Another fun and frothy episode of the Roger Moore and Tony Curtis vehicle "The Persuaders" although twenty episodes in, I've yet to see anyone call them by that name or see the pair do anything to even justify it.
In this episode, Brett wakens up in a Swiss hotel room after what he thinks is a particularly heavy bender only to learn that he's married to Catherine Schell. Even drunk, that's the kind of thing you think you'd remember, but no, the good Lord isn't all-seeing on this occasion and is completely oblivious to doing the deed. Schell has the paperwork to prove it however and so he has to gradually get used to the idea of being a married man.
After he explains his position to an incredulous Danny, he then finds himself manipulated into a kidnapping plot by Schell's designing brother. The snatch will be at Brett's country house where a pre-arranged top-secret inter-governmental meeting with an old school-chum of Brett's, who's grown up to be a prominent Scandinavian diplomat, is due to take place.
We see Brett and his new Lady gradually warm to each other but of course she has to slightly reluctantly play her part in the nefarious plot, but just as the trap is about to be sprung, Danny comes racing to the rescue. It all climaxes in a car v small-plane race with our heroes, or more accurately speaking, their stunt men, clipping the villains' wings in time-honoured fashion.
As ever the badinage between the transatlantic stars is what carries the programme. This one I felt could have gone in a different and better direction after the initial premise was set up, but then this show was always the lightest of the many shows which came under the ITC banner. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing but just once I would like to have seen a slightly darker episode giving the two superstars a bit more to work with.
