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The Best Episodes of The Professionals

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to...

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  1. Background image for Foxhole on the Roof
    8.2/10(149 votes)

    #1 - Foxhole on the Roof

    S5:E1

    A post-operative ward in a hospital is held to ransom by a newly-released convict who plans to make a fortune, setting up his own foxhole at the top of a nearby building. CI5 hatch a plot to bring him down before he takes a fatal shot at the hospital.

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  2. Background image for Man Without a Past
    7.9/10(159 votes)

    #2 - Man Without a Past

    S2:E4

    Bodie is out at a restaurant with his girlfriend when a bomb goes off at their table, leaving her critically injured and several other diners dead. It's left to Bodie to find out who targeted him and why - until he realises he wasn't the target after all.

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  3. Background image for Spy Probe
    7.9/10(121 votes)

    #3 - Spy Probe

    S5:E6

    An organisation which hires killers to assassinate virtual nobodies on sight is infiltrated by Bodie and Doyle, who must find out who the perpetrators are and why, by going undercover and posing as potential hitmen themselves.

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    Director:Dennis Abey
  4. Background image for Hunter/Hunted
    7.8/10(164 votes)

    #4 - Hunter/Hunted

    S2:E1

    Cowley assigns Doyle to test a brand new high-tech laser beam rifle. But the rifle is stolen from his flat and the thief decides to 'test' it on Doyle, sending him on a cat-and-mouse chase around London.

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    7.8/10(160 votes)

    #5 - Blind Run

    S2:E9

    Bodie and Doyle are assigned to protect a foreign official who is on a secret visit to Britain. But already possible enemy assassins appear to know his - and CI5's - every next move.

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    Director:Tom Clegg
  6. Background image for In the Public Interest
    7.7/10(162 votes)

    #6 - In the Public Interest

    S2:E5

    A virtual police state has been imposed by a local Chief Constable, resulting in a supposedly almost crime-free city. But that is because all the crime is taking place behind the scenes by the police officers themselves - who will think of nothing of imposing on suspects' rights in their pursuit of 'zero tolerance'. Bodie and Doyle become hunted men when they visit the city and begin to question the rather unorthodox methods of action taken by the local constabulary.

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  8. Background image for A Stirring of Dust
    7.7/10(141 votes)

    #7 - A Stirring of Dust

    S2:E8

    A British traitor returns to his homeland and must be found before his former colleagues, seeking vengeance for his past betrayals, go in search of his whereabouts.

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    7.7/10(133 votes)

    #8 - Fall Girl

    S2:E10

    Bodie is re-acquainted with a former girlfriend when she shows up in London, and during a secret meeting with her finds himself framed for an assassination and then ultimately on the run from his own colleagues at CI5.

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  10. Background image for Mixed Doubles
    7.7/10(130 votes)

    #9 - Mixed Doubles

    S4:E12

    Bodie and Doyle are undergoing intense training in preparation for an assignment where they are protecting a foreign official...at the same time, two potential killers are receiving similiar training to prepare them for the assassination of the same official.

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    7.7/10(120 votes)

    #10 - Cry Wolf

    S5:E7

    A young woman contacts the police, saying she is being stalked and is in fear for her life, but they think she is making the whole story up.

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    Director:Phil Meheux
  12. Background image for The Ojuka Situation
    7.7/10(107 votes)

    #11 - The Ojuka Situation

    S5:E9

    A sacked former African Head attempts to get reinstated in office using the help of the British Government, but the plan is sidetracked by one particular civil servant who now wants him dead.

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    7.6/10(129 votes)

    #12 - The Acorn Syndrome

    S4:E1

    The daughter of a British Government engineer who is working on a defence protect is kidnapped, and the only way she will be safely returned is if he agrees to betray secrets to enemy agents.

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  14. Background image for Need To Know
    7.6/10(117 votes)

    #13 - Need To Know

    S4:E5

    Cowley finds himself under suspicion when a former colleague of his is arrested for being a double agent. So just how deeply involved is the CI5 Chief?

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  15. Background image for Weekend in the Country
    7.6/10(133 votes)

    #14 - Weekend in the Country

    S4:E13

    Bodie, Doyle and their latest girlfriends are on a quiet weekend in the country when they unwittingly get caught up at a farmhouse siege in which they must try and escape from a group of gun-toting fugitives.

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    Director:James Allen
  16. Background image for Operation Susie
    7.6/10(115 votes)

    #15 - Operation Susie

    S5:E2

    A department in a British Government appears to be attempting to kill a bunch of drug-dealing students...but why?

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    Director:Ian Sharp
  17. Background image for A Man Called Quinn
    7.6/10(100 votes)

    #16 - A Man Called Quinn

    S5:E10

    A former colleague of Cowley's who is now a patient in a mental hospital reappears in London, going on the run when he believes that the KGB have drugged him.

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    Director:Horace Ové
  18. Background image for No Stone
    7.6/10(114 votes)

    #17 - No Stone

    S5:E11

    A young woman from a rich and successful family turns terrorist, shunning her wealthy background and the British Justice system which she now views as being corrupt. Important legal establishments located around London are targeted by the terrorist groups, who are planting several bombs at key points around the city.

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    Director:Chris Burt
  19. Background image for Rogue
    7.5/10(151 votes)

    #18 - Rogue

    S2:E6

    A trial witness is murdered by a member of CI5, who then goes on and attempts to kill Cowley - his own boss. Bodie and Doyle find themselves battling against a man who is as well-trained as they are.

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    Director:Ray Austin
  20. Background image for Lawson's Last Stand
    7.5/10(114 votes)

    #19 - Lawson's Last Stand

    S5:E4

    Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lawson has gone missing without trace...and is armed with vital military secrets from NATO. Can CI5 seek him out before he tells all?

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    Director:Ian Sharp
  21. Background image for Discovered in a Graveyard
    7.5/10(122 votes)

    #20 - Discovered in a Graveyard

    S5:E5

    Whilst investigating a bombing plot Doyle is shot and left for dead in his flat, and as the hospital fights to save his life, he seems unable to decide whether he wants to live or die...meanwhile, Bodie goes on a chase to find Doyle's assailant.

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  22. Background image for First Night
    7.4/10(142 votes)

    #21 - First Night

    S2:E3

    CI5 are left to dig deep when an Israeli Minister is kidnapped, and the only clues to his whereabouts are a shadowy photograph and a coded tape message.

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    Director:David Wickes
  23. Background image for Black Out
    7.4/10(127 votes)

    #22 - Black Out

    S4:E7

    CI5 discover that a possible terrorist attack is being planned, and the only clue they have in solving it is a German girl who is found collapsed in a church and suffering from amnesia.

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  24. Background image for The Untouchables
    7.4/10(115 votes)

    #23 - The Untouchables

    S5:E8

    Bodie is offered the opportunity to clear up all his gambling debts by a foreign diplomat - who in exchange wants to have some vital secrets from CI5.

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    7.3/10(154 votes)

    #24 - The Rack

    S2:E2

    A suspect being held under CI5's supervision is found dead in his cell - apparently after a fatal blow administered by Doyle. A public inquiry ensues and an influential lawyer calls for CI5 to be shut down. It's left to Cowley in fighting to save the organisation he founded.

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    Director:Peter Medak
  26. Background image for Not a Very Civil Civil Servant
    7.3/10(132 votes)

    #25 - Not a Very Civil Civil Servant

    S2:E7

    CI5 manage to undercover a series of financial blunders between a group of builders and council officials after a site of newly-built houses on a council estate are found to be crumbling.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Foxhole on the Roof" is the best rated episode of "The Professionals". It scored 8.2/10 based on 149 votes. Directed by William Brayne and written by Brian Clemens, it aired on 11/7/1982. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Man Without a Past".