The Persuaders!

The Persuaders! was a 1971 crime series, produced by ITC Entertainment for initial broadcast on ITV and ABC.

It starred Tony Curtis, as Danny Wilde, and Roger Moore, as Lord Brett Sinclair, two international playboys. Much of the humor of the show derived from playful observations about the differences between American and British customs. The show ended after one season because it failed on US television.

The Persuaders! are two equally-matched men from different backgrounds who reluctantly team together to solve cases the courts cannot.

* Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis) is a rough diamond educated and moulded in the back slums of New York City who escaped by enlisting in the U.S. Navy. He later became an oil business millionaire.
* Lord Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) is a polished Harrow- and Oxford-educated English aristocrat. He is an ex-racing car driver who addresses his comrade-in-arms as "Daniel".

Now globe-trotting playboys, the men meet on holiday in the French Riviera, instantly disliking each other and destroying a hotel bar with their fistfight. Arrested, they are delivered to retired Judge Fulton (Laurence Naismith) who offers them the choice of ninety days in jail or help him right errors of impunity. Grudgingly, Wilde and Sinclair agree and solve Fulton's initial case. He then releases them from any threat of jail.

It remains unclear why the duo remain a team under Fulton's loose leadership. Fulton recurs in the series, however, he has no formal relationship with his two agents. Several episodes depict his finding a way to convince Wilde and Sinclair to act in his behalf. In Angie, Angie he easily convinces one of the pair. In The Man in the Middle he endangers his agents so that they must act in his behalf. When Wilde and Sinclair are short of cash, he lures them with money. In Powerswitch he manipulates events from the shadows, Sinclair and Wilde not knowing of the Judge's involvement.
From: Wikipedia.org