The Professionals (TV series) in 2011. The characters of Bodie, Doyle and Cowley would be played by new actors. The film would have been a prequel to the 1970s series concerning how Bodie and Doyle entered CI5. The Professionals (TV series) The Professionals is a British crime-action television drama series produced by Avengers Mark1 Productions for London Weekend Television (LWT) that aired on the ITV network from 1977 to 1983. In all, 57 episodes were produced, filmed between 1977 and 1981. It starred Martin Shaw, Lewis Collins and Gordon Jackson as agents of the fictional "CI5" (Criminal Intelligence 5, alluding to the real life
The Professionals (TV series) The first two broadcast episodes of the series - "Private Madness, Public Danger" and "The Female Factor" - feature a voice over by Cowley over the top of the title sequence but this was removed from the third episode - "Old Dog With New Tricks" - onwards. When the first series has been repeated all bar one episode, "When The Heat Cools Off", and the usually unscreened "Klansman" are shown using the more familiar title sequence employed for the second series onwards. This means that the Cowley voice over is never married to the correct visuals on the repeat broadcasts