The Safehouse

I'm working on a new vid (!) for which I have chosen nearly all the clips. I'd really like to have a clip that shows both Lads fighting hand-to-hand, though, and I can't find one I like. I never noticed before, but almost all of the fight scenes cut between them. Right now the clip I have in that spot is the very beginning of the bar fight in Not a Very Civil Civil Servant, but it's a little hard to see what's happening. I also found a bit in the climactic fight from Wild Justice, but that doesn't serve my purpose.

If anyone has an idea or two, I'd be very grateful. I need just under two seconds of footage, though I can fudge it a bit with editing tricks.

Last week's episode was Old Dog With New Tricks.

And here are the winners.





Congratulations, you did a good job.

See you on Friday at T&SR.

New Friday, new challenge.

Name the episode or tell me something about this scene.



Same rules as every Friday. Comments will be screened until next Wednesday. Happy guessing. :-)

This arched thing made of corrugated metal appears at about the 44 minute mark in Dead Reckoning. What it is?

Ok, it seems the last challenge was rather difficult. Sorry for that. The episode was When the Heat Cools Off. And this time we have only two winners.




Congratulations, you did a good job. The next challenge will be easier (I really promise) and will take place at teaandswissroll

We have only one correct answer so far, so here is a hint.





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Friday is challenge day, so let's start. Who can name this episode?





All comments will be screened until next Wednesday. Happy guessing. :-)

Last Friday's episode was Not a Very Civil Civil Servant. And we have three winners. Congratulations. :-)








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In Mixed Doubles, Doyle says the following about his reasons for leaving the police and joining CI5:

"The line was getting too narrow, what I was doing. There was no difference between what I was doing and what the villains were doing. In the blue corner--right; in the red corner--wrong."

What does this actually mean? What was he doing in the police that he doesn't do in CI5?

I would think that CI5 has more in common with the villains, given its "by any means necessary" brief. We see Bodie and Doyle threatening people with various kinds of harm, breaking into houses and cars, smashing up a restaurant, press-ganging a random (drug-carrying) guy into participating in one of Cowley's schemes, stealing fruit. The police, at least in theory, have limits on their behavior. I realize those were pretty elastic at the time, but they do exist in the world of the show, else there would be no point in creating an organization without such limits.

So, what do you make of that piece of dialog?

Hi there, it's Friday, aka challenge time. :-) And I know it is an easy one this time.



As always, all comments will be screened until next Wednesday. Happy guessing., 

Last Friday's episode was It's Only a Beautiful Picture. We have three winners.












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Today I went to update The Professionals Fanvid Collection, my big old YouTube playlist of Pros vids, only to find that YouTube no longer allows users to sort search results by upload date. This totally breaks my workflow, and I doubt I'll be able to keep the playlist current in the future. I'll add whatever comes to my attention, but I can't comb through uploaded videos as I have been doing for the past six years.

It's Friday, and I'm back home, so let's play Guess the Episode.



You all know the rules. The comments will be screened til next Wednesday, so you can make as many guesses as you like. Happy guessing. :-)

I was watching Killer With a Long Arm tonight, and I began wondering if the writers had Georgi shoot the golfer to make sure we knew the dissidents were the bad guys. Looking it up, though, I see that Greece was (newly) democratic in 1977, so there probably wasn't danger of the dissidents being sympathetic to the audience as opponents of the military dictatorship. Also, they had already shot the innocent traffic cop.

Are there any baddies in the series that you find sympathetic?

Lawson and Quinn are supposed to be, I think. Geraldine Mather isn't exactly a baddie, but she's an antagonist. I've heard other fans point out that she's probably the one we'd be rooting for in real life, which I think is accurate. No others come to mind for me right now, but I haven't gone through the episode list.

Last Friday's episode was Servant of Two Masters. We had five correct answers and three winners.







Congratulations to the winners. See you next Friday at T&SR.

Next Friday, next challenge.



Same rules as every Friday: comments will be screened and you can make as many guesses as you like. 

I said to my assistant, "Fritz, turn up the dial on the slash-o-matic!" The result was my new creation, shown below.


(I was initially requesting title ideas for posting on AO3, but have come up with one that will do, as least for now.)

Announcement! It's time for our Global Pros Watch. We will be watching Backtrack on Tuesday, 31 March, 2026, at 9PM Eastern US time. Please check your time zone clock in your part of the world. We will stream the episode on Zoom. Before the viewing, at approx. 8PM Eastern US time, we will have an open Zoom chat. I will post the link on Monday, 30 March, 2026.

Come and watch Marge call Bodie a lout and ogle Doyle's bum.

Last week's episode was Spy Probe. And I knew it was a difficult one, but we have two winners after the hint. Congratulations! You did a good job.









Next Friday we'll start the second go on the challenge and all episodes are open again. I hope I see you all at teaandswissroll.