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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 The Untouchables
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Background image for Close Quarters
    7.9/10(178 votes)

    #2 - 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.

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

    #3 - 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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    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
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    7.8/10(134 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. Background image for Everest Was Also Conquered
    7.7/10(175 votes)

    #7 - Everest Was Also Conquered

    S1:E8

    A dying man's confession triggers the re-opening of a twenty-year-old case of police corruption, an investigation in which the main prosecution witness was murdered by the police officers who were supposedly trying to protect her. Somebody then decides to silence these officers, and sets about doing so.

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    7.7/10(161 votes)

    #8 - 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?

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    Director:Ray Austin
  10. Background image for In the Public Interest
    7.7/10(162 votes)

    #9 - 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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    7.7/10(142 votes)

    #10 - 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(130 votes)

    #11 - 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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    7.6/10(184 votes)

    #12 - Killer With a Long Arm

    S1:E4

    CI5 become aware that an assassination plot on a group of visiting Greek Royals is being planned using a rifle that has a range of over two miles. But they must find out who is the gunman and what is his target - before it is too late.

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    7.6/10(177 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.

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    7.6/10(170 votes)

    #14 - Stake Out

    S1:E10

    A CI5 agent is murdered, leading to the discovery of a man who is dying as a result of plutonium poisoning. This links CI5 to a further plot involving the imminent explosion of an A-bomb at the same bowling alley. It's left to Bodie and Doyle to try and de-activate the fuse before it takes them and the whole of London with it.

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    7.6/10(130 votes)

    #15 - 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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    7.6/10(118 votes)

    #16 - 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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  18. Background image for Weekend in the Country
    7.6/10(134 votes)

    #17 - 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
  19. Background image for The Female Factor
    7.5/10(194 votes)

    #18 - The Female Factor

    S1:E2

    An Iron Curtain agent is using a young girl to extort secrets from, and ultimately destroy the career of, a future British Prime Minister, unaware that the girl is the long-lost daughter of a well-known local prostitute.

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    7.5/10(178 votes)

    #19 - Where the Jungle Ends

    S1:E6

    A group of former comrades from Bodie's mercenary days reappear in England and in order to impress a top London gangster, carry out a violent raid on a local bank. It's left to CI5 to catch and stop the ringleader Krivas and his gang, reuniting Bodie with some of his old adversaries in the process.

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    7.5/10(148 votes)

    #20 - Klansmen

    S1:E13

    Members of a 'Keep Britain White' group go on the rampage in London, attacking the local black residents in an attempt at forcing them to leave the area...but two of the group members have an ulterior motive. Bodie is left seriously injured whilst Doyle joins the group undercover.

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    Director:Pat Jackson
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Rogue
    7.5/10(151 votes)

    #21 - 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
  23. Background image for Private Madness, Public Danger
    7.4/10(221 votes)

    #22 - Private Madness, Public Danger

    S1:E1

    Charles Nesbitt, an expert on chemical weapons, threatens to contaminate the water sources of London with a lethal hallucogenic drug and in order to back up his claims, plans several small 'demonstrations' in warning to the local authorities - including CI5.

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    7.4/10(204 votes)

    #23 - Old Dog With New Tricks

    S1:E3

    A gangster called Turkel devises a plot to free his brother from jail by taking hostage an important figure in authority. He is unaware, however, that the 'important figure' he has taken in is actually Cowley masquerading as the Home Secretary, with Bodie as his bodyguard and Doyle ready to pull the trigger on Turkel's brother.

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    7.4/10(143 votes)

    #24 - 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
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    7.4/10(127 votes)

    #25 - 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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Best Episodes Summary

"The Untouchables" is the best rated episode of "The Professionals". It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by William Brayne and written by Brian Clemens, it aired on 1/16/1983. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Close Quarters".