All Episodes of The Professionals
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Season 1
7.4/10206 votesLoading...Private Madness, Public Danger
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/30/1977
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.
Director: Douglas Camfield
Writer: Anthony Read
7.5/10184 votesLoading...The Female Factor
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/6/1978
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.
Director: David Wickes
Writer: Brian Clemens
7.4/10195 votesLoading...Old Dog With New Tricks
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/13/1978
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.
Director: Sidney Hayers
Writer: Brian Clemens
7.6/10177 votesLoading...Killer With a Long Arm
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/20/1978
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.
Director: David Wickes
Writer: Brian Clemens
7.7/10171 votesLoading...Heroes
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/27/1978
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
7.6/10170 votesLoading...Where the Jungle Ends
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/3/1978
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.
Director: Raymond Menmuir
Writer: Brian Clemens
7.9/10168 votesLoading...Close Quarters
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/10/1978
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
7.7/10166 votesLoading...Everest Was Also Conquered
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/17/1978
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.
Director: Francis Megahy
Writer: Brian Clemens
7.8/10155 votesLoading...When the Heat Cools Off
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/24/1978
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
7.6/10165 votesLoading...Stake Out
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/3/1978
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.
Director: Benjamin Wickers
Writer: Dennis Spooner
7.3/10170 votesLoading...Long Shot
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/10/1978
CI5 are assigned to protect a visiting American Ambassador from a renowned hitman called Ramos, who is hot on his trail. But after only one apparent assasination attempt at his life, Ramos appears to give up - only for him to turn up again at CI5 HQ itself.
Director: Ernest Day
Writer: Anthony Read
6.9/10151 votesLoading...Look After Annie
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/17/1978
Annie Irving, an extreme left-wing preacher - and former flame of Cowley's - becomes the target of a hitman when one of her meetings comes to London. Cowley assigns Bodie and Doyle to protect her, unaware that the would-be hitman is right under his nose.
Director: Charles Crichton
Writer: Brian Clemens
7.6/10144 votesLoading...Klansmen
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/24/1978
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.
Director: Pat Jackson
Writer: N/A