Blimey - RIP Lewis Collins

[tpbury]

I absolutely loved the Professionals when I was a kid and Who Dares Wins was quality. 67, after 5 years of cancer apparently. Da da da da DaDaDaDa!

[Hatch]

still watch it now on ITV4..

 

Was only looking at the box set in HMV yesterday by coincidence.

 

RIP

[Dimond Geezer]

Blimey indeed. Loved the professionals.

RIP William Bodie.

[Spudders]

No doubt Bearsy will be along later to collect some new infraction points

[CHAPEL END CHARLIE]

Sad news, I liked him.

 

His career is a object lesson in the dangers of 'type casting' I suppose - I sometimes wonder how his 'The Professionals' co star Martin Shaw managed to avoid the same fate ... a more versatile actor perhaps. Time takes its inevitable toll on all flesh of course, but I shall still think of them both as young men because TV offers a kind of tenuous immortality the real real can never allow.

 

Speaking of which, I understand both Bodie and Doyle's infamous 3.0 Capri's have been restored back to rude health - if only cancer could be as easily cured as rust is ...