    S2:E19

    The Contessa is used to lure her former lover, a British spy, out into the open.

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  15. Background image for Ceremony For the Dead
    6.0/10(48 votes)

    #14 - 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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  16. Background image for The Big Hit
    6.0/10(44 votes)

    #15 - 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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  17. Background image for Talkdown
    6.0/10(43 votes)

    #16 - Talkdown

    S1:E19

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

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  18. Background image for Chase
    6.0/10(41 votes)

    #17 - 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.

    Director:Harry Booth
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  19. Background image for The Last Frontier
    6.0/10(39 votes)

    #18 - The Last Frontier

    S2:E4

    The Protectors are hired to smuggle into Britain a Russian scientist who wishes to marry her childhood sweetheart.

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  20. Background image for Implicado
    6.0/10(35 votes)

    #19 - Implicado

    S2:E10

    In Spain, an English boy is framed and arrested on drug charges after a drug dealer plants some hash in his backpack.

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  21. Background image for See No Evil
    6.1/10(55 votes)

    #20 - See No Evil

    S1:E3

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

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  22. Background image for Disappearing Trick
    6.1/10(52 votes)

    #21 - 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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  23. Background image for It Was All Over in Leipzig
    6.1/10(46 votes)

    #22 - 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.

    Director:Don Chaffey
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  24. Background image for The Numbers Game
    6.1/10(49 votes)

    #23 - 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.

    Director:Don Chaffey
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  25. Background image for The Bodyguards
    6.1/10(47 votes)

    #24 - 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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  26. Background image for One and One Makes One
    6.1/10(41 votes)

    #25 - 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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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 45 votes. Directed by Robert Vaughn and written by Tony Barwick, it aired on 3/16/1973. This episode scored 1.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Dragon Chase".