Favourite Guest Stars - The Professionals (1977) Discussion

[–] 18 years ago

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Liz Frazer in back track. Hilarious!

Doyle:Come on in darling the doors open

Bodie:Anything you say sweetheart:)

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[–] su5711 18 years ago

Mine too!
Backtrack must have been the funniest episode in Pros.
Really like the scene when she doesn't offer Bodie the drink.

Margerie Harper while looking at Bodie: Loutsss are everywhere...lol

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[–] dave_show 18 years ago

Lol its amazing. Lewis' expressions are classic! Going to watch that ep right now!

Doyle:Come on in darling the doors open

Bodie:Anything you say sweetheart:)

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[–] Throb3214 17 years ago

Pamela Stephenson- the sexy, sexy comedy star of Not The 9 O'Clock News was in two episodes if I remember rightly. She's gorgeous in both.
She later married Billy Connolly and became a shrink I think.

"What now Cliff?"
"The instrumental break"
"Great Cliff- which instruments do you want us to break?"

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[–] professional_liz 17 years ago

I think she is in three - Old Dog with New Tricks, Stakeout and Rogue if I remember rightly.

Liz Fraser gotta be my favourite though, she really makes that episode

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[–] JohnRyder (47) 3 years ago

Yes she's in three and has progressively bigger roles each time. In Stakeout especially she's totally gorgeous hanging around in that bowling alley.

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[–] MuggySphere 10 years ago

Yes sorry for thread necro but she became a qualified psychologist

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[–] claudg1950 17 years ago

I don´t know whether to call it "favorite", but for trivia´s sake, here it goes: In one episode, a CI5 audio technician is listening at his eavesdropping devices, installed at the back of a closed van. The man is shown in profile, and he utters a few words, at most. The character was played by Pierce Brosnan.

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[–] Sir_Reginald_Smythe 17 years ago

In the same episode claudg, the lead girl (her step-brother was shot) is chatting to a friend in university, the friend is Ruby Wax and one of the agents staking out the golf club is CI Derek Conway (Ben Roberts) from The Bill. Wasn't Collins mooted as a future Bond but instead the guy credited as "radio operator " goes on the play him. :)

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[–] david_louisson 17 years ago

The episode is "Blood Sports" and the lead girl, Anita Cabreros, is played by Michelle Newell

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[–] InvGirl 16 years ago

Jonathan Hyde

('A Killer with a Long Arm')

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[–] ian_uk 16 years ago

I liked Charles Dance playing a white South African. Was great when Doyle beat the crap out of him at the end

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[–] bim_collis 16 years ago

Can't remember the episode, but it was Trigger from Only Fools and Horses as a sinsiter assassin in shades and a medallion. Class!

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[–] h-ahmad-1 16 years ago

Stuart Wilson as Van Niekerk (Slush Fund).

Michael Coles as Rio (Mixed Doubles).

How about David Suchet as Krivas in Where The Jungle Ends? Mad as a hatter, or what?

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[–] furryferns 16 years ago

Trigger was Ramos in Long Shot

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[–] Jason_Radley 15 years ago

Some other OFAH faces too: Alan, Cassie's dad, and Pauline Harris (the 'scheming old murderess') in the same episode, Hijack. Also, Mr. 'John' Chin, dodgy Chinese restaurant owner, popping up in a couple of episodes, and Mr. Jahan, who gave Rodney a job as chief mourner, in A Hiding To Nothing. Apparently, Steve Alder (Murphy) was in the OFAH Christmas special, The Jolly Boys' Outing, so I'll have to look out for him on Gold.

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[–] triplecrosser 13 years ago

Alice Krige in the episode entitled 'Operation Susie.'

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[–] Jason_Radley 15 years ago

The radio man also went on to play Remington Steele. And the man originally cast as Remington Steele, Anthony Andrews, was also the first choice to play Bodie. Small world.

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[–] seanwhelan2310 (562) 2 years ago

Also the man who played Remington Steele eventually played James Bond and Lewis Collins was considered to play Bond in the early eighties

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[–] Jason_Radley 15 years ago

Yes, saw that today; the episode is called Blood Sports. I clocked her immediately, but only when I checked the end credits for confirmation did I learn that Pierce Brosnan was in it, as well. Like you say, he only has a few words, but you can recognise the accent.

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[–] pjt54 15 years ago

Season 5

Alice Krige in episode "Operation Susie" - she went on to become the Borg queen in the Star Trek series.

Simon Dutton in "No Stone" - played the Saint in the late eighties.

Steven Berkoff - A Man Called Quinn

Geoffrey Palmer - The Ojuka Situation

Rona Anderson (Mrs Gordon Jackson) - Cry Wolf

David Yip (The Chinese detective) - Discovered in a Graveyard

Michael Angelis (The Liver BIRDS) - Lawson's Last Stand

Prentis Hancock (Space 1999) - Lawson's Last Stand

Karl Howman - Foxhole on the Roof

Ki9n Goddy (No 73) - Foxhole on the Roof

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[–] velvoofell 15 years ago

As some lone, mad bomber - can't remember the episode title, though.

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[–] w22nuschler 15 years ago

Gabrielle Drake-Close Quarters

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[–] mungreluk 15 years ago

Which episode did Bill Treacher have a small role in?
He used to be Arthur Fowler in Eastenders.

Long before he married Pauline, lost his marbles on christmas day 1986, and then had an affair with Mrs Hewitt!

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[–] lawrenceconwayvulcan 8 years ago

I am surprised that no one has mentioned the following 3 actors who appeared in 'The Purging of CI5'

Simon Rouse - Monroe in 'The Bill'

Ian Gelder - Kevan Lannister in 'Game of Thrones'

Christopher Fairbank - Numerous films including 'Batman' where he is the first crook to face the wrath of Michael Keaton

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[–] teros 14 years ago

EDIT: I've just seen that somebody mentioned this before...

The emperor out of Star Wars was in one...As some lone, mad bomber - can't remember the episode title, though.

So, just the episode title: "The Madness of Mickey Hamilton"

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[–] RabRhee 13 years ago

For fans of The Wire, theres 'Lester Freamon - Pawn shop division' - Clarke Peters playing President Ojuka

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[–] Kryten-11 14 years ago

Boba Fett himself, Jeremy Bulloch, in Where the Jungle Ends

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[–] GroovyDave1973 13 years ago

I got a few....Michael Coles and Pammy Stevenson as said above.

Michael Culver of "Secret Army" and "cadfael" (Lawson in Lawson's last stand)

Michael Burrell as the guy who used to be Doyle's neighbour in "The Famale Factor" (a bit part actor who has played a few minor roles in some of my fav programmes)

And Ron Pember....who has been in loads of stuff....including Only Fools & Horses so can be added to the above list.

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[–] hjones7 13 years ago

Sheila Ruskin in Klansman

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[–] breakingaway28 13 years ago

The late Michael Gothard - Stopover

Roger Lloyd-Pack - Longshot

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[–] DemonGate 13 years ago

The late Shelagh Fraser (Aunt Beru from Star Wars Episode IV) as Elsa in "A Stirring of Dust" and Mrs. Wilson in "When the Heat Cools Off".

Other actors I remember seeing were:

Ben Cross (Chariots of Fire, Star Trek)

Black British comedian Stephen K. Amos (He does a lot of guest appearances on Australian TV comedy shows these days.)

and (the late) Patrick Durkin who played Terkoff in "The Female Factor" and Wally in "Hijack". You might remember him in Raiders of the Lost Ark as the portly mountain climber who was challenging Karen Allen's character Marion Ravenwood to a drinking contest in the bar in Nepal.

He lost. Lol.

"There is no Dana...only ZUUL!"

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[–] ian-onions 12 years ago

Stephen K Amos? Don't think so, he was only born in 1976!

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[–] jklm11 12 years ago

john judd as corrupt policeman

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[–] MovieKnut 12 years ago

Pierce Brosnan played a member of CI5 in 'Blood Sports'.

However, my favourite guest star is Liz Frazer in 'Backtrack'.

There were some classic lines. Liz's character had taken a shine to Doyle, she stroked his cheek and said 'Nice boys like you are few and far between'.

She then looked at Bodie and said 'Louts are everywhere'.

Hilarious episode.

You can't palm off a second-rater on me. You gotta remember I was in the pink!

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[–] McQueen1980 10 years ago

patricia hodgson appeared as a girlfriend of doyle in one episode, very pretty and a nice performance by herself.

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[–] youngsteve 9 years ago

Lalla Ward, former Mrs Tom Baker & Romana in Doctor Who, was in the episode 'When the heat cools off' where she plays a murderous girlfriend of Doyle's

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