The Professionals
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My guilty pleasure at the moment, recording them each day from ITV4. Love 'em! 
Didn't realise they were so old, starting in 1977 when Bodie, Doyle and Cowley all had BL cars like Dolomite Sprints, SDI Rovers and Princesses, as I'd always thought of them in Capris and RS2000s.
Also it's good to see how well they all worked together, and realising just how good Gordon Jackson was.
Great stuff, the cars, the birds, errr...the plots.
Got the Sky+ set for 5.00 all next week too.
Didn't realise they were so old, starting in 1977 when Bodie, Doyle and Cowley all had BL cars like Dolomite Sprints, SDI Rovers and Princesses, as I'd always thought of them in Capris and RS2000s.
Also it's good to see how well they all worked together, and realising just how good Gordon Jackson was.
Great stuff, the cars, the birds, errr...the plots.
Got the Sky+ set for 5.00 all next week too.
JAM35F said:
Martin Shaw films judge john deed near where I work.
Tip if you ever meet him: Don't mention the Professionals, he doesn't like to be asked about it now, he is a serious actor now don't you know!
He's also the reason it wasn't repeated for a while on UK TV. He was supposedly asking silly money when re-negotiating the repeat fees and only backed down when he was told Gordon Jackson's widow was short of cash.Tip if you ever meet him: Don't mention the Professionals, he doesn't like to be asked about it now, he is a serious actor now don't you know!
I'm old enough to remember this when it was first shown. As a kid I was sufficiently amused by Bodie & Doyle necking 4 pints at lunchtime before indulging in sideways hooliganism in the RS2000 and Capri 3.0S while en-route to off Johnny Foreigner with Armalites and .357 Magnums.
I've got all 4 series on DVD. Some of the plots are quite reasonable in retrospect. Gordon Jackson is pretty hardcore compared to his other TV and film roles.
And let's not forget Pamela Stephenson with a hand grenade shoved between her norks, eh?
I've got all 4 series on DVD. Some of the plots are quite reasonable in retrospect. Gordon Jackson is pretty hardcore compared to his other TV and film roles.
And let's not forget Pamela Stephenson with a hand grenade shoved between her norks, eh?
Back in the day when I worked in the Tax Office, I looked after the PAYE for all the cast and crew for the series. I managed to 'obtain' a CI5 Compliments slip in full colour with the silhouettes. Wish I kept hold of it 
It's probably languishing in a dusty file in HMRC offices somewhere.
I do remember Gordon Jackson was paid *much* more than anyone else though. (I could tell you how much, but I'd have to kill you!)
It's probably languishing in a dusty file in HMRC offices somewhere.I do remember Gordon Jackson was paid *much* more than anyone else though. (I could tell you how much, but I'd have to kill you!)
I was a little too young to have watched it when it first came out, but I'm also enjoying it these days.
There may be some sketchy plots, but the chemistry between Bodie & Doyle is great, the banter they have is spot on.
Always a bonus to ogle the cars in it too!
Rumour has it there's going to be a movie-remake soon, not that theres a great deal of info about it on the net.
Wonder what cars they'll use?
There may be some sketchy plots, but the chemistry between Bodie & Doyle is great, the banter they have is spot on.
Always a bonus to ogle the cars in it too!
Rumour has it there's going to be a movie-remake soon, not that theres a great deal of info about it on the net.
Wonder what cars they'll use?
vixen1700 said:
speedtwelve said:
And let's not forget Pamela Stephenson with a hand grenade shoved between her norks, eh?
Was that her too? She was also a junkie in the atomic bomb in the bowling alley one, then popped up in one a couple of days later. She got about a bit.
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