Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Long-awaited long-overdue The Professionals as you have never seen them before Bodie and Doyle need little by way of introduction but if the series had at all escaped you since its debut in 1977 their boss George Cowley head of CI5 couldn&39;t put it more succinctly than his opening gambit “anarchy acts of terror crimes against the public To combat it I&39;ve got special men experts from the army the police from every service These are The Professionals” Featuring the perfect ensemble cast of Martin Shaw Gordon Jackson (completely against type here) and the much-missed Lewis Collins the series ran for 57 action-packed episodes and made an immediate impact on British and then international audiences which has sustained 35 years But the series has never looked this good Painstakingly restored from the camera-original negatives the series could have been made yesterday No matter how many times you have seen The Professionals this is a new experience like seeing it for the first time Actors Martin Shaw Lewis Collins Gordon Jackson David Suchet & Keith Barron Director Sidney Hayers Ernest Day Raymond Menmuir David Wickes & William Brayne Certificate 15 years and over Year 1977 – 1978 Languages English Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 10 hours and 50 minutes (approx)
The first 13 episodes of the classic 1970s crime series. Bodie (Lewis Collins) and Doyle (Martin Shaw) are two elite officers in the secretive CI5 service, a unit staffed by expert policemen, soldiers and special forces under the command of the formidable Cowley (Gordon Jackson). In this series, a terrorist threatens to contaminate London’s water supply, Bodie and Doyle masquerade as the bodyguards of a kidnap victim, and some former colleagues from Bodie’s mercenary days arrive in London to pull off a daring bank robbery. The episodes are: ‘Private Madness, Public Danger’, ‘The Female Factor’, ‘Old Dog With New Tricks’, ‘Killer With a Long Arm’, ‘Heroes’, ‘Where the Jungle Ends’, ‘Close Quarters’, ‘Everest Was Also Conquered’, ‘When the Heat Cools Off’, ‘Stakeout’, ‘Long Shot’, ‘Look After Annie’ and ‘Klansmen’.
Long-awaited, long-overdue: The Professionals as you have never seen them before. Bodie and Doyle need little by way of introduction but if the series had at all escaped you since its debut in 1977, their boss George Cowley, head of CI5 couldn’t put it more succinctly than his opening gambit ‘anarchy, acts of terror, crimes against the public. To combat it I’ve got special men experts from the army, the police, from every service. These are The Professionals’. Featuring the perfect ensemb…
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