4.5/1040 votesLoading...#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...#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...#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...#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 - 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...#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
5.7/1038 votesLoading...#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...#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...#9 - Blockbuster
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 3/15/1974
The Protectors chase after a stolen platinum shipment.
Director: Jeremy Summers
Writer: Shane Rimmer
5.8/1036 votesLoading...#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
5.8/1033 votesLoading...#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
5.8/1032 votesLoading...#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
5.9/1050 votesLoading...#13 - 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
5.9/1044 votesLoading...#14 - 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
5.9/1036 votesLoading...#15 - 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
5.9/1035 votesLoading...#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...#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
5.9/1029 votesLoading...#18 - 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
6.0/1048 votesLoading...#19 - 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
6.0/1044 votesLoading...#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...#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
6.0/1038 votesLoading...#22 - 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
6.0/1037 votesLoading...#23 - 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...#24 - 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...#25 - 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
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
Worst Episodes Summary
"It Could Be Practically Anywhere on the Island" is the worst rated episode of "The Protectors". It scored 4.5/10 based on 40 votes. Directed by Robert Vaughn and written by Tony Barwick, it aired on 3/16/1973. This episode scored 0.9 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Dragon Chase".