Other mistake: Despite breaking his arm, Doyle still seems able to use his broken arm to punch one of the villains.
Other mistake: When Bodie, Julie and Myer reach the vicarage, an editing blunder seems to show the door opening twice.
The Professionals (1977)
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Starring: Gordon Jackson, Lewis Collins, Martin Shaw
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Private Madness, Public Danger - S1-E1
Trivia: This, the first ever episode of the series, was first broadcast on ITV on December 30th 1977. It was repeated on ITV in 1979. Some time after this, a cut was made, which has endured on all subsequent UK TV transmissions: Just prior to the title sequence, we see Nesbitt hand Susan some drugs. In the original broadcast we then see Susan tightening her belt around her arm. Using Nesbitt's cigarette lighter to sterilise a needle, she then "shoots up" (injects the drugs in her arm). The excision may have come about because of a tightening up of censorship rules by the Independent Broadcasting Authority about the explicit use of illegal drugs on TV. However, the missing segment has been restored for the 2002 DVD release.
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Answer: It's similar, but not the same, particularly the neck and sleeves are quite different.
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