Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

m-ozfirat I first saw The Professionals on ITV4 and instantly was attracted to it with its catchy music and well thought out characters who are well cast by the Directors. The story has natural men with the casual but smart fashions of the late 70s fighting serious crime. The two leads are Bodie and Doyle both of whom are suited to their jobs but are completely different and opposite characters. The music is good the story lines are full of action, fast iconic cars and are believable with themes of intrigue and vice that are themed deeply to the politics or social environment of that time making the series interesting as well as enjoyable. My only complaint is the seasons could of been organised better and it went on for a little longer then what it actually should of done by which it was showing the programmes exhaustion. Though this series has in my view got unfair criticism for being traditional and politically incorrect this shows its accuracy compared to the cheesy and overrated Starsky and Hutch which in my view is wooden and shallow. The Professionals was called the Starsky and Hutch of the UK but realistically and with dignity Starsky and Hutch should of been The Professionals of America.

CatoTSR2 Superlative action TV show, possibly the greatest in television history: Absolute classic casting, producing the marriage of tumultuous great artistic talents, in utter sublime compatible and synchronistic performing genre's. This will never be repeated. The Johnson music score spells it out in abundance, one of the great notation scribes ever.Make no mistake every moment of your spare time watching this show is productive, period. Ideal training material, for turning young boys into real men. Jackson/Shaw/Collins oh my good lord, I have lived!!! Ford Capri 3.0 S/Escort RS 2000/Triumph TR7, to name but a few. The live set shooting of this celluloid masterpiece, was second to none and a shock to our mates over distant waters.The girls looked the business and the lads could get on with it. This was the last bastion of the stronghold of the non emasculated male. Oh please can we all return to normality and have our testosterone back? Does everything have to be so politically correct and hormonally oestrogenic. I think I better phone for C.I.5. ........da.da.da.!!!

redgloria Having discovered "The Professionals" some 25 years after it was first on, I wish I had seen it when it was on. Martin Shaw is fantastic as Ray Doyle as is Lewis Collins as Bodie. This series, while it has its flaws, is much more entertaining than 90% of today's television shows. "Klansmen" was an amazing episode and one that epitomizes the talent of Martin Shaw.I certainly wish there had been more than 57 episodes as there was still so much that could have been developed between the partnership of Bodie and Doyle.I do wish they had cut back the George Cowley part so that we could have seen 4.5 and 3.7 more. It was not too believable to see Cowley running all over the countryside when he should have been at his office. He needed to learn more about delegating authority.

Baz Taylor I wasn't even born when this show was first shown on British TV in the late 70's. It was created by Brian Clemens, was a follow-up to a cop show called The Sweeney and starred Gordon Jackson as George Cowley, Lewis Collins as Bodie and Martin Shaw (who hated the show and his character) as Ray Doyle, working for a spy agency called CI5.Violent, sexist and very politically incorrect, The Professionals was just good fun and it knew how daft it was. Basically an episode would go like this: Bad guy of episode shows up, usually foreign and he was a hitman, terrorist, spy or something like that. He would commit a crime and then the main titles which still impress would come on backed by the great theme tune. Bodie and Doyle would be given the case by Cowley, and then there would be 45 minutes of fights and car chases (in their Ford Capris) which ended with the bad guy dying in an explosion.The plots were interesting and there were a lot of good ideas from the writers. After the show ended there were lots of pretty awful follow-up shows like Dempsey and Makepeace and Bergerac and have mostly been forgotten. Although The Professionals is not often seen on TV nowadays it's a cult classic, and way better than any of the stuff they put on nowadays.