The Protectors (TV Series) Sugar and Spice (1974) User Reviews

Sugar and Spice

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 25 March 2024]

Sir Charles Standish is a business mogul dealing with mergers and acquisitions. In short hostile takeovers.

His latest deal puts the life of his daughter Vicky at risk. Instead of calling the police, Standish engages the Protectors. He just wants everything to be normal for his daughter for a few days. With Harry, Paul and Caroline keeping an eye on her.

Harry Rule takes Vicky to a small house in the country. Vicky cannot go outside because of Foot and Mouth disease.

Only the baddies are not that far behind. Harry Rule forgot to check for bugs in Vicky's school bag.

It seems the Protectors are ill equipped for this mission. No one could cook for little Vicky. Even though Harry cooks eggs in the opening title sequence. Even tutoring her is difficult. Harry neglected to find out about her syllabus.

The Protection is sloppy all around. Apart from the bug. The milk gets tainted and Harry nearly gets shot as he stands in front of a window.

Preventing a Kidnapping

[profh-1 · 7/10 · 21 March 2022]

To prevent a corporate merger, 4 mercenaries are hired to kidnap the daughter of a prominent businessman. Harry, Caroline & Paul are hired to protect Vicki, whose father insists, "She must never know. Can you imagine the effect it would have on a ten-year-old?" As Caroline & Paul look at Harry, they know, HE KNOWS. (His wife & son were kidnapped in the previous season.)

Taking Vicki out of school and to a small house in the country, Harry poses as a teacher, Paul a chauffer and Caroline a houskeeper. Unexpectedly, this turns out to be fun episode. Especially when, in the middle of the night, 3 of the men (the 4th already having been captured) break in. As a free-for-all commences, it's accompanied with wild, frenetic violin music, turning the fight into a light-hearted affair. This may be the closest this show ever came to feeling like THE AVENGERS.

The next day, allowed to go outside again, Vicki asks Harry if he's sure. "Have I ever lied to you?" She nods in the affirmative. "On a Wednesday?"

I might have missed him if I hadn't seen his name in the credits. The only guest-actor I know in this was the guy who played the father's assistant, who was only in one brief scene and had maybe 3 lines-John Normington. I'll always remember him for his 2 roles on DOCTOR WHO-the first as Morgus, arguably one of the most evil bastards in the show's entire history, and the second, as the census man in "The Happiness Patrol". The first time I saw that, I had no idea I'd seen him before!