The Protectors (TV Series) The Quick Brown Fox (1972) User Reviews

The Quick Brown Fox

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 31 December 2022]

Hans Keller (Morris Perry) served his time as a German war criminal. He still remains an unrepentant Nazi and a fan of Hitler.

The Protectors are hired by the West German government as Keller is suspected in funding Nazis around the world. Contessa Caroline di Contini infiltrates his compound and finds a letter with the words. The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Dog. It contains all the letters of the alphabet.

Harry Rule knows it is part of a code, that Keller uses to obtain money from a Swiss bank. However Harry also now has to save the Contessa.

A brisk episode, although I do not know why Morris Perry was made to look camp in those altered photos with Hitler.

It all looked to puerile and far fetched to me. Christopher Benjamin turns up briefly as a Swiss banker.

Harry would've cracked the Enigma code if he had had the right cigar.

[rewgreen · 3/10 · 26 January 2023]

Well we've had the mafia episode and the episode with the attempted overthrow of some foreign sounding banana republic, so which 70's TV trope is up next? Brainwashing? Voodoo? Plastic surgeon's creating clones? Double agents?

Ahh! Nazis of course. It didn't take long for them to turn up, but you knew that they were due, and here they are. Well at least for 25 minutes, by which time the Protectors will undoubtedly have everything under control.

Another forgettable episode from this forgettable series.

There are highlights, like Robert Vaughn seemingly needing a stunt double in order to film a scene where Harry has to actually run remotely fast. Or the scene where Harry immediately and nonchalantly solves the intricate code devised by the Nazis while relaxing in a wicker chair puffing away at his cigar.

These episodes take themselves far too seriously and are totally devoid of humour. Hence, when we are finally introduced to any light hearted scenes they just seem so uncomfortably contrived and cold. As is the case here with the unfunny final pool scene where nothing happens except we get more of Nyree's cleavage.

You must surely have asked yourself by now. Why are you watching this?