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THE PERSUADERS
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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).
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).
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'.
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.
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.
2. THE GOLD NAPOLEON.
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Writer: Val Guest.
Director: Roy Ward Baker.
Guest Stars: Alfred Marks, Susan George,
Harold Goldblatt.
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.
3. TAKE SEVEN.
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Writer: Terry Nation.
Director: Sidney Hayers.
Guest Stars: Sinead Cusack, Christian Roberts,
Sue Lloyd.
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.
4. GREENSLEEVES.
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Writer: Terence Feely.
Director: David Greene.
Guest Stars: Rosemary Nicols, Andrew Keir,
Cy Grant.
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.
5. POWERSWITCH.
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Writer: John Kruse.
Director: Basil Dearden.
Guest Stars: Annette Andre, Paul Whitsun-Jones,
Terence Alexander.
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.
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.
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.
7. SOMEONE LIKE ME.
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Writer: Terry Nation.
Director: Roy Ward Baker.
Guest Stars: Reginald Marsh, Anne de Vigier,
Bernard Lee.
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?
8. ANYONE CAN PLAY.
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Writer: Tony Williamson.
Director: Leslie Norman.
Guest Stars: Cyd Hayman, Ed Deveraux,
Richard Vernon.
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.
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.
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.
10. ANGIE...ANGIE.
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Writer: Milton S. Gelman.
Director: Val Guest.
Guest Stars: Larry Storch, Kristen Lindholm,
Lionel Murton.
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.
11. CHAIN OF EVENTS.
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Writer: Terry Nation.
Director: Peter Hunt.
Guest Stars: Peter Vaughan, Suzanna Leigh,
George Baker.
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.
12. THAT'S ME OVER THERE.
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Writer: Brian Clemens.
Director: Leslie Norman.
Guest Stars: Geoffrey Keen, Susan Farmer,
Allan Cuthbertson.
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!
13. THE LONG GOODBYE.
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Writer: Michael Pertwee.
Director: Roger Moore.
Guest Stars: Leo Genn, Nicola Pagett,
Noel Willman.
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.
14. THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE.
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Writer: Donald James.
Director: Leslie Norman.
Guest Stars: Terry Thomas, Suzy Kendall,
Stephen Greif.
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.
15. ELEMENT OF RISK.
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Writer: Tony Barwick.
Director: Gerald Mayer.
Guest Stars: Shane Rimmer, William Marlowe,
Karen Kessey.
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.
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.
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!
17. FIVE MILES TO MIDNIGHT.
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Writer: Terry Nation.
Director: Val Guest.
Guest Stars: Robert Hutton, Joan Collins,
Robert Rietty.
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.
18. NUISANCE VALUE.
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Writers: David Wolfe and Tony Barwick.
Director: Leslie Norman.
Guest Stars: Vivienne Ventura, Sarah Lawson,
Ralph Bates.
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.
19. THE MORNING AFTER.
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Writer: Walter Black.
Director: Leslie Norman.
Guest Stars: Catherine Schell, Tony Bonner,
Bernard Horsfall.
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.
20. READ AND DESTROY.
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Writer: Peter Yeldham.
Director: Roy Ward Baker.
Guest Stars: Joss Ackland, Nigel Green,
Kate O'Mara.
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.
21. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY.
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Writer: Terry Nation.
Director: Sidney Hayers.
Guest Stars: Diane Cilento, Denholm Elliot.
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?
22. THE OZEROV INHERITANCE.
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Writer: Harry H. Junkin.
Director: Roy Ward Baker.
Guest Stars: Gladys Cooper, Gary Raymond,
Joseph Furst.
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.
23. TO THE DEATH, BABY.
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Writer: Donald James.
Director: Basil Dearden.
Guest Stars: Jennie Linden, Terence Morgan,
Thorley Waters.
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.
24. SOMEONE WAITING.
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Writer: Terry Nation.
Director: Peter Medak.
Guest Stars: Penelope Horner, John Cairney,
Lois Maxwell.
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.