The Professionals: Difference between revisions

Line 23:

* [[Cool Car]]: Bodie and Doyle’s Ford Capris (used in the later episodes) qualify, and are part of the reason for the Capri's real-life cult status. In early episodes they drove a Triumph TR7, which was either cool or naff depending on your tolerance for mid-70s wedgy styling.

* [[Cowboy Cop]]: Subverted as their tactics are fully authorised by Cowley, though they do disobey his orders on occasion.

* [[Do We Have This One]]: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Collins Lewis Collins], who played Bodie, actually ''qualified'' to join the SAS. He only remained an actor because his career made him too famous for covert operations.

* [[Do We Have This One?]]: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Collins Lewis Collins], who played Bodie, actually ''qualified'' to join the SAS. He only remained an actor because his career made him too famous for covert operations.

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Young women in that period generally fancied one of Bodie and Doyle.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: In "Mixed Doubles" Bodie and Doyle undergo special training with a brutal instructor in order to protect a foreign diplomat. At the same time we follow two men undergoing a similar program, who are planning his assasination. The two teams don't share a [[Not So Different]] moment (though they do help each other out during a pub brawl) but it's certainly implied.

Line 37:

{{quote| '''Bodie:''' "Permission to be admiringly insolent, sir. You're a brave old bastard."<br />

'''Cowley:''' "Permission denied. Anyway, it's inaccurate. I'm not brave." }}

* [[Judge Jury and Executioner]]: CI5 use exactly the kind of tactics condemned by Royal Commissions into police misconduct, but it's OK because they [[Moral Dissonance|only use them against bad people]]. Their limits are best lampshaded in the episode "In the Public Interest" where Bodie and Doyle investigate a town where the police are cracking down on crime and "immoral behaviour" by extralegal means, such as planting evidence and roughing up members of a gay support group. Bodie and Doyle eventually gain evidence of the latter, and when the main culprit decides to murder them to avoid prison, another officer steps in and arrests him, as murder is going too far.

* [[Judge, Jury, and Executioner]]: CI5 use exactly the kind of tactics condemned by Royal Commissions into police misconduct, but it's OK because they [[Moral Dissonance|only use them against bad people]]. Their limits are best lampshaded in the episode "In the Public Interest" where Bodie and Doyle investigate a town where the police are cracking down on crime and "immoral behaviour" by extralegal means, such as planting evidence and roughing up members of a gay support group. Bodie and Doyle eventually gain evidence of the latter, and when the main culprit decides to murder them to avoid prison, another officer steps in and arrests him, as murder is going too far.

* [[Laser Sight]]: The intimidation factor of a "laser-lock" sight (at the time a cutting-edge technology) is a major theme in the episode "Hunter/Hunted".

* [[Last Name Basis]]: Bodie is always Bodie -- never William, Bill, etc.

* [[Last-Name Basis]]: Bodie is always Bodie -- never William, Bill, etc.

* [[Missing Episode]]: "Klansmen" has to this day never been shown on British terrestrial television, and only once on cable television in 1997 (in a bizarre aversion of the [[No Export for You]] trope, it ''has'' been shown in other countries).

* [[Manly Tears]]: When Bodie is knifed in "Klansmen", Ray weeps openly as he walks beside Bodie's hospital gurney.