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The Best Episodes of The Professionals Season 3

Every episode of The Professionals Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Professionals Season 3!

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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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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    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.

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  2. The Professionals Season 3 Episode 2 - Backtrack
    7.5/10(143 votes)

    #2 - Backtrack

    S3:E2

    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.

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  3. The Professionals Season 3 Episode 3 - Stopover
    7.5/10(145 votes)

    #3 - Stopover

    S3:E3

    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.

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  4. The Professionals Season 3 Episode 4 - Dead Reckoning
    7.5/10(128 votes)

    #4 - Dead Reckoning

    S3:E4

    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.

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  5. The Professionals Season 3 Episode 5 - The Madness of Mickey Hamilton
    7.6/10(142 votes)

    #5 - The Madness of Mickey Hamilton

    S3:E5

    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.

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  6. The Professionals Season 3 Episode 6 - A Hiding to Nothing
    7.4/10(123 votes)

    #6 - A Hiding to Nothing

    S3:E6

    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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  8. The Professionals Season 3 Episode 7 - Runner
    7.4/10(129 votes)

    #7 - Runner

    S3:E7

    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.

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  9. The Professionals Season 3 Episode 8 - Servant of Two Masters
    7.4/10(134 votes)

    #8 - Servant of Two Masters

    S3:E8

    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.

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Purging of CI5" is the best rated episode of "The Professionals" season 3. It scored 8.2/10 based on 168 votes. Directed by Dennis Abey and written by Stephen Lister, it aired on 10/27/1979. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "Backtrack".