#the professionals ci5

[superjinkyo]

Worried About Ray | The Professionals Fanvid

BistoCon 2024 Premiere, August 10, 2024

YouTube: https://youtu.be/aUT3eJV6hvQ?si=eI5I3-WE5dnKtY_U

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/58106239

[sw33n3y2]

Title: 'Bodie and Doyle Saut Dans le Vide'. Vidder: zzebeddy Relationship: M/M Characters: Bodie/Doyle Rating: Not rated

Summary: Love and risk, a leap into the void.

For now, this is an unlisted video, which means it can be accessed via this link but not through general YT searches.

Disclaimer: I do not own the show, characters or music. The music track is 'Nara' by alt-J

[99point9percentwhump]

Professionals CI5 S1E3 Old Dog with New Tricks

requested Cowley whump ;)

[miriam-heddy]

Bought a DVD/BluRay player and Network’s remastered blu rays of The Professionals. And guess what? They’re BRILLIANT!

I only ever saw copies of copies of VHS tapes and so had to take it on trust that Doyle’s eyes were green and Bodie’s blue!

Look, if ever anyone needed to be seen in all their bright, colourful beauty, it’s both these lads!

[99point9percentwhump]

Oh yes!!!!

starsky: [waking up on the couch]

hutch: i know what i’ll do! i’ll jauntily throw this package i’m carrying at his head for absolutely no reason!

[superjinkyo]

BistoCon 2024 Con Report

Banner art by Suzan Lovett

BistoCon is a slash convention for fans of 1977 British crime drama, the Professionals. Traditionally held every two years in Romulus, Michigan, Virtual BistoCon was created in 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Virtual BistoCon uses a mix of common community collaboration platforms to bring Pros fans from all over the world together for two glorious days of panel discussions, vid shows, games, and fun.

Here's a quick con report on what happened this year - August 9 and 10, 2024.

In the days leading up to BistoCon, the schedule, links, and bingo cards began to arrive in my inbox. It's go-time when those bingo cards show up!

The program is scheduled heavy for both days. This accommodates convention-goers in different time zones while offering hour-long chunks throughout the day where you can eat, nap, whatever.

Day 1: Welcome - Catching up with the early bird arrivals and remembering the people our fandom lost since we last gathered. Welcome sessions repeated later in the day.

Episode Watch/Episode Discussion - 4 sessions. Watch, squee, critique, repeat! You can find The Professionals on YouTube, on TubiTV in the US, Region B discs from Amazon, or, if we're moots, hit me up.

Panel topics: Reality in Fic and Nurturing Fandom

Day 2 started hella early for me, but the good thing was that I could attend in my PJs while I brewed my morning coffee!

Episode Watch/Episode Discussion - 4 sessions. On both days, some of the discussions were full on, hour-long, guided sessions while others were shorter blocks of discussion between scheduled events.

Panel topics: The Importance of Setting, Traits of a CI5 Agent,Fic Recs, Secondary Characters

Funtime: Bingo! Pictionary!

Vidshows: Two vidshows this year, featuring classics both old and new from the long vidding tradition of Pros fandom. Plus two brand new premiering vids from kat-byrd and JinkyO!

I usually come out of a con feeling energized and excited about being part of a community. My 2023 was devestating and I did no fan stuff. 2024, it was important for me to hit up the cons that feed my soul - BistoCon does that for me year after year.

Learn more about the next BistoCon at their website, socials, Discord, and mailing list: https://bistocon.org/wp/

[scotianostra]

The actress Rona Anderson was born August 3rd 1926 in Edinburgh.

Rona was born in Edinburgh, started acting at an early age, training at the Glover Turner Robertson School in her home town. From 1945 until 1949, she was a member of the Citizens' theatre, Glasgow. Her first film role was as one of the passengers in the spy thriller Sleeping Car to Trieste. Her second was opposite her future husband, Gordon Jackson in Floodtide, a romantic drama set and shot mainly on Clydeside.

Rona Anderson acted with her husband again in The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie and in a BBC2 version of Somerset Maugham’s Rain, with Carroll Baker as Sadie Thompson. A 1983 episode of the action series The Professionals, in which Jackson starred as the head of the unorthodox law enforcement agency CI5, featured Anderson as the mother of a stalking victim; her casting was kept secret from Jackson until the first day of shooting.

Anderson took fewer roles after her marriage to Jackson, to concentrate on bringing up their two sons. From time to time through her career, Anderson returned to the stage. At the 1960 Edinburgh festival, she appeared in the Scottish poet Sydney Goodsir Smith's epic historical play The Wallace; she was in the first stage production of Brian Clark's Whose Life Is It Anyway? at the Mermaid theatre, London, in 1978, in a cast headed by Tom Conti and Jane Asher; and in 1981, she played the mother of Diana, princess of Wales in the Ray Cooney comedy Her Royal HighnesS at the Palace theatre, London.

Rona passed away on July 23rd 2013 in London, she was 86.

[worldwhererosesbloom]

🐱😻

Find the three differences.

[sw33n3y2]

Title: 'Bodie and Doyle Gimme Your Love' Vidder: zzebeddy Relationship: M/M Characters: Bodie/Doyle Rating: Not rated

Summary: Ray and Bodie find their groove, together.

I found this music track to be an irresistible scaffold for a 7Os/Pros-y adventure, however it didn't lend itself to shortening, so it ended up being a little longer than the projects I usually take on.

Playback tip: For best viewing, be sure to choose the 1080p HD setting on the Youtube player. (Click the settings wheel, click 'quality')

For now, this is an 'unlisted' video, which means it can be viewed via my archive/journal/fan comm posts, but not through general internet or YT searches.

Disclaimer: I do not own the show, characters or music. The music track is 'Gimme Your Love' by Morcheeba.

[99point9percentwhump]

Professionals CI5 - fanart

[quordleona03]

8 shows for your mutuals to get to know you better

I was tagged by @marley--manson

Blake's 7 - I once described my relationship with Blake's 7 as like the one you might have with your first girlfriend. You came out together! You two were the first lesbians each of you had ever met; You share so many lesbian firsts together. You split up before you were even going to uni, you may not see each other very often now, but there's still that sweet, sweet, unforgettable first attachment. That was me for Blake's 7. The first show I ever wrote fanfic for. The first show for which I had a proper fannish obsession. The first show for which I ever spent three days weeping and writing obsessively after I was left in a state of misery and shock after the fourth season finale . I have a complete set of B7 DVDs sitting on the shelf above this computer. I haven't actually watched them but sometimes I offer them flowers.

2. Doctor Who. This was my very first convention - the Doctor Who 20th Anniversary Con at Longleat, Easter weekend 1983. My parents asked me what I'd like to do for Easter, and were more than a little startled when I told them, but they paid my train fare and my con membership and let me go and I had my very first experience of fandom standing in those queues. I have dipped into and out of Doctor Who since I first watched Tom Baker flaunt his ever so long scarf.

3. Star Trek: TOS - and the original four movies. I watched these without as much obsession, but - I read James Blish's novelisations, I still have a collection of the good Trek novels on my shelf, I once organised a group reading of the Price of the Phoenix at a slash con, I have written Spock/McCoy fanfic (it's the Mirror episode, mostly) and I have been to K/S cons. I quite like DS9 and ST:tng too - I've written fanfic for tng - but Star Trek before it needed a TOS label was the first fandom I got to share with friends in person, as opposed to friends I knew by post and fanzine and at cons.

4. Cagney & Lacey. I loved this show. So did my mum. This is the only fandom I ever shared with my mum, and we loved it the same way: two kick-ass women who were best friends and also the only two women cops in their precinct. I was not conscious enough of racial issues in the US at the time I was watching it to be conscious that the New York Cagney and Lacey moved in was very unexpectedly white at all times, but I'm afraid I would see it now. On the other hand, if anyone can point me at *good* recordings of the episodes I would love to watch them again - my mum had the complete set recorded on VHS tapes and, well, gone with the dinosaurs and my late mother's estate.

5. The Professionals. Such a British show. Written and aired well before the anti-drunk driving campaigns, Bodie and Doyle and Cowley drink to excess, show no signs of being drunk, and then drive fast cars and wave guns around after drinking to excess. I wrote Bodie/Cowley fanfic for it because at the time I discovered the fandom, it felt like every Bodie/Doyle story and then some had already been written (and were still being written) but also because I really adored the way Gordon Jackson and Lewis Collins interacted with each other. Cowley and Bodie were both ex-soldiers doing a secret-police job: Doyle was a former cop transferred to CI5: the best fanfiction written covered the brutality and the danger and the kind of personality that thrived on it. The political viewpoints expressed by Bodie, Cowley, and Doyle were so far from being mine that it felt reckless to write them, and I enjoyed that: but the background to the story - 1970s UK/London - was so close to my real life (1980s/1990s Scotland/SE England) that it felt sometimes impossibly easy to write.

6. House MD I had been vaguely aware that Hugh Laurie had moved to the US and was doing a show about a doctor in an American hospital and I was entirely uninterested - US doctor/hospital series (with ONE exception) had never appealed to me. And then I saw a poster, at the bus stop, on my way home. It is a rule that anything she see advertised on public transport is bad, but I looked at the unshaven and somehow agonised face of Hugh Laurie, whom I remembered well from quite other series, and I though: Okay, I'll give this a go, and I watched one episode - somewhere in the first season, I do not recall which one, oddly enough: and I was hooked. I never wrote much fanfic for it, but Greg House and his coterie of characters - Wilson, Cameron, Chase, Foreman, and Cuddy - and to a certain extent the later ducklings - were formidable ingredients for story telling. I own every season on DVD.

7. The West Wing. I have been a politics nerd for most of my life, and a friend who was aware of this tempted me into watching an early episode of TWW (it may even have been the pilot episode) by telling me it was a drama about politics - not so much about elections, but about the behind-the-scenes work that makes politics. I watched it from season one, and I own every season on DVD.

8. M*A*S*H I became obsessed with MASH in two phases - first one about twenty years ago, which sparked a period of about five years writing fanfic: and again, I'm not sure why, in lockdown - suddenly the characters walked back into my mind and I started writing MASH fanfic again. Who to tag, who to tag: @jaelijn @topshelf2112-blog @cplredberet @blistersonmefingehs @bbjkrss-blog (but don't feel obliged unless you want to)

[residentofthedisc]

Playing Tears of the Kingdom has brought back a lot of what fuelled my brain when Breath of the Wild came out and one of those things is a Professionals AU and now I’m like Fuck, I have the write the Breath of the Wild origin story for these two before I write the adventure of Tears of the Kingdom where Bodie and Doyle are almost an old married couple.

It’s maddening.

I’m thinking BOTW’s Doyle is a self-made researcher who goes off into the wilderness in search of the second half of a puzzle he found near his home of Riverside Stable when he runs into Bodie, an adventurer for hire with a dark secret.

TOTK Bodie and Doyle work for CI5, a special unit within Zelda’s new research task force which is sent into the more dangerous territories as these researchers are trained in combat. When the Upheaval happens and Link and Zelda go missing, Bodie and Doyle are sent into the Depths to try and solve the mystery.

[avatarskywalker78]

I'm a little late to the game, but I'm taking part in the qooc oc challenge and today's is 'make something for an oc you've neglected lately', so here is a moodboard for Marie Douglas, my OC for The Professionals who I haven't written for in around 3 years (and who's WIP is still very much in progress). An ex-spook who worked for MI5 for nine years, in 1979 she was recruited by George Cowley to join CI5. She initially comes off as quiet and reserved, but in reality she highly alert at all times, willing to put in the hard work, and able to use people's assumptions about her to her advantage. She's built up a number of contacts over the years, but only some she would truly call friends - and though they intially get off to a rocky start, Bodie and Doyle are soon counted among their number along with a few other agents. For Marie, nothing is more important than friendship, and she will always step in to protect them.

Let me know if you want to be added to the taglist!

[99point9percentsurewhump]

The Professionals CI5 - S4E5 Need to Know

[99point9percentwhump]

OMMGGGG

[mynightingalecomplex]

“And if I had fired through the door and missed, who was standing in the window!?”

Man, that quaver in his voice tugged my heart strings for sure @99point9percentwhump (look what you’ve done to me this time)

The Professionals 1x04 The Man with the Long Arm

Full video on Youtube as of August 2022