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The Persuaders!
A pair of Playboys with nothing in common but trouble!
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Tony Curtis
Danny Wilde
24 eps
Roger Moore
Lord Brett Sinclair
24 eps
Alfred Marks
Pullicino
1 eps
Suzanna Leigh
Emily Major
1 eps
Richard Hurndall
David Conron
1 eps
Clifton Jones
Dr. Kibu
1 eps
Glynn Edwards
Boris
1 eps
John Phillips
Lanning Koestler
1 eps
Robert Flemyng
Sir George
1 eps
Suzy Kendall
Kay Hunter
1 eps
Richard Vernon
Sir Maxwell Dean
1 eps
Patrick Newell
Fat Man
1 eps
John Acheson
Triver
1 eps
Lionel Murton
Ben
1 eps
Gerald Sim
Dr. Gordon
1 eps
June Ritchie
Charlie
1 eps
Juliet Harmer
Prue
2 eps
Leon Greene
Abel Gaunt
1 eps
Tim Barrett
John Radcliffe
1 eps
Ferdy Mayne
Count Sangallo
1 eps
Joseph Fürst
Yelker
1 eps
Nigel Green
John Cavendish
1 eps
Catherine Schell
Kristin Hansen
1 eps
Terence Morgan
Carl Foster
1 eps
Ralph Bates
Michel
1 eps
George Woodbridge
Gregory Ward
1 eps
Frank Maher
Jones
1 eps
Imogen Hassall
Maria
1 eps
Sue Lloyd
Maggie
1 eps
Annette Andre
Pekoo Rayne
1 eps
Larry Storch
Angie
1 eps
Cyd Hayman
Lyn
1 eps
Patrick Troughton
Count Marceau
1 eps
Terence Edmond
Cliff Turner
1 eps
Johnny Briggs
Charlie
1 eps
Valerie Leon
Space Queen
1 eps
Peter Vaughan
Lance Schubert
1 eps
Ian Hendry
Lord Croxley
1 eps
James Cosmo
Inspector Williams
1 eps
Jean Marsh
Nicola
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Persuaders! actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Persuaders! reads strongest on Bingeability, Humour and Spectacle.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
The story
What it's about
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E04
Greensleeves
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.
S01E21
A Death in the Family
Brett's relatives are being killed off one by one, so Brett and Danny decide to find the killer before he gets to Brett.
S01E16
A Home of One's Own
Danny buys a `handy man's special' cottage in England and discovers that his neighbors are into the occult.
S01E11
Chain of Events
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.
S01E17
Five Miles to Midnight
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.
S01E07
Someone Like Me
After Brett loses seven days, Danny thinks Brett is acting strange but Brett thinks someone is impersonating him. They both can't be right.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
Robert S. Baker
Showrunner
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Walter Black
Writer
Val Guest
Writer
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Tony Barwick
Writer
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Terence Feely
Writer
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David Rolfe
Writer
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Peter Yeldham
Writer
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Tony Williamson
Writer
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Milton S. Gelman
Writer
Terry Nation
Writer
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Donald James
Writer
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John Kruse
Writer
Brian Clemens
Writer
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Harry W. Junkin
Writer
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Michael Pertwee
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Walter BlackWriter
- Val GuestWriter
- Tony BarwickWriter
- Terence FeelyWriter
- David RolfeWriter
- Peter YeldhamWriter
Direction
- Val GuestDirector
- Leslie NormanDirector
- Roger MooreDirector
- Basil DeardenDirector
- Peter MedakDirector
- Sidney HayersDirector
Cinematography
- Tony SpratlingDirector of Photography
Where to watch
Streaming
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