The Persuaders!1971 · TV series · 49 min episodes · 1 seasonCreated by Robert S. BakerComedyActionAdventureCrimeAn English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.1 negative1 neutralfrom 2 commenters♥ Like＋ Watch laterIMDbTMDBTrendsWhere to watchNo streaming data for this title.
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Nope, confirmed. Dubs were done by ZDF and they did that with Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill movies. Also the Persuaders (die Zwei).
Now I finally understand why they are always raving about those crappy old westerns on a German image board I often visit.
This kind of dubbing wasn't exclusive to anime in that era, publishers basically bought the rights to cheap visual content and produced their own stories and scripts on top of it for maximum impact in their respective local markets.
Germany: Die Zwei / The Pesuaders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Persuaders!#Redubbed_versions
Most famous and polarizing was probably the reworking of three different original programmes (Macross, Southern Cross and MOSPEADA) into Robotech
Earliest example might have been https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Up,_Tiger_Lily%3F
but the french perfected this sub-genre in the 70s:
http://physicalimpossibility.com/2011/05/22/movie-rip-offs-a-users-guide-detournement-and-dub-parodies/