The Protectors

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  • 35m

Chipper detective show delivering a proper slice of 1970s nostalgia

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Series 1

1. 2,000 Feet To Die

A friend of Harry's insists on doing a dangerous skydiving trick despite the fact that gold smugglers are trying to kill him.

2. Brotherhood

Harry is offered an assignment by a reclusive industrial magnate to engineer his brother escape from a prison on an island, where he has been jailed on a trumped-up charge.

3. See No Evil

Harry and Caroline are assigned to keep tabs on a Senator who is investigating the activities of Il Gufo (The Owl) for a Senate report on organised crime in Rome.

4. Disappearing Trick

Brad Huron, son of multi-millionaire Carl Huron, bets his companion Malloy that he can disappear without trace and approaches the Protectors to help him.

5. Ceremony for the Dead

The wife of a president hires the Protectors to guard her critically ill husband, whom she fears may be kidnapped.

6. It Was All Over in Leipzig

The team are called in to discover who is threatening a Mediterranean government. The answer lies uncomfortably close to home.

7. The Quick Brown Fox

The Protectors are hired by the West German government to discover who is operating a Nazi pension fund for five ex-Nazis wanted for war crimes.

8. King Con

Caroline's friend Irena Gleskova has been swindled out of a 12th century icon by confidence trickster Alan Sutherland. Caroline plans to avenge her so she buys the icon.

9. Thinkback

Harry and the Contessa are the victims of a car crash, which was engineered to get information out of them about a witness they have been engaged to protect.

10. A Kind of Wild Justice

The daughter of a gangster whom Harry helped put in prison fails twice in her efforts to kill Harry.

11. Balance of Terror

The KGB hires the Protectors to capture a renegade Russian scientist who plans to show the world how dangerous biological warfare can be by destroying London with a new virus.

12. Triple Cross

Adventure series about a European crime-fighting team. Paul has been kidnapped and will be blown to bits unless Harry and the Contessa help steal jewels which they have been hired to safeguard.

13. The Numbers Game

A beautiful blonde who has run away from home earns her money by passing on mysterious messages full of seemingly random numbers.

14. For the Rest of Your Natural

The Contessa is kidnapped by a psychotic killer who puts her on trial for her life, and the other Protectors go looking for her.

15. The Bodyguards

The police hire the Protectors to guard the corpse of a bank robber as part of a plan to capture his accomplices.

16. A Matter of Life and Death

The Protectors go after smugglers in Malta. Although they have no idea what is being smuggled, they do have a clue - the body of a dead hippie.

17. The Big Hit

An attempt on Paul's life follows the deaths of Protectors in New York and Tokyo, and Caroline realises that someone is aiming to destroy the Protectors Organisation. She and Paul try to warn Harry, but he has already been kidnapped.

18. One and One Makes One

Adventure series about a European crime-fighting team. The Protectors are hired to track down Bennett, a missing Canadian agent who holds valuable information about a new American-Canadian sky project.

19. Talkdown

Harry is kidnapped by Colin Foster, a mentally unbalanced criminal who wants revenge on him for the death of his brother.

20. Vocal

The Protectors set up a trap to snare two men behind a drug-running racket, but the operation goes wrong and Paul, the only eye-witness, is temporarily blinded by gunfire.

21. With a Little Help from My Friends

Adventure series about a European crime-fighting team. Harry finds his family being threatened after he agrees to guard a visiting president in London.

22. Chase

The Contessa gives Harry a shotgun for his birthday which he soon puts to good use when he becomes the quarry in a manhunt while investigating political blackmail.

23. Your Witness

An important witness to a murder who objects to the Protectors' protection vanishes soon after she is placed in their charge.

24. It Could Be Practically Anywhere on the Island

While in Malta, Harry decides to get involved in the case of a young actress, whose poodle was stolen from her in a hotel.

25. The First Circle

Harry is hired to protect a disturbed Vietnam war veteran, who goes berserk at a disused air base, putting himself and Harry in jeopardy.

26. A Case for the Right

Harry is asked to deliver a dispatch case to Prince Carpiano's villa in Rome. On the way, the case is almost stolen, and he soon discovers that its contents are quite unexpected.