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CI5: The New Professionals(TV show/series, 1999)

50min per episode | Genres: Crime, Action & Adventure

Scripted Reality in 1 season with 13 episodes

CI5: The New ProfessionalsRating: 3.0/5 (with 1 vote)
CI5: The New Professionals is a British television action crime drama series, created and principally written by Brian Clemens, that first broadcast on Sky One on 19 September 1999. Billed as an updated version of the 1970s terrestrial television series The Professionals, the series is set in a fictional government agency known as CI5 (Criminal Intelligence Department 5). The original group of three men - Doyle, Bodie and their boss Cowley - are replaced by a team consisting of Harry Malone (Edward Woodward), Chris Keel (Kal Weber), Sam Curtis (Colin Wells) and Tina Backus (Lexa Doig). In a similar manner to The Professionals, the series included a number of high-budget impressive action sequences, often filmed in a James Bond-esque style. An initial thirteen episode series was offered to all major British broadcasters. At one time, it was suggested that ITV would broadcast the series, but after attempting to secure a cheaper deal for broadcast rights, producer David Wickes told The Daily Mail that he "would sooner lock it away in a vault than hand it over to ITV for next to nothing." Sky chose to invest in the series, after considerable editing which removed a number of sequences deemed "exc... ()
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About CI5: The New Professionals

In this 1998 re-imagining of the original The Professionals TV show, CI5 now has an international remit, being jointly funded by the governments of the UK, U.S.A., Japan, Germany and France, and called upon to deal with terrorism and espionage on an international scale. An all-new cast features the original dynamic of two gung ho field agents (these a former U.S. Navy Seal and a British secret service man) and a cantankerous boss, but adds the dynamic of a female agent, a computer and martial arts expert who came to CI5 by way of the Canadian Secret Service. Expectations were high, but the new show failed to capture the imagination of viewers and only one season was made.

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CI5: The New Professionals Seasons and Episodes

09/19/1999Season 1 - 13 episodes
#1 | 09/19/1999Back to Business
meeting of international politicians is to take place in England to discuss the problems of disused nuclear weapons falling into terrorist hands. On a mission in Bulgaria, a CI5 agent sees a dummy run by terrorists, who plan to assassinate the politicians. CI5 must piece together what information they gain from the wounded agent, and try to track down where this top-secret conference is.
#2 | 09/26/1999Phoenix
A professional hitman, the Phoenix, who had been believed to be eliminated in 1981, in an operation, which Malone was present at, appears to have returned from the dead to seek revenge on the men who were responsible for his "assassination". However, if the hitman runs to form, the operation to hunt down those who hunted him down may be a bluff, and the Phoenix may have another target.
#3 | 10/03/1999Tusk Force
A South African minister approaches CI5 seeking help in stopping the increasing activities of ivory poachers. Malone sends Curtis and Keel to investigate and pose as potential buyers of ivory, so as to link up with an ivory smuggler. When the African minister's documents are stolen and a plane that Curtis and Keel are traveling in crashes the agents realize that their cover has been blown.
#4 | 10/10/1999Hostage
An Albanian minister, Eliz Risha, is held hostage at an English television station along with the crew and production staff. CI5 are called in to deal with the terrorists, whose leader Panvos accuses Risha of committing atrocities. Despite the minister's denials, it is not clear if he is indeed a war criminal
#5 | 10/17/1999First Strike
CI5 are assigned to locate the plutonium that was aboard a cargo plane that has crashed in the Louisiana swamplands. They have to prevent a potential catastrophe by ensuring that the original consignee, a paramilitary force led by an ex-US Army colonel, do not obtain the cargo first.
#6 | 10/24/1999Samurai Wind
Curtis and Keel go to an island in the South Pacific to stop a deranged security expert who plans to release nerve gas into Tokyo unless the Japanese government meet his demands.
#7 | 11/07/1999Skorpion
A Russian gang known as 'Skorpion' kidnaps a brilliant computer scientist and his daughter in an attempt to force him to help them gain control of NATO's computers.
#8 | 11/14/1999Choice Cuts
Keel and Malone go undercover to catch the villain behind a sinister organ stealing operation.
#9 | 11/21/1999Miss Hit
Curtis and Keel babysit an informant due to testify against the mafia.
#10 | 11/28/1999Orbit
Curtis and Keel are called in to investigate reports of a U.F.O. after a scientist is attacked by a strange light from space. Backus goes undercover as a journalist.
#11 | 12/05/1999High Speed
Curtis and Keel go undercover as racing car drivers in an operation to bring a Bosnian war criminal to justice.
#12 | 12/12/1999Souvenir
Curtis agrees to meet his former MI6 controller, who is found nearly dead at a railway station, having been beaten and tortured by a group of Nazis who plan to clone Adolf Hitler.
#13 | 12/19/1999Glory Days
CI5 uncover a plot by the Russian mafia to assassinate the U.S. President at a peace conference

Additional Information

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)
Based on: "The Professionals" (TV show/series, 1977-)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 3 languages: German (DE), English (EN), French (FR)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 09/19/1999
Last episode released on: 12/19/1999
Cast: Lexa Doig
Creator: Brian Clemens
Director: Ray Austin

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