Yes, I know he's had a lot more acting work than Lewis Collins, but Bodie's the man, the 'actor' to take seriously in The Professionals. Shaw's acting is wooden and quite bad - though a lot of people may say that about Collins, I think he played it naturally actually and believable. Shaw has me in stitches at how bad he is and I can only believe 'the birds' fancied 'Bodie' more that they could fancy a permed hair agent.
shareYeah, out of the three of them, Shaw is the worst actor,LC is good, Gordon Jackson is awesome
Also I've noticed MS wears some very dodgy high heeled boots in loads of eps
"Kitten Juggling!"
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There's an episode in the TV series Judge John Deed where a prisoner, after being sentenced by Deed, leaps over the bench and threatens the judge, and Deed floors him with a solid right hook. I couldn't help thinking that, in that brief moment, Martin was VERY convincing as Ray Doyle! Despite being irked by the "tough guy image" that was required of him in The Professionals, it certainly looked like he enjoyed that moment. Bet he had a good laugh about it with the cast and crew on the set!
shareBeing a mature woman now and being a teenager when the Profs aired I say - still today my eye is caught by a dark haired, dark eyed man with intelligent attitude BUT give me a cerebral, educated man who is not gorgeous but not ugly I have to say I would have gravitated to Martin Shaw. Shall we say in my day Noel -v- Damon? I would still be sleeping with Damon today :))
shareShaw has worked hard to shake off his Doyle image and he has largely succeeded.
Its that man again!!
Martin Shaw 'not ugly but not gorgeous' I beg to differ I'm 24 and a recent convert to The Professionals, curly hair or not Shaw is exquisitely gorgeous, utterly magnetic on screen. Even in his 60s he still has something special and I think the actor's obvious intelligence still came across despite the largely macho elements of the professionals. Shaw oozed sex appeal, still does and although his co-star was conventionally attractive, while watching the profs from my point of view it's difficult to tear my eyes away from Doyle.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail-R.W Emerson
whilst I'm not gay in any way... just had to say that of course... I never understand the ladies, something us blokes have always said!!! Take Russell Brand!!!
Used to catch this show on CBC Windsor Channel 9 in the Detroit area back in the day--it only came on once a week on Friday nights,for some reason--back in the late '80's. When I started working afternoons, I had to work on a Friday afternoon once, so I asked my little brother to tape it for me (I couldn't tape it most of the time my brother & stepdad were Miami Vice nuts,like me, so they promptly hogged the TV around 9 p.m. on the dot every Friday night.) My brother said some kind of game was on instead of THE PROFESSIONALS,so it never came on that night, which kind of sucked.
Anyway, I always liked both Bodie & Doyle, but,honestly, Bodie came across as an arrogant a**hole sometimes, and I really hated him after that episode about the white supremacists, where he cursed out the black doctor and called him names. ( I have to admit,that episode was quite an eye-opener for me, at the time,because I had no idea such groups existed in Britain.) There was also another episode in which Doyle,Bodie and a couple of other people were trapped somewhere (can't remember how the rest of this episode went.) A women in the group went off on Bodie,claiming that it was his macho attitude that got them in that situation in the first place, and he got pissed off, hauled off and slapped her. I wish she had smacked the hell out of him right back, because that was really uncalled for. Anyway, I liked Doyle because he not only had a unique look, plus he didn't seem to think he was all that and a bag of chips. And I liked that nice,thick curly head of his,too! Anybody,Bodie may have been the tough-as-nails good-looking one, but Doyle was probably the intense,cooler one of the two. I always wondered if Martin Shaw was biracial, too, because,to me, he didn't look look the typical white Brit actor types usually cast in tough guy roles---but that's what made him stand out in the first place. And,yeah, the program was sexist as heck, too, but that's how it was written (by two guys,of course.) There's an interview somewhere on YouTube with Brian Clemens and Laurie Johnson (who did the great theme funky song for the show,I believe.) Check that out--it's worth it.
Theres quite a few times where Shaw overacts and you can actually see Collins smirking when he's doing it. I still think they were a great double act though and Collins always looked like he loved every minute of playing Bodie. Such a shame that he didn't get the James Bond role for a few films in the mid 80's after Moore. Would have made a great Bond but we got that prat Dalton instead. Just watch Collins in Who Dares Wins and I think he's great in that movie.
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