The Professionals at 40
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www.mark-1.co.uk said:
Contractual stipulations on the show decreed that the actors and crew would receive a pre-agreed payment whenever an episode was repeated on the ITV network up to five years after its original transmission. After five years LWT was required to renegotiate repeat fees with cast and crew. In 1988, which was five years after the original transmission of the show's final season, Martin was apparently dissatisfied with LWT’s new offer and refused to sign the required paperwork which would have allowed further reruns. LWT tried to pressure Martin into signing, the issue eventually ending up in the law courts in April 1988. Martin claims that Lewis and Gordon were also unhappy with the offer but were not prepared to say so publicly. Lewis has neither confirmed or denied this, though in recent TV interviews made it quite clear he was not happy about Martin's actions.
Alex said:
Shoestring used to be on at the same time as The Professionals, and I must admit, when it came to the crunch, I always watched Shoestring.
Shoestring, Taggart, Spender, Bergerac, Morse and The Chinese Detective and The Professionals....and The Sweeney - https://youtu.be/rS1le_8ZhOU?t=7And of course Swallow.
Those were the days.
P5BNij said:
These shows all have one thing in common, they remind you how brown and grey huge swathes of London used to be in the '70s, areas which are now gentrified beyond recognition.
You should also see the episode of Steptoe & Son when the Australian brother comes home and Harold moves out, into a grotty bedsit on a grotty street in St Stephens Gardens W2. https://twitter.com/elwick70/status/72970913050044...I think the Professionals was filmed just before all the Thames warehouses were started to be converted into apartments, so lots of opportunity for filming.
Such as Shad Thames.
Then
Same part now
Doofus said:
www.mark-1.co.uk said:
Contractual stipulations on the show decreed that the actors and crew would receive a pre-agreed payment whenever an episode was repeated on the ITV network up to five years after its original transmission. After five years LWT was required to renegotiate repeat fees with cast and crew. In 1988, which was five years after the original transmission of the show's final season, Martin was apparently dissatisfied with LWT’s new offer and refused to sign the required paperwork which would have allowed further reruns. LWT tried to pressure Martin into signing, the issue eventually ending up in the law courts in April 1988. Martin claims that Lewis and Gordon were also unhappy with the offer but were not prepared to say so publicly. Lewis has neither confirmed or denied this, though in recent TV interviews made it quite clear he was not happy about Martin's actions.
FourWheelDrift said:
Shoestring, Taggart, Spender, Bergerac, Morse and The Chinese Detective and The Professionals....and The Sweeney - https://youtu.be/rS1le_8ZhOU?t=7
And of course Swallow.
Those were the days.
Bit of a maverickAnd of course Swallow.
Those were the days.
FourWheelDrift said:
P5BNij said:
These shows all have one thing in common, they remind you how brown and grey huge swathes of London used to be in the '70s, areas which are now gentrified beyond recognition.
You should also see the episode of Steptoe & Son when the Australian brother comes home and Harold moves out, into a grotty bedsit on a grotty street in St Stephens Gardens W2. https://twitter.com/elwick70/status/72970913050044...I think the Professionals was filmed just before all the Thames warehouses were started to be converted into apartments, so lots of opportunity for filming.
Such as Shad Thames.
Then
Same part now
The wasteground in Colet Gardens where The Sweeney titles were shot (and a few episodes as well) was left as it was for around ten years at least after the school which had been there was demolished '69...
In total contrast to all this I always liked the genteel / posh / leafy parts of the home counties they often used in The Sweeney and Profs, a lot of which is still just as it was forty odd years ago, where only the cars and roadside furniture have changed.
FourWheelDrift said:
Shoestring, Taggart, Spender, Bergerac, Morse and The Chinese Detective and The Professionals....and The Sweeney - https://youtu.be/rS1le_8ZhOU?t=7
And of course Swallow.
Those were the days.
I know it was later but I loved Spender, Jimmy Nail and a Cossie!And of course Swallow.
Those were the days.
Also remember the Comic Strip Presents piss take..The Bulls
tters, with Bonehead (Keith Allen IIRC) and Foyle.kowalski655 said:
FourWheelDrift said:
Shoestring, Taggart, Spender, Bergerac, Morse and The Chinese Detective and The Professionals....and The Sweeney - https://youtu.be/rS1le_8ZhOU?t=7
And of course Swallow.
Those were the days.
I know it was later but I loved Spender, Jimmy Nail and a Cossie!And of course Swallow.
Those were the days.
Also remember the Comic Strip Presents piss take..The Bulls
tters, with Bonehead (Keith Allen IIRC) and Foyle.
Doofus said:
Too Drunk to Funk said:
Used to love Starsky and Hutch too. Doesn't seem to ever get repeated.
I suspect the racial stereotyping would be a bit much for a modern audience...It used to be on Monday afternoons in the very early nineties, it reminds me of being a lazy student!
kowalski655 said:
I know it was later but I loved Spender, Jimmy Nail and a Cossie!
I'm wondering whether that might be on any time soon on Drama. They've done "In Deep", part-way through "Crocodile Shoes" at the moment unless they've quietly dropped it, and maybe that'll be on. Pure speculation of course.Gassing Station | TV, Film, Video Streaming & Radio | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff