Hello and welcome to another edition of Retrospection. In this episode we're taking a look at the popular cult British TV series of The Professionals. My name's Colin and kick them in the Gooley's first. Oh I was going to do that one.
And I'm Paul and those wandering hands with a vengeance. Hey so that's more absolute. I beg your pardon. Oh did you not hear me?
I said that's more apt. Alright fair enough. The professionals is about CI5 or Criminal Intelligence 5. It's a British law enforcement agency.
Instructed by the home secretary to use any means to deal with crimes of a serious nature that can go beyond the capacity of the police, but which are not tasks for the security service or the military. One of the many things I learned in this episode was what CI5 stood for. You never knew before? No I mean I knew it was CI5.
Obviously I've seen the professionals before but I never knew what it stood for. Oh well do you know how I knew it stood for that? Because I used to have the CI5 kit with the badge and the wokitake that squirted water for some reason and the plastic gone. Oh can you imagine if they had that in the show?
A wokitake that squirted water. Just picks it up and uses it. Come here you mop it I'm going to splash you in the face. Oh that sounds more threatening.
A show in the 70s. You've seen some films like that don't you? Again I don't know what you're talking about. Already with the filth part.
Shocking. Shocking. Bro wop. The series starts three main characters.
Gordon Jackson is George Cowley. Mertie Shara's Doyle. Lewis Collins is Bode. Now this episode also features Bridget Bryce as Betty.
Steve Alders Murphy. Pat Gorman is CI5 agent. And Pamela Stevenson who's credit to Daz attractive blonde. Not even as a nurse.
She has a name in the actual episode. We definitely know 77. Oh yeah absolutely. So the professionals was created by Brian Clemens who had previously worked on pretty much every British TV series including The Avengers, The Persuaders and Berger Act.
It ran from 1977 to 1983. I was surprised I didn't realise it ran for so long. I'm a series season. Oh gosh.
Fab. Far. Far right. That's a lot for a British TV show though isn't it?
They don't normally like that so long. Yeah. Yeah. And it was pretty much only finished because both actors had lost interest in it at this point.
It's what we call in the trade I suppose the Starsky and Hutch. I imagine Shaw gave his resignation in six weeks after starting filming. Yes. He's got a bit of a history with this programme isn't he?
Yeah he does. Yeah. But before that in pre-production it was originally called the A squad. Yeah there were a few titles weren't there?
The squad. Got shot into that before it became the professionals. The A squad doesn't really mean anything though. Not really.
Yeah. A assault squad. Yeah. A assault squad.
Well there's a few of those definitely. Piers Morgan comes round and investigates your crying. Oh he's perfect for the professionals in the 70s isn't he? Yeah.
So this was created because ITV were getting trounced in the Saturday night ratings by the BBC. For example on BBC 1 at September 1976 you would have an evening of Doctor Who, Bruce Forsy from the Generation Game. The Duchess of Duke Street, The Two Roddies, Stersky and Hutch, Match of the Day and Parkinson. You take it and match of the day and I'm fully in.
I knew he was going to say that. Yeah. Kostersky and Hutch have been a huge success with the BBC at this time so ITV wanted something similar but homegrown. Do you think it stands up against Stersky and Hutch?
Actually yes but it's the inverse of Stersky and Hutch. Stersky and Hutch gets worse but professionals actually gets better. Oh right. Okay.
Clemens didn't want to have the same kind of relationship between his two leads that there is in Stersky and Hutch. He wanted them to be antagonistic. They almost seem like they can't stand each other. It's funny that really isn't it?
Yeah. He gives an example of what he was going for. He says that, imagine they're going on an assignment about missing fish. One would reminisce about the time he kept goldfish as a child and the other would say the only fish I like is wrapped in batter.
Yeah. But of course that carried on into the private lives as well because they just didn't get on very well. Yeah because Lewis Colours wasn't the original choice for the role was he? No he wasn't.
It was Anthony Andrews wasn't it? Yep. He actually he filmed a few days of filming didn't he? Yes he did.
Yeah but when they looked at the dailies they found that Cosmertenshire actually was friends with Anthony Andrews anyway. They found that they were just they came across like two actors. They were the same and they were always giggling apparently and laughing and being jolly and there was no chemistry between them whatsoever. Which is really strange I suppose because Lewis Colings and Martin Shaw didn't get on but there's great chemistry on screen between them.
Yeah yeah just goes to show right? Well look at chips. Oh I don't mean I'm sorry I got mongrel now. I should have mentioned chips.
No no no no. Clemens chose Lewis Colings because he remembered that he played opposite Martin Shaw in episodes of New Avengers. Have you seen this episode? Yes.
Are they similar? No but you could tell like there's the two different people you can see that. I suppose nobody wants to show where the two main characters are virtually identical. No one wants to show or listen to a podcast where the two main people like each other.
That's right. I get it. I don't know what you're talking about. But Martin Shaw, it's funny because they said that Martin Shaw looked down on Lewis Colings because he didn't see Lewis Colings as being an actor because Lewis Colings was a musician.
He played bass for the Mojo's. He'd come up through music and then just decided to drop into acting. Whereas Martin Shaw was you know theatre. So there was a little bit of snobbery going on.
Yeah it seems to be from what I've read yeah. I don't know about you but just from this episode I mean neither of them really stand out in this because they're eclipsed by Gordon Jackson in this episode I think because he gets arguably some of the best moments in this episode. But generally I would say that Lewis Colings is the one that has the more personality on screen than Martin Shaw. He's got a more watchable actor I think.
He's a more interesting person character as well. Yeah yeah great. Yeah. The episode we're going to talk about is called Old Dogs with New Tricks.
Now this isn't the first episode that we've shown. It's episode three but it is the first episode that was actually made and it is the script that convinced London Weekend Television to make the first 13 episodes. Yeah because we had a bit of a debate didn't we about what to go with for what we would count as the first episode. Right because this doesn't have a distinct pilot like most shows do.
No no they kind of you just kind of dropped in on a day of what's happening aren't you? Yeah yeah yeah weirdly um Gordon Jackson wasn't available when they started filming so his scenes all of his scenes are actually filmed later when it's actually started filming other episodes. Oh so they filmed the stuff with him for this episode while they were also filming later. Oh right that's interesting.
You know did you see the fact that Martin Shaw apparently blocked the repeat show into a long time? Yeah that's what I'd heard yeah which annoyed Lois Collins because it meant he wasn't getting paid for repeat fees. Yeah exactly and apparently he only gave in one day when it was pointed out to him that Gordon Jackson's widow could do with the money. Yeah that's a lot of weird.
Yeah there's two versions of it isn't it they're saying that on the one hand it could be that they hated the show or on the other side of it is that he was scared of being typecast. I think it was probably more of the typecast thing. Yeah maybe. This episode is directed by Sidney Hayters who is an interesting character who had been a fighter pilot in World War Two but now he turned into directing and he's been involved in pretty much everything we used to watch.
Give me some examples. All right strap in. All right the Avengers the new Avengers and then he moves to the States he directed Galactica 1980 Earth parts one two and three episodes of The Fall Guy, Nagman PI, Remington Steele, TJ Hooker, Erwolf, Hunter, Knight Rider, Hercassle McCormick, The 18, Skirkraim, Mrs King, Baywatch and Mar. He got around.
Yep yeah last thing he directed before passing away was an episode of CI5 The New Professionals. Oh god. Circle of Life. Yeah well you could call it that yeah.
Speaking of that you've watched a few of those aren't you? Yes yeah. Worth my time or? Yeah I mean it's got a war war didn't it?
For curiosity value yes but the main leads don't have anywhere near the chemistry that the originals do. I can't even imagine that was probably going to be the case. And for a series that focuses on that that's a problem. Yeah apparently a lot of the sort of quote unquote lavish banter between the two leads was just improvised.
There's not so much in this episode right it gets more as the series goes on. Yeah apparently it was just they just did it to amuse the crew at the time and and they became a thing and they left it in because people realized that they kind of enjoyed it. Yeah it works. I was quite surprised to see that there was an episode of Ban in the UK.
Apparently it's never been done. Yes yes is that the Klansman? Yeah yeah why they do an episode about the Clue Klux Klan in the UK? I don't know.
And why is that banned in the UK? I mean it was going to be banned anywhere. I could imagine it being banned in the States but not here. Right yeah I mean if they didn't have to about the IRA I could understand that being banned.
You know the same way that my song was out exactly yeah but that's a weird one. Apparently those columns was a paratrooper real life at some point wasn't he? He actually tried out for SAS but they weren't in to long because he was too famous. Yes I remember we talked about this when we did an episode about who does wins didn't he?
Yeah yeah and let's be honest the greatest crime of cinema is that Lewis Collins was never James Bond. Do you know what there's a scene in the professionals? And it's not an action scene or anything like that. It's the scene where they're just walking down the corridor with Carly.
Right right and he sees a woman and he goes oh what? He's in that? No he doesn't. He's walking down the corridor with Carly and he's got his hands behind his back and he's doing that kind of bond thing where he's being respectful but he's doing it with a bit of a nod and a wink at the same time.
And that moment I looked I watched it and I just thought to myself what could have been? Yeah yeah but apparently it was too threatening to uh old Mr. Broccoli. Well I heard it's not not not threatening to him but he was too full on in the audition.
Yes yeah I heard a story that he came into uh Kobe Broccoli's office and he was he thought that he would be so sort of sure himself and and convincing that he just walked in sat down and plunked his boots on his desk and and and he did not like that. Well I think that was a mistake. It was not boots but not letting him be. He would have been imagining an unimaginably secret service.
Oh are you doing fantastic. Is that the time when when that happened but too early old? I don't know when would we be would it be after Roger Martin? I think it would have been around about sort of mid-rogyn more during one of the times when maybe he was threatening to leave to get more money.
He did that a couple of times Roger didn't he? Yeah he did. Yeah I think it was probably around about that time. It's a shame.
It's a shame. Yep. But you can you can so see Lewis Collins in living daylights or license to kill can't you? Yes yeah but then we would have been robbed at Timothy Dalton so you can't win either way can you?
No that's true. Did you read the funny story about what happened to Martin Shaw and the child? No. No it's not that kind of a story.
I know we're in the 70s but it's not that kind of a story. This is that news. No no no. So apparently none of the main cast members were given trailers on set during production and so what they had to do between shots is just resting cars that were crew cars laying around.
No all right. So apparently Martin Shaw was asleep one day when a boy came up knocked on the window and asked are you doodle off the telly? And Martin Shaw replied yes and he was thinking probably that he was gonna have to give an autograph or something and then the boy just punched me in the face and ran off to his friend shouting how he just punched the punch doil off the telly. That's terrible.
What kind of music? It is kind of a funny story isn't it? Yeah yeah. And I bet you that kid to this day he still with us still tells his friends about how he punched the guy for professional one day.
You know I think he regrets it now. He was a kid. Probably not. Yeah probably not.
And the only other thing I thought would be interesting to show is that I find that apparently Piss Brosnitz in an episode isn't he? Yes vaguely remember that yeah. So you got a real bond and a potential could have been bond. That's true yeah.
It is a very small world in bond. All right so we open up on a prison a guard is walking back and forth on a balcony we can hear voices coming from below. It sounds like one brother talking to another things like the gaddens looking lovely Henry I've got a gardener in specially and we track over the balcony and see below that it's a man his name's Charlie visiting another man in prison they're sitting on either side of a windowed partition the one behind the glass Henry seems troubled he's not saying anything and isn't looking at his visitor. So first thing I noticed here is like it's filmed very nicely.
It looks very cinematic it doesn't look like a TV show. Yeah and I know that Clemens he used to film the event the new Avengers in 35 millimeter but he's chose 16 millimeter for the professionals to make it look a little grainy and gritty. I think this is the difference as well don't you think between what we would get on ITV at the time and what we would get on the BBC because the BBC did that really strange thing where they would shoot in BBC studio land on what looked like videotape and then they would shoot outside on film wouldn't they? They would I think by this period the BBC was starting to do that don't forget the Sweeney was one of the first things to actually do that they used to use 16 millimeter cameras and film like in locations and that was one of the first shows to do that was at Thames show I think yeah and then the BBC did Target which was all film so but yes usually it was film cameras for location work video cameras for interiors and there's a distinct difference between the two.
I also thought that that pulled you out of it a little bit. Yeah we see that a lot in Doctor Hook. Yeah a lot of that kind of blakes heaven that kind of thing yeah definitely yeah I've got to say the guy playing Henry in this my first thought was I thought it was Roy Hodgson the ex-England manager he really looks like him and that's a football reference column. Yeah so I have no idea who what?
Roy Hodgson he honestly he really looks like Roy Hodgson this guy. I'll take your word for it. I found it incredibly distracting. Yeah I just pointed it out to you.
All right okay so Charlie continues to tell Henry about the mom her plan trips to Spain and he asks if things are not too bad in prison because he's greasing enough palms but Henry yells that he wants out. There's some acting going on here isn't there? There is Henry's giving an all he's really at his wit's end and Charlie's pouring it on as well. It's all good stuff all good stuff it's like what's that film with Burton villain?
Oh yeah yeah yeah we cut to outside the prison and Charlie is leaving she gets in a car with another man who I don't think we ever learned his name. No I was trying to look at these now but I can find anything. Is this the same prison by the way that they use in porridge? Well that's how to say the exterior might be but perhaps not the interior.
I was referring to the exterior it looked very similar. Okay I suppose one prison in the 70s probably looks like another doesn't it? Yeah Wentworth is a popular prison for film in exteriors in the UK the Italian job filmed it's a exterior Wentworth but it's interior and the Italian job is in Ireland. Oh okay coincidentally enough the same prison that's used in Paddington too.
Well fun Paddington the fact that everyone? Yeah yeah I think Paddington too does it as a homage style to the Italian job. Right okay. The man asked if Henry is still running the place as he still got the screws jumping.
That line I'm used to because I'm reason. I did. Yes I'm going to use the called prison officer screws. I know I think there's a lot of 70s of vernacular in this isn't there?
It's quite fun. Yeah yeah yeah. Well Charlie tells him that Henry isn't going to make it. He has that look in his eyes.
He's some great artwork I have to say. Yeah your favorite artwork? Well I would say it's my favorite artwork. Oh no no I've seen better but this is good.
Okay Marty Feldman he had good artwork. That's true he did yeah. Yeah they have to get him out but it's revealed that Henry is in a secure prison that I'll never be able to bust him out. Yeah not the old way but they do things differently now says Charlie.
He shows his friend a newspaper headline about a terrorist hostage exchange. We got to man we're in a stocking over his head who throws something into the back of a truck. It looks like a military truck and appears to be driving through a army base and there's other men in the truck. The guard tries to stop it but the truck smashes through the barrier the guard opens fire.
The truck escapes and makes its way to a disused warehouse. Oh the old stock is on the head look. You don't get the old school beano bank robber look anymore do you? No you don't.
You kind of miss it right? You do you do. Harry makes their noses all switched up and so they start to unlock the truck and they appear to be Irish on their accents right? Well I don't know.
They're doing accents. They're doing accents. I don't know whether they're Irish. Oh where did you become an expert at Irish accents?
I'm not going to do it. I'm not no. You're just trying to lure me into something and I'm not going to do it Colin so. All right I'm not going to do it.
They can't believe they've pulled the robbery off. Well there's a young guy in a group of other men turn up. They tell the thieves to face the wall and we cut to a shot at the warehouse garage doors from the outside. There's a camera pulls away.
We hear repeated gunshots. How many repeated when he's got a double barrel shotgun? Because there's more than one of them. They've all got guns.
I only saw the one. They've all got guns. Why would you only have? Hey what we're going to do?
We're going to rob these Irish terrorists but we're only going to carry one god. Who gets it? Oh well done. Let's have a game of straws.
Whoever gets a shot of straw gets the one god which he's had to bring with us. All I'm saying is I only saw the guy carrying the one gun. I only missed the other. Oh I think we can assume there's more than one god.
I've got this plunger. What are you a dalek? Where are you going to do a blocker? All right I'll take your word for it.
They had more than one gun. Of course they did. Sorry. Sorry mister.
You're right. You're rightly offended. And now we cut to opening credits with the iconic music but not the iconic opening credit sequence. These credits are insane aren't they?
This is like there's a running fighting shooting at one point someone smashes a chair over Colin's head. He just blocks it with his arms. What's going on here? It's a training session on an assault cast.
Yeah because Carly pulls up in a car they jump out. They run through this assault course at crazy speed. Jump back in the car and drive away again. Yeah what's strange about this is even though this is the first filmed and it's the third episode shown.
I think the first couple of episodes have a narration over this opening credit sequence. Do they? Yeah where he explains what the professionals are. It's Carly.
Oh okay. Yeah but they must have dropped it really early. Yeah but this is great. It's great.
It's great. It's great. We all know. No it's a great theme tune though isn't it?
Oh yeah it's classic. It's one of the best. It makes you just want to do forward roles and jump through a window doesn't it? Does it really make you want to do that?
Oh yeah I like to see you do a forward role. I mean forget the window job but I'd just like to see you do a forward role. I think if people are ever splaying on the floor to be like... Is that it?
I'm sure I can do it. I'm sure I can do someone push me. Oh right yeah you don't see that in the opening credits just a guy being pushed by someone else through the forward role. You don't know what the curtain's the iPhone is that what you're saying?
Oh yeah yeah I mean neither of us would to be further but yeah. It was the 70s though we might have done. Yeah you drink it off. Well I don't know you go.
That's true. I take it back you'd be perfect. So we cut to a I think a very nice shot of a wall with bodies lying alongside. I mean as nice as a shot of dead bodies could be but it's clearly been perfectly placed everybody that lines the walls the window and the distance perpendicular to each other.
It's like a painting. Yeah we were talking the other day. What did you say it looked like? Oh I say it looks like a cover of a 1970s crime novel.
Yeah I can say that. Yeah yeah they messed up the credits the credits should have been slightly to the left and lower in that space that clearly whoever designed that shot had left that space for the credits and the title to go into and then whoever had put that on had messed it up. But all right that is full. So we cut to a shot of George Calley's door controller C.I.5.
He steps out and yells for BoDian Dial. What was shouting in this episode? There is an incredible amount of shouting in this episode. Maybe the 70s was a very shouty sign.
Maybe. Calley passes over files saying it's something that interested in. Must be death or disaster. Replies BoDian while munching a sandwich.
He's also wearing a very nice cream turtle neck as well. Yes with it. Is he wearing his white safari jacket at this point? I think he might.
Yeah yeah he switches later to something. Perfect. 70s fashion eh? Great.
Oh I can't beat it. You can't know. Is it the Flurs? I'd rather line it the Flurs.
What were Flurs? I'm sure you did lure Flurs at this point though. No I don't think I've never won Flurs. No.
Oh everybody. I'm sure that you you I did little big wide crows on when you were a little nipper at a time. No I was shot so when I was a kid. Oh god.
That's right pal. Think about it. Shot shots. Oh it was like an upturned ice cream cone I would imagine wasn't it?
Can't stop thinking about it though. It's in your mind. I can't know. It's actually no it's changing.
Carry on. Certainly death replies Calley and if it's tied into an average robbery that it could be disaster. He goes back to his office and slams the door. You heard what the gentleman said said from that style.
That's not a gentleman. That's George Calley. You know Judge Calley was supposed to be a gruff novenor in the script originally. I think I think the Scottish element is much better than that.
Yeah yeah I think so. Yeah and Gordon Jackson's fantastic. He's just he's just he's such a different character to the character that he plays in upstairs down stairs as well which was the other thing that he would have been really known for at the time. Yeah he didn't think he was suitable for the role because he hates guns and violence and stuff like that.
Like Roger Moore. Yeah yeah yeah. Also it's interesting that he um when he has to learn a role he can't remember lines so he has to actually take the script and spend days and days just reading it rereading it rereading it. It's one of the things he didn't like doing a series because he took him away from his family because he would just have to lock himself in a room and learn the script.
But yeah it's so it's so good and real as well when you when you seem to do it. Yeah you know you wouldn't you wouldn't have a clue that he was it was taking him time to do this. It was a process really you know. Yeah so we go to the scene at the shooting and we should point out you talked about the clothes but the production team envisioned both characters as having shot her and wearing smart suits.
Well that didn't work did it? No because Martin Shaw hated suits and didn't think it was right for his character. Also his bubble cut her style was his choice and when he turned up for filming the production crew were not happy. So did Martin Shaw have cloaked at this point then?
Because it seems like he does. I think yeah but I think at that point you turned up for days filming what are you going to do send him home? I suppose so yeah yeah times money. Nothing you can do right?
Yeah okay you've got to say that that takes some some some stones to do that doesn't it? Just do what you want and expect everyone to just go with it. Yeah but I think it works can you imagine the professional for the both boys suits? No no not at all.
Not playing the kind of characters that they're playing. Right so Diole recognised is one of the bodys. It's being like an Irish gangster that people have been looking for. And we cut to Charlie riding a motorised lawn mower and he's right out man because we've still not got a name for this guy.
He shows up with some plans and says it'll take an army. That's all we've got replies Charlie. And we keep switching between this conversation and the crime scene so we're back there now. Yeah.
Bodie lists off the weapons that were taken and now he's wearing his leather jacket. Very nice. No and the weapons consist of first guns and grenades which is the big deal. Yeah.
Cut back to Charlie's family. We see a character called Billy watching Charlie for a window you know they're busy doing something. So he goes over to the top pile and priser box open and takes out a handgun. No Phil Davis the guy playing Billy.
He was a real 70s face in British cinema and TV wasn't he? Yeah he was yeah. I think he's in um I think he even turns up in an episode of um I think he's in things modern day stuff like Sherlock. I think he was probably in an episode of life on Mars as well.
Yeah wasn't he in that show got white chapel? Yes I think he was yeah yeah and I'm pretty I think he's in Ripper Street as well. He's like he's at a little play Ripper Street. Ah okay yeah.
Yeah. He always plays a lot on Pleasant and I'm going to use 70s of anacular here. He always plays unpleasant little scroats doesn't he? Oh yes yeah.
Back at the crime scene dimensions that Bodie was in Belfast. Strictly keeping the piece replies Bodie who's piece? Ask Stoyle. There's a lot of that isn't there?
Yeah yeah. Back at the farm Billy has found the grenades and he takes one and leaves. Charlie sees him leaving but continues talking to his friend and he says Friday then and a hand picked squad. Oh something's going on.
Back at CI5 Callie appears to be giving some kind of presentation to a mixture of police and military officers possibly new recruits. CI5 criminal intelligence. The action squad. The big A.
The squad. The big A. Yeah that's like names nobody uses. The one job is to see that nobody misses on their doorstep and that means preventive detection, preventive action to detect, determine, prevent or take suitable actions and our actions against those transgressors against the law outside the normal criminal activity.
By the way even Clemens have trouble justifying the morality of this show in the sense that it's kind of dodgy the idea of CI5. It's very fascist doesn't it? I mean even Bodie points the actor in doesn't know that he thinks he's a little bit fascist. Yeah but then Clemens finishes by saying yeah makes great TV though.
He's not wrong. No he's not. Yeah I mean you wouldn't like to think that this went on in real life and I'm sure it does but it's great on TV. Yeah yeah as he's talking Bodie and dial into the room they're watching continue to brief the men.
Callie points out that the brief contains a phrase by any means necessary. Kick them in the googly's first. Googly's it's not a term that he emops anymore is it? You don't either word googly's.
I think no you don't know actually it's googly's isn't it? Not googly's. Does he say googly's? I think he says googly's.
I know it is googly's but it could be googly. All right we'll leave it at that maybe mate yeah all right we'll leave it at that. Do unto others what you now oh don't do unto others now what they're still thinking about is what he says. Once in a while you'll turn a Laura Biden citizen into an authority hating anarchist.
That's fine. Well it's in a while it's all right. Yeah yeah yeah yeah but he points out if you make a mistake that these people bleeding all over the high street then the only back in you'll get is my boot. So it's fascist but don't hurt in some bystanders is what you say.
Yeah yeah but how do you know they're in a sec. Exactly it's all a bit gray isn't it? Very very. As they leave Callie asked them what they thought of the lecture Bodie says he had fascist overtones.
Callie replies fight fire with fire and slums a door behind him. Dial tells Bodie where Callie got his limp Spain fell off a pedal up. No he didn't. First I thought he had a cheapo transplant and the cost of the del Sol or something.
I assumed that talking about the Spanish Civil War the fascists. Possibly. That would have been 1939 and this is 1977 so he's had this bullet and he's like for 30. It must be talking about the second world war surely.
I guess so but why would but there's no link that the fascist in Spain is the Spanish Civil War that's a thing people think. I guess it must be the second world. Yeah that would make sense wouldn't it. Even then it's still a long time to be living in this.
Yeah definitely yeah The enter Callie's office this better be important he says because you know my feelings on the matter. Broder recites something I guess he hears Callie has said many times before. Our place of work is out on the streets. Any man standing around here isn't doing his job and then Callie gives him a look.
But Bodie tells him about the grenades and we cut to a hospital. Two women are walking to the cars they separate. The blonde is about to get in where Billy grabs her and points he's gone at her head. Her friend runs to help her then Billy fires a warning shot.
He unpins the grenade and pushes it down into a top. He's probably seen this isn't it. It is indeed yes yes. I'm guessing that she was this was before not the nine o'clock news wasn't it.
Absolutely yeah yeah. Back at CI5 they're trying to figure out what the stolen weapons are for. Callie thinks it's a bank raid. Bodie believes it's a terrorist group.
Dial says whoever it was knew the Irish lot would go into knock over the army base and knew where they were going. Callie still insists it's a bank raid but Bodie isn't buying it. The phone rings and Callie answers it. It's news about the hostage taken at the hospital grounds and they learn that grenades are involved.
Bodie and Dial head over there. Just as a little aside thing. I got a nice feeling when I heard a trim phone ring. Oh you did?
Yeah. You remember the trim phones? Give you no reaction. Well I won't go that far Colin.
Oh all right. It was a nice warm feeling inside. Yeah okay. Don't do it.
Oh well what's interesting about this first series of the professionals is you get a lot of shots of leafy suburbs. Right okay. Because the base that they the filming base was actually you know in the suburbs. It wasn't in London or anywhere and so it was easier to film.
So this first series is lots of like leafy green lanes and stuff and then when London Week and television saw this they're like can we make it a little more urban. So in the second series and further on it's all like London and centric and gritty cities and stuff and not these leafy suburbs all this is set in. Oh okay all right. And also they get rid of the base that they filmed at because they decided that it was easy for writers whenever they got stuck to just have everybody go back to HQ and talk it out and have a scene with them talking and so they didn't want that anymore so in future episodes it's always like talking on the move on the go driving or walking or action.
Well it's more exciting isn't it to see visually as well. Yeah yeah they actually told the set down so that writers couldn't do it. That's one way of screwing the writers isn't it. Yeah when they arrive at the scene they get rifles out and flat jackets.
They use a car as cover and view the target could be our man since Bodie. He's holding a webley and Bodie sees the man's hand inside the woman's top. A 34b cup. I mean it's I know it's sexist and it's politically incorrect by our standards today but this is how people would have talked to the sevac Yeah well yeah the police officer on the scene tells him that the guy is William Turner was a patient at the hospital two years ago.
The girls are nurse Emma Bolding and she doesn't know Turner. Turner wants to see his psychiatrist which they've sent for but not told Turner he's coming. Dial calls out to Turner and tells him that Dr. Brook is on his way and at that point the police car pulls up and Dr.
Brook gets out. Now he tells Dial and Bodie about Billy Turner that he was sent to him about two years ago by his probation officer but he's depressive and he tried to kill Dr. Brooks. He blames Brooks for his illness.
Could he still want you dead? Asks Bodie. Could this doctor be any more doctorate as well? No he's very doctorate.
Yes I have to point out as well that spending your afternoon filming with your hand inside Pamela Stevenson's Bloes. I mean I can think of worst days don't you? Yes yeah every day of my life. What is worse than that?
I mean I think about it. Oh I'm thinking about it yes it's always everyone else so your consent your donations to Colli Wood, Carav. What would the donation be though? Alcohol probably.
If they listen to this problem. A grenade. A grenade yes. You can stop it inside your own Bloes.
That's not as much fun. So you've got a bloke? Who hasn't? That's very nice.
In answer to Bodie's question it's possible that Turner could want the doctor's dead. Brooks ate him a sea Billy but Bodie and Dial stop him. Now Bodie comes up for a plan involving a white coat because Billy would have seen Brooks wearing one and might associate it with him. Two police officers push a large dust bin towards Billy.
Oh what's that? What were you doing? The guy with the grenade. I want you to push his very large trash gap towards them.
Just keep pushing the bin. What are they doing? When he shoots at you. Ron.
Well there's a pair to the plan. Pushing the big bin towards him. Yeah because Bodie knows what he needs it. He's going to use it later.
That's part of the plan. All right okay all right. You don't see those bins anyway. They're another 70s thing that are gone as well.
They're great. We used to have those at school. Yeah we did. Big massive metal bins that they used to have.
Surely they were dangerous. Yeah yeah if you fall in well not get thrown in well. Yeah. Well they don't have them now because the new ones have to fit on the back of the yeah they just lock on down and they tip them up yeah.
Ridiculous ridiculous ridiculous. Surely it's better. Bring back the 70s. No.
No God now you sound like one of those you come into a rickett. Remember those? Mass unemployment. Terrible food.
So much better back then. Bodie shouts to Billy that Dr Brooks is here and then in a few minutes he's got to come over there and talk to him face to face. Dial doesn't like this plan. We should tire him out.
Oh yeah. What if he's left hand tires first? It takes four pounds of pressure to keep a hand grenade lever down. Not much but after an hour it feels like eight then 12 then cramp sets in and suddenly it's raining nurse Emma Bolding.
You know what it's it's it's really good lines and Bodie does come across it like he's slightly more experienced doesn't he in this kind of thing. Yeah well the idea is that like dial is the the painton. Bodie is the ex-mercinary. He's the guy that's got got the hands on experience.
You can throw all the theoretical stuff at me as much as you like but I know what things are like when you get right down to it. That kind of thing. Yeah. Dial finally agrees and Bodie puts on the white coat.
Dial loads his rifle. Bodie doesn't know how far he gets before Billy Twigs that it's him. Dial takes aim and there's a little banter about whether dial's up to getting the shot in but apparently dial's a shab shooter so that's okay. You've got to say that that's um how those if he puts those glasses on Bodie he's not going to be able to see a thing.
Yeah I thought that because they are massive. Yeah yeah. Yeah. He puts them out he's like whoa well what's the better were you?
Stumbling around. Yeah he says that he's like Billy. Billy walking towards the trash cat. Talking to the trash cat.
Why aren't you moving Billy? He's leaving the cat back crossing the road. Does care like swerving out of his way. Where's he going?
Bodie come back. Yeah it is a bit strange. Yeah maybe the glasses are ducked towards a fake but just they're looking more duct-wish. I mean they do look fake.
It does just look like playing glass when he puts them on. Ah maybe like boys put on and goes oh I know you're secret. Yes. Yes.
So Bodie approaches a knife behind his back. Suddenly Billy realizes it's not Dr. Brooks. He goes to fire.
Doyle shoots in hitting Billy in the shoulder and he slums down but drops the grenade into Emma's shirt. She screams and struggles to find it. Bodie runs towards her. He grabs Emma but she's a starry colon.
He can't get a hold properly. He can't find the grenade so he slaps her. Call that char at this point. I think we've got bigger problems with that at this point.
It cuts the shirt open with the knife. He grabs the grenade and throws it into the large metal dustbin and then he dives on top of her to protect her. You know I have suspicions that this whole scene was just divisive that they could rip Pamela Stevenson's top open and get a good shot of a... you know...
Is it a plan you're gonna try to work? Just sort of the yell grenade for a reason and leap on somebody? I think I might probably be arrested possibly. Could we?
I don't think I will. No. I think the problem with this scene isn't so much what he does in this what you've just described. It's her reaction in a minute I think.
Oh okay. Explain it. What he's done is fine up to this point. I mean you know it's what he had to get.
So the grenade explodes in the dustbin. Now he gently ties the shirt back up to cover her. She all lucky day. No, it's spelled into his dial.
Doesn't normally do that. And it's a look on her face. I think that that is probably questionable I think because she kind of... what she really in this situation she's probably traumatized but the look on her face says, oh this guy is nice isn't he?
He's just slapped her in the face and ripped her top open. And she's... It's just saved a life heart. Yeah but she's traumatized.
I'm pretty sure the last thing she's probably thinking is going to get a date with this guy. Well maybe her look was bad of a traumatic victim and maybe... ah you're confusing it with a date from your previous experience. What would you have been...
Who have given you a traumatic experience look and you've got all the states going well? Yeah I can see you're probably not looking at my friend's top. I don't know what I don't remember that far back. I'm sure your wife still gives you that traumatic look.
Every day. I do miss it. I'm not even touching that one. Well I'd say that's what she says.
No, it wasn't. No. No I just think... I don't think they did this thing today it'd be very different.
Yeah just that end bit I guess. Yeah it's the end bit more than anything I think. It's not the riff in the show because it's the reason why I had to do that. It's the way that she reacts afterwards I think is.
But the tiny up is up as well. Yeah yeah yeah. That's nice. Then it would end the...
Yeah he does kind of do it with his tongue firmly and his cheek though doesn't he? He's cheek? Oh. It's a pro-lead me.
I'm not going there. So we cut to the prison with Henry and Charlie. Charlie tells Henry that he's springing him at the weekend. He leaves his brother and gets in the car.
Over the radio they hear the news about Billy Turner attacking the nurse with a grenade and that the grenade was believed to be once stolen earlier in the water. It's a good thing they got in the car just at that moment isn't it? Well they would have heard it at some point. What do you want him to do?
Drive around for an hour and then finally comes on the radio. I get it. Well you go for a realist version. They're just like listening to songs.
I had a talk about the wayver is mom the gardening and then it comes on the radio after an hour. Meanwhile we're sat there watching it going it's episodes a bit long didn't it? This is a bit they're all different. You know Zack Snyder had made it.
It'd been slow motioning it before hours long so you know. That is true yeah yeah and in a weird iMac's ratio. For no reason at all. With a tag on ending that made no sense.
Yeah that's true yeah but the actors 10 years ago they filmed it. Exactly. Looking different. So they got to Baldian dials stirring up Billy.
He's bandaged up and sitting in what seems to be an underground cell. It looks pretty well for soldiers just been shot on the shoulder. He hasn't been shot on the shoulder. Yeah.
Bo D takes his gun out. But we're back at Charlie's fam and they're quickly shifting the weapons and Charlie's cursing Billy. But his friends say they want Thai Billy into them not right away. He will eventually back at ci5 dial up on the body of chatting seemingly ignoring Billy.
But he says he shacks up with a doctor in East Africa once and every time they did it she checks his pulse to see if you're still alive. Replace dial. To see how soon I'll be ready to do it again. Billy watches them nervously.
It's revealed that dial is done life at classes which Baldi rips him about. You had a nude holding an apple. I bet you'd only draw the apple. It's a very familiar sequel.
Why were you once a nude model in an apple? Okay yeah that was an embarrassing class. I turned up for a class. I sat down at my easel with my little chalk pencils and stuff and then you turned up nude.