Called "Amicalement vôtre" (Kindly Your) in French, the American serie "The Persuaders" was a big success on French-speaking TV channels. I was surprised to hear in the news that it had not been a success in the US. Only one season was aired and, following the TV channel France 2, the serie is completely forgotten by the Amrican audience, while it's a cult serie, here.
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Whenever we hired a 16mm feature in the 70s we always got a Persuaders episode (on a 2000ft reel) on 16mm included for free as a pre-show, complete with flashes of “commercial break” throughout. We were big fans of the Persuaders.
I did manage to get a Persuaders DVD with a few episodes in the early 2000s and still enjoyed it. I must search to see whether it is available on Bluray…
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I rather enjoyed the series here in the USA back in the early 1970's. Unfortunately, it was programmed against Mission Impossible which was still a top rated series in an age before home VCR's, streaming, etc. Personally, I think it would have done well in a different day and time slot.
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Having moved from Canada and then growing up in London in the early '70s it was a BIG show on the ITV network. It was originally screened on a Friday night for LWT (the weekend arm of ITV) before moving to the 3pm Sunday slot on the same channel (after The Big Match - football highlights prog). It ran for 3 series and had several (mainly British) guest stars featured. It has most recently been shown weekday evenings in the UK on the 'Great TV' channel
A few years ago I bought the episode 'Death In The Family' as a reminder of my youth as it was one of my favourite TV series growing up 🙂
I'll try and post a picture of the artwork/cases later on today. Btw - Bert at Super8Warehouse has often had episodes for sale on his website.
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