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The Best Episodes of CI5: The New Professionals

Every episode of CI5: The New Professionals ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of CI5: The New Professionals!

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In this 1998 re-imagining of the original The Professionals TV show, CI5 now has an international remit, being jointly funded by the governments of the UK, U.S.A., Japan, Germany and France, and called upon to

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    CI5: The New Professionals Season 1 Episode 6 - Samurai Wind
    6.9/10(18 votes)

    #1 - Samurai Wind

    S1:E6

    Curtis and Keel go to an island in the South Pacific to stop a deranged security expert who plans to release nerve gas into Tokyo unless the Japanese government meet his demands.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. CI5: The New Professionals Season 1 Episode 7 - Skorpion
    6.9/10(21 votes)

    #2 - Skorpion

    S1:E7

    A Russian gang known as 'Skorpion' kidnaps a brilliant computer scientist and his daughter in an attempt to force him to help them gain control of NATO's computers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. CI5: The New Professionals Season 1 Episode 3 - Tusk Force
    6.6/10(22 votes)

    #3 - Tusk Force

    S1:E3

    A South African minister approaches CI5 seeking help in stopping the increasing activities of ivory poachers. Malone sends Curtis and Keel to investigate and pose as potential buyers of ivory, so as to link up with an ivory smuggler. When the African minister's documents are stolen and a plane that Curtis and Keel are traveling in crashes the agents realize that their cover has been blown.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. CI5: The New Professionals Season 1 Episode 5 - First Strike
    6.6/10(19 votes)

    #4 - First Strike

    S1:E5

    CI5 are assigned to locate the plutonium that was aboard a cargo plane that has crashed in the Louisiana swamplands. They have to prevent a potential catastrophe by ensuring that the original consignee, a paramilitary force led by an ex-US Army colonel, do not obtain the cargo first.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. CI5: The New Professionals Season 1 Episode 10 - Orbit
    6.6/10(19 votes)

    #5 - Orbit

    S1:E10

    Curtis and Keel are called in to investigate reports of a U.F.O. after a scientist is attacked by a strange light from space. Backus goes undercover as a journalist.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. CI5: The New Professionals Season 1 Episode 11 - High Speed
    6.6/10(19 votes)

    #6 - High Speed

    S1:E11

    Curtis and Keel go undercover as racing car drivers in an operation to bring a Bosnian war criminal to justice.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. CI5: The New Professionals Season 1 Episode 8 - Choice Cuts
    6.5/10(18 votes)

    #7 - Choice Cuts

    S1:E8

    Keel and Malone go undercover to catch the villain behind a sinister organ stealing operation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. CI5: The New Professionals Season 1 Episode 4 - Hostage
    6.3/10(20 votes)

    #8 - Hostage

    S1:E4

    An Albanian minister, Eliz Risha, is held hostage at an English television station along with the crew and production staff. CI5 are called in to deal with the terrorists, whose leader Panvos accuses Risha of committing atrocities. Despite the minister's denials, it is not clear if he is indeed a war criminal

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. CI5: The New Professionals Season 1 Episode 9 - Miss Hit
    6.2/10(18 votes)

    #9 - Miss Hit

    S1:E9

    Curtis and Keel babysit an informant due to testify against the mafia.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. CI5: The New Professionals Season 1 Episode 2 - Phoenix
    6.0/10(22 votes)

    #10 - Phoenix

    S1:E2

    A professional hitman, the Phoenix, who had been believed to be eliminated in 1981, in an operation, which Malone was present at, appears to have returned from the dead to seek revenge on the men who were responsible for his "assassination". However, if the hitman runs to form, the operation to hunt down those who hunted him down may be a bluff, and the Phoenix may have another target.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. CI5: The New Professionals Season 1 Episode 13 - Glory Days
    5.8/10(18 votes)

    #11 - Glory Days

    S1:E13

    CI5 uncover a plot by the Russian mafia to assassinate the U.S. President at a peace conference

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. CI5: The New Professionals Season 1 Episode 1 - Back to Business
    5.7/10(34 votes)

    #12 - Back to Business

    S1:E1

    meeting of international politicians is to take place in England to discuss the problems of disused nuclear weapons falling into terrorist hands. On a mission in Bulgaria, a CI5 agent sees a dummy run by terrorists, who plan to assassinate the politicians. CI5 must piece together what information they gain from the wounded agent, and try to track down where this top-secret conference is.

    Director:Unknown

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  14. CI5: The New Professionals Season 1 Episode 12 - Souvenir
    5.5/10(20 votes)

    #13 - Souvenir

    S1:E12

    Curtis agrees to meet his former MI6 controller, who is found nearly dead at a railway station, having been beaten and tortured by a group of Nazis who plan to clone Adolf Hitler.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Samurai Wind" is the best rated episode of "CI5: The New Professionals". It scored 6.9/10 based on 18 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/24/1999. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Skorpion".