Directed by veteran Charles Crichton who would be Oscar nominated for A Fish Called Wanda.

I did find the politics all over the place for this one. I mean a left wing evangelist who is hot in the USA!

Annie Irvine is a Christian evangelist with left wing links and big in the USA.

She has had a failed assassination attempt in the past. When she returns to Britain for an event, Cowley increases security while a fascist group organise a protest against her.

Bodie and Doyle find out that Annie is an old flame of Cowley. When Cowley visits her with some opera tickets he seems to be put out that Annie is close to one of her entourage who just happens to be a black man.

As Cowley talks to one of the fascist organisers, it seem the danger to Annie is from within her circle.

Some of the episode was overambitious and really did not work. Archive footage of right wing marches mixed with this episode just did not look right. When Annie is running away from the bad guys she comes across no police or demonstrators who are all supposed to be nearby.

Also CI5 needs to look into its security detail. All the bad guys and their shooters were in the building all along.

That was the end of the first series of The Professionals. There was a 13th episode that was never broadcast because it had such a clunky anti racism message. It revealed Bodie to be a racist which Lewis Collins was unhappy about. Lewis Collins did a marathon charity run with mixed race former world boxing champion John Conteh in 1980 with both of them carrying an army backpack.

What made the show a hit was the chemistry between Shaw and Collins, simply effortless. Ironic as it seems that the two actors may not had got on well with each other. Shaw had a desire to be a serious thespian while Collins wanted to be the next James Bond.