The Professionals

Um-

Yeah, I think Ed Devereux was in The Professionals as well.

Yes.

Um, I, I guess, y- you know, we had the doctor who, who's never had a name, Richard Davies, who, you know, he was in a, a number of things like Fawlty Towers.

I think he did-

The Polonic War stuff.

Yeah, I think he did sort of Boon and The Professionals.

I, I think when I looked at it, that it was the sort of the start of the relationship between the two of them-

We were watched on television in the UK during the PJJ 1977.

The British action crime television series The Professionals.

The British television sitcom Citizen Smith.

Hi to the people!

Yeah.

And someone mentioned it was also used in The Professionals.

Yes, I saw that.

I saw that.

But it reminded me-

Yeah

... of the, of, of the Professionals.

So anyway, we are back to Terry's flat, I believe, and Arthur is holding court with all the-

It completely undercuts the security of coming home from an adventure, which is really unsettling.

The atmosphere definitely builds on that, and while I'm not familiar with the professionals, Wikipedia tells me it had some personnel ties to the Avengers, of which I have watched a few episodes for Malcolm Hulk and Ronald Allen reasons." I love your reasons, Jasper.

"And of which the intrigue and uncertainly certainly reminded me." Yes.

The Avengers I, I would say is slightly weirder, is definitely weirder than the professionals.

I mean, the professionals is weird in different ways.

It's not trying to be weird.

Uh, the professionals is trying to be hard as nails and is therefore O-occasionally now slightly comical, uh, uh, with the amount of test...

You could practically smell the testosterone and Old Spice flying around in "The Professionals", Jasper.

Question four.

What was the name of the shadowy government organisation, which they always are shadowy government organisations, aren't they? Which employed Cowley, Bodie and Doyle in The Professionals.

And question five, World in Action provided lots of fascinating insights into current affairs throughout the 1970s and beyond.

Which ITV regional company made the show? And there we are, another quiz completed.

Where would you be calling if you dialed the number 018118055 in the late 1970s? You would be dialing in a Saturday morning Attempt to get through to multicoloured swap shop.

Question four.

What was the name of the shadowy government organisation which employed Cowley, Bodie and Doyle in The Professionals? That was CI5.

And finally, question five.

It is the only Doctor Who acting credit for Sharon.

Her Non-Who credits include Z-Cars, an old reliable, Crown Court, Absolution, Minder, The Professional, uh, The Professionals, and Tales of the Unexpected.

Mm-hmm.

Mrs. Pritchard is played by Sylvia Syms, is the only Doctor Who acting credit for Sylvia.

What canceled TV show needs to make a comeback?

Uh, this is one that was made in the, um, 1980s, and it's called The Professionals.

That was mine.

Was it?

It was my favorite show when I was a kid, when I was a teenager after The Young Ones.

Hmm.

The Professionals was my favorite show with Lewis Collins, and that show really needs to make a comeback.

I don't know that one.