The Protectors: The Complete Series [DVD]

The protectors is a great 1970s classic series originally created by the famous ITC studios. It is a good fun detective type of show. Robert Vaughn stars as Harry Rule, the suave American who leads the operations and works from a London office; Nyree Dawn Porter is the elegant, Rome-based Contessa di Contini, and Tony Anholt is Paul Buchet, a French agent operating out of Paris. The three of them make up this unique team that tackles baffling and dangerous assignments. Together they move around Europe`s most top resorts. There are some impressive locations that give the show glamour. The team keep in touch via hi tech seventies computer equipment. There are fashionable cars and private jets used as they fight crime head on. They tackle spies, murderers, smugglers and drug pushers. Harry Rule is the leader, an American who works from a hi tech office in London and lives in a country mansion with an Irish wolfhound named Gus. He is looked after by his au pair, Suki, who is a martial arts expert. The Contessa di Contini is Lady Caroline Ogilvy, an elegent English widow. Her late husband was Italian and has left her the villa in Rome. She specialises in art and antiques fraud and is chauffeured by a karate chopping driver named Chino. Paul Buchet is french, and works from an apartment in Paris. The three main characters have a special, and warm bond to each other and there is good atmosphere.The series has style, glamour, action and a little comedy all neatly packed into each episode that runs just under half an hour. This means that there isnt the character development like there would be with an hour long show. But it doesnt matter because the three main characters do get character development over the series anyway. The running time also gives the show originality that makes it stand out. (there were very few other shows that had the same short running time made by ITC, and thay were series like The Adventurer made around the same time as The Protectors, and the early episodes of Danger Man from the sixties all of which I also reccomend) And the 25 minute episodes dont offer time to get bored as things move along quickly. The whole show has the feel of a standard hour long ITC show but its just shorter.Robert Vaughn, Nyree Dawn Porter and Tony Anholt give a good performance. The series has charm with its seventies style of fashion, cars, locations and clothes. And the whole production seems to have even more originality about it than it did at the time. It is entertaining and nostalgic enjoyment that is on offer in this release.The adventures of the Protectors were produced by Gerry Anderson (puppet master who created Thunderbirds) and Reg Hill. (who produced many other british programmes)Its good that Network DVD have finally released this wonderful series to go along with the other ITC programmes they have in their catalogue. Its taken them a bit too long realy because they have had the soundrack available for some time. The series has been out before on ITV entertainments and its still possible to get that version, but this Network release is the one to get. Its well presented as are most of their releases. John Thaw, Diana Quick, Stephanie Beacham, Peter Bowles, Patrick Troughton and George Baker are among the many stars making guest appearances, while Tony Christie sings the show's theme tune, Avenues and Alleyways - a UK Top 40 hit in 1973 and on its re-release in 2005. This 7-disc set comprises all 52 half-hour episodes, originally aired between 1972 and 1974 There are some limited extra SPECIAL FEATURES:* Over 1500 stills (disc 7) including PR and behind-the-scenes shots* PDF promotional material including original brochure and press informationThe soundtrack is also available seperatley which I also would reccomend. The Protectors - Original Soundtrack [5 Disc set]There are no subtitles for hard of hearing. No English Subtitles or audio description.

This is a real blast from the past-early 1970s. The talent and investment in this series is top class. From the creative mind of Gerry Anderson came something quite, in part, the opposite of his famed puppet shows -'Thunderbirds' being the most famous. Yet in the paired down action - barely 25 minutes an episode - there is the same intensity and urgency driving the action. This is lean editing to serve the action with nothing superfluous intruding....Yet, with the entire thing shot on location one also gets a feeling of abundance, of for ever seeing new sights filling the screen, of an awful lot being packed in as the cast - top class actors Robert Vaughn, Nyree Dawn Porter and Tony Anholt - caper around the early 1970s world of exotic Mediterranean locations, Alpine ski resorts ,the canals of Venice, major European cites, the dry plains of Spain, London and the Home Counties, British Rail trains and Dover with its Hover Craft. This gives a great look back to what the world looked like in the early 1970s and also adds to the authenticity of the drama.In addition, looking at the writers and directors-Brian Clemens and Terry Nation, for example-lets you know that this series comes with writing and direction quality of such classic series as 'The Avenger', 'The Saint', 'The Persuaders' and 'The Professionals'.

This is A great DVD containing aGreat TV series - A good cast too Including A Catchy Theme Song - Five Star .

Action is the best.

25 mins long episodes of spy/mystery series with investigators Harry Rule, Contessa Di Contini & Paul Buchet from the Detective Agency.

Anyone who is interested in cult television from the 1970's, whether it be from the ITC stable (which this is) or not, should definitely buy this box set.Produced by Gerry Anderson (the legend behind shows such as Fireball XL5, Thunderbirds, UFO and SPACE:1999) it has everything you would expect from a detective series from that era, i.e car scenes where its obvious the car isn't moving its just a projection goping past the window to give the illusion of movement and stunt fights where the stunt men and women look nothing like the people they are supposed to be doubling.It has a stellar list of guest stars from that period John Thaw (The Sweeney, Inspector Morse), Patrick Troughton (Doctor Who), Stephanie Beacham (The Colbys, Bad Girls), Kate O'Mara (Bad Girls), Eartha Kitt (Batman, Mission Impossible), Lalla Ward (Doctor Who),George Baker (Inspector Wexford) Angharid Rees (Onedid Line) and many more.Not to mention the regular stars Robert Vaughn (The Man from Uncle, Hustle),Nyree Dawn Porter (The Forsthye Saga) and Tony Anholt (Space:1999) and episodes shot in glamorous cities across Europe such as Prague, Paris, Copenhagen, Rome,Madrid, London and sadly one shot in a not so glamorous city... Edinburgh.All in all, 52 episodes so 52 chances to catch a glimpse of a bygone era.KEITH GOOCH

Let's be honest here – the storylines aren't great (apparently, Robert Vaughn also thought this). You might even think the series a little tacky (I guess a lot of 70s shows seem that way now). But I'm loving this box set collection! It transports me back to my Nan's sofa, where I used to sit and watch these shows as a kid, and they very much capture the essence of the 70s – an era when life seemed just a little less hectic.

The Protectors is a classic detective series, created by Gerry Anderson and Reg Hill,the duo behind Thunderbirds, Joe 90, etc. The series revolves around the adventures of private detectives Harry Rule, (Robert Vaughn) , Contessa Caroline DiContini, (Nyree Dawn Porter) ,and Paul Bouchet, (Tony Anholt)Although the episodes are short,at around twenty-five minutes each,there is quite a lot of action crammed into that time. There is not a dull moment within any of the whole fifty-two episodes,and Tony Christie's theme song,Avenues And Alleyways,is a classic.

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El producto se adapta a lo indicado en la web de Amazon. La calidad de visionado es buena y me ha permitido ver una serie que recordaba de pequeño.

I cannot claim that this is one of the all time great action/ adventure shows, but neither is it the "tasteless junk" that Robert Vaughn allegedly called it. Admittedly, having starred in Teenage Cave Man, Mr Vaughn may be regarded as a connoisseur of "junk". The Protectors isn't Ibsen, but neither was the often incredibly silly Man from UNCLE. It is also insulting to the number of very experienced and able people who worked on it. Directors like Charles Crichton, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, and Don Chaffey ; writers like Terry Nation, Brian Clemens, and Trevor Preston ; co-stars Nyree Dawn-Porter and Tony Anholt, and the many high calibre guest artists, such as John Neville, David Suchet, John Thaw, Joss Ackland, Patrick Magee, Stephanie Beacham and Eartha Kitt. Also in the series' favour is the extensive location filming across Europe. Fifty-two entertaining, unpretentious yarns from the avenues and alleyways of a sadly vanished TV world.