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Albert Fennell (* 29. März 1920 in London - Chiswick, Vereinigtes Königreich; † 17. April 1988 in Maulden, Bedfordshire) war ein britischer Filmproduzent, Fernsehproduzent und in jungen Jahren auch kurzzeitig ein Drehbuchautor. Leben und Wirken.
Albert Fennell (29 March 1920, in Chiswick – 17 April 1988) was a British film and television producer. Fennell's film career began as a production designer and writer. His work as a film producer included Next to No Time, (1958), Peeping Tom (1960), The Innocents (1961) and This Sporting Life (1963).
Albert Fennell was born on 29 March 1920 in Chiswick, London, England, UK. He was a producer and production manager, known for The Avengers (1961), The Innocents (1961) and Norman Conquest (1953). He died on 17 April 1988 in Maulden, Bedfordshire, England, UK.
- Producer, Production Manager, Additional Crew
- March 29, 1920
- Albert Fennell
- April 17, 1988
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CI5, or Criminal Intelligence 5, is a British law enforcement department, instructed by the Home Secretary to use any means to deal with crimes of a serious nature that go beyond the capacity of the police, but which are not tasks for the Security Serviceor the military. The choice of CI5's name is inspired by CID and MI5. The premise allowed the p...
Cowley
Major George Cowley (Gordon Jackson) (born c. 1917) – Nicknamed "Morris" after the car of the same name. His operatives sometimes call him "The Cow", though not to his face. Founder and head of CI5, making him Bodie and Doyle's boss. As a young man he volunteered in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side, where he was shot in the leg; this left him with a painful limp. Cowley served as an officer in the British Army, where he attained the rank of major. He then worked in the secret serv...
Doyle
Raymond Doyle (Martin Shaw) (born c. 1949), a former police detective constable, who originated in Derby but later lived in an unspecified "city" with parallels to Birmingham. He was working the seedier parts of east London when recruited into CI5. He took art classes, and appears to be musically inclined as well. An expert shot with a pistol, he also ran a karate class for the children on his beat. He was recruited by Cowley, and was made Bodie's partner shortly afterwards. Doyle is extremel...
Bodie
William Andrew Philip Bodie (Lewis Collins) (born c. 1950) was a former paratrooper and Special Air Service (SAS) soldier. After leaving school aged 14, he joined the Merchant Navy and eventually ended up in Africaas a mercenary fighting bush wars. Noticed by Cowley during his SAS career, he was asked to join CI5 in 1975. Keen on parties, and a ladies' man, Bodie had a witty comment ready for almost every occasion. He was more immediately approachable than Doyle, and was generally relaxed and...
The best-known car used by CI5 was the Ford Capri 3.0 S (primarily the Mark III model and one Mk II). Two were used: Bodie drove a silver version (1978–1981 episodes), Doyle a gold (1980–81 episodes), in the first season a silver Mk II with a black vinyl roof and a Series X bodykit was also briefly used, the first two cars mentioned still exist and...
Bodie and Doyle originally carried 9 mm L9A1 Browning pistols as their standard service sidearms for the first two series. They were issued .44 Magnum Smith & Wesson Model 29 revolvers when on bodyguard duties (as seen in the episode "Mixed Doubles"). In later series Bodie carried a .357 Magnum Smith & Wesson Model 19 snub-nose revolver and Doyle o...
The opening credits for the first series (broadcast 1977–78) starts with a Rolls-Roycespeeding onto and through an industrial estate before skidding to a stop. As the Rolls-Royce enters and goes through the industrial estate, the title "The Professionals" appears on screen. Cowley, Bodie and Doyle get out of the vehicle and Bodie and Doyle then go ...
Although depictions of actual bloodshed were scarce, the series was often criticised for its level of violence, with shootings, martial arts and asphyxiation a common means of assassination.[citation needed] To help maximise the on-screen action, Martin Shaw and Lewis Collins were taught stunt driving skills and encouraged to propel their respectiv...
After the series ended, ITV produced Dempsey and Makepeace as its replacement, while Raymond Menmuir produced Special Squad for Australia's Network Ten in the mid-1980s, following The Professionals' format. A revival series, CI5: The New Professionals was produced for Sky in the late 1990s and starred Edward Woodward, but it was not a success. The ...
CI5: The New Professionals was a crime drama that aired on the Sky 1 satellite channel from 19 September to 19 December 1999. An updating of the original show, the series is set in a fictional government agency CI5 (Civilian Intelligence department 5 as opposed to MI5, Military Intelligence). The original group of three men (Doyle, Bodie and their ...
In the popular TV comedy series The Two Ronnies, Ronnie Corbett played a bungling version of Martin Shaw's Doyle in a sketch called Tinker Tailor Smiley Doyle (Series 11; broadcast February 1985 – March 1985). This was a joint send-up of The Professionals and the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy TV drama, with Ronnie Barker playing George Smiley along the...
Germany
Since it was first broadcast in West Germany in 1981, the show (Die Profis) has become a cult there. During its broadcast run, the public television service ZDF, due to concerns over politics and violence, did not air all episodes of the programme, so The Professionalsbecame one of the first TV shows ever to be released on VHS in Germany in the 1980s. However, only the unaired episodes were released on tape. In all, 14 episodes were withdrawn from broadcast.
Czechoslovakia
The Professionals was one of a few series from the West broadcast in communist Czechoslovakia in the 1980s. It gained a cult following there very quickly. Originally, only a selection of 21 of the 57 episodes was bought, including Klansmen. The first dubbed episode "When the Heat Cools Off" was spoken by Petr Oliva (Bodie), Martin Štěpánek (Doyle) and Jiří Adamíra (Cowley). Štěpánek soon emigrated so the remainder were dubbed by Alois Švehlík. The whole series was broadcast after 1994 on TV N...
Spain
In Spain, the series The Professionals was broadcast for La 2 of Televisión Españolafrom March 1978.
Vorgeschichte. Die Fernsehserie wurde nach einer Idee von Brian Clemens durch die Produktionsgesellschaft Mark One Productions hergestellt. Diese Firma, die zu gleichen Teilen Albert Fennell, Brian Clemens und dem Komponisten der Serie, Laurie Johnson, gehörte, produzierte seit 1964 auch schon die englische Serie Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone mit Patrick Macnee.
Escapade. The New Avengers is a secret agent action television series produced during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by original series producers Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens . The series was produced by The Avengers (Film and TV) Enterprises Ltd for the ITV network, cost £ ...
Albert Fennell, Brian Clemens, Julian Wintle: Featured music: Laurie Johnson: Original air dates: 20 March 1968 () (ABC, US) 25 September 1968 (Thames, UK) Guest appearances; Patrick Kavanagh; Jeremy Burnham; Jeremy Young; Episode chronology
