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The Best Episodes of The Professionals

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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 fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5

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    The Professionals Season 3 Episode 1 - The Purging of CI5
    8.2/10(168 votes)

    #1 - The Purging of CI5

    S3:E1

    CI5 and their agents find themselves under attack from a vendetta of bombings and assassination attempts. Bodie and Doyle are on a chase to find out who the perpetrators are before they end up as the next victims.

    Director:Dennis Abey
    Writer:Stephen Lister

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  2. The Professionals Season 5 Episode 1 - Foxhole on the Roof
    8.2/10(154 votes)

    #2 - 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.

    Director:William Brayne
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  3. The Professionals Season 1 Episode 7 - Close Quarters
    7.9/10(186 votes)

    #3 - Close Quarters

    S1:E7

    On leave from CI5 with a hand injury, Bodie takes a day trip with his girlfriend and finds himself face-to-face with the leader of a terrorist group. He captures him but then the rest of the gang arrive and trap Bodie and his girlfriend in a nearby vicarage, leaving him unable to alert his colleagues back at CI5 HQ. With barely any clues as to his whereabouts, Doyle and Cowley go on a chase through the countryside to try and locate Bodie.

    Director:William Brayne
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  4. The Professionals Season 2 Episode 4 - Man Without a Past
    7.9/10(169 votes)

    #4 - 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.

    Director:Martin Campbell
    Writer:Michael Armstrong

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  5. The Professionals Season 5 Episode 6 - Spy Probe
    7.9/10(127 votes)

    #5 - 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.

    Director:Dennis Abey
    Writer:Tony Barwick

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  6. The Professionals Season 1 Episode 9 - When the Heat Cools Off
    7.8/10(168 votes)

    #6 - When the Heat Cools Off

    S1:E9

    The daughter of a man inprisoned by Doyle six years ago when he was a Docklands policeman turns up, claiming to have new evidence which will exonerate her father. Doyle reluctantly agrees to reopen the case, but will his budding relationship with the girl cloud his judgement, and make even himself doubt whether he jailed the right man?

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  7. The Professionals Season 2 Episode 1 - Hunter/Hunted
    7.8/10(172 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:Anthony Simmons
    Writer:Anthony Read

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  8. The Professionals Season 2 Episode 8 - A Stirring of Dust
    7.8/10(150 votes)

    #8 - 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.

    Director:Martin Campbell
    Writer:Don Houghton

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  9. The Professionals Season 2 Episode 9 - Blind Run
    7.8/10(167 votes)

    #9 - 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.

    Director:Tom Clegg
    Writer:Ranald Graham

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  10. The Professionals Season 2 Episode 10 - Fall Girl
    7.8/10(142 votes)

    #10 - 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.

    Director:William Brayne
    Writer:Ranald Graham

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  11. The Professionals Season 5 Episode 7 - Cry Wolf
    7.8/10(123 votes)

    #11 - 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.

    Director:Phil Meheux
    Writer:Paul Wheeler

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  12. The Professionals Season 5 Episode 9 - The Ojuka Situation
    7.8/10(110 votes)

    #12 - 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.

    Director:Christopher King
    Writer:Dave Humphries

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  13. The Professionals Season 1 Episode 5 - Heroes
    7.7/10(186 votes)

    #13 - Heroes

    S1:E5

    When a newspaper takes it upon themselves to irresponsibly publish a list of the names of witnesses to an assassination, it is left to CI5 to not only protect these people, but at the same time apprehend the killers before they strike again.

    Director:William Brayne
    Writer:Peter J. Hammond

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  14. The Professionals Season 1 Episode 8 - Everest Was Also Conquered
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