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
Corgi Toys Starsky", "Ken Hutchinson", and a "suspect". In 1980, a silver Ford Capri 3.0 S (342) was issued as a tie-in with the popular British television crime drama "The Professionals" featuring models of 'Bodie', 'Doyle' and 'Cowley', as well as a 1957 Ford Thunderbird (348) from the American show "Vega$" with 'Dan Tanna' at the wheel. 1982 saw the release of the "Magnum, P.I." Ferrari 308 GTS (298). Cost-cutting at the time dictated that no figure was included. The first emergency vehicles produced by Corgi Toys were issued as part of the launch range in July 1956, and were based on