Season 3

The ProfessionalsSeason 3

1979
8 Episodes

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.

Episodes

The Purging of CI5
S03E01

The Purging of CI5

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 end up as the next victims.

27 Oct 1979
Backtrack
S03E02

Backtrack

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 life that is now in danger.

03 Nov 1979
Stopover
S03E03

Stopover

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 stand-off between the two, using Bodie and Doyle as the pawns.

10 Nov 1979
Dead Reckoning
S03E04

Dead Reckoning

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 public as possible. When he is eventually murdered, CI5 suspect his music student daughter of poisoning him.

17 Nov 1979
The Madness of Mickey Hamilton
S03E05

The Madness of Mickey Hamilton

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 assassinating each of the same hospital's medical staff one-by-one.

24 Nov 1979
A Hiding to Nothing
S03E06

A Hiding to Nothing

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.

01 Dec 1979
Runner
S03E07

Runner

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.

08 Dec 1979
Servant of Two Masters
S03E08

Servant of Two Masters

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 track their boss's every move.

15 Dec 1979