Episode
The Persuaders!: Powerswitch
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- The Persuaders!
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1971-10-15
- Runtime
- 49 min
Episode context
Powerswitch is Episode 5 in Season 1 of The Persuaders!. It aired on 1971-10-15. 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 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.