The Persuaders!

Five Miles to Midnight

Five people are standing in an expensively decorated old room. From left to right: Tony Curtis in a vinyl jacket, an older man who is kissing a woman's hand, Roger Moore standing in the background, the woman, who is Joan Collins with a massive hairdo, and a middle-aged man with a moustache who is wearing a crumpled suit and a dark shirt.

Episode 33
Saturday, 14 September 2019

– Where do these guns keep coming from?
– I get ’em wholesale.

This month, we’re watching The Persuaders! Season 1 Episode 17, Five Miles to Midnight, in which TV’s Roger Moore and sometime lady saxophonist Tony Curtis team up with Joan Collins to smuggle some guy out of Italy, accompanied by a series of excellent jokes written by Terry Nation.

And in the process, we answer the age-old question, “What did Tony Curtis call Joan Collins during the production that got her so annoyed?” Over and over again, I’m afraid.

The upsetting Joan Collins interview to which Richard refers can be found here.

See the episode

Well, no one has taken down the illegal copies of this that are up on YouTube, so why not try watching it here.

Otherwise — and this is the course of action we recommend — buy the Blu-ray box set of The Persuaders. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK) (Amazon AU)

Follow us!

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, Brendan is @brandybongos, Richard is @RichardLStone and James is @ohjamessellwood. You can follow the podcast on Twitter as @Bondfingercast.

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at bondfinger.com. And if you rate or review us on iTunes, we’ll overlook that time you destroyed a hotel bar on the Côte d’Azur and send you on a series of groovy adventures instead.

Recorded on Friday, 13 September 2019 · Download (59.4 MB)

The Persuaders!

Read and Destroy

There are two young women in the woods, standing in front of a car: a tall blonde woman in a furry hat, and a short dark woman (Kate O'Mara) in a fur-lined hood.

Episode 47
Friday, 22 January 2021

– You wouldn’t trust your mother, would you?
– Her least of all. She used to spy for the Egyptians.

This month, we resume last year’s abortive Kate O’Marathon with an episode of The Persuaders! from 1972, in which Tony Curtis and Roger Moore join forces to fail to recover a retired spy’s sensational memoirs, while Marla and Melania conceal a dark secret about their husband’s astonishing hairpiece.

See the episode

I couldn’t find The Persuaders! on streaming in Australia, but a beautifully remastered box set is available. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK) (Amazon AU)

Of course, you can always just watch the episode on YouTube.

Follow us!

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, Brendan is @brandybongos, Richard is @RichardLStone and James is @ohjamessellwood . You can follow the podcast on Twitter as @Bondfingercast .

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at bondfinger.com. And if you rate or review us on Apple Podcasts, we’ll write such lovely things about you in our memoirs that you’ll be really disappointed when Roger Moore and Tony Curtis eat them.

Recorded on Wednesday, 22 January 2020 · Download (62.6 MB)

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The Long Goodbye

Roger Moore is crouched by a sofa, leaning over a young dark-haired woman who is lying on it with a glass of brandy in her hands.  Behind them, Tony Curtis looks on concerned.

Episode 59
Saturday, 19 November 2022

Must be Christmas. Everyone wants to give me things.

A skeleton flies a plane into a Scottish forest, and in that plane Rodge and Tony find a secret formula that will make all fossil fuels obsolete! Soon people are throwing punches, girls and million-dollar contracts at them both, but with the mystery of the skeletal aviator still unsolved, they have no alternative but to wait for the fabulous Nicola Pagett to sort it all out for them.

The Rogertainment continues with Episode 13 of The Persuaders! (1972) — The Long Goodbye

See the episode

The Long Goodbye is available on YouTube somehow, along with the rest of the series.

Follow us!

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, Brendan is @brandybongos, Richard is @RichardLStone and Todd is @ToddBeilby. You can follow the podcast on Twitter as @Bondfingercast.

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at bondfinger.com. And if you rate or review us on Apple Podcasts, we’ll ignore our dead father’s last wishes and read out the secret formula after the closing credits of the next Bondfinger episode.

Recorded on Friday, 18 November 2022 · Download (69.5 MB)

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