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The entire series was regularly screened on the now-defunct Granada Plus channel from 1997, where it was consistently the channel's highest-rated show, initially achieving close to one million viewers. The episodes shown were heavily edited to make them suitable for daytime viewing and it is these same prints that are being used for transmission on ITV4. Neither station screened the "Klansmen" episode, stating that London Weekend Television continued to forbid its transmission.
In 2004 plans were being drawn up for a film version of The Professionals with Lewis Collins approached to play the part of Cowley, but after negotiations broke down the film was abandoned.
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Bodie and Doyle are assigned to protect a foreign official en route to several meetings. But why are the diplomat's moves known by a team of assassins? Klansmen". Mark-1.co.uk. 3 May 1998. Archived from the original on 3 February 2011 . Retrieved 15 January 2011. In the target practice scene, the first victim's head gets blown off before Doyle has pulled the trigger.The Professionals' TV Series on Video". Personal.u-net.com. 18 November 2000. Archived from the original on 14 May 2011 . Retrieved 15 January 2011. Former secret service agent Quinn is on the run from an asylum, deranged by years of torture by the KGB. He seeks revenge by killing his former SIS comrades. Bodie, realising that his reclaimed music centre has a broken loudspeaker: "My tweeter's gone for a Burton!" David Yip, Philip Latham, Derek Waring, Megumi Shimanuki, Richard Moore, Owen Holder, Rayner Bourton, Toni Kanal, Vincent Wong, Rex Wei, Heather Emmanuel Ferris, try to destroy all evidence of his operations: "I've got a match here and the whole place is covered in petrol!"