Pamela Stephenson – Simon’s Incoherent Blog

“You’re good, both of you, the best – but I’ve got the drop on you, psychologically. Ask yourself a question – who trained you, taught you?”

The one where…

An old friend of Cowley’s, his first pick when forming CI5, and Bodie and Doyle’s trainer, turns out to be corrupt, and the boys have to track him down before he can flee the country.

With the first series of The Professionals having been a storming success for ITV, obviously they were keen to have more. Surprisingly, though, many of the behind the scenes staff – and one conspicuous onscreen one – were not so keen, so it was all change for this second “series” (well, production block).

“All right, so we may have half a dozen names, but only one job. To see that no one messes on our doorstep… by whatever means necessary. That’s our official brief – ‘ by any means necessary’. And that’s our loophole.”

OK, let’s get this out of the way first of all. This was not the first episode of The Professionals that was broadcast. It was, however, the first episode of four “production blocks” that I guess you could refer to as “seasons”. As was fairly common at the time, the show was purely episodic, with no kind of ongoing plot, so the episodes could be shown in any order.

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