The Best Episodes of The Professionals Season 3

Episode Rankings

1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.2/10(168 votes)

   #1 - The Purging of CI5

   S3:E110/27/1979

   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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   Director:Dennis Abey

   Writer:Stephen Lister
2. 

   7.5/10(143 votes)

   #2 - Backtrack

   S3:E211/3/1979

   It's just another routine house break-in for a cat burglar, until he accidentally uncovers a complex drugs smuggling operation. When CI5 step in, they realise it's not just the burglar's life that is now in danger.

   Director:Christopher King

   Writer:Don Houghton

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   Director:Christopher King

   Writer:Don Houghton
3. 

   7.5/10(145 votes)

   #3 - Stopover

   S3:E311/10/1979

   Cowley is offered the name of a highly-placed double agent from an old colleague - who in return wants to be guaranteed protection with CI5. This leads to the start of a dangerous stand-off between the two, using Bodie and Doyle as the pawns.

   Director:William Brayne

   Writer:John Goldsmith

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   Director:William Brayne

   Writer:John Goldsmith
4. 

   7.5/10(128 votes)

   #4 - Dead Reckoning

   S3:E411/17/1979

   A spy is extradited to Britain with an attempt to keep his arrival top-secret. However, the Bulgarians from Batak's homeland who sent him appear to be trying to make his movements as public as possible. When he is eventually murdered, CI5 suspect his music student daughter of poisoning him.

   Director:Dennis C. Lewiston

   Writer:Robin Estridge

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   Director:Dennis C. Lewiston

   Writer:Robin Estridge
5. 

   7.6/10(142 votes)

   #5 - The Madness of Mickey Hamilton

   S3:E511/24/1979

   Years after a man's wife died and his child left brain-damaged following a series of blunders at the hospital they were treated at, he returns to finally seek revenge by systematically assassinating each of the same hospital's medical staff one-by-one.

   Director:William Brayne

   Writer:Christopher Wicking

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   Director:William Brayne

   Writer:Christopher Wicking
6. 

   7.4/10(123 votes)

   #6 - A Hiding to Nothing

   S3:E612/1/1979

   A dummy run that has been staged for the visit of a Middle Eastern official is found to have been recorded by a foreign student, subsequently leading CI5 to suspect a security leak.

   Director:Gerry O'Hara

   Writer:Ted Childs

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   Director:Gerry O'Hara

   Writer:Ted Childs
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   7.4/10(129 votes)

   #7 - Runner

   S3:E712/8/1979

   An attempt to start up a street war is launched by a gangland breakaway opposition group, but their leader appears to have an ulterior motive in his actions.

   Director:Martin Campbell

   Writer:Michael Feeney Callan

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   Director:Martin Campbell

   Writer:Michael Feeney Callan
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   7.4/10(134 votes)

   #8 - Servant of Two Masters

   S3:E812/15/1979

   Bodie and Doyle are shocked to discover that Cowley appears to be selling nerve gas to a group of East Germans in order to line his own pockets, and are assigned by his rival Plumb to track their boss's every move.

   Director:Ferdinand Fairfax

   Writer:Douglas Watkinson

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   Director:Ferdinand Fairfax

   Writer:Douglas Watkinson