The Professionals (TV series) the show featured varied plots, good scripts and ongoing character development of Bodie and Doyle and to a lesser extent Cowley, but later series featured increasingly overused ideas and script devices and both Collins and Shaw stated they felt the show was becoming stale. While episodes were broadcast until 1983, episodes were actually filmed between 1977 and 1981. Major George Cowley (Gordon Jackson) (born c. 1917) – Nicknamed "Morris" after the car of the same name. His operatives sometimes call him "The Cow", though not to his face. Founder and head of CI5, making him Bodie and Doyle's boss. As
George Doyle With his club Courtwood, George won a Laois Junior Football Championship in 1986 and a Laois Intermediate Football Championship in 1987. He was manager of the Laois under 21 Football team in 2005 and of the Laois minor football team in 2012 and 2013. George Doyle George Doyle is a former Gaelic footballer and manager from County Laois. He played on the Laois senior football team throughout the 1990s, primarily as a defender but also in midfield. During that period he was widely regarded as one of the top players in the country in his position as he was chosen