August 2025 – Page 2 – Simon’s Incoherent Blog

The Professionals: Series 1, Episode 3 – Where the Jungle Ends

“It’s war out there! It’s bloody war!”

The one where…

A group of mercenaries with a grudge against Bodie come to England to ply their trade robbing banks.

The budget must have been amped up for this one, as the first quarter of the ep is a lengthy action sequence in which mercenary leader Krivas and his motley crew storm a bank with machine guns, then pile into a stolen RAF truck for a gunfire heavy car chase with the police, then steal a plane to escape. As Bodie and Doyle listen to the radio chatter in Cowley’s office, a squadron of RAF Harriers (in some quite decent stock footage) is scrambled to pursue the plane, which dodges into a nearby cloud while, unseen, the mercenaries parachute out leaving the stolen plane to crash into the ground (that last bit isn’t actually shown – the budget wasn’t that high).

The Professionals: Series 1, Episode 2 – Long Shot

“Cowley is as good as dead!”

The one where…

The world’s top hitman comes to England and his target is Cowley.

Not that our heroes realise the target at first, and with good reason – there’s a Very Important International Anti-terrorist Conference going on, so when the first bullets fly, it seems reasonable to assume that it’s one of the illustrious foreign dignitaries being aimed at.