Reply With QuoteThose two analogue / digital watches are fugly.
Was just watching a Professionals episode (from 1980) and noticed that there was a lot of watch checking going on...
Bodie was very pleased with his brand new QUARTZ watch...
A Heuer Manhattan GMT.
Doyle was always the cooler of the two though...
With his Orfina Porsche Design chrono.
They had a mate this time...
With an Heuer Senator GMT.
Synchronise your watches!
Those two analogue / digital watches are fugly.
I have a similar one myself
Just out of curiosity: Is Bodie Judge John Deed? And what happened to Doyle after that great series?
Regards,
Marc
Doyle's judge John Deed.....he was in the Inspector George Gently series on the beeb.....
Waltham
Yes, I did mean George Gently as well as Judge John Deed! And what about the other actor; any more on him?
I just loved that show as a boy/teenager. And the Browning HP and Walther P 38 they wore...
Marc
www.imdb.com for anything you ever wanted to know about actors, films, TV series and a whole lot more. The great chunks of my life I am not wasting on this forum I waste on IMDB.Originally Posted by majstro
^^^^Thanks for that but IMDB is a place you never return from once you've entered...Bermuda Triangle if there ever was one!
Seriously, I prefer to find out first hand from our fellow TZ-members. You or most of you are from "the neighborhood"where it all happened; UK I mean...oops; better watch out since I believe some prefer not to be called UK-members, Brits or any other name we Europeans take for granted.
No offence intended; purely for recreational purposes :-)
With the utmost regards,
Marc
And imcbd.org when you want cars in films. And TV shows. And everything.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Collins will tell you all you need to know
Bodie, real name Lewis Collins, did a few commando type films after The Professionals ended, and a few bit parts in TV shows, but not much else. He seemed to get type-cast as the hard man military type.
Was good in The Professionals though.
Didn't recognize him when i last see a pic of him, rather lardy these days.....
He is also my second cousin
Could be time to get in touch and find out if has any watches left from the time of The Professionals.
Last edited by benny.c; 20th July 2012 at 18:15.
Oh I do like that, lots ;)I have a similar one myself
Hi
I used to like watching this....what were the cars....Capri 3.0S & RS2000 ?
Best - Neil
Similar to my Heuer Pasadena
Thanks in advance to Stewart (Heuerville) for my shameless pinching of his image (It's actually my very watch pictured)
Last edited by Kiki Picasso; 24th July 2012 at 15:31.
The Heuer Manhattan is way cooler than the Porsche !!
BHe was really good in Jack the Ripper and then with The Grimleys it looked like he was going to get back on TV, but I suppose a new life in La-La Land explains the prolonged absence.
Let's not forget the enjoyable SAS romp Who Dares Wins! Great soundtrack by Roy Budd!
This was another watch worn by the duo in the series.
“Don’t look back, you’re not heading that way.”
http://www.personal.u-net.com/~carnf...s/profcars.htmHi
I used to like watching this....what were the cars....Capri 3.0S & RS2000 ?
Best - Neil
All you could ever want to know about the cars :)
The MkIII Capri was my first dream car.
A man who appreciates the Budd has got my respect. I've always wanted Doyle's watch and it was only until I started hanging around this place that I found out what it was. Chronomaster has a couple listed but long gone of course.
Hi
Thanks for the link....great stuff - I've owned a both a Dolly Sprint & RS2000 so happy memories !
Of course both got stolen
Best - Neil
Collins was potless and running a used computer spares shop last time I heard, Martin Shaw was the bright one
RIAC
Awful programme but I guess a magnet for lads of a certain age.
Strangely enough my Mother is a huge fan.
Benny, if you get in touch with your second cousin please ask for an autograph for my old dear.
She loves Bodie.
Cheers,
Neil.
I like it, used to watch it as a kid
Gordon Jackson was class as George Cowley
Great title sequence, great watches PD:
It certainly hasnt aged well, what with it's shaky sets, ham acting, and hilariously poor fight scenes. Apart from the three main characters, all the other actors in every episode had this annoyingly posh 'stage acting' accent.
That and the Sweeney (Equally as bad programme) were the only things like it on Tele though when we were wee. So you 'had' to like it. I find everytime i try and watch one nowadays, I get as far as ten minutes in and then get bored and go off and do something else.
I get more enjoyment nowadays from watching the re-runs of "Tales of the unexpected". And that's saying something, because that really is a p*** poor programme.
Last edited by Kiki Picasso; 21st July 2012 at 08:40.
It was a better book than film!
They also used the IWC (possibly PD? ) compass watch in one episode although it was a tracking/homing/detector device of course
Definitely the better of the two main watches-apparently the PVD didn't take long to start flaking of the Porsche watches. And, as someone once pointed out to me, in the first series they were wearing Porsche watches and driving Triumphs!This was another watch worn by the duo in the series.
I've got every episode on DVD, including the controversial never screened episode where Bodie revealed his racist side. Best thing on the Telly.
I always thought my mates description of them was apt, Bogie and boil.
I was more partial to the New Professionals for the woman talent:
I'm not sure what watch she was issued in the series though.
Rob.
New Professionals?? Never heard of that. Was based on the original?
Only very loosely
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144729/
Rob.
Currently on a Sky channel near you! Edward Woodward trading on his Equaliser persona and desperately channeling Gordon Jackson.
Sad rehash, all seems to have been filmed in one long weekend in and around New Orleans.
If this is the episode I think it is, I call it the 'Watch Episode'. http://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?135653
Haha, it is indeed. I must have missed Cowley's watch though.
The New Professionals is currently being shown on one of the movie channels on Freesat at present (Movies4Men, I seem to recall). My mate worked on that series in marketing/placement and hence we got to use the Mercedes Vito that Edward Woodward used in the programmes. Great days but, a truly poor programme. The original was far better.I was more partial to the New Professionals for the woman talent:
I'm not sure what watch she was issued in the series though.
Rob.
That's a shame. You might have hoped that Woodward would make a good Cowley (I presume that was his role).
Last edited by markrlondon; 23rd July 2012 at 12:12.
He wasn't bad, to be fair. However, the other two were truly dreadful as Bodie and Doyle replacement. One of them was a Canadian who really seemed to ham it up.
Sounds like I must find it somewhere to see how bad it was. ;-)
Both very cool watches but the Manhattan has an irresistible retro "of its time" appeal, I find. Very nice.
Shown about ten years ago on one of the terrestrial channels. Sadly - it was awful. The only episode I remember was about a fiendish plan to clone a race of Adolf Hitlers from Hitler's index finger. I can't remember how it was supposed to have survived his suicide and cremation.
There's a really cringeworthy moment at the end of one of them in which Woodward's character salutes a portrait of Cowley, hanging on his office wall. Sad to see Edward Woodward in a production as bad as that one.
Having just criticised The New Professionals for a cringeworthy moment, it's only fair to say that the episode you mention there is absolutely comical. It has been screened on Freeview (or ON Digital at least) by the way.
The spectacle of Bodie writhing on his hospital bed in a high fever muttering "dirty spades!" while his black doctor and nurse look on sympathetically.. oh dear. I was watching on my own but still had to leave the room, I was so embarrassed.
Then at the end he magically overcomes a lifetime of prejudice and scores a date with a black nurse! Brilliant.
I had a black RS2000 Custom in 1982. I wish I could buy it back now
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