The Persuaders!

The Persuaders!
Also known as	See list
Genre	Action, Adventure, Comedy
Created by	Robert S. Baker
Starring	Tony Curtis Roger Moore Laurence Naismith
Theme music composer	John Barry
Composer(s)	Ken Thorne David Lindup Don Kirshner
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	24 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Robert S. Baker
Producer(s)	Roger Moore (uncredited)
Cinematography	Tony Spratling
Running time	49 mins
Production company(s)	Television Reporters International Tribune production
Distributor	ITC Entertainment
Release
Original network	ITV
Picture format	35 mm film 4:3 Colour
Audio format	Mono
Original release	17 September 1971 – 25 February 1972

The Persuaders! is an action/adventure/comedy series produced by ITC Entertainment, and initially broadcast on ITV and ABC in 1971. It has been called "the last major entry in the cycle of adventure series that began eleven years earlier with Danger Man in 1960," as well as "the most ambitious and most expensive of Sir Lew Grade's international action adventure series".The Persuaders! was filmed in France, Italy and Britain between May 1970 and June 1971.

Despite its focus on the British and American markets, the show became more successful in other international markets. It won its highest awards in Australia and Spain, and Roger Moore and Tony Curtis were decorated in Germany and France for their acting. It persists in the memory of European film-makers and audiences, having been casually referenced in 21st-century productions made in Sweden, France, Britain and Germany.

The show used many of the resources of Moore's previous show, The Saint. These included locations and the idea of reusing many of the visible vehicles from episode to episode. The most obvious, however, were the many guest stars and second level actors from The Saint showing up in The Persuaders! roles. The highlight being the undertaker role performed by Ivor Dean, who had portrayed police inspector Claud Eustace Teal in The Saint.

The Persuaders are two equally matched men from different backgrounds who reluctantly team together to solve cases that the police and the courts cannot.

Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis) is a rough diamond, educated and moulded in the slums of New York City, who escaped by enlisting in the US Navy. He later became a millionaire in the oil business. (Curtis himself suffered a tough childhood in the Bronx, and served in the US Navy. He was 46 when he made The Persuaders, but he performed all his own stunts and fight sequences.) Lord Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) is a polished British nobleman educated at Harrow and Oxford, a former British Army officer and an ex-racing car driver, who addresses his colleague as "Daniel".

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