The Professionals

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The Professionals (1977 - 1983) - "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." - George Cowley. The Professionals was one of British television's most popular and successful action series of the 1970s and 80s. At their peak in 1980 The Pros were earning as many as 17.6 million viewers. The Professionals began life in early 1977, provisionally titled The A-Squad, in an idea conceived by Brian Clemens, the then head of the independent TV company Avengers Mark I Productions. His aim was to create a rival for Thames television's hugely successful long-running police series The Sweeney. Bodie, Doyle and Cowley could have looked very different to how we remember them as. A number of very different actors were considered for the three central roles, with neither of the final chosen team being the original choices. The final three were more or less drafted in when the first choice stars either declined or were axed. Gordon Jackson (formerly the distinctly unmenacing Butler Hudson in Upstairs Downstairs) and Martin Shaw (whose first TV appearance was as a hippie in 1960s Coronation Street) were first to be cast. During the filming of the first episode, Old Dog with New Tricks Bodie was in fact played by Anthony Andrews. Unfortunately, old mates Shaw and Andrews spent much of the time cracking up with laughter - hardly a recipe for ensuring the renowned edgy banter between the two leads. Lewis Collins (best known by this time as Gavin Rumsey in comedy series The Cuckoo Waltz) was brought in to play Bodie, with Andrews being given the heave-ho. Collins and Shaw had previously worked together just months earlier in an episode of The New Avengers, and were cast alongside each other again thanks to the 'sparky, abrasive' on-screen partnership that they generated. In other words, they didn't particularly like each other! But with the central cast c

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Season From To Episodes
All Seasons
Specials 0
Season 1 December 1977 March 1978 13
Season 2 October 1978 December 1978 10
Season 3 October 1979 December 1979 8
Season 4 September 1980 December 1980 15
Season 5 November 1982 February 1983 11
Unassigned Episodes 0
Season From To Episodes
All Seasons
Season 1 December 1977 November 1978 14
Season 2 October 1978 December 1979 14
Season 3 October 1979 December 1980 14
Season 4 October 1980 February 1983 15
Unassigned Episodes 0
Absolute ordering places all episodes in a single ordered season. This is generally used for anime.
Season From To Episodes
Season 1 0
Unassigned Episodes 57
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Brian Clemens 17 01/06/1978 - 01/16/1983
Ranald Graham 5 12/02/1978 - 11/28/1982
Roger Marshall 4 10/12/1980 - 02/06/1983
Christopher Wicking 3 11/24/1979 - 12/05/1982
Anthony Read 3 12/30/1977 - 10/07/1978
Stephen Lister 2 10/27/1979 - 12/20/1980
Edmund Ward 2 11/18/1978 - 12/27/1980
Dennis Spooner 2 03/03/1978 - 11/11/1978
Tony Barwick 2 12/12/1982 - 01/30/1983
Don Houghton 2 11/25/1978 - 11/03/1979
Douglas Watkinson 1 12/15/1979
Michael Feeney Callan 1 12/08/1979
John Kruse 1 09/07/1980
Michael Armstrong 1 10/28/1978
David Humphries 1 01/23/1983
Philip Loraine 1 11/17/1979
John Goldsmith 1 11/10/1979
Ted Childs 1 12/01/1979
Paul Wheeler 1 01/09/1983
P.J. Hammond 1 01/27/1978
Name Number of Episodes Dates
William Brayne 10 01/27/1978 - 01/16/1983
Gerry O'Hara 6 10/21/1978 - 11/21/1982
Martin Campbell 5 10/28/1978 - 11/30/1980
David Wickes 3 01/06/1978 - 10/21/1978
Ian Sharp 3 12/20/1980 - 11/28/1982
Dennis Abey 3 10/27/1979 - 12/12/1982
Anthony Simmons 3 10/07/1978 - 12/05/1982
Dennis Lewiston 3 09/21/1980 - 12/27/1980
Christopher King 2 11/03/1979 - 01/23/1983
Phil Meheux 2 10/26/1980 - 01/09/1983
Douglas Camfield 2 12/30/1977 - 10/12/1980
Chris Burt 2 09/28/1980 - 02/06/1983
Ray Austin 2 02/24/1978 - 11/11/1978
Tom Clegg 1 12/02/1978
Francis Megahy 1 02/17/1978
Raymond Menmuir 1 02/03/1978
Sid Hayers 1 01/13/1978
James Allen 1 12/14/1980
Peter Medak 1 10/14/1978
Dennis Lewistone 1 11/17/1979
Ferdinand Fairfax 1 12/15/1979
John Crome 1 11/21/1982
Charles Crichton 1 03/17/1978
Pat Jackson 1
Pennant Roberts 1 11/04/1978
Ernest Day 1 03/10/1978
Roger Tucker 1 12/07/1980
Horace Ové 1 01/30/1983
Benjamin Wickers 1 03/03/1978

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