In another thread, I mentioned to byslantedlight that the Professionals episode with the highest rating on IMDB is Foxhole on the Roof. She was incredulous, but it seems whoever is rating episodes on IMDB has different tastes than the LiveJournal fandom ( Read more... )

Last night, I watched In the Public Interest with my cousin, who had never seen any Pros before. It's one of my favorite episodes, and he seemed to enjoy it, so I think it was a good choice. Yet it struck me that it might not be the most representative Pros episode. There are no car chases, no shooting, and no explosions; none of the Capris even ( Read more... )

So, today I have been watching Professionals parodies. I started with The Amateurs by victorialucas38, which features clips from the show, re-edited and dubbed to (allegedly) humorous effect. Then I moved on to The Bullshitters: Roll Out the Gunbarrel and Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown, which appeared on UK television in 1984 and ( Read more... )

Hi, everybody.

At the online Bistocon last weekend, seven Pros episodes were streamed over Twitch for everyone to watch together.* Since then I've been wondering which episodes are most popular in the fandom and what qualities people appreciate in their favorites.

So, what are your top episodes? What do you like about them?

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"I'm secretary of the Gay Youth Organisation. I'm not a homosexual myself, but many of my friends are, and I've seen them suffer through bigotry and ignorance."I've been thinking about the character of Pellin from In the Public Interest. He is the secretary of the Gay Youth Organization, and the only one of its members we ever see, but the writers ( Read more... )

Especially in the first series, Doyle and Bodie dress quite differently.  Not all the time, but in enough scenes that it is clearly deliberate, Bodie's clothes are much more formal.  He wears suits, sport coats, and formal shirts beside Doyle's blue jeans, leather jackets, and plaid shirts.  Below are four examples, but there are many more.  (The ( Read more... )

Have you too always wondered what is on the dial of Bodie's phone in Purging of CI5? I mean there is something on it and I never noticed what it is before.

Look here, you can see there is a sticker or something, but I couldn't get it right.


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While I think most of us watch a Pros episode for the lads and their chemistry, sometimes we'd like to, you know, try to understand the actual plot of the episode *g*... I am a relatively newcomer to this fandom, but before Pros I'd watched so many British and American detective series from the 70's onwards, and I have to confess I'd rarely come ( Read more... )

I was watching "Not a Very Civil, Civil Servant" and when I came to the scene in the pub where Bodie and Doyle meet Halloran, I had to watch it three times because I wanted to catch their look when Halloran says "Yeah, I just wanted to make sure whose side you were on. Too many of you fellows are bent ( Read more... )