The best episodes of The Persuaders

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  1. 01

    S01E04 · October 8, 1971 · 49m

    Greensleeves8.3

    Brett's family mansion seems to have been restored without his knowledge, and taken over by strangers. To find out why, he pretends to be the actor they have hired to impersonate him, and ends up helping the Prime Minister.

  2. 02

    S01E21 · February 4, 1972 · 49m

    A Death in the Family8.2

    Brett's relatives are being killed off one by one, so Brett and Danny decide to find the killer before he gets to Brett.

  3. 03

    S01E16 · December 31, 1971 · 49m

    A Home of One's Own7.8

    Danny buys a `handy man's special' cottage in England and discovers that his neighbors are into the occult.

  4. 04

    S01E11 · November 26, 1971 · 49m

    Chain of Events7.7

    While out camping at Brett's family estate, Danny gets chained to a brief case which he can't get off that contains a bomb.

  5. 05

    S01E07 · October 29, 1971 · 49m

    Someone Like Me7.6

    After Brett loses seven days, Danny thinks Brett is acting strange but Brett thinks someone is impersonating him. They both can't be right.

  6. 06

    S01E17 · January 7, 1972 · 49m

    Five Miles to Midnight7.6

    Trying to open a travel business, Danny and Brett encounter a New York hoodlum who needs to be smuggled out of Italy after he killed an Italian gangster.

  7. 07

    S01E19 · January 21, 1972 · 49m

    The Morning After7.6

    Brett wakes up one morning and discovers that he got married the night before.

  8. 08

    S01E03 · October 1, 1971 · 49m

    Take Seven7.3

    Danny and Brett try to help a girl whose ""long lost brother"" has suddenly appeared, cutting her off from her inheritance.

  9. 09

    S01E14 · December 17, 1971 · 49m

    The Man in the Middle7.2

    When Brett's plan to capture a traitorous British spy by pretending to be him results in his own capture, Danny enlists the aid of one of Brett's relatives to rescue him.

  10. 10

    S01E24 · February 25, 1972 · 49m

    Someone Waiting7.2

    Brett resumes race car driving, only to become the target of someone who is willing to kill him in order to make him stop.

  11. 11

    S01E06 · October 22, 1971 · 49m

    The Time and the Place7.2

    Danny runs into political intrigue when he discovers the dead body of a reporter, then can't find it until it turns up in a car crash hours later.

  12. 12

    S01E08 · November 5, 1971 · 49m

    Anyone Can Play7.0

    Danny has to go on the run from enemy agents after his gambling winnings at a Brighton casino turn out to be part of a communist plot to pay off spies when they use the right code words.

  13. 13

    S01E13 · December 10, 1971 · 49m

    The Long Goodbye7.0

    When Danny and Brett find the decade-old dead body of a scientist in a crashed plane in the Scottish Highlands, several women claiming to be his daughter offer them various inducements to part with the formula they found.

  14. 14

    S01E22 · February 11, 1972 · 49m

    The Ozerov Inheritance7.0

    To retain the family jewels, an elderly Russian duchess must present proof of her marriage into the Russian Royal Family, which she says she can do with the help of a journal kept by one of Brett's uncles.

  15. 15

    S01E18 · January 14, 1972 · 49m

    Nuisance Value6.8

    After Danny is accused of kidnapping his blind date, a rich man's spoiled daughter, Brett and Danny decide to help rescue her from the real kidnappers but have problems keeping her rescued.

  16. 16

    S01E09 · November 12, 1971 · 49m

    The Old, the New and the Deadly6.6

    It seems that everyone including a former Nazi wants a German Eagle statuette, and they think that Danny is the one who has it.

  17. 17

    S01E15 · December 24, 1971 · 49m

    Element of Risk6.6

    At a London airport, a gang of crooks who are planning a bullion heist mistake Danny for a criminal mastermind when the man's suitcase accidentally ends up in Danny's luggage cart.

  18. 18

    S01E10 · November 19, 1971 · 49m

    Angie... Angie6.5

    An childhood friend of Danny's from the Bronx turns out to be a hit man hired to kill an American labor leader on holiday at the Cannes Film Festival.

  19. 19

    S01E23 · February 18, 1972 · 49m

    To the Death, Baby6.5

    Brett and Danny both end up wooing an heiress after they are asked to break up a romance between a her and a gigolo who is courting her.

  20. 20

    S01E02 · September 24, 1971 · 49m

    The Gold Napoleon6.4

    Danny and Brett must discover whether or not Gold Napoleon coins are the originals, or replicas as a coin dealer claims them to be.

  21. 21

    S01E20 · January 28, 1972 · 49m

    Read and Destroy6.4

    Seeking sanctuary with his old friend Brett is a spy who plans to publish his memoirs, which contain the name of every NATO, SEATO, and ANZUS agent.

  22. 22

    S01E12 · December 3, 1971 · 49m

    That's Me Over There6.2

    In order to catch a war criminal, Danny must impersonate the kidnapped Brett, but how will he explain an English Lord with a Brooklyn accent?

  23. 23

    S01E05 · October 15, 1971 · 49m

    Powerswitch6.1

    When the Judge tricks Brett and Danny into identifying a dead woman found floating in the waters of the French Riviera, they end up investigating an international stock swindle.

  24. 24

    S01E01 · September 17, 1971 · 49m

    Overture5.8

    A retired judge who regrets those criminals he had to let get away arranges for Brett and Danny to meet, and then gets them arrested so that they have the choice of either helping him out in his fight against crime or staying in jail. Their first assignment is to locate an heiress by her heart-shaped birthmark.

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