The Persuaders!

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17. Five Miles To Midnight - 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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Series 1

1. Overture

Danny and Brett set out on their first assignment, to find a brunette whose heart shaped birthmark could prove her real identity. It's an exciting prospect, but one that leads them into danger and intrigue.

2. The Gold Napoleon

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

The mysterious reappearance 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

Brett's old family estate is disused and forgotten but he discovers someone has repaired the house and has contacted a theatrical agent looking for an actor who looks like him, as they try to find out what's happening they uncover sinister secrets.

5. Powerswitch

A dead girl is found floating in a Cote d'Azur bay and her flatmate has something to hide. Danny and Brett are plunged into dangerous waters.

6. The Time and the Place

Beautiful girls and the Persuaders go hand in hand. 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

One Brett Sinclair is almost too much for Danny to handle, but two prove unbearable - particularly when Danny finds himself on the receiving end of the fake Brett's activities. Danny's dilemma: who is the real one and who is the imposter?

8. Anyone Can Play

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 disposing of his winnings.

9. The Old, the New and the Deadly

Birds have always been Danny's weakness, the female variety of course. When he becomes involved with a fanatical ex Nazi, a girl who is trying to clear her father's name, and a statuette of a bird, he's guaranteed to make feathers fly.

10. Angie, Angie

A weekend of fun and champagne at the Cannes film festival turns into a deadly life-taking scenario.

11. Chain of Events

Danny and Brett decide to relax on holiday but their rest and relaxation is shattered when Danny encounters a parachutist who falls from the sky and clips an attaché case to his wrist. The chain can't be broken nor the case itself opened.

12. That's Me Over There

Thaddeus Krane has grown fat on famine and wealthy on war. Someone is out to expose him for the crook 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

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 of murder.

14. The Man in the Middle

Judge Fulton discovers there's a traitor in the heart of the British intelligence services and determines that the best people to root out the mole would therefore be outsiders.

15. Element of Risk

When someone mistakes Danny for the undisputed mastermind of crime, a planner of pure genius, Danny is prepared to play along - even though his life depends on the outcome. Brett, meanwhile, has trouble of his own to deal with.

16. A Home of One's Own

When Danny buys 'a little piece of England' , a cottage in the country, the locals turn nasty and 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

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

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

When Brett awakens after a heavy night's drinking 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

When Felix Meadows, a man wanted after an audacious East-West double cross, turns to Brett for sanctuary, Sinclair sends him to his stately home in Berkshire - but someone watches their every move and things don't turn out as planned.

21. The Ozerov Inheritance

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.

22. A Death in the Family

Some distant relative is playing out his own game of 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' by killing off everyone who stands between him and the Sinclair title. Will Brett be the next to die? Whose face lies behind the killer's smile?

23. To the Death, Baby

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 money laundry business.

24. Someone Waiting

When Danny gets a whiff that someone is out to sabotage his friend's dreams of becoming a world-beating motor-racing driver, his efforts to avoid disaster leave Brett at the starting gate.