As of July 2026, The Professionals Season 2 aired in 1978 with 10 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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The Professionals Season 2

1978 10 Episodes Action & Adventure · Crime ⭐ 8/10

If you want a crime drama that treats its mystery as more than a puzzle, The Professionals Season 2 is available on streaming right now. Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. 47 viewers have already rated it on TMDB — the kind of consensus that does not happen by accident. Watch Lewis Collins work — the performance is a masterclass in restraint. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

The Professionals Season 2 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. The plotting gives The Professionals Season 2 its backbone, but it is the characters you come back for. In series two, Doyle is assigned to test a new laser-beam rifle, Bodie's girlfriend is critically injured in a terrorist bombing, and the team go up against a rogue agent. Lewis Collins and Martin Shaw lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1978. What distinguishes the best crime dramas from the rest is whether the character work can carry scenes where the mystery takes a breath — The Professionals Season 2 passes that test consistently. It rarely drops the ball, and when it does, it recovers fast.

If you cannot walk away from a good mystery, The Professionals Season 2 will keep you hooked. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. Lewis Collins carries scenes that would sink a lesser production. The resolution feels inevitable rather than arbitrary, which is rarer than it sounds.

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🎬 The Professionals Season 2 — Episode Guide

Cowley assigns Doyle to test a brand new high-tech laser beam rifle. But the rifle is stolen from his flat and the thief decides to 'test' it on Doyle, sending him on a cat-and-mouse chase around London.

A suspect being held under CI5's supervision is found dead in his cell - apparently after a fatal blow administered by Doyle. A public inquiry ensues and an influential lawyer calls for CI5 to be shut down. It's left to Cowley in fighting to save the organisation he founded.

CI5 are left to dig deep when an Israeli Minister is kidnapped, and the only clues to his whereabouts are a shadowy photograph and a coded tape message.

Man Without a Past

Bodie is out at a restaurant with his girlfriend when a bomb goes off at their table, leaving her critically injured and several other diners dead. It's left to Bodie to find out who targeted him and why - until he realises he wasn't the target after all.

In the Public Interest

A virtual police state has been imposed by a local Chief Constable, resulting in a supposedly almost crime-free city. But that is because all the crime is taking place behind the scenes by the police officers themselves - who will think of nothing of imposing on suspects' rights in their pursuit of ...

A trial witness is murdered by a member of CI5, who then goes on and attempts to kill Cowley - his own boss. Bodie and Doyle find themselves battling against a man who is as well-trained as they are.

Not a Very Civil Civil Servant

CI5 manage to undercover a series of financial blunders between a group of builders and council officials after a site of newly-built houses on a council estate are found to be crumbling.

A Stirring of Dust

A British traitor returns to his homeland and must be found before his former colleagues, seeking vengeance for his past betrayals, go in search of his whereabouts.

Bodie and Doyle are assigned to protect a foreign official who is on a secret visit to Britain. But already possible enemy assassins appear to know his - and CI5's - every next move.

Bodie is re-acquainted with a former girlfriend when she shows up in London, and during a secret meeting with her finds himself framed for an assassination and then ultimately on the run from his own colleagues at CI5.

🎭 Cast of The Professionals Season 2

Lewis Collins

Martin Shaw

Gordon Jackson

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