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- THE PERSUADERS
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- Cast & Credits
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- Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis).
- Lord Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore).
- Judge Fulton (Laurence Naismith).
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- Created by: Robert S. Baker.
- Associate producers: Terry Nation and
- Johnny Goodman.
- Music by: Ken Thorne.
- (The Persuaders Theme by: John Barry).
- Story consultant: Terry Nation.
- Co-story consultant: Milton S. Gelman.
- A Tribune Production.
- Made on location and at Pinewood Studios.
- 24 colour 60-minute episodes.
- 17 September 1971 - 25 Febuary 1972.
- (USA: ABC 18 September 1971 - 14 June 1972.
- Syndicated 24 episodes).
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- Synopsis Of The Show
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- Judge Fulton, a retired lawkeeper, blackmails
- two international thrill-seeking playboys, into becoming his instruments of
- justice. A campaign of his to rid the world of villainy. The two men are
- 'Danny Wilde', a brash wise-guy American, and 'Lord Brett Sinclair', an
- upper class English aristocrat. At first both men dont get on, but soon after
- both discover that they have a penchant for derring do and righting wrongs,
- they are the 'Persuaders'.
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- Background Info
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-
- A glossy, lively comedy/suspense adventure
- series, the Persuaders was the perfect vechile for it's two stars.
- Making an unlikely, but highly enjoyable team, the stars played perfectly
- off one another. The series was a glossy, well produced affair that drew
- high audiences when first shown, with the various episodes being light-
- hearted adventure stories, with just the right amount of humour and action.
- After years as TVs 'The Saint', this was Roger Moore's next step up the
- ladder to stardom, in fact after the series was cancelled, he was chosen
- to play 'James Bond' in his first Bond film 'Live and Let Die'. For Tony
- Curtis, this was his first TV role after years starring in various Hollywood
- films since the early 50s. The series was expensive to make, but this expense
- allowed us to visit some exotic locations, and through syndication the stars
- earned themselves a fortune - basically for playing themselves.
- Also a highlight of the series, was the opening theme tune, composed by
- James Bond composer 'John Barry', which was a hit in the charts of the day.
- The Persuaders today, is remembered as a fine example of the TV adventure
- series of the period, which included such shows of the day as 'Department S'
- 'Jason King' 'The Protectors' and 'The Adventurer', with The Persuaders,
- basically because of star power, being one of the best. Projected to run
- for five seasons of 26 episodes, the series was cancelled when it failed
- to attract an audience in the US(it was beaten to the punch by 'Mission
- Impossible' - then at the height of its sucess) and only 24 episodes were
- produced.
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- First and Only Season: 24 Colour 60-minute episodes.
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- 1. OVERTURE.
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- Writer: Brain Clemens.
- Director: Basil Dearden.
- Guest Stars: Imogen Hassall, Alex Scott,
- Michael Godfrey.
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- Danny and Brett set out on their first assignment
- - to find a brunette whose heart-shaped birthmark could prove her real
- identity. An exciting prospect, but one that leads them into danger and
- intrigue.
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- 2. THE GOLD NAPOLEON.
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- Writer: Val Guest.
- Director: Roy Ward Baker.
- Guest Stars: Alfred Marks, Susan George,
- Harold Goldblatt.
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- Is there gold beneath the bronze of Napoleon
- gold replicas? That's what Danny and Brett must find out - providing
- someone allows them to do so - after setting up Danny as a real live (but
- almost dead) target.
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- 3. TAKE SEVEN.
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- Writer: Terry Nation.
- Director: Sidney Hayers.
- Guest Stars: Sinead Cusack, Christian Roberts,
- Sue Lloyd.
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- The mysterious reappearence of a 'long lost
- brother' seeking his share of a rich estate, finds the Persuaders in the
- firing line when they try to help a young girl with family problems on her
- mind.
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- 4. GREENSLEEVES.
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- Writer: Terence Feely.
- Director: David Greene.
- Guest Stars: Rosemary Nicols, Andrew Keir,
- Cy Grant.
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- When a derelict old mansion suddenly reopens its
- doors without the knowledge of its owner, Brett Sinclair, Danny finds new
- employment - as butler to Brett Sinclair, who impersonates himself to uncover
- the truth.
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- 5. POWERSWITCH.
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- Writer: John Kruse.
- Director: Basil Dearden.
- Guest Stars: Annette Andre, Paul Whitsun-Jones,
- Terence Alexander.
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- A dead girl found floating in a Cote d'Azur bay.
- Her beautiful flatmate with something to hide. Two pieces of a puzzle that
- plunge Danny and Brett into dangerous waters - inhabited by human sharks.
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- 6. THE TIME AND THE PLACE.
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- Writer: Michael Pertwee.
- Director: Roger Moore.
- Guest Stars: Ian Hendry, Anna Palk,
- Patrick O'Connell.
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- Beautiful girls and the Persuaders go hand in
- hand. But when the playboys offer to help a young girl stranded on a country
- road, the 'damsel in distress' proves quite incapable of keeping her honour.
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- 7. SOMEONE LIKE ME.
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- Writer: Terry Nation.
- Director: Roy Ward Baker.
- Guest Stars: Reginald Marsh, Anne de Vigier,
- Bernard Lee.
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- One Brett Sinclair is almost too much for Danny
- to handle, but two prove unbearable - particulary when Danny finds himself
- on the recieving end of the fake Brett's activities. Danny's dilemma: who
- is the real one and who is the imposter?
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- 8. ANYONE CAN PLAY.
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- Writer: Tony Williamson.
- Director: Leslie Norman.
- Guest Stars: Cyd Hayman, Ed Deveraux,
- Richard Vernon.
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- Danny discovers a gold mine. Gambling in a
- Brighton casino and finding he isn't allowed to lose, he plays for high
- stakes - and finds that he has difficulty in deposing of his winnings.
- Until death plays its hand.
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- 9. THE OLD, THE NEW AND THE DEADLY.
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- Writer: Brian Clemens.
- Director: Leslie Norman.
- Guest Stars: Anna Gael, Derren Nesbitt,
- Kenneth J. Warren.
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- Birds have always been Danny's weakness - the
- female variety of course. But when he becomes involved with a fanatical
- ex-Nazi, a girl who is trying to clear her fathers name, and a statuette
- of a bird, he's guaranteed to make the feathers fly.
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- 10. ANGIE...ANGIE.
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- Writer: Milton S. Gelman.
- Director: Val Guest.
- Guest Stars: Larry Storch, Kristen Lindholm,
- Lionel Murton.
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- A weekend of fun and champagne at the Cannes
- Film Festival turns into a deadly life-taking scenario, when Danny meets
- up with Angie, a boyhood friend from the Bronx - a man with murder on his
- mind.
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- 11. CHAIN OF EVENTS.
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- Writer: Terry Nation.
- Director: Peter Hunt.
- Guest Stars: Peter Vaughan, Suzanna Leigh,
- George Baker.
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- Life under canvas for Brett means deep freezers
- and feather beds, while Danny makes do with roughing it. So while Brett
- digests his ready-made breakfast, Danny casts a fishing line to catch his -
- and hooks a load of trouble for both men.
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- 12. THAT'S ME OVER THERE.
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- Writer: Brian Clemens.
- Director: Leslie Norman.
- Guest Stars: Geoffrey Keen, Susan Farmer,
- Allan Cuthbertson.
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- Thaddeus Krane has grown fat on famine and
- wealthy on war. Someone is out to expose him for the crook that he is - which
- results in the informer being killed, Brett being kidnapped and Danny posing
- as a not-so-likely English lord!
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- 13. THE LONG GOODBYE.
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- Writer: Michael Pertwee.
- Director: Roger Moore.
- Guest Stars: Leo Genn, Nicola Pagett,
- Noel Willman.
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- The discovery by Danny and Brett of a skeleton
- in a crashed plane in the Scottish Highlands leads the two thrill-seekers
- into an adventure from which they emerge smelling ever-so-slightly from
- murder.
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- 14. THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE.
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- Writer: Donald James.
- Director: Leslie Norman.
- Guest Stars: Terry Thomas, Suzy Kendall,
- Stephen Greif.
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- When Brett is captured while trying to trap a
- British traitor and Danny has to rescue him before his cover is blown, who
- better to help him than another noble Sinclair - Archibald Sinclair
- Beauchamp. A mistake - as Danny discovers to his cost.
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- 15. ELEMENT OF RISK.
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- Writer: Tony Barwick.
- Director: Gerald Mayer.
- Guest Stars: Shane Rimmer, William Marlowe,
- Karen Kessey.
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- When someone mistakes Danny for the undisputed
- mastermined of crime, a planner of pure genius, Danny is prepared to play
- along - even though his life depends on the outcome. Brett meanwhile has
- troubles of his own.
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- 16. A HOME OF ONE'S OWN.
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- Writer: Terry Nation.
- Director: James Hill.
- Guest Stars: Hannah Gordon, John Ronane,
- Leon Greene.
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- When Danny buys a 'little piece of England' -
- a cottage in the country - and the locals turn nasty, his dreams of becoming
- an English squire end up in ashes. Brett meanwhile meets a lady birdwatcher-
- who carries a gun!
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- 17. FIVE MILES TO MIDNIGHT.
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- Writer: Terry Nation.
- Director: Val Guest.
- Guest Stars: Robert Hutton, Joan Collins,
- Robert Rietty.
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- Opening a travel business can have its drawbacks,
- as Danny and Brett discover when their first customer turns out to be Frank
- Rocco, a New York hoodlum on the run from a gang of Italian mobsters.
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- 18. NUISANCE VALUE.
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- Writers: David Wolfe and Tony Barwick.
- Director: Leslie Norman.
- Guest Stars: Vivienne Ventura, Sarah Lawson,
- Ralph Bates.
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- When someone forcibly takes away Danny's latest
- girlfriend, heiress to a fantastic fortune, the Bronx-born playboy and his
- partner Lord Brett Sinclair decide to nip their adversary's passion-flower
- in the bud - with somewhat unexpected results.
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- 19. THE MORNING AFTER.
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- Writer: Walter Black.
- Director: Leslie Norman.
- Guest Stars: Catherine Schell, Tony Bonner,
- Bernard Horsfall.
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- When Brett awakens after a heavy night's drinking
- party and finds he has a wife - a very glamorous one, too - it takes more
- than Danny's friendship to untangle the surrounding web of intrigue.
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- 20. READ AND DESTROY.
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- Writer: Peter Yeldham.
- Director: Roy Ward Baker.
- Guest Stars: Joss Ackland, Nigel Green,
- Kate O'Mara.
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- When Felix Meadows, a man wanted after an
- audacious East-West double cross, turns to Brett for sanctuary, Sincalir
- sends him to his stately home in Berkshire - but someone watches their
- every move and things dont turn out as planned.
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- 21. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY.
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- Writer: Terry Nation.
- Director: Sidney Hayers.
- Guest Stars: Diane Cilento, Denholm Elliot.
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- The Sinclair clan is shrinking. Some distant
- relative is playing out his own game of 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' by
- killing off everyone who stand between him and the Sinclair title. Will
- Brett be the next to die? Whose face hides behind the killer's smile?
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- 22. THE OZEROV INHERITANCE.
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- Writer: Harry H. Junkin.
- Director: Roy Ward Baker.
- Guest Stars: Gladys Cooper, Gary Raymond,
- Joseph Furst.
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- The Grand Duchess Ozerov requires Brett and
- Danny's help. Someone has laid claim to ownership of the family jewels
- and they must prove the Duchess's right. Doing so leads them to uncover
- a death in the past - and one in the present.
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- 23. TO THE DEATH, BABY.
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- Writer: Donald James.
- Director: Basil Dearden.
- Guest Stars: Jennie Linden, Terence Morgan,
- Thorley Waters.
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- Hired to break up the friendship between Shelley
- Masterson, a beautiful heiress and her dubious boyfriend, Danny and Brett
- find that a bit of soft soap can make anyone slip - right into the dirty
- money laundry business.
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- 24. SOMEONE WAITING.
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- Writer: Terry Nation.
- Director: Peter Medak.
- Guest Stars: Penelope Horner, John Cairney,
- Lois Maxwell.
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- The victim, Lord Brett Sinclair - the suspect,
- Danny Wilde?! When Danny gets whiff that someone is out to sabotage his
- friends dreams of becoming a world-beating motor-racing driver, his efforts
- to avoid disaster leave Brett at the starting gate.
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