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The Best Episodes of The Professionals Season 4

Every episode of The Professionals Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Professionals Season 4!

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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 4 Episode 1 - The Acorn Syndrome
    7.6/10(137 votes)

    #1 - 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.

    Director:Martin Campbell
    Writer:John Kruse

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  2. The Professionals Season 4 Episode 2 - Wild Justice
    6.9/10(136 votes)

    #2 - Wild Justice

    S4:E2

    Bodie's mental state is called ino question when he becomes obsessed with a local Hell's Angel motorcycle gang, gradually sending him further and further behind in training. Is he cracking up?

    Director:Dennis Abey
    Writer:Ranald Graham

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  3. The Professionals Season 4 Episode 3 - Fugitive
    7.4/10(118 votes)

    #3 - Fugitive

    S4:E3

    A CIA agent is murdered in London, prompting CI5 into launching a fake arms deal with the terrorists who were responsible for the killing. But the gang uncover the plot in time, taking Bodie hostage and using him as their meal ticket to escape the country.

    Director:Dennis C. Lewiston
    Writer:Gerry O'Hara

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  4. The Professionals Season 4 Episode 4 - Involvement
    7.3/10(121 votes)

    #4 - Involvement

    S4:E4

    In the midst of a shoot-out during a drugs smuggling investigation, Doyle meets and falls for Ann Holly, only to discover that CI5 suspect her of being closely linked to the scam herself.

    Director:Chris Burt
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  5. The Professionals Season 4 Episode 5 - Need To Know
    7.6/10(121 votes)

    #5 - 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?

    Director:William Brayne
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  6. The Professionals Season 4 Episode 6 - Take Away
    7.2/10(121 votes)

    #6 - Take Away

    S4:E6

    A team of Hong Kong police join CI5 in London to help crack a local heroin supply and protection racket. It's down to Bodie and Doyle to expose a scheme to smuggle drugs to the US by teams of Triads and European agents.

    Director:Douglas Camfield
    Writer:Roger Marshall

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  7. The Professionals Season 4 Episode 7 - Black Out
    7.5/10(129 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:William Brayne
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  8. The Professionals Season 4 Episode 8 - Blood Sports
    7.1/10(126 votes)

    #8 - Blood Sports

    S4:E8

    CI5 move in to protect the daughter of a South American President after his son - and her brother - is assassinated on the field of a polo match.

    Director:Phil Meheux
    Writer:Gerry O'Hara

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  9. The Professionals Season 4 Episode 9 - Slush Fund
    7.3/10(137 votes)

    #9 - Slush Fund

    S4:E9

    A hitman is employed by a group of East German officials to assassinate a reporter who is planning to publish a report in which their new fighter plane is branded as a potential death-trap.

    Director:William Brayne
    Writer:Roger Marshall

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  10. The Professionals Season 4 Episode 10 - The Gun
    6.5/10(118 votes)

    #10 - The Gun

    S4:E10

    A drug addict is murdered by a pusher who then hastily discards the gun, only for it to be found by a young boy-who then accidently shoots his friend in the process. The pusher then goes in search of the boy in an attempt to retrieve the gun and at the same time has to try to avoid his own people who are in pursuit of him.

    Director:Dennis C. Lewiston
    Writer:Christopher Wicking

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  11. The Professionals Season 4 Episode 11 - Hijack
    7.2/10(115 votes)

    #11 - Hijack

    S4:E11

    Silver bullion is being shipped into Britain via the Iron Curtain, only for it to be hijacked by one of the group's own officials.

    Director:Martin Campbell
    Writer:Roger Marshall

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  12. The Professionals Season 4 Episode 12 - Mixed Doubles
    7.7/10(135 votes)

    #12 - 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.

    Director:Roger Tucker
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  13. The Professionals Season 4 Episode 13 - Weekend in the Country
    7.7/10(137 votes)

    #13 - 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.

    Director:James Allen
    Writer:Gerry O'Hara

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  14. The Professionals Season 4 Episode 14 - Kickback
    7.4/10(116 votes)

    #14 - Kickback

    S4:E14

    Bodie and Keller, an old acquaintance from his days in the SAS, go undercover in order to trap a would-be assassin by posing as hitmen offering to do the job themselves - in order to fake the killing. But Keller turns out to have an ulterior motive.

    Director:Ian Sharp
    Writer:Stephen Lister

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  15. The Professionals Season 4 Episode 15 - It's Only a Beautiful Picture...
    7.1/10(115 votes)

    #15 - It's Only a Beautiful Picture...

    S4:E15

    Various industrial secrets and highly-valuable arts treasures are being stolen and sold on by a gang who are using the blind routine of Customs to their full advantage. CI5 devise a trap to stop the thieves in their tracks.

    Director:Dennis C. Lewiston
    Writer:Edmund Ward

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"The Acorn Syndrome" is the best rated episode of "The Professionals" season 4. It scored 7.6/10 based on 137 votes. Directed by Martin Campbell and written by John Kruse, it aired on 9/7/1980. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "Wild Justice".