Episode
The Persuaders!: The Gold Napoleon
Overview
Danny and Brett must discover whether or not Gold Napoleon coins are the originals, or replicas as a coin dealer claims them to be.
Details
- Series
- The Persuaders!
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1971-09-24
- Runtime
- 49 min
Episode context
The Gold Napoleon is Episode 2 in Season 1 of The Persuaders!. It aired on 1971-09-24. The runtime is 49 min.
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Episode 1: Overture
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-shaped birthmark.
Episode 3: Take Seven
Danny and Brett try to help a girl whose ""long lost brother"" has suddenly appeared, cutting her off from her inheritance.
More episodes from this season
Episode 4: Greensleeves
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.
Episode 5: Powerswitch
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.
Episode 6: The Time and the Place
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.
Episode 7: Someone Like Me
After Brett loses seven days, Danny thinks Brett is acting strange but Brett thinks someone is impersonating him. They both can't be right.
Episode 8: Anyone Can Play
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.
Episode 9: The Old, the New and the Deadly
It seems that everyone including a former Nazi wants a German Eagle statuette, and they think that Danny is the one who has it.
Episode 10: Angie... Angie
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.
Episode 11: Chain of Events
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.
Episode 12: That's Me Over There
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?
Episode 13: The Long Goodbye
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.