The Persuaders! (TV Series) Someone Like Me (1971) User Reviews

James Bond almost kills M!

[gridoon2024 · 7/10 · 29 October 2013]

Just two years before they started meeting regularly on screen as James Bond and his boss M, respectively, Roger Moore and Bernard Lee had an early encounter in this "Persuaders" episode where Lee plays a shipping magnate whom his much younger wife and one of his employees are conspiring to have killed. But as Lee is a well-guarded man, the conspirators are planning to use as their murder weapon one of the few men who has a free pass to a face-to-face meeting with him - Lord Brett Sinclair! Though the title of the episode suggests that they create a perfect double of him, and Sinclair thinks so himself at first, they've actually used a doctor's services to hypnotize him into carrying out the assassination - he's like a "human grenade" that can be switched on and off. Roger Moore gives one his finest performances in this episode; there is a rare, for him, creepy quality that surfaces when Brett, under hypnosis, violently attacks Danny. This is one of the better episodes of the series, with a suspenseful climax. *** out of 4.

Dopple ganger appears to have experienced De Ja Vu

[passtheparcel · 6/10 · 9 March 2024]

The Persuaders, Someone Like Me:

Many people mite not realise that this is similar to the initial story

of Roger's earlier appearance as "The Man Who Haunted Himself." (1970)

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Both plots involve a character who suddenly aquires a double.

With increasing confusion for the main character.

Only towards the end does it veer away from the original plot.

So not even original. Very disappointing.

Seems like the scriptwriters had a writers block.