The Persuaders! is the title of a television series British designed and manufactured in 1970 - 1971 by Robert S. Baker and transmitted 1971 - 1972 in a single season of 24 episodes from the television network ITV (in the United States was instead distributed around the same time, the ABC network ).
The series was characterized at the time the budget high, 100,000 pounds time. The roles of the two protagonists were entrusted to two star the likes of Tony Curtis (whose film career was in decline after the glories of the fifties ), in the role of U.S. millionaire Danny Wilde and Roger Moore (a veteran of decades of success as Simon Templar in the series The Saint - The Saint), here in the role of English Lord Brett Sinclair.
The series plays on the strong difference between the two men, rivals and friends engaged in unconventional adventures set through the ' Europe, including beautiful women, luxury cars and fine humor English. The quick closing of the series, in fact there is no final episode, was determined by a number of contributory causes never fully explained. The two most important were the lack of success achieved in the U.S. (compared to record audiences in Europe), perhaps due to its characteristics, for those times too innovative and ironic for the U.S. public, and to this was added the will of Roger Moore to assume the role of James Bond .
Of The Persuaders is also the famous tune of the symbol, one of the most popular and recognizable television history, consisting of John Barry, author of the music of James Bond, who used an instrument of Arab origin, the Qanun. During the 2004
DVD was released in 12 remastered version with deleted scenes in the original Italian and English and Italian audio (but the title of the symbol is not Italian as the master for TV).
Plot
Danny Wilde and Brett Sinclair met for the first time in Riviera, where they both came after receiving a mysterious invitation. Initially do not feel sympathy for each other, rivaling the first along the streets of Riviera aboard their respective luxury cars, and the evening itself in the face with his fists in a nightclub, which seriously damaged after a long punch. Conducted by Fulton, a retired judge who is the one who invited them in Côte d'Azur and that it intends to them an undercover assignment, Wilde and Sinclair agreed to help the old man of law, to avoid the alternative of having to serve a detention for ninety days for the damage caused to the nightclub during the brawl. The mission entrusted by Fulton (as well as later that the two faces) on the margins of legality, but justified in order to fight crime. The two will be involved in daring adventures, never really bloody, with danger always infused with subtle humor. In fact, despite the "blackmail" which they are subject (or collaborate, or go to jail), between the couple and the court will create a bond of solidarity, though rough, friendship. The ratio
between Wilde and Sinclair is quite opposed, but substantially marked by antagonism and amiable a light-hearted teasing each other. Skirmishes between the two are, in fact, one of the most delicious in the series. In essence they are two completely different ways of living and grinding together: the English of Old Europe and the U.S.. This contrast of styles is an excuse to highlight the special bond of eternal friends / enemies of the English noble and refined crude and enriched the United States. Both know and love luxury, but conceive it in opposite ways. Just look in sportswear but noisy Danny Wilde, as opposed to the refined elegance of Lord Sinclair, whose costumes were designed by the Roger Moore. The sites of action are located exclusively in Europe, usually luxurious and refined environment, such as the Cote d'Azur, Rome , Paris, London or the rich English countryside. The behavior of Wilde and Sinclair is far from professional in the search for the solution of cases that the two are facing, but thanks to the brilliance and charm who can exercise, the two always manage to get by. Unrepentant seducer, find time and opportunity to woo and seduce beautiful girls who know in the course of their adventures. It should be noted that there was actually a consequential between episodes, if Excluding the first course, originally titled "Overture." Moreover, the premise underlying the series, that the mission entrusted to two by the Fulton court, is inconsistent in the succession of episodes, many episodes start with exchanges of people and other random circumstances that lead Wilde and Sinclair to be involved in unexpected adventures .
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