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The Protectors

Season 1 1972 - 1973
TV-PG

  • 1972-09-28T23:00:00Z on Associated Television
  • 25m
  • 10h 51m (26 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed to electronic marionettes, and also his second to be firmly set in contemporary times. It was also the only Gerry Anderson produced television series that was not of the fantasy or science fiction genres. It was produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. Despite not featuring marionettes or any real science fiction elements, The Protectors became one of Anderson's most popular productions, easily winning a renewal for a second season. A third season was in the planning stages when the show's major sponsor pulled out, forcing its cancellation. The Protectors first aired in 1972 and 1973, and ran to 52 episodes over two series, each 25 minutes long - making it one of the last series of this type to be produced in a half-hour format. It starred Robert Vaughn as Harry Rule, Nyree Dawn Porter as the Contessa Caroline di Contini, and Tony Anholt as Paul Buchet. Episodes often featured prominent guest actors.

26 episodes

Series Premiere

1972-09-28T23:00:00Z

1x01 2,000 ft to Die

Series Premiere

1x01 2,000 ft to Die

  • 1972-09-28T23:00:00Z25m

A friend of Harry's insists on doing a dangerous skydiving trick despite the fact that gold smugglers are trying to kill him.

1972-10-05T23:00:00Z

1x02 Brother Hood

1x02 Brother Hood

  • 1972-10-05T23:00:00Z25m

A wealthy recluse hires the Protectors to break his brother out of prison.

1972-10-12T23:00:00Z

1x03 See No Evil

1x03 See No Evil

  • 1972-10-12T23:00:00Z25m

While in Rome the Protectors try to help a senator who is being blackmailed.

1972-10-19T23:00:00Z

1x04 Disappearing Trick

1x04 Disappearing Trick

  • 1972-10-19T23:00:00Z25m

The Contessa ends up putting her life in danger when she agrees to help an old friend win a wager by making him disappear.

1972-10-26T23:00:00Z

1x05 Ceremony For the Dead

1x05 Ceremony For the Dead

  • 1972-10-26T23:00:00Z25m

The wife of a president hires the Protectors to guard her critically ill husband whom she fears may be kidnapped.

1x06 It Was All Over in Leipzig

  • 1972-11-03T00:00:00Z25m

While investigating a plot to overthrow the government of a Mediterranean nation the Protectors end up confronting two old friends of the Contessa, one with whom she was romantically involved.

1972-11-10T00:00:00Z

1x07 The Quick Brown Fox

1x07 The Quick Brown Fox

  • 1972-11-10T00:00:00Z25m

The West German government hires the Protectors to put a pension fund that is supporting fugitive Nazi's out of business.

1972-11-17T00:00:00Z

1x08 King Con

1x08 King Con

  • 1972-11-17T00:00:00Z25m

The Protectors devise an elaborate con to recover a priceless antique which a woman had been conned out of.

1972-11-24T00:00:00Z

1x09 Thinkback

1x09 Thinkback

  • 1972-11-24T00:00:00Z25m

Harry and the Contessa are the victims of a car crash that was engineered to get information out of them.

1972-12-01T00:00:00Z

1x10 A Kind of Wild Justice

1x10 A Kind of Wild Justice

  • 1972-12-01T00:00:00Z25m

The daughter of a gangster whom Harry helped put in prison fails twice in her efforts to kill Harry.

1972-12-08T00:00:00Z

1x11 Balance of Terror

1x11 Balance of Terror

  • 1972-12-08T00:00:00Z25m

The KGB hires the Protectors to capture a renegade Russian scientist who plans on destroying London with a new virus to show the world how dangerous biological warfare can be.

1972-12-15T00:00:00Z

1x12 Triple Cross

1x12 Triple Cross

  • 1972-12-15T00:00:00Z25m

A kidnapped Paul will be blown to bits unless Harry and the Contessa help steal jewels which they have been hired to safeguard.

1972-12-29T00:00:00Z

1x13 The Numbers Game

1x13 The Numbers Game

  • 1972-12-29T00:00:00Z25m

The Protectors only hope of putting a drug smuggling ring out of business lies in being able to decode a coded letter.

The Contessa is captured by a psychotic killer who puts her on trial for her life.

1973-01-12T00:00:00Z

1x15 The Bodyguards

1x15 The Bodyguards

  • 1973-01-12T00:00:00Z26m

The police hire the Protectors to guard the corpse of a bank robber as part of a ruse to capture his accomplices.

1x16 A Matter of Life and Death

  • 1973-01-19T00:00:00Z25m

In Malta, with only the body of a dead hippie as a clue, the Protectors go after smugglers despite having no idea what it is that is being smuggled.

1973-01-26T00:00:00Z

1x17 The Big Hit

1x17 The Big Hit

  • 1973-01-26T00:00:00Z25m

After unsuccessful attempts on their lives, Paul and the Contessa are too late to warn Harry that someone is out to kill him.

1973-02-02T00:00:00Z

1x18 One and One Makes One

1x18 One and One Makes One

  • 1973-02-02T00:00:00Z25m

The Protectors are hired to track down Bennett, a missing Canadian agent who holds valuable information about a new American-Canadian sky project.

1973-02-09T00:00:00Z

1x19 Talkdown

1x19 Talkdown

  • 1973-02-09T00:00:00Z25m

Harry must land a small plane on his own when the pilot dies.

1973-02-16T00:00:00Z

1x20 Vocal

1x20 Vocal

  • 1973-02-16T00:00:00Z25m

Drug dealers plan on using someone who can impersonate Harry's voice in order to get information out of a blinded Paul.

Harry finds his family being threatened after he agrees to guard a visiting president in London.

1973-03-02T00:00:00Z

1x22 Chase

1x22 Chase

  • 1973-03-02T00:00:00Z25m

The Contessa gives Harry a shotgun for his birthday which he soon puts to good use when while investigating political blackmail he becomes the quarry in a manhunt.

1973-03-09T00:00:00Z

1x23 Your Witness

1x23 Your Witness

  • 1973-03-09T00:00:00Z25m

An important witness to a murder who doesn't want the Protectors protection, vanishes soon after she is placed in the Protectors charge.

A small fluffy dog called Muffin is kidnapped from a hotel to place a microfilm in its collar. The dog is due to be ttansaported to NY. Harry saves the day.

1973-03-22T23:00:00Z

1x25 The First Circle

1x25 The First Circle

  • 1973-03-22T23:00:00Z25m

Harry is hired to protect a disturbed Vietnam war veteran.

Season Finale

1973-03-29T23:00:00Z

1x26 A Case For the Right

Season Finale

1x26 A Case For the Right

  • 1973-03-29T23:00:00Z25m

The Protectors end up in trouble in the Roman tombs.

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