The Mail on Sunday

THE PERSUADERS! Curtis and Moore, a winning combo

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The 1971 24-episode action comedy about a pair of chalk-and-cheese millionair­e playboys righting wrongs brought together a post-The Saint but pre-Bond Roger Moore and Hollywood star Tony Curtis (below) as Lord Brett Sinclair and New York rough diamond turned oil tycoon Danny Wilde. The slick opening credits establishe­d the milieu – fast cars, glamorous women and locations, casinos, etc – to John Barry’s twangy, bassy, synth-laden theme music. It’s often rumoured that the two lead actors did not get on (there are frequent reports of Curtis smoking pot on set), though they later claimed that though they were very different people, their relationsh­ip was amicable. Producer Lew Grade’s show was a big hit in Australia, Spain, France and Germany, and it remains a slight, albeit un-PC, piece of escapism. BritBox, from Thursday

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