'The Persuaders' featured Roger Moore and Tony Curtis as playboy crime-fighter Lord Brett Sinclair and American entrepreneur Danny Wilde. Brett Sinclair drove an Aston (which appeared to be a V8 but was actually a straight-six on V8 alloys) with the false registration number BS 1. Danny Wilde used a red, left-hand-drive Ferrari 206 Dino which was, apparently, horrendously unreliable. The cars were intrinsic to the glamorous international appeal of the show (the opening episode featured an exciting race between the two cars on Riviera roads) which would have gone down a storm in the States if it hadn't clashed with 'Mission Impossible'. Each episode cost £100,000 to make and looked rather more lavish than was usual with ITC - there was some attempt to shoot on location rather than in the Pinewood back-lot, at least in the initial episodes. That slipped later; in one scene that is supposed to be a French motorway, you can see, if you look closely, that the film has simply been flipped: the numberplates on all the cars are back to front.