The Persuaders! (TV Series) The Man in the Middle (1971) User Reviews

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[marklaw-37806 · 8/10 · 23 January 2020]

ANYTHING with the great Terry-Thomas in is worth watching! He plays his usual "cowardly English spiv" with aplomb; he has, of course, had much practice! Loved it.

Nice light hearted episode that was fun to watch.

[davidhiggins-89756 · 8/10 · 23 March 2021]

***May contain Spoilers***. Enjoyed this episode no end. Usually I try to block out the guest star credits at the start so that when they appear in the episode it is a surprise. Sadly I caught sight of there being Terry Thomas in it and it spoiled it a tad.

What an episode it was. Terry stole the scene in every scene he was in. I bet Curtis & Moore had a fun time making that episode. I would also say maybe Terry Thomas suggested to the producer & director some of the lines he came out with.

Who better to concoct his lines than himself. He knew what worked, what fitted the situation. I bet one of the conditions he accepted the role was some leeway he had in that area. Most enjoyable just shows the UK had some great character actors.

Fun but dated

[peterrayner-65781 · 7/10 · 19 January 2020]

This episode featured the great Terry Thomas...adding a upper crust English gent to the proceedings...and his famous bumbling act....good in its day but now dated,this episode features also Suzy Kendall....a 70s darling....when ladies didn't worry about wearing bras.Typical 70s fare, when nobody got really hurt...although the bullets were flying all over the place!....still a good watch... .if only just to see the fashions in the early 70s.

Good mix of intrigue and humor

[gridoon2024 · 6/10 · 14 November 2013]

"The Man In The Middle" opens in an unusual manner, with a sequence that seems to place the viewer right into the middle of the story: in Italy, Brett has a meeting to sell some NATO secrets, but a British agent interferes and gets shot by the man Brett was meeting. Soon we find out that Brett was only impersonating a traitor following an elaborate plan designed by Judge Fulton to unmask the real traitor. Things are complicated by the arrival at the same Roman hotel where Brett is staying of a distant ("but not distant enough") cousin of Brett's, who is cowardly and talkative, but smarter than he appears to be. He is played by Terry-Thomas, and he is pretty much the star of this episode; how funny you'll find him depends on how big a fan of him you are. Suzy Kendall has a good part as a gorgeous British spy, and the exotic Geraldine Moffat appears briefly as a Mata Hari-type Russian spy. **1/2 out of 4.

For Terry-Thomas Fans

[aramis-112-804880 · 12 February 2024]

Not only is he mistaken for a spy peddling NATO plans, Lord Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) has to deal with a sponging, ne'er-do-well relative (the inimitable Terry-Thomas).

Terry-Thomas had previously appeared with Tony Curtis in the eggregiously-titled "Those Daring Young Men in their Jaunty Jalopies" and the two have a better rapport than Terry-Thomas has with his alleged relative, Moore.

The token female is Suzy Kendall but, caught between Curtis (one of the biggest male movie stars of the 1960s), Moore (soon to be one of the biggest movie stars of the 1970s) and Terry-Thomas (being forever Terry-Thomas), she never stood a chance.

A very enjoyable episode, highlighted by Terry-Thomas' teaching the others how this sort of comedy is done. He's still the master.