Discovered In 1977

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Thirty years ago, on Monday 13th June, a small production company called Mark One brought together some actors, some cameramen, a director and various other bods, to begin filming a new action series for British television. Three days later they did the best thing they could have done - they stopped filming. Why? Unbelievable as it may sound, there was no chemistry between Bodie and Doyle! But when everything started up again, Martin Shaw and now Lewis Collins were the stars of the show, and Gordon Jackson as the head of CI5, and it turned out that something pretty special had been discovered in 1977…

From now until 30th December 2007 - exactly 30 years since The Professionals were first seen on the tv screens of thousands of British viewers - discoveredinalj will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of our gorgeous Pros.

Each month will feature a challenge based on the year 1977 in some way, shape or form, and from the 13th to the 20th the comm will be open for people to post their stories, art, and other creations in answer to that month’s challenge.

To get you in the mood, try these links to websites describing various aspects of Britain in the year 1977 - and then keep your eyes open for the very first challenge of Discovered In 1977.

I love 1977

1977 according to Wiki

BBC - On This Day

The weather in 1977

Summary of some of the important things in life (Well, maybe Doyle’s?)

…and the next season…

England vs Scotland, Wembley 1977

Liverpool FC in the European Cup"> Keeping Bodie happy? (Does he really care?)

The cricket…

…and the scandal that is cricket…

Playboy 1977 (just for the articles *g*)

Films in the cinema in 1977

What was happening in Corrie…

Vrillon of the Ashtar Galactic Command Incident takes over the airways

What the kids were into

Miss Universe

The UK entry for the 1977 Eurovision Song Contest (Go on, you know you want to click on this one)

The news as we saw it then - liberation of Somalia

World in Action reports on the death of Steve Biko

What the lads probably weren’t watching (well, unless one of them was stuck at home on the couch…)

Comments

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Oh how brilliant - and swiss rolls, no less! I'm really jealous that you've seen MS on stage too, I'm really hoping he'll do something else while I'm here, although it's not quite the same as having seen him when he was younger and more Doyle-like... *sighs*...

Your mini-conventions sound fabulous - but you've not shared your Pros slash with anyone else? Are you sure you wouldn't like to..? *g*

Sorry for the massively late response, btw, I'm not always this bad, I promise...