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** Creator/CharlesDance plays an AmoralAfrikaaner in "The Ojuka Situation".
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: 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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* SpecialEffectsFailure: A 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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* 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/DavidSuchet is the leader of a gang of mercenaries in "Where the Jungle Ends".
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: In "Stakeout", 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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* SpecialEffectsFailure: In "Stakeout", a A car goes off a cliff in SlowMotion, 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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** Creator/MichaelKitchen is a terrorist with a grudge against Doyle in "Runners".
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** Christopher Ellison is the [=CI5=] agent staking out the reservoir in "
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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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** Creator/StephenRea runs a gay support group in "In the Public Interest".
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The series was a cult hit in Germany and Czechoslovakia.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The series was a cult hit in Germany and Czechoslovakia.(ironically) Czechoslovakia while it was still communist.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/PierceBrosnan appears in "Blood Sports" as a surveillance operator.
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** Creator/PierceBrosnan appears in "Blood Sports" as a surveillance operator.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Doyle. Yes, he’s a badass [=CI5=] agent and ex-copper, but it’s been noted by the fandom that he has a “ridiculously appealing, dorky-looking grin”, has moments of tongue-twistedness when talking to women he fancies and the less said about his dancing the better.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Doyle. Yes, he’s he's a badass [=CI5=] agent and ex-copper, but it’s been noted by the fandom that he has a “ridiculously "ridiculously appealing, dorky-looking grin”, grin", has moments of tongue-twistedness when talking to women he fancies and the less said about his dancing the better.
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* CriticalDissonance: In a Creator/Channel4 documentary on the series, Brian Clemens recalled:
-->Well the critics hated it, of course, because it was ever so popular. I mean the public loved it!
-->Well the critics hated it, of course, because it was ever so popular. I mean the public loved it!
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* ValuesDissonance: The series' violence and fast driving was highly criticised at the time; later on its sexism.
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** The [[UsefulNotes/TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar use of dum-dum rounds]] in "Mixed Doubles" is portrayed as crossing a MoralEventHorizon for Bodie and Doyle. Nowadays armed police and anti-terrorist units routinely use hollowpoint or other such frangible rounds.
** The series' violence and fast driving was highly criticised at the time; later on its
** The [[UsefulNotes/TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar use of dum-dum rounds]] in "Mixed Doubles" is portrayed as crossing a MoralEventHorizon for Bodie and Doyle. Nowadays armed police and anti-terrorist units routinely use hollowpoint or other such frangible rounds.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: All of the vehicles, weapons and technologies available (and the fashion-''definitely'' the fashions) show that it is all set strictly during TheSeventies, not to mention the many stories that involve the UsefulNotes/ColdWar (and fighting spies straight from UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre) and other things like the Congo brush wars.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Doyle. Yes, he’s a badass [=CI5=] agent and ex-copper, but it’s been noted by the fandom that he has a “ridiculously appealing, dorky-looking grin”, has moments of tongue-twistedness when talking to women he fancies and the less said about his dancing the better.
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* EndingFatigue: Averted; things were typically wrapped up quickly after the bad guy had been caught, or objective achieved. In many cases that ''was'' the final scene, with just a few words of post-action dialogue or banter before they went straight into the end credits.
* {{Fanon}}: ''The Professionals'' has quite an impressive array of fanon, including:
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* EndingFatigue: Averted; things were typically wrapped up quickly Averted quite noticeably. The credits often ran straight after the scene in which the bad guy had been caught, was caught or shot (or the objective achieved. achieved). In many cases that ''was'' the final scene, with such cases, there were just a few words seconds of terse post-action dialogue or banter before things finished. Where epilogue scenes did exist, they went straight into the end credits.
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* BizarroEpisode: "Discovered in a Graveyard" - Doyle is in a coma and has an entire episode's worth of weird, disjointed memories/dreams. It is something of a [[LoveItOrHateIt marmite episode.]]
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Bodie appears to have this towards Doyle, shown through his jokes about Doyle's love life and offering him advice to threatening anyone who tries to hurt him. Interestingly Bodie is the younger of the two in the partnership, but seems older perhaps due to his time as a mercenary in Africa.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: In "Stakeout", 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, one of their heads falls off for no apparent reason.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: In "Stakeout", 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, one of their heads a dummy head falls off for no apparent reason.
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** Bodie is a cold-blooded loner, had a terrible childhood, had a hellish experience being a mercenary in Africa, was rescued from it by Cowley and therefore looks up to Cowley as a father figure.
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** Bodie is a cold-blooded loner, had a terrible childhood, had a hellish experience being a mercenary in Africa, was rescued from it by Cowley and therefore looks up to Cowley as a father figure. He also has a pretty sophisticated SweetTooth (courtesy of said childhood-either he grew into money but hated it or he grew poor and he's compensating).
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* HoYay: Yes, and by the bucket. Modern day fans of the series often have discovered it via old slash zines.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Bodie appears to have this towards Doyle, shown through his jokes about Doyle's love life and offering him advice to threatening anyone who tries to hurt him. Interestingly Bodie is the younger of the two in the partnership, but seems older perhaps due to his time as a mercenary in Africa.
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* {{Fanon}}: ''The Professionals'' has quite an impressive array of fanon, including:
** The reason the sets are always different for Bodie and Doyle's respective flats every time we see them is that [=CI5=] maintains a number of flats which it's agents live in, and they move their agents around regularly.
** Doyle is moody, inclined to tears, and a vegetarian.
** Bodie is a cold-blooded loner, had a terrible childhood, had a hellish experience being a mercenary in Africa, was rescued from it by Cowley and therefore looks up to Cowley as a father figure.
** The reason the sets are always different for Bodie and Doyle's respective flats every time we see them is that [=CI5=] maintains a number of flats which it's agents live in, and they move their agents around regularly.
** Doyle is moody, inclined to tears, and a vegetarian.
** Bodie is a cold-blooded loner, had a terrible childhood, had a hellish experience being a mercenary in Africa, was rescued from it by Cowley and therefore looks up to Cowley as a father figure.
