The Best of The Professionals
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- 1977–198347mTV-MA7.4 (200)TV EpisodeDirectorDouglas CamfieldStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsCharles Nesbitt, an expert on chemical warfare, has a plan to contaminate the water supply of London with lethal hallucinogenic drugs. In order to show what he has in mind he intends to have a dummy run outside of the capital, and the Professionals have to head him off.
- DirectorRaymond MenmuirStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsA group of mercenaries dressed as soldiers rob a bank, escaping by plane from which they parachute out. It is a demonstration to impress smooth villain Simon Sinclair whom they coerce into employing them on another job. For Bodie their capture is more than a job for he knows them from his own mercenary days and their leader, Krivas, killed his girlfriend. Acting on information from captured gang member Benny, Cowley 'suspends' Doyle and Bodie to thwart the raid and get Krivas in their own way.
- DirectorRay AustinStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsSix years previously Doyle was a policeman at London's Docklands and he was involved in a shoot-out in which there were fatalities. Bill Haydon was arrested and charged and sent to prison. Now his daughter Jill has come to see Doyle, claiming that she has fresh evidence to exonerate her father and asks that the case be re-opened. Doyle gets close to her. Maybe too close to be objective. . .
- DirectorBenjamin WickersStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsCI5 agent Fraser, shadowing a drugs gang based in a bowling alley, stumbles on 'something bigger' but is killed before he can explain to Cowley. Bodie and Doyle are sent to stake out the bowl, where they find a dying man whose last word is "Swallows". He has been poisoned with plutonium by the Swallows Bowling Club, the cover for a disgruntled band of white supremacists who aim to blow London up with a bomb planted in the bowling alley. CI5 must locate it.
- DirectorPat JacksonStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsThe Empire Society, a white supremacist group run by a man called Hulton, is terrorising blacks and trying to forcibly evict them. Cowley and Doyle are shocked at Bodie's apparent colour prejudice when he meets a mixed race married couple but after Bodie is hospitalised Doyle goes undercover and joins the Empire Society, learning that a property developer called Miller is using the group to evict black tenants. However, the biggest shock comes when Miller's identity is revealed, though Bodie, grateful to black hospital staff for pulling him through, learns to overcome his prejudice.
- DirectorPeter MedakStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsAfter informant 'Nosey' Parker has tipped them off about the drug-dealing habits of boxer-turned-gangster John Coogan, CI5 interrogate Coogan's younger brother, Paul,who dies, seemingly after Doyle has hit him. Coogan gets his powerful lawyer to instigate a committee to determine whether or not CI5 should be disbanded but Cowley's own investigations throw light on the true cause of Paul's death as well as exposing Coogan's violent activities and confirming the need for the department's continued existence.
- DirectorMartin CampbellStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsWhen a bomb goes off in a restaurant where he is eating, causing some fatalities, Bodie assumes that he was the intended victim. In fact the real target is a seemingly inoffensive accountant who actually has been given a new identity after giving evidence against a gang of American mobsters. The chase is on as to who will reach him first - the villains, the F.B.I or Bodie, with a puzzled Doyle in tow.
- DirectorPennant RobertsStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsChief Constable Green operates a zero tolerance policing system bordering on fascist dictatorship. When a gay youth counselling centre is attacked by masked men one of the staff suspects the police are behind it and goes to see Cowley. Bodie and Doyle themselves become victimized after being charged with a minor traffic offence. However Green and corrupt inspector Chives are about to find out that they have picked on the wrong people - especially as Doyle has photographic evidence of police corruption.
- DirectorMartin CampbellStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsYears earlier spy Thomas Darby sold out and defected to the Russians. Now he has returned to England. Cowley is anxious to locate him and find out from him the names of other double agents. Men with guns are also after Darby - to silence him before he can pass on any information.
- DirectorTom CleggStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsBodie and Doyle are assigned a routine bodyguard operation for a 'Mr. X', Middle Eastern diplomat Hanish, but no sooner have they picked him up than they are pursued by gunmen who seem to know every move on his itinerary, rendering two safe houses anything but safe and forcing a final showdown on a houseboat.
- DirectorWilliam BrayneStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsBodie is delighted to re-encounter old flame Marikka Schuman, an East German film star, with whom he spends an idyllic time in his flat. However he is unaware that Marikka's husband and henchman Willis have set him up to take the rap for an assassination, causing him to go on the run from his CI5 colleagues. Although he is eventually cleared there is no happy ending for him with Marikka.
- DirectorDennis AbeyStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsAfter a bomb goes off in the CI5 building and an operative is killed, Cowley gets a sinister phone call to say there will be more deaths, which there are, including an attempt to murder Bodie. Through an informant a man named Wakeman is incriminated - but Cowley swears that he killed him years earlier. Clearly an old associate of Wakeman is out for revenge, leading Cowley and the boys to a caravan primed with explosives.
- DirectorWilliam BrayneStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsFormer CI5 operative Meredith was presumed dead but re-surfaces, apparently working for the Russians. A proposed exchange leads Cowley to go alone to a deserted aerodrome to meet the Russian Kodai and furnish him with a British passport and money. However, it is a trap and Cowley is shot, seemingly fatally.
- 1977–198347mTV-MA7.5 (127)TV EpisodeDirectorWilliam BrayneStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsEx-soldier Mickey Hamilton shoots and kills doctors in the local hospital, believing them to be responsible for the death of his wife and for the brain damage of his little girl, who is being cared for by nuns at a convent. The Professionals track him down by marrying up hospital and army records and then must race to prevent him from causing carnage at an international medical conference which is being held at Wembley.
- DirectorMartin CampbellStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsA gun shop is raided but the guns are junked. It is part of a plot by a man named Duffy, a member of the political terrorist group the Organization to discredit the main body of the group, who have now formed a truce with CI5. He is also out for revenge on Doyle, who killed his brother, and lures him into a trap, as well as planting a bomb in a public car park.
- DirectorMartin CampbellStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsAfter two hired guns have been shot following a hostage situation CI5 discovers that they rang the Apex arms factory and that Apex employee John Copeland is being blackmailed into copying plans for a new tank and handing them over to a group of East German agents. The Professionals stalk the gang to a remote farmhouse where the girl is being held in readiness for a shoot-out.
- DirectorChris BurtStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsWith Bodie having shot a suspected drug smuggler outside the flat of witness Ann Holly to save Doyle, Ray consoles her, and they become lovers, intending to marry. An informer tells Doyle and Bodie that 'the Christmas Man' is flying in a consignment of illegal drugs and, unfortunately for Doyle, it seems likely the 'Christmas Man' is Ann's father, who is put under surveillance. An enraged Doyle resigns. Will his indignant behaviour put the operation at risk and is Ann only an innocent bystander?
- DirectorWilliam BrayneStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsAndy Drake, a protege of Cowley, is arrested on suspicion of spying for the Chinese. Anxious to find out about Chinese security the K.G.B. plan to spring Drake whilst he is in transit from prison to court. Anticipating this, Cowley also intends to snatch him, but he has an ulterior motive - to catch the C15 mole who is passing on information to the Russians.
- DirectorDouglas CamfieldStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsHampered by two cocky Drugs Squad officers, Doyle teams up with Hong Kong cop Esther, who is in London trailing a Triad gang supplying drugs to U.S. army personnel in Germany, a racket supported by certain East Germans who want to destroy Anglo-American relations. Esther gets a lead in a Chinese restaurant threatened by the Triad whilst Bodie goes undercover as a down-and-out in a squat where two young junkies have died. The two halves of the operation meet for a shoot-out in a motel, with a less than satisfactory result.
- DirectorWilliam BrayneStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsThe Fohn Fighter is a war-plane manufactured in Eastern Europe but it is a death trap and several pilots have been killed whilst flying it. A British reporter discovers this fact and aims to leak the story to the press but has a hitman, Van Neikerk, in pursuit. It is down to the Professionals to ensure that the killer does not get his prey and the story is published.
- DirectorWilliam BrayneStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsBarker, a deranged, embittered old lag and his young accomplice Stacey - whom he disguises as a female hostage - dig in on a warehouse roof, pointing their machine-gun at a hospital ward and threatening to kill the patients unless they are given a million pounds. Bodie and ace climber Murphy scale a factory chimney to get height on them but almost scupper the operation. Doyle, however, after a visit to Stacey's girlfriend, has a better plan.
- DirectorIan SharpStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsWhen a South American student, an apparent cocaine trafficker, is shot dead, Cowley takes his sister, Diana, into protective custody to discover who is organizing the racket. It turns out that Diana is working to destroy the ring and has powerful enemies in her government back home and a corrupt civil servant working with her country's ambassador. Bodie and Doyle must protect her in what is known as Operation Susie, a top secret operation.
- DirectorIan SharpStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsMentally unstable Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lawson escapes from an army psychiatric hospital. He is in possession of vital NATO secrets regarding the world's most toxic gas and it is vital he be located. Has he been abducted by Russian agents or is he merely on a deranged campaign of his own to restore 'Britishness' to his country? Bodie and Doyle are sent to find him - with explosive results.
- DirectorAnthony SimmonsStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsDoyle is shot in his flat by an intruder and Cowley believes the connection lies with a terrorist group, two of whose members were blown up following a car chase by CI5. Whilst Doyle lies in a coma dreaming of surreal graveyard conversations with his boss, Cowley and Bodie piece together the events of the last few days to identify the person who pulled the trigger and prevent them from doing it again.
- DirectorDennis AbeyStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsActing independently of each other Doyle and Bodie pose as hitmen to infiltrate a mysterious group of assassins whose targets are all retired government officials. Bodie's hit, Liz Walsh, an old colleague of Cowley, colludes in her supposed death for the publicity and helps Cowley work out who could possibly want to get rid of a group of apparently insignificant people. MI6 interference also hampers the operation until Liz exposes a possible traitor.