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
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