As of July 2026, The Persuaders! Season 1 aired in 1971 with 24 episodes — streaming now on ITVX Premium. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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The Persuaders! Season 1

1971 24 Episodes Comedy · Action & Adventure ⭐ 8/10

Right now you can watch The Persuaders! Season 1 on — and it is funnier than its reputation suggests. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. Its 8/10 TMDB score, built from 131 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. Watch it for Tony Curtis — stay for everyone else around them. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

There is a reason The Persuaders! Season 1 keeps coming up in conversation. The Persuaders! Season 1 gets the fundamentals right first, then finds room to get weird with it. Season 1 of The Persuaders! Includes 24 episodes. It aired from September 1971 to February 1972. Tony Curtis and Roger Moore lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1971. The Persuaders! Season 1 earns its laughs from character rather than situation, which is why it does not wear thin the way pure farce tends to. The consistency throughout is what elevates it — not every moment is the best, but none of them are a reason to stop watching.

If you need a comedy that actually makes you laugh, The Persuaders! Season 1 is a strong candidate. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. A contained run means every episode is doing real work. Tony Curtis's comic timing carries it through its weaker moments. The kind of comedy you recommend to someone who claims they do not watch much.

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🎬 The Persuaders! Season 1 — Episode Guide

E1
Overture
1971-09-17
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 him out in his fight against crime or staying in jail. Their first assignment is to locate an heiress by her heart-shap...
E2
The Gold Napoleon
1971-09-24
Danny and Brett must discover whether or not Gold Napoleon coins are the originals, or replicas as a coin dealer claims them to be.
E3
Take Seven
1971-10-01
Danny and Brett try to help a girl whose ""long lost brother"" has suddenly appeared, cutting her off from her inheritance.
E4
Greensleeves
1971-10-08
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.
E5
Powerswitch
1971-10-15
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.
E6
The Time and the Place
1971-10-22
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.
E7
Someone Like Me
1971-10-29
After Brett loses seven days, Danny thinks Brett is acting strange but Brett thinks someone is impersonating him. They both can't be right.
E8
Anyone Can Play
1971-11-05
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 words.
E9
The Old, the New and the Deadly
1971-11-12
It seems that everyone including a former Nazi wants a German Eagle statuette, and they think that Danny is the one who has it.
E10
Angie... Angie
1971-11-19
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.
E11
Chain of Events
1971-11-26
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.
E12
That's Me Over There
1971-12-03
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?
E13
The Long Goodbye
1971-12-10
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 inducements to part with the formula they found.
E14
The Man in the Middle
1971-12-17
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.
E15
Element of Risk
1971-12-24
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.
E16
A Home of One's Own
1971-12-31
Danny buys a `handy man's special' cottage in England and discovers that his neighbors are into the occult.
E17
Five Miles to Midnight
1972-01-07
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.
E18
Nuisance Value
1972-01-14
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 rescued.
E19
The Morning After
1972-01-21
Brett wakes up one morning and discovers that he got married the night before.
E20
Read and Destroy
1972-01-28
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.

🎭 Cast of The Persuaders! Season 1

Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis
Danny Wilde
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Lord Brett Sinclair

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