Amazon.co.uk Review
Between heroic spells as the Saint and James Bond, Roger Moore was teamed with Tony Curtis in this derivative but fun series about a couple of millionaire dilettante adventurers who swan around the world competing for the attention of beautiful women and getting involved in perplexing mysteries. Moore is Lord Brett Sinclair, an upper crust Brit of impeccable breeding, while Curtis is Danny Wilde, an up-from-the-streets self-made man whose trademark is a pair of brown gloves. The allegedly tasteful Brett and the crasser Danny both model a succession of garish early 70s fashions while their pursuits of duplicitous crumpet usually wind up with the women getting away and the heroes stuck with each other. Given that, this may well be the most blatantly homoerotic of all the buddy television pairings (see the eponymous stars of
Starsky and Hutch, Regan and Carter in
The Sweeney, Bodie and Doyle
The Professionals) that ran over the screen in the 70s, sublimating their feelings for each other by pulling out their guns and shooting at baddies.
Volume Three includes: "Take Seven" in which a missing heir returns but acts suspiciously, with guest stars Sinead Cusack and Sue Lloyd; and "Greensleeves" wherein Danny poses as Brett's butler, with Rosemary (Department S) Nichols and Andrew (Quatermass and the Pit) Kier. --Kim Newman
Synopsis
Episode 5 finds The Persuaders deciding whether a claim is real or fake. Episode 6 sees Danny acting as a butler to Brett.
