Episode guide
The Professionals: Season 3
8 episodes · premiered Oct 27, 1979
In series three, CI5 is targeted by a series of bombings and assassination attempts, the team investigates the murder of a defector, and Bodie and Doyle begin to suspect that their boss is selling weapons to the East Germans.
- Episode 1: The Purging of CI5 Oct 27, 1979 CI5 and their agents find themselves under attack from a vendetta of bombings and assassination attempts. Bodie and Doyle are on a chase to find out who the perpetrators are before they…
- Episode 2: Backtrack Nov 3, 1979 It's just another routine house break-in for a cat burglar, until he accidentally uncovers a complex drugs smuggling operation. When CI5 step in, they realise it's not just the burglar's…
- Episode 3: Stopover Nov 10, 1979 Cowley is offered the name of a highly-placed double agent from an old colleague - who in return wants to be guaranteed protection with CI5. This leads to the start of a dangerous…
- Episode 4: Dead Reckoning Nov 17, 1979 A spy is extradited to Britain with an attempt to keep his arrival top-secret. However, the Bulgarians from Batak's homeland who sent him appear to be trying to make his movements as…
- Episode 5: The Madness of Mickey Hamilton Nov 24, 1979 Years after a man's wife died and his child left brain-damaged following a series of blunders at the hospital they were treated at, he returns to finally seek revenge by systematically…
- Episode 6: A Hiding to Nothing Dec 1, 1979 A dummy run that has been staged for the visit of a Middle Eastern official is found to have been recorded by a foreign student, subsequently leading CI5 to suspect a security leak.
- Episode 7: Runner Dec 8, 1979 An attempt to start up a street war is launched by a gangland breakaway opposition group, but their leader appears to have an ulterior motive in his actions.
- Episode 8: Servant of Two Masters Dec 15, 1979 Bodie and Doyle are shocked to discover that Cowley appears to be selling nerve gas to a group of East Germans in order to line his own pockets, and are assigned by his rival Plumb to…