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** Creator/KennethWaller plays a caretaker in "Killer with a Long Arm" before he played Old Mr. Grace in ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' and Grandad in ''Series/{{Bread}}''.

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** Creator/KennethWaller plays a caretaker in "Killer with a Long Arm" before he played Old Mr. Grace in ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' and Grandad in ''Series/{{Bread}}''.''Series/{{Bread|1986}}''.
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** Creator/MichaelAngelis plays Lew Clarke in "Lawson's Last Stand" before he narrated ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends''.
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** Creator/KennethWaller plays a caretaker in "Killer with a Long Arm" before he played Old Mr. Grace in ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' and Grandad in ''Series/{{Bread}}''.

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** Turner from "Everest Was Also Conquered" is played by Creator/GaryWaldhorn, who would later be best known for playing David Horton in ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley''.

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** Creator/GaryWaldhorn plays Turner from in "Everest Was Also Conquered" is before he played by Creator/GaryWaldhorn, who would later be best known for playing David Horton in ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley''.


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** Creator/RogerLloydPack plays Ron Fielding in "Everybody's Business" before he played Trigger in ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' and Owen Newitt in ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley''.
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** Turner from "Everest Was Also Conquered" is played by Creator/GaryWaldhorn, who would later be best known for playing David Horton in ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley''.
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* SpiritualSuccessor:
** The short-lived 1984 Australian series ''Special Squad''. And in the late 1990's a revival series, ''[=CI5=]: The New Professionals'', was produced for Sky One. It starred Edward Woodward as Cowley's successor and had a British/American pairing for the two agents, but was not a success.
** ''The Professionals'' is itself something of a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Series/TheNewAvengers''. Both were created by Brian Clemens, and ''The New Avengers'' is noticibly more of a [[TheSeventies Seventies]] ActionSeries than a [[TheSixties Sixties]] SpyDrama. ''The New Avengers'' actually resembles ''The Professionals'' more than it resembles ''Series/TheAvengers1960s''. Lewis Collins and Martin Shaw even guest-starred in an episode together.
** The series can be seen as ''Series/TheSweeney'' but with spies instead of cops.
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** Creator/VickiMichelle plays Jo in "Hunter/Hunted" before she played Yvette Carte-Blanche in ''Series/AlloAllo''.
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** Creator/SuzanneDanielle plays a pretty girl in "Killer with a Long Arm" before she played Emmannuelle Prévert in ''Film/CarryOnEmmannuelle''.
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** Creator/RobinParkinson plays a taxi driver in "A Stirring of Dust" before he played the third [=LeClerc=] in ''Series/AlloAllo''.
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** Creator/ChristopherPolycarpou plays a waiter in "Discovered in a Graveyard" before he played the second Chris Theodopolopodous in ''Series/BirdsOfAFeather''.

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** Creator/ChristopherPolycarpou Creator/PeterPolycarpou plays a waiter in "Discovered in a Graveyard" before he played the second Chris Theodopolopodous in ''Series/BirdsOfAFeather''.

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** Creator/AlunLewis plays [=McCabe=] in "The Acorn Syndrome" before he played Darryl Stubbs in ''Series/BirdsOfAFeather'' and Vic Windsor in ''Series/{{Emmerdale}}''.

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** Creator/AlunLewis plays [=McCabe=] in "The Acorn Syndrome" before he played the first Darryl Stubbs in ''Series/BirdsOfAFeather'' and Vic Windsor in ''Series/{{Emmerdale}}''.


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** Creator/ChristopherPolycarpou plays a waiter in "Discovered in a Graveyard" before he played the second Chris Theodopolopodous in ''Series/BirdsOfAFeather''.
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** Creator/ChristopherFairbank plays Billy in "The Purging of [=CI5=]" before he played Moxey in ''Series/AufWiedersehenPet''.
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** Creator/AlunLewis plays Eddie in "Gold Plated Delinquents" before he played Darryl Stubbs in ''Series/BirdsOfAFeather'' and Vic Windsor in ''Series/{{Emmerdale}}''.

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** Creator/AlunLewis plays Eddie [=McCabe=] in "Gold Plated Delinquents" "The Acorn Syndrome" before he played Darryl Stubbs in ''Series/BirdsOfAFeather'' and Vic Windsor in ''Series/{{Emmerdale}}''.

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** Christopher Ellison is the [=CI5=] agent staking out the reservoir in "Private Madness, Public Danger", before he became DCI Frank Burnside in ''Series/TheBill''.

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** Christopher Ellison is the [=CI5=] agent staking out the reservoir in "Private Madness, Public Danger", Danger" before he became DCI Frank Burnside in ''Series/TheBill''.''Series/TheBill''.
** Creator/AlunLewis plays Eddie in "Gold Plated Delinquents" before he played Darryl Stubbs in ''Series/BirdsOfAFeather'' and Vic Windsor in ''Series/{{Emmerdale}}''.
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** Creator/DavidSuchet is the leader of a gang of mercenaries in "Where the Jungle Ends".

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** Creator/DavidSuchet is the leader of leads a gang of mercenaries in "Where the Jungle Ends".
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** Creator/PierceBrosnan appears in "Blood Sports" as a surveillance operator.

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** Creator/PierceBrosnan appears in "Blood Sports" as a the [=CI5=] agent manning the surveillance operator.van.

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* SpecialEffectsFailure: In "Slush Fund", a car goes off a cliff in SlowMotion giving a perfect view of the two crash test dummies in the front seat. Even if a short-sighted audience member was fooled, a dummy head falls off for no apparent reason.

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In "Slush Fund", a car goes off a cliff in SlowMotion giving a perfect view of the two crash test dummies in the front seat. Even if a short-sighted audience member was fooled, a dummy head falls off for no apparent reason.reason.
** It's not unusual to see skid marks on the road ''before'' our heroes do a handbrake turn, from previous takes (see "Need to Know" and "Blood Sports").

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* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/MartinShaw and Lewis Collins were first paired in ''Series/TheNewAvengers'' episode "Obsession". In their final scene together Collins' character says, "Maybe we should work together again sometime? A good team."

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Creator/MartinShaw and Lewis Collins were first paired in ''Series/TheNewAvengers'' episode "Obsession". In their final scene together Collins' character says, "Maybe we should work together again sometime? A good team."
** In "In The Public Interest", Creator/StephenRea's character says "I'm not a homosexual myself, but [[Film/TheCryingGame many of my friends are]].
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