Posted on 04/29/2017 9:50:07 AM PDT by mairdie
The Professionals was a British spy show that ran from 1977 to 1983, and was made by the people who did Avengers. Bodie was former Special Forces and Doyle former police. Put to 3 Doors Down's "It's Not My Time."
I never saw The Professionals.
My first real contact with TheAvengers was when CBS would run the The New Avengers late on Friday nights. I think they did that for a year. I did a high school play the year it was on and when the props department handed me a bowler to go with my suit, I thought I was John Steed!
“Who?” the other kids would say.
I vaguely remember the original Avengers as a tot/wee lad. When they re-ran the Emma Peel shows on cable in the late-80’s, I was like “…oh, yeah! I remember that!”
Nowadays, folks think you’re talking about the Marvel comic and movie series. And I’m having a devil of a time finding anything of the original show _except_ the Emma Peel-era episodes on Region 1.
But The Professionals sounds pretty cool!
If you can find it, the the Sandbaggers was an interesting series. I really got hooked on it.
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I loved the old Avengers but couldn’t get into the new one. Emma Peel was just it for me.
I was put down in front of a TV and people played Professionals for me until I was completely hooked. One of the lovely things about fandom is that everyone tries to get everyone else enthused about their current fixations.
Music videos are often a great way to find out if a series will interest you. You might not follow the subtlety behind the scenes illustrating the lyrics, but the characters and the camera work just pop. And music videos also slice through individuals to show off their characteristics, so - unless they’re purposely turning the people on their heads - they can tell you if you’re going to like certain individuals.
The official video for the 3 Doors Down song seems superior to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpfhcljJ9bQ
But I like parkour/free running.
Sandbaggers is a first rate series.
I did, too. But it got too depressing for me, eventually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unpk5X2HuJw
On the other hand, it was popcorn to Callan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGF5BS937yU
Edward Woodward played a role that looked like the precurser to The Equalizer. He was an alcoholic assassin who becomes spymaster himself and is given a red file to kill his best friend. Ah, British TV shows. Often depressing but also addictive.
“The Professionals” Great series.
The goal isn’t to show off the song, but to interpret a TV show in the context of the poetry of the lyrics. TV show first, song second.
It’s a shame to think only Martin Shaw (of The Professionals) is around now that Lewis Collins has passed away.
Good show, I loved it as a kid. Cowley was played by Gordon Jackson, Mr Hudson the butler from upstairs downstairs.
Thanks for that link. I really like 3 Doors Down and that parkour was ridiculous. Wow.
Think "Starsky & Hutch" in a miserable climate and funny accents. (j/k)
Sure doesn’t look anything like Steed and Mrs. Peel...and the song doesn’t do anything for me.
That wasn’t avengers, it was sandbaggers. Very static show that is horrible to make videos for because the people just don’t move and there’s not any art to the camera work. It’s more an example of the show, not of video making. The song shows the spymaster who has his true love killed because the Americans don’t want information she has to get to the Russians. Just slices the show. I can’t even make myself remake the other Sandbaggers song.
Thanks, Berlin. Watched them both. Typically well made music videos. I’ve always thought of that art form as fine arts turned kinetic.
I was a physics/art history major but really got off on poetry, and that’s what I’m doing in my literary song videos. It’s taking the lyrics of a song and trying to force an interpretation in a specific context. I’ve had them written up in two chapters of books, and gave a talk on them at the MIT Media Lab.
My videos are about the TV shows first and the lyrics second. The music only forces an emotional context.
And those links were both to great songs.
I’ve actually spent the last 17 years supporting academic poetry researchers at Vassar and Auckland in NZ. I love retirement. Transcribed the bodies of work of Henry Livingston and Clement Moore into phonemes, which lets you analyze the movement of the tongue in the mouth when reciting poetry aloud. Purpose was to identify the actual author of Night Before Christmas by unconscious characteristics. Livingston won.
The Limey’s have a whole different take on entertainment.
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