Cult TV Episode Guides

[HawkMan]

19. A Sentimental Journey.
Jeff is gently but firmly forced by a gangland boss to accompany a lady from Glasgow to London. Dandy Garrison was held in Glasgow as an insurance that the spoils of a robbery carried out by two gangs working together are equally split.
But there's treachery in the gangs and Jeff is caught in the middle. Marty is needed to keep Jeff in one piece.

 

20. Money To Burn.
An Irish friend of Jeff , O' Malley, has an idea for a victimless robbery and hopes Jeff will be interested. The job is saving thousands of pound notes from being burned in the furnaces of the bank of England, currency that is to be disposed of. Jeff refuses but stupidly goes along on the night O'Malley is doing the robbery, and is dropped in it by someone spotting his car parked nearby. Jeff 's lawyer has a tough task to prove his innocence particularly as O'Malley says he bottled out of it. Someone though has the money and further drops Jeff in trouble by planting a few thousand pounds under the floorboards of his office. Jeff has a like/dislike relationship with Inspector Large who appears in 5 episodes, and Large thinks he finally has evidence to put Jeff out of business.

Edited April 18 by HawkMan

[HawkMan]

21. The Ghost Talks.
A flashback episode, where we finally get to see Marty when he was alive. Jeff is in hospital with a broken leg and Marty entertains ( or bores him in equal measure), by telling him of a case he worked on years ago when Jeff was away in Scotland. Marty was hired by Sir Basil Duggan of MI5 to rob a safe of a traitor to recapture stolen papers. Unfortunately he was tricked , it wasn't MI5 hiring him, the safe didn't belong to a traitor and Marty has handed the papers over to an enemy agent.
How did Marty get out of this mess? As Jeff says stifling a yawn, " do tell me Marty , as if I didn't know"
Poor Jeff has heard this story so many times and when Jeannie visits him in hospital, and says ," hey Jeff did I tell you about that Marty and the MI5 case when you were away in Scotland?"
A resigned look of despair from Jeff as he has to listen to the whole story again.

22.  It's Supposed To Be Thicker Than Water.
Jeff has a difficult talk to Marty, he doesn't want a ghost haunting him anymore and wants to strike out on his own. He accepts a job to help an reclusive millionaire at a family gathering the old man is holding to celebrate his 80th birthday. One by one the relatives are murdered, and Jeff is in deep, time to say sorry to Marty and get his help.

 

 

Edited April 18 by HawkMan

[HawkMan]

23. The Trouble With Women.
Jeff is hired by a desperate wife who has discovered her husband is having an affair. She wants Jeff to get evidence so she can get a divorce. But it turns out Jeff has been tricked and he's been following and spying on a crime boss. A murder is committed and Jeff is framed, and Marty has to end up dropping in on a seance to get Jeff help.

24. Vendetta For A Dead Man.
A prisoner Jansen escapes from a psychiatric ward of a prison and wants revenge on Marty for putting him in jail. But Marty is dead, so Jeannie is the next best thing. Jeannie is seeing a man socially much to Marty's anger, and Jansen decides to use him to get to Jeannie and as Emil , Jeannie's boyfriend is a married man and doesn't want it all coming out he obliges Jansen with help to trap Jeannie. Marty must recollect the arrest of Jansen in detail to solve the mystery of where Jansen has got Jeannie and how he intends to kill her. 

 

 

 

Edited April 18 by HawkMan

[HawkMan]

25. You Can Always Find A Fall Guy.
Jeff is hired by a nun to find proof that their convent is being ripped off by their own accounts manager. Jeff and Marty visit the convent but find its an electronic research establishment with security and guard dogs, and Jeff is captured and accused of being an industrial spy. His story that he thought it was a convent sounds mad and unbelievable. A set up and Jeff is the fall guy.

 

 

 

       FINAL EPISODE 

26. The Smile Behind The Veil.
A funeral takes place next to Marty's grave, and watching on Marty sees one of the mourners who has a huge grin. Jeff is manoeuvred by Marty to take an interest and stumbles on a plan of identity theft to gain a fortune. The dead girl died in a car crash, and the brother returning from Australia to find an imposter in his place, urges Jeff to help.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 18 by HawkMan

[unapologetic pedant]

On 16/04/2024 at 17:29, HawkMan said:

 

 

The proportions in this collage make Kenneth Cope look like a potential Hai Karate victim.

Behold the trauma of puny blokes as Valerie looms large. Breach of human rights, cruel and unusual punishment.

Where do I sign up?

[HawkMan]

        THE PERSUADERS 

Definitely one of the most enjoyable ITC adventure/ crime show. Two great talents in Roger Moore and Tony Curtis made it a joy to watch. Steve Coogan is possibly lining up to do a remake.

1. OVERTURE
British playboy Lord Brett Sinclair and his American counterpart Danny Wilde are summoned by retired Judge Fulton to an hotel on the French Riviera where they get into a fight. As an alternative to being arrested the judge 'persuades' them to work for him to apprehend criminals seemingly beyond the law. Their first assignment involves locating Maria Lorenzo - a girl identified by an unusual birthmark. Her brother, head of a crime syndicate, was supposedly killed two years earlier but is very much alive and still carrying on his illegal activities, unknown to Maria. Through Maria, Brett and Danny must find her brother and end his wicked ways.

 

 

2. THE GOLD NAPOLEON

 

In sun-kissed Côte d'Azur, on the tarmac of Nice's Airport, Danny accidentally comes across Michelle Devigne, an alluring blonde art student of the Vallauris Art Centre, carrying a sketchbook with an unidentifiable ink portrait of a man. However, this brief encounter will abruptly end, when out of the blue, an assassin from a distance will shoot Michelle on the shoulder, sending her to the hospital. Why would someone shoot a girl like that or was the bullet actually meant for Danny? As the Authorities require him not to leave the country, Judge Fulton, Brett and Danny will try to find out the connection between Michelle's jeweller uncle who specialises in medals and gold coins and the unauthorised gold trafficking in the shape of counterfeit 100-franc gold Napoleon III coins. Undoubtedly, this seemingly legitimate operation funnels something much bigger, but will the boys figure it out before the birds fly away?

Edited April 18 by HawkMan

[unapologetic pedant]

Brilliant John Barry theme.

Another trip on the Moog Modular after On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

[HawkMan]

3. TAKE SEVEN
Judge Fulton sends Brett and Danny to the aid of Jenny Lindley, whose supposedly long dead brother Mark has suddenly reappeared to wrest possession of the family estate from her. The judge believes that Mark is an impostor and his suspicions seem considerable when somebody tries to kill Jenny. Whilst Mark has an alibi, a hit-man has been involved, who, in turn, is shot dead. The Persuaders find a diary, belonging to a former employee of the Lindley family, which provides the answer to the mystery but by this time Jenny has gone to see Mark and Brett and Danny fear that she may be in danger

 

4. GREENSLEEVES
Brett is surprised to learn that Greensleeves, an empty country house that once belonged to his family, has been reopened without his knowledge. Finding a letter from its new 'owners' to a theatrical agent he goes to the house masquerading as himself with Danny posing as his valet. The occupants need his reassuring presence as they are hosting the president of Zanda, whom Brett once knew. In fact they are planning to kidnap the president in an effort to gain control of his country's mineral resources. Fortunately Brett has the advantage of them as he knows all the secret passages in the house.

Edited April 18 by HawkMan

[HawkMan]

5. POWERSWITCH
Julie Blake is murdered and, helped by her friend and fellow dancer Pekoe, the Persuaders conclude it is because she discovered that millionaire Lanny Koestler was a fake. In fact he is an actor, Morgan Alcott, employed by Koestler's duplicitous wife, to impersonate him until she can transfer his assets into her own accounts. When she has done so he will have outlived his purpose and will be murdered. The Persuaders seek to prevent this and to expose her and her accomplices.

 

Lionel Blair!?

6. THE TIME AND THE PLACE
While driving along a country road, Danny's attention is attracted by a leggy girl in a short skirt. He quickly leaves her however when he hears a suspicious sound from within the woodland, confirmed by finding a dead body. But by the time he has dragged Brett back to see it, the body has mysteriously vanished and the pair are marched off as trespassers by a hostile gamekeeper, and a plot to overthrow the government is stumbled upon.

Edited April 19 by HawkMan

[HawkMan]

7. SOMEONE LIKE ME
Knocked unconscious after a staged road block, Brett awakes in a fake hospital, from which he eventually escapes, to be told by Danny that he has a double who has been impersonating him. Reclusive millionaire Sam Milford is due in town and Brett is one of the few people he trusts to come near him. Danny reasons that the double is out to kill Sam.

 

8. ANYONE CAN PLAY
Following coincidental events in a Brighton casino, Danny is mistaken for a Soviet spy and given a mysterious list of names. British intelligence is far from happy as they were on the verge of discovering the identity of the true spy. Brett joins Danny in his efforts to locate the real Russian agent by using the list - which, rather oddly, consists of the names of railway stations.

Edited April 19 by HawkMan

[HawkMan]

9. THE OLD, THE NEW AND THE DEADLY
Danny becomes the target of assassination attempts after accidentally exposing Count Marceau as a Nazi. At the same time Suzy Denton is anxious to clear the name of her late father who, thanks to Marceau, died with the stigma of being, erroneously, termed a Nazi. The key to Suzy's mission lies in the statuette of a bird which the Persuaders must obtain from Marceau along with the kidnapped Suzy.

10. ANGIE........ANGIE
Angie is an old male friend of Danny's from the days before he struck it rich and Danny finds it hard to believe that Angie, re-encountered on the French Riviera, is now a hitman paid to rub out a witness against corruption in big business. Despite Brett's warnings of caution Danny is prepared to champion Angie but this leads to a showdown between the two old friends, which only one can survive.

[HawkMan]

11. CHAIN OF EVENTS
Danny finds himself in a deadly situation when a dying parachutist chains him to an attaché case, containing secret information which the British government are anxious to obtain. Not only does the head of MI6 mistake him for a renegade C.I.A, agent but X-rays of the case show that it contains an electronic device which will cause it to explode unless unlocked with a key. Brett tries to locate the key whilst Danny evades 'Franz Schubert', an unfriendly European also after the attaché case.

 

12. THAT'S ME OVER THERE
Thaddeus Krane is a ruthless millionaire who has made his wealth from the sufferings of others and his young secretary Cliff aims to expose him by contacting Brett. However Cliff is killed and Brett abducted and whisked away so that Krane's henchmen can ascertain how much he knows. To confuse Krane Judge Fulton persuades Danny to impersonate Brett, and all is going well until a lady friend of Brett's almost ruins the situation with her curiosity.

Edited April 19 by HawkMan

[HawkMan]

13. THE LONG GOODBYE
The boys are lost in the woods somewhere in Scotland, where they accidentally find an old plane wreck, and in the dead pilot's hands, an envelope containing the innovative formula of a low-cost, high-grade synthetic fuel as well as a note with the clear direction to burn inventor Brian Wilk's notations. Under Judge Fulton's directions, Brett and Danny will try to keep out of sight this monumental discovery, but before long, all interested parties, including significant oil tycoons and a parade of women all asserting to be the deceased's only daughter, will attempt to claim the formula. With the scientist's accident being indeed a murder, the Persuaders are determined to see justice done, and in the process, find out if the world is really ready for the formula.

 

14. THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE
Somebody in British intelligence is selling secrets to foreign powers and Brett agrees to pose as the traitor, incurring the curiosity of British agent Kay Hunter, who follows him. Brett is approached by a man named Krilov, anxious to buy secrets from him but when it is discovered that Brett is a decoy, Krilov imprisons him. He is rescued by Danny and Archie, a foolish, impecunious relative of the Sinclairs, and manages to flush out the real traitor. However Krilov abducts Kay and it is down to Archie to save the day. With the incomparable Terry Thomas.

Edited April 19 by HawkMan

[HawkMan]

15. ELEMENT OF RISK
Lomax, a criminal mastermind and a true legend in the seedy underworld circles, arrives in London, and naturally, the British Security Service takes great interest in him wanting to know the reason for his visit in England. But before Security ever gets a chance on finding incriminating evidence on him, Lomax manages to drop inconspicuously a dark grey attaché case in Danny's luggage trolley, who in turn, is later mistaken for the American criminal genius. Inevitably, now there is only one way out of this mess as unlucky Danny needs to play along and walk, talk, and above all, become the undisputed mastermind of crime who will have to lead a gang of crooks who are planning the perfect heist. Without delay, Brett and Judge Fulton will attempt to connect the dots between Lomax's blueprints and the U.S. Air Force 9 million in gold bullion cargo, but time is a relentless enemy, as the true Lomax tries to reconnect with his men.

 

16. A HOME OF ONE'S OWN
When Danny buys a ramshackle country cottage which he plans to renovate he is surprised by the fact that local squire Rupert Hathaway is desperate to buy it from him and will resort to violence when Danny refuses to sell. A woman called Lucy comes to see Danny. She is a member of the Fraud Squad, investigating the death of a colleague whom she believes was killed by Hathaway. The squire is at the centre of some highly illegal goings-on to which the cottage is crucial and Lucy seeks Danny's help in bringing him to justice.

Edited April 19 by HawkMan

[HawkMan]

17. FIVE MILES TO MIDNIGHT
With the legendary Joan Collins.
Judge Fulton charges Danny and Brett to get former gangster Frank Rocco from Italy to America to testify against a large crime syndicate. They must evade both the police and Torino, a rival mobster out to silence Rocco. Accompanied by photo-journalist Sidonie, the party eludes the police but are forced to take shelter in a villa owned by wealthy Count Sangallo, who is in alliance with Torino and is about to deliver them to him.

 

18. NUISANCE VALUE
Whilst Danny is on a date with Lisa Zorakin, spoilt daughter of a millionaire, the girl is abducted. Zorakin suspects that Danny is involved but in fact Lisa is a willing captive, her kidnapper being Michel, her lover, and the plan is to extract a 'ransom' to set them up together. Danny agrees to investigate on behalf of Zorakin to clear his name but further complications are provided by Lisa's long-suffering companion Mary, who also wants a share.

Edited April 19 by HawkMan

[HawkMan]

19. THE MORNING AFTER

Lord Brett wakes up in the morning from last night's farewell party in Stockholm, in bad shape and with his mind a complete blank, only to realise that last night, he got properly married. How did that happen? After all, Brett only met with Kristin, his happy wife, nine weeks ago in London, so was he drunk? In the meantime, and under those circumstances, Danny, with a 100% legal Swedish Marriage Certificate in his hands and determined to clear things up, he will unearth a devious plot to kidnap the Scandinavian Diplomat Lars Seelman, who is in London for some high-level discussions about the crisis in the Middle East. Who is behind this political conspiracy?

 

20. READ AND DESTROY
Whilst being exchanged for a Soviet spy at a remote border crossing freelance agent Felix Meadowes goes on the run and asks his old school friend Brett to help him lie low. He has written his memoirs and both the British and American governments, the latter employing Danny as their man, are anxious to retrieve them. Danny and Brett are now working against each other and to complicate matters Felix has two wives, and has made provision for both in the event of his death. The memoirs are actually on a microfilm hidden in Felix's toupee, but who will get to them first?

Edited April 19 by HawkMan

[HawkMan]

21. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
Best episode IMO, very funny, with Moore playing a number of roles.
Brett attends the funeral of his uncle Randolph, where his cousin Kate, a crime novelist, tells him that she believes he was murdered. Brett is not convinced but then six more members of the Sinclair family are all bumped off, as well as the family undertaker. It becomes apparent, however, that one of the dead men is not dead after all when he traps Kate and Danny in the family vault. It is down to Brett to rescue them.

 

22. THE OZEROV INHERITANCE
The Persuaders are called in to assist the Grand Duchess Ozerov, an elderly Russian former aristocrat. There is contention as to the rightful owner of her jewels, kept in a Swiss bank. The Russian government is one claimant and her nephew Sergei another, in addition to the duchess herself. Brett and Danny are to go to the Russian village where there is proof of her marriage to Prince Ozerov and, consequently, her right to own the jewels. However two men in the pay of Sergei are out to stop them.

Edited April 19 by HawkMan

[HawkMan]

23. TO THE DEATH, BABY
Wealthy Shelley Masterson is being courted for her money by the suave Foster, who is being backed by gangster Coady and Brett and Danny vie for her affections to save her, particularly as she has signed a document leaving everything to Foster should she die. To help her they give her money with which to pay off Foster, only to find that they have been duped. She is not a victim but a confidence trickster herself.
 

 

FINAL EPISODE 

24. SOMEONE WAITING
After Brett enters his car for a motor race, attempts are made on his life. A man called Vine approaches him, asking him to throw the race. He is working for Louise Cornell, head of a race fixing gang but she denies any allegations of trying to kill him - she just bribes people to lose. Could the would-be assassin be Jenkins, a former racer who, after an incident years earlier where he tried to overtake Brett, leading to an accident which incapacitated him, was never able to drive again?

 

Edited April 19 by HawkMan

[HawkMan]

The Invaders 

The Invaders was a science fiction television programme screening on ABC for two seasons in 1967-1968. It was about the efforts of one man, David Vincent (Roy Thinnes), who witnesses a UFO landing and spends the next year trying to warn the world of a secret alien invasion. He is hampered not only by the aliens themselves, who are disguised as humans, but by the disbelief of officials and the general public.

 

Opening sequence;

SERIES ONE

1. BEACHHEAD
Architect David Vincent, too long without sleep, takes a side road in search of coffee. But Bud's Diner is closed and so Vincent does the only other thing he can: settles in for a nap. An hour later, at 5:00am, a ruddy glow awakens him. He sees the very unexpected: a space vessel landing nearby! Vincent races off to summon the authorities, but when he returns the dilapidated sign reads "Kelly's Diner" and the ship - if that's what it was - is nowhere around. The authorities dismiss his story by Vincent believes in what he saw, and sets out to find proof. 

Edited April 24 by HawkMan

[HawkMan]

2. THE EXPERIMENT
Eminent astrophysicist, professional Lindstrom has proof that aliens have landed on Earth and are planning on taking over. He also believes the aliens are plotting to kill him. The trouble is, neither his doctor nor his son take him seriously.

 

Edited April 19 by HawkMan

[HawkMan]

3. THE MUTATION
Two con men trick David Vincent into believing they had seen something strange in the desert. They lure him into the wilderness, knock him unconscious, steal his money and leave him to die. But out in the desert, David sees a real spaceship. He manages to return to town, where he learns from a newspaperman of someone else who had seen something strange. This time it's a stripper, and she also proves to have a hidden agenda of her own.

Edited April 19 by HawkMan

[HawkMan]

4. THE LEECHES
David Vincent meets with Warren Doneghan, the president of Jet Age Electronics, who believes aliens have kidnapped various heads of their fields, and are planning to kidnap him as well. Tom Wiley, Doneghan's best friend, and the head of security at Jet Age, is highly skeptical. Vincent and Doneghan hatch a scheme to allow the aliens to kidnap the latter in order to learn the truth about what these unwelcome beings are doing. Meanwhile, Wiley is in love with Doneghan's wife, which complicates matters  dangerously.

Edited April 19 by HawkMan

[HawkMan]

5. GENESIS
Sgt. Corman, a motorcycle cop, stops a couple of young men in a station wagon with a headlight out. When he hears a strange noise, he asks to look inside their car; what he sees drives him mad. Later, David Vincent asks to speak with him at the hospital. Corman's physician, Dr. Grayson, wants David to stay away from his patient. Corman's boss, Lt. Greg Lucather, who blames himself for what happened, agrees with the doctor when he learns of David's reputation as a kook. Corman's wife, however, agrees to let David see her husband. What David eventually learns leads him to a sea lab, which he discovers has been taken over by the aliens.

Edited April 20 by HawkMan

[HawkMan]

6. VIKOR
After a telephone lineman reports seeing something strange at a manufacturing plant, David Vincent, using an assumed name, gets a job with the plant's owner, George Vikor. Vikor hires David as chauffeur for his wife, who has been arrested twice for drunk driving. Soon, David manages to sneak into the company's security building, where he finds proof of alien activity.

7. NIGHTMARE
A schoolteacher with a nervous disposition visits one of her students in his barn and sees something she shouldn't: a metallic box that seems to be controlling locusts. No one takes her story seriously, and even she believes she imagined the whole thing. But her story hits the newspapers, which brings David Vincent to her small Kansas town to investigate. The trouble is, the townsfolk resent strangers - none more so than the ones who are aliens in disguise.

Edited April 20 by HawkMan

[Griff]

On 18/04/2024 at 08:21, HawkMan said:

21. The Ghost Talks.
A flashback episode, where we finally get to see Marty when he was alive. Jeff is in hospital with a broken leg and Marty entertains ( or bores him in equal measure), by telling him of a case he worked on years ago when Jeff was away in Scotland. Marty was hired by Sir Basil Duggan of MI5 to rob a safe of a traitor to recapture stolen papers. Unfortunately he was tricked , it wasn't MI5 hiring him, the safe didn't belong to a traitor and Marty has handed the papers over to an enemy agent.
How did Marty get out of this mess? As Jeff says stifling a yawn, " do tell me Marty , as if I didn't know"
Poor Jeff has heard this story so many times and when Jeannie visits him in hospital, and says ," hey Jeff did I tell you about that Marty and the MI5 case when you were away in Scotland?"
A resigned look of despair from Jeff as he has to listen to the whole story again.

22.  It's Supposed To Be Thicker Than Water.
Jeff has a difficult talk to Marty, he doesn't want a ghost haunting him anymore and wants to strike out on his own. He accepts a job to help an reclusive millionaire at a family gathering the old man is holding to celebrate his 80th birthday. One by one the relatives are murdered, and Jeff is in deep, time to say sorry to Marty and get his help.

 

 

Ep 21 is where Marty writes down a reg no RXD 997F.

Jeff's car -by a huge coincidence - is RXD 996F.