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The Persuaders!: Season 1

24 episodes Premiered Sep 17, 1971 Updated Jul 19, 2026
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Episodes

S1·E1

Overture

Sep 17, 1971 · 49 min

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

S1·E2

The Gold Napoleon

Sep 24, 1971 · 49 min

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

S1·E3

Take Seven

Oct 1, 1971 · 49 min

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

S1·E4

Greensleeves

Oct 8, 1971 · 49 min

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

S1·E5

Powerswitch

Oct 15, 1971 · 49 min

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.

S1·E6

The Time and the Place

Oct 22, 1971 · 49 min

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.

S1·E7

Someone Like Me

Oct 29, 1971 · 49 min

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

S1·E8

Anyone Can Play

Nov 5, 1971 · 49 min

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

S1·E9

The Old, the New and the Deadly

Nov 12, 1971 · 49 min

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

S1·E10

Angie... Angie

Nov 19, 1971 · 49 min

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.

S1·E11

Chain of Events

Nov 26, 1971 · 49 min

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.

S1·E12

That's Me Over There

Dec 3, 1971 · 49 min

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?

S1·E13

The Long Goodbye

Dec 10, 1971 · 49 min

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 inducem

S1·E14

The Man in the Middle

Dec 17, 1971 · 49 min

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.

S1·E15

Element of Risk

Dec 24, 1971 · 49 min

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.

S1·E16

A Home of One's Own

Dec 31, 1971 · 49 min

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

S1·E17

Five Miles to Midnight

Jan 7, 1972 · 49 min

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.

S1·E18

Nuisance Value

Jan 14, 1972 · 49 min

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

S1·E19

The Morning After

Jan 21, 1972 · 49 min

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

S1·E20

Read and Destroy

Jan 28, 1972 · 49 min

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.

S1·E21

A Death in the Family

Feb 4, 1972 · 49 min

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

S1·E22

The Ozerov Inheritance

Feb 11, 1972 · 49 min

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

S1·E23

To the Death, Baby

Feb 18, 1972 · 49 min

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.

S1·E24

Someone Waiting

Feb 25, 1972 · 49 min

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