List of The Professionals episodes
This is a list of all The Professionals episodes.
Series overview
The Professionals was produced by Brian Clemens's Avengers Mark 1 Productions for London Weekend Television in five production blocks. These episodes were originally broadcast on the ITV network in a series of five scheduling runs. The transmission order of the episodes in these series was often different to the production order, but as each episode was typically a self-contained story with no references to other episodes this had little significance for viewers. Whilst earlier DVD releases tended to group the episodes in original ITV transmission order, Network's Blu-ray editions used production order.[1]
| Series | Episodes | Originally aired | DVD release date | Blu-ray release date | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series premiere | Series finale | Region 1 | Region 2 [a] | Region 4 [b] | Region A | Region B | |||
| 1 | 13 | 30 December 1977 | 17 March 1978 | — | 10 June 2002[2] | 17 January 2005[3] | — | 31 March 2014[4] | |
| 2 | 10 | 7 October 1978 | 9 December 1978 | — | 5 August 2002[5] | 18 October 2006[6] | — | 29 September 2014[7] | |
| 3 | 8 | 27 October 1979 | 15 December 1979 | — | 9 September 2002[8] | 3 October 2006[9] | — | 30 March 2015[10] | |
| 4 | 15 | 7 September 1980 | 27 December 1980 | — | 26 December 2002[11] | 4 May 2007[12] | — | 2 May 2016[13] | |
| 5 | 11 | 7 November 1982 | 6 February 1983 | — | — | 2 May 2016[13] | |||
- Production block 1 began in June 1977 with Old Dog New Tricks and consisted of 13 episodes, completing in January 1978. These were originally screened in a single run by LWT apart from Klansmen which was not broadcast due to concerns about the episode's racial content. As of 2016 this episode has still never been transmitted on UK terrestrial television.
- Production block 2 began in June 1978 with Rogue and again consisted of 13 episodes. It was originally intended to complete during November 1978, however actor Lewis Collins suffered a broken leg, meaning that filming of last two episodes in the block (The Madness of Mickey Hamilton and Servant of Two Masters) had to be postponed, and were not mounted until March 1979, immediately prior to the making of Block 3. LWT broadcast 10 of the episodes as Series 2 of the show, holding back three for the third series.
- Production block 3 began in April 1979 (continuing immediately on from the completion of the last two postponed episodes of block 2), and also consisted of 13 episodes, completing in November 1979. LWT broadcast half of these episodes as part of the show's third Series, using the rest in Series 4.
- Production block 4 began in June 1980 with The Gun and again consisted of 13 episodes, completing in December 1980. LWT used half these episodes to make up the remainder of the show's 4th series, keeping the rest for transmission in series 5.
- Production block 5 began in March 1981 with Cry Wolf and consisted of only 5 episodes, completing in May 1981. At this point the three main actors' contracts had expired, and Martin Shaw and Lewis Collins did not wish to renew them. LWT used these episodes to make up the remainder of the show's 5th series.
Episode list
Series One
| Episode # | UK Transmission Date | Production Block | Title | Writer | Director | Guest cast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-01 | 30 Dec 1977 | 1-06 | Private Madness Public Danger | Anthony Read | Douglas Camfield | Keith Barron, Di Trevis, Christopher Ellison, Donald Douglas, Angus MacKay, Ian Fairbairn, Penny Irving, Trevor Adams |
| A rogue biochemist threatens to poison London's water supply with a powerful hallucinogenic drug unless the government ceases all research into chemical warfare. | ||||||
| 1-02 | 6 Jan 1978 | 1-07 | The Female Factor | Brian Clemens | David Wickes | Anthony Steel, Pamela Salem, Felicity Dean, Walter Gotell, Barry Justice, Stefan Kalipha, Kenneth Watson |
| Soviet agents use a "honey trap" in an attempt to extort state secrets from an ambitious politician. | ||||||
| 1-03 | 13 Jan 1978 | 1-01 | Old Dog With New Tricks | Brian Clemens | Sidney Hayers | Phil Davis, Pamela Stephenson, Richard Hampton, Edward Dentith, John Judd |
| A recently released gangster steals an arms shipment from the IRA, intending to kidnap the Home Secretary to exchange for his brother, who is still in prison. | ||||||
| 1-04 | 20 Jan 1978 | 1-04 | Killer With A Long Arm | Brian Clemens | David Wickes | Michael Latimer, Diane Keen, Alan Tilvern, Milos Kirek, Antony Carrick, Suzanne Danielle |
| CI5 uncover a plot to assassinate a visiting Greek dignitary at the Wimbledon tennis tournament using a sniper rifle with an exceptionally long range. | ||||||
| 1-05 | 27 Jan 1978 | 1-05 | Heroes | James McAteer | William Brayne | John Castle, Bruce Boa, Damien Thomas, Ralph Michael, David Baron, Peter Craze, Jim McManus, Peter Davidson, Luan Peters, Jonathan David |
| An unpopular US politician is assassinated at a road block on a busy highway, and CI5 are forced to protect the witnesses when a newspaper irresponsibly publishes their names. | ||||||
| 1-06 | 3 Feb 1978 | 1-03 | Where The Jungle Ends | Brian Clemens | Raymond Menmuir | David Suchet, Geoffrey Palmer, Robert James, Del Henney, Jeremy Bulloch, Arthur Blake |
| A gang of ex-mercenaries stages a bank robbery, attracting the attention of a major crime boss who offers to employ them. Bodie, himself an ex-mercenary, is determined to settle some old scores with the gang's leader. | ||||||
| 1-07 | 10 Feb 1978 | 1-09 | Close Quarters | Brian Clemens | William Brayne | Gabrielle Drake, Clive Arrindell, Hildegarde Neil, Madlena Nedeva, Allan Surtees |
| An off-duty Bodie arrests the leader of a German terrorist cell. Pursued by the rest of the gang, he and his girlfriend hole up in a country vicarage, but find themselves under siege and unable to call for help. | ||||||
| 1-08 | 17 Feb 1978 | 1-08 | Everest Was Also Conquered | Brian Clemens | Francis Megahy | Michael Denison, Richard Greene, Ann Lynn, Kathleen Byron, Gary Waldhorn, Roy Boyd, Llewellyn Rees, Jeremy Hawk, Peter Blake |
| CI5 are called upon to investigate the 1953 death of a key witness in a corruption trial following the death bed confession of a former security chief. | ||||||
| 1-09 | 24 Feb 1978 | 1-13 | When The Heat Cools Off | Brian Clemens | Ray Austin | Lalla Ward, Bernard Kay, Michael Sheard, Graham Weston, Geoffrey Hinsliff, Shelagh Fraser |
| 1-10 | 3 Mar 1978 | 1-12 | Stake Out | Dennis Spooner | Benjamin Wickers | David Collings, Pamela Stephenson, Barry Jackson, Tony Osoba, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Brian Hawksley, Barry Stokes, Trevor Adams |
| 1-11 | 10 Mar 1978 | 1-02 | Long Shot | Anthony Read | Ernest Day | Roger Lloyd-Pack, Ed Bishop, Robert Gillespie, Nadim Sawalha, Martin Benson, Peter Cellier, Tony Caunter, Archie Tew, John Hamill |
| 1-12 | 17 Mar 1978 | 1-11 | Look After Annie | Brian Clemens | Charles Crichton | Diana Fairfax, Clifton Jones, Patricia Quinn, Derek Francis, Keith Buckley, Nick Brimble, Frank Jarvis, Michael Walker, John Golightly |
| not transmitted | 1-10 | Klansmen | Brian Clemens | Pat Jackson | Trevor Thomas, Antony Booth, Sheila Ruskin, Edward Judd, Louis Mahoney, Oscar James | |
Series Two
Series Three
| Episode # | UK Transmission Date | Production Block | Title | Writer | Director | Guest cast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3-01 | 27 October 1979 | 3-07 | The Purging of CI5 | Stephen Lister | Dennis Abey | Simon Rouse, Bill Treacher, Christopher Fairbank, Paul Antony-Barber, Sally Harrison |
| 3-02 | 3 November 1979 | 2-11 | Backtrack | Don Houghton | Christopher King | Michael Elphick, Liz Fraser, John Bennett, Stacy Davies, Brian McDermott, Geoffrey Bateman, Kevork Malikyan |
| 3-03 | 10 November 1979 | 3-01 | Stopover | John Goldsmith | William Brayne | James Laurenson, Michael Gothard, Morris Perry, W. Morgan Sheppard, Frank Jarvis, Alec Linstead |
| 3-04 | 17 November 1979 | 3-04 | Dead Reckoning | Robin Estridge | Dennis Lewiston | Carol Royle, Derek Godfrey, Alan Tilvern, Milos Kirek |
| 3-05 | 24 November 1979 | 2-12 | The Madness of Mickey Hamilton | Christopher Wicking | William Brayne | David Calder, Ian McDiarmid, Marjorie Yates, Shaun Curry, Olu Jacobs, Barry Stanton, Clifton Jones |
| 3-06 | 1 December 1979 | 3-03 | A Hiding to Nothing | Ted Childs | Gerry O'Hara | Gerald Sim, Sylvia Kay, Nadim Sawalha, Lise Hilboldt |
| 3-07 | 8 December 1979 | 3-02 | Runner | Michael Feeney Callan | Martin Campbell | Michael Kitchen, James Cosmo, Ed Devereaux, Billy Murray, Barbara Kellerman, Forbes Collins, Sean Caffrey, Keith Marsh |
| 3-08 | 15 December 1979 | 2-13 | Servant of Two Masters | Douglas Watkinson | Ferdinand Fairfax | Tony Scannell, David de Keyser, Glynn Edwards, John Savident, Will Stampe |
Series Four
| Episode # | UK Transmission Date | Production Block | Title | Writer | Director | Guest cast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4-01 | 7 September 1980 | 3-09 | The Acorn Syndrome | John Kruse | Martin Campbell | Ronald Hines, Michael Craig, Lynda La Plante (billed as Lynda Marchal), Sue Nicholls, Ian Redford, Nigel Humphreys, John Joyce, Charles Pemberton, Christopher Saul |
| 4-02 | 14 September 1980 | 4-02 | Wild Justice | Ranald Graham | Dennis Abey | Llewellyn Rees, Jack McKenzie, Robert Ashby, Sarah Douglas, Larry Lamb, Zig Byfield, Marsha Fitzalan, Tommy Wright, Frances Low |
| 4-03 | 21 September 1980 | 3-08 | Fugitive | Gerry O'Hara | Dennis Lewiston | Brigitte Kahn, Michael Byrne, Vickery Turner, Paul Antrim, Conrad Asquith, Tony Sibbald, Tania Rogers |
| 4-04 | 28 September 1980 | 3-13 | Involvement | Brian Clemens | Chris Burt | Patricia Hodge, William Russell, Christopher Guard, Peter Burton, Kirstie Pooley, Philip Anthony |
| 4-05 | 5 October 1980 | 3-06 | Need to Know | Brian Clemens | William Brayne | Simon Oates, Tom Georgeson, Yuri Borienko, Patrick O'Connell, Norman Jones, Kristopher Kum, Nigel Miles-Thomas |
| 4-06 | 12 October 1980 | 3-12 | Take Away | Roger Marshall | Douglas Camfield | Chai Lee, John Forgeham, Sharon Duce, Pik-Sen Lim, Arnold Lee, Gertan Klauber, James Marcus, George Little, Andy Ho, Vincent Wong, Rex Wei, Peta Bernard, Kenneth Watson |
| 4-07 | 19 October 1980 | 4-03 | Black Out | Brian Clemens | William Brayne | Linda Hayden, Ben Cross, John Arnatt, Gareth Armstrong, Louis Mahoney |
| 4-08 | 26 October 1980 | 4-05 | Blood Sports | Gerry O'Hara | Phil Méheux | Michelle Newell, Yves Beneyton, Jonathon Morris, Pierce Brosnan, Ruby Wax, Harry Towb, Leonard Trolley, Gerald Martin, Oliver Smith |
| 4-09 | 2 November 1980 | 3-10 | Slush Fund | Roger Marshall | William Brayne | David Swift, Jeremy Young, Stuart Wilson, Lynda Bellingham, Victoria Burgoyne, Timothy Carlton, Chris Sullivan |
| 4-10 | 9 November 1980 | 4-01 | The Gun | Christopher Wicking | Dennis Lewiston | Celia Gregory, Sylvestra Le Touzel, David John, Nigel Pegram |
| 4-11 | 30 November 1980 | 4-06 | Hijack | Roger Marshall | Martin Campbell | Denis Lill, Stephen Yardley, Jill Baker, Rachel Davies, Mark Eden, Robert Rietti, Vic Tablian, Lloyd McGuire, James Snell, Nicholas Donnelly |
| 4-12 | 7 December 1980 | 3-05 | Mixed Doubles | Brian Clemens | Roger Tucker | Michael Coles, Ian McCulloch, Nickolas Grace, Walter Randall, Mark Wingett, Bill McGuirk, John Barrard, Paul Herzberg, Clifford Earl |
| 4-13 | 14 December 1980 | 3-11 | Weekend in the Country | Gerry O'Hara | James Allen | Bryan Pringle, Brian Croucher, Ray Burdis, Louisa Rix, Sarah Lawson, Susan Wooldridge, Jacqueline Reddin, Brian Hawksley, Peter Hill, Pat Gorman |
| 4-14 | 20 December 1980 | 4-08 | Kickback | Stephen Lister | Ian Sharp | Norman Eshley, Roy Purcell, James Faulkner, Marc Boyle, Ian Fairbairn, Ben Howard, Valentino Musetti, Meg Davies |
| 4-15 | 27 December 1980 | 4-04 | It's Only a Beautiful Picture... | Edmund Ward | Dennis Lewiston | Moray Watson, Neil McCarthy, Prunella Gee, Jonathan Newth, Hugh Morton, Antony Carrick, Charmian May, Peter Rutherford, Jo Rowbottom, Stephen Churchett |
Series Five
| Episode # | UK Transmission Date | Production Block | Title | Writer | Director | Guest cast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5-01 | 7 November 1982 | 4-10 | Foxhole on the Roof | Brian Clemens | William Brayne | Ron Pember, Karl Howman, Stanley Meadows |
| 5-02 | 14 November 1982 | 4-12 | Operation Susie | Ranald Graham | Ian Sharp | Alice Krige, Harold Innocent, Alexander Davion, John Line, Don McKillop, George Raistrick, Bernard Finch |
| 5-03 | 21 November 1982 | 4-07 | You'll Be All Right | Gerry O'Hara | John Crome | Malcolm Storry, Derrick O'Connor, Derek Francis, Hazel McBride, Shirley Dixon, Sally Faulkner, Joanne Bell, Graeme Eton |
| 5-04 | 28 November 1982 | 5-03 | Lawson's Last Stand | Ranald Graham | Ian Sharp | Michael Culver, Stephen Greif, Michael Angelis, Helen Cherry, John Hallam, Prentis Hancock, Donald Pickering, Max Harvey, Allan Mitchell, Roger Nott, Derek Lyons, Ralph Morse |
| 5-05 | 5 December 1982 | 4-09 | Discovered in a Graveyard | Christopher Wicking | Anthony Simmons | David Yip, Philip Latham, Derek Waring, Megumi Shimanuki, Richard Moore, Owen Holder, Rayner Bourton, Toni Kanal, Vincent Wong, Rex Wei, Heather Emmanuel |
| 5-06 | 12 December 1982 | 5-05 | Spy Probe | Tony Barwick | Dennis Abey | Barry Stanton, Patrick Ryecart, Paul Daneman, Joyce Grant, Graham Crowden, Nick Stringer, John Hart Dyke |
| 5-07 | 9 January 1983 | 5-01 | Cry Wolf | Paul Wheeler | Phil Méheux | Sheila Ruskin, Rona Anderson, Alan MacNaughtan, David Neal, Timothy Block, Rex Robinson, Aimée Delamain |
| 5-08 | 16 January 1983 | 4-13 | The Untouchables | Brian Clemens | William Brayne | Keith Washington, John Junkin, Robert Flemyng, Joseph Marcell, Nick Brimble, Marilyn Galsworthy, Vicki Michelle, Ramsay Williams, Imogen Bickford-Smith |
| 5-09 | 23 January 1983 | 4-11 | The Ojuka Situation | Dave Humphries | Christopher King | Clarke Peters, Geoffrey Palmer, Shope Shodeinde, Charles Dance, Al Matthews, Colin McCormack, Harry Fowler |
| 5-10 | 30 January 1983 | 5-02 | A Man Called Quinn | Tony Barwick | Horace Ové | Del Henney, Steven Berkoff, Bernard Archard, Peter Howell, John Owens, Linal Haft |
| 5-11 | 6 February 1983 | 5-04 | No Stone | Roger Marshall | Chris Burt | Sarah Neville, John Wheatley, Godfrey James, Briony McRoberts, Chrissie Cotterill, Simon Dutton, Michael Praed, Seymour Green, Brian Miller, Milton Johns |
References
- ↑ Pixley, Andrew. The Professionals Viewing Notes Network 2014-2016 [Paperback books included with Blu-ray editions]
- ↑ "The Professionals: Season 1 DVD". amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ↑ "Professionals, The (1977) - Dossier 1 (4 Disc Box Set) (DVD)". ezydvd.com.au. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ↑ http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Professionals-MkI-Blu-ray/94975/
- ↑ "The Professionals: Season 2 DVD". amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ↑ "The Professionals - Dossier 2 (4 Disc Box Set)". mightyape.com.au. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ↑ "The Professionals: MkII - Blu-ray". amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ↑ "The Professionals: Season 3 DVD". amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ↑ "The Professionals - Dossier 3 (4 Disc Box Set)". mightyape.com.au. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ↑ http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=15508
- ↑ "The Professionals: Season 4 DVD". amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ↑ "Professionals, The (1977) - Dossier 4 (4 Disc Box Set) (DVD)". ezydvd.com.au. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- 1 2 "Professionals (The): MkIV [BLU-RAY]". Network Distributing. 2 May 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
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