CI5: The New Professionals

S01E03: Tusk Force

A South African minister approaches CI5 seeking help in stopping the increasing activities of ivory poachers. Malone sends Curtis and Keel to investigate and pose as potential buyers of ivory, so as to link up with an ivory smuggler. When the African minister's documents are stolen and a plane that Curtis and Keel are traveling in crashes the agents realize that their cover has been blown.

Overview

In this 1998 re-imagining of the original The Professionals TV show, CI5 now has an international remit, being jointly funded by the governments of the UK, U.S.A., Japan, Germany and France, and called upon to deal with terrorism and espionage on an international scale. An all-new cast features the original dynamic of two gung ho field agents (these a former U.S. Navy Seal and a British secret service man) and a cantankerous boss, but adds the dynamic of a female agent, a computer and martial arts expert who came to CI5 by way of the Canadian Secret Service. Expectations were high, but the new show failed to capture the imagination of viewers and only one season was made.

Episodes

S01E01 Back to Business

September 19, 1999
meeting of international politicians is to take place in England to discuss the problems of disused nuclear weapons falling into terrorist hands. On a mission in Bulgaria, a CI5 agent sees a dummy run by...

S01E02 Phoenix

September 26, 1999
A professional hitman, the Phoenix, who had been believed to be eliminated in 1981, in an operation, which Malone was present at, appears to have returned from the dead to seek revenge on the men...

S01E03 Tusk Force

October 3, 1999
A South African minister approaches CI5 seeking help in stopping the increasing activities of ivory poachers. Malone sends Curtis and Keel to investigate and pose as potential buyers of ivory, so as to link up...

S01E04 Hostage

October 10, 1999
An Albanian minister, Eliz Risha, is held hostage at an English television station along with the crew and production staff. CI5 are called in to deal with the terrorists, whose leader Panvos accuses Risha of...

S01E05 First Strike

October 17, 1999
CI5 are assigned to locate the plutonium that was aboard a cargo plane that has crashed in the Louisiana swamplands. They have to prevent a potential catastrophe by ensuring that the original consignee, a paramilitary...

S01E06 Samurai Wind

October 24, 1999
Curtis and Keel go to an island in the South Pacific to stop a deranged security expert who plans to release nerve gas into Tokyo unless the Japanese government meet his demands.

S01E07 Skorpion

November 7, 1999
A Russian gang known as 'Skorpion' kidnaps a brilliant computer scientist and his daughter in an attempt to force him to help them gain control of NATO's computers.

S01E08 Choice Cuts

November 14, 1999
Keel and Malone go undercover to catch the villain behind a sinister organ stealing operation.

S01E09 Miss Hit

November 21, 1999
Curtis and Keel babysit an informant due to testify against the mafia.

S01E10 Orbit

November 28, 1999
Curtis and Keel are called in to investigate reports of a U.F.O. after a scientist is attacked by a strange light from space. Backus goes undercover as a journalist.

S01E11 High Speed

December 5, 1999
Curtis and Keel go undercover as racing car drivers in an operation to bring a Bosnian war criminal to justice.

S01E12 Souvenir

December 12, 1999
Curtis agrees to meet his former MI6 controller, who is found nearly dead at a railway station, having been beaten and tortured by a group of Nazis who plan to clone Adolf Hitler.

S01E13 Glory Days

December 19, 1999
CI5 uncover a plot by the Russian mafia to assassinate the U.S. President at a peace conference

Cast

Edward Woodward
Edward Woodward
Harry Malone
Lexa Doig
Lexa Doig
Tina Backus
Colin Wells
Sam Curtis
Kal Weber
Kal Weber
Chris Keel
Adrian Irvine
Adrian Irvine
Spencer

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