~ !!! HAPPY 30TH ANNIVERSARY !!! ~

[crimson-37.livejournal.com]

Oh, did you visit here today to see what goodies are in store? I bet that’s not the only reason and I think I might know why.

We have all visited here today because we all have one main factor in common.
WE LOVE THESE GUYS


My prompt was 'left overs'. [And yes, I am going to stretch that prompt to breaking point.] What do I have left over from all of this?
Memories. Many happy memories. 30 glorious years of happy Pros Memories.
My memories from when I was young were the warm snuggled into the armchair, or sitting all excited on the edge of my seat. The memories as a teenager were a little sexier, and for me, Bodie took the limelight and figured in many a daydream. As an adult, I saw what I hadn't noticed through innocent eyes. That was the underlying love and lust present, the humour, innuendo and so much more, and now, well, now I have found the same thing you have all found too.
Fandom.
The Professionals Fandom.

So why do we love them? Is it those tense scenes? Is it the gun fights? The racing around in Capris, and car chases? The banter? The relationships in the show? The plots? All right, maybe not the plots. On the other hand, maybe you absolutely love the idea that there are plot-holes you can drive a double-decker bus through?
So, is it the fact that the two main agents are incredibly gorgeous and wear those leather holsters that grip their strong and well-defined shoulders just so? Is it because Doyle in a pair of tight faded blue denim jeans makes your heart beat faster? Is it because when Bodie smiles, you smile too. Does Murphy's voice make you weak at the knees? When Cowley gets all masterful, do you find your temperature rising? Or is it simply that when you watch Bodie and Doyle, you can see they are so much more than just 'partners'? There are so many reasons that have brought us here. So let's remember them!

30 years ago today, at 9:00pm on Friday the 30th December 1977 'The Professionals' aired for the first time. It was the start of something wonderful!
Today is their 30th Anniversary, and I feel very honoured to be your host for the day, but to be honest I'm not one for the limelight. I would rather sink into the fixtures and fittings.
Therefore, I am leaving this bit to you. We are all a part of those 30 years in one way or another. So, what has the last 30 years of Pros brought to you, meant to you? What makes it so special, for you? Share it with us, we'd love to know.
Let us celebrate and share in those thirty years of The Professionals.
In addition, if the mood takes you and you want to write, draw, paint, vid, make icons or add any tribute of any kind, go ahead. I openly encourage it. *g* Just one thing -- Please post to the comments only, or I'll be for the chop.

I'll be back with those goodies you were looking for soon, for now I will leave you to talk amongst yourselves for a bit.
Enjoy!

Comments

[londonronnie.livejournal.com]

Help!

I'm not getting the piccie!

[crimson-37.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that, honey. 'Tis fixed!

[londonronnie.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thank you! It's luvverly!

So - what does 30 years of Pros mean to me? Well, to be honest, 30 years ago I only watched the show very occasionally. Being quite newly-married and money being a bit tight, Friday night was our one night out of the week which meant, of course, that I wasn't very often around to watch it (video recorders being a thing of the future for folks like us at that time!). And I suppose that having missed most of the first series I just didn't bother picking up the later shows.

Asking me what does the last 5 years of Pros mean to me is a different matter though! A wealth of gorgeous fic, many hours of dvd-watching (and isn't it strange how you can never get fed up with watching the lads!), and some of the best friends I've ever had. If nothing else I'll always be grateful to the lads for bringing me close to so many lovely people. They have literally changed my life for me and made the world a much happier and interesting place!

I can't imagine my life without the lads and my fellow Pros fans now.

PROS RULE OK!!!

[minori-k.livejournal.com]

OMG...My eye sights are bit blurred...Sweat got into my eyes?? lol I'm very moved by your post!

Yes, The Professionals...it is incredibly wonderful TV show. I'm soooo glad that I encountered this one last year and got into it! It's a wonderful fandam, isn't it? I can't find right words to show my feelings! I just LOVE those cool men!

30 years ago. I was just 2 months old at Dec 30th 1977! lol

Thank you for lovely pic of those three!

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

What a great wallpaper! Just beautiful. Thanks so much.

And your wonderful comments were so loving about the show and the lads. I do love Pros.

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

Love the pic!

I think my first experience of watching Pros was soon after I arrived in Australia. I was staying in a cheap hotel in Kings Cross which had a TV lounge. The night manager was a Brit from Chelsea. Can't remember the episodes from that period, but I definitely remember seeing Takeaway and Involvement at some point. And a social worker in the community health centre I was working at in the early 90's was a B/D fan - I was slightly bemused by the idea at the time *g*. I'd love to know what became of her - her partner was in the army, so she left after only a few months when he was posted to Darwin (I think).

I must have been a Doyle fan from the beginning, because my next memory is seeing Martin Shaw in The Scarlet Pimpernel and jumping up and down with glee because I remembered him in Pros. I only started to read Pros slash on-line in 2004, after going through Buffy fandom and getting a bit bored with it, because a lot of the energy seemed to have gone out of the fanfic after season 4. Pros simply swept me away. It's the only fandom I've ever felt able to to write for and the only one that has stayed in the forefront of my thoughts since.

Much love to all the wonderful Pros fans across the world.

[andreathelion.livejournal.com]

Aww, I love what you said and the pic is gorgeous!

30 years ago I even didn't knew about the lads, but I remember seeing them the first time, it was one week before my b-day in 1981 (so some years later than in the UK) and I was hooked from the first moment.

I think, they started here with the later eps, because I loved them for their smashing looks and because they were working on London's streets.
So every wednesday evening was spent with the lads and nobody was allowed to disturb me, lol.

After that, I never forgot about them, but my priorities changed and life went on until early 2006 and since then, well, I'm sure you'll guess the rest! They rolled up my life and now I'm more than totally addicted ;)

And not to forget, I met so many lovely people, 'just' because of Pros, so YAY and Happy Anniversary!! :D

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

I think I'm a bit like you and don't like the limelight *too* much, so I'll try and keep this short and say thanks very much for doing this and what a great idea!

And memories of Pros and why they're so special to me? Gosh, so long ago.......apart from *them* being *them* and their uniqueness, sexiness, chemistry, sparks etc. which I've never been able to find on TV again......apart from that, I love the way Pros is centred so much on London and the (almost) innocence of that time: double decker buses, Wimpy bars, the odd bomb site or two, hospitals where nurses still made the beds, flared trousers, I could go on.....and I love the freedom and humour of their political incorrectness, something I really miss.

Thanks for allowing me the pleasure of a little self-indulgence!

[empty-mirrors.livejournal.com]

I watched them the first time around. I adored them the first time around - in much the same way as you. First with excitement and then with ... hmmm, another sort of excitement :P I had an annual. I was half in lust with Bodie and half wanted to be him. It took longer for Doyle to grow on me, but he did and then it was equal love all the way down the line. It was this show that made me long to join the police - though that plan was scuppered thanks to being three inches too short to qualify. But even so, I can categorically state that these lads have been an inspiration - in sooo many ways - all my life. Thirty years. Who'da thunk it.

Thank you to everyone involved in the show. And to you for such a great post.

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Gosh, what has 30 years of Pros meant to me? Oh, everything. *g* It's the heart of my creative work, it's the center of my social life, it's my haven in times of stress (when it's not the cause *g*). It's the reason I go to England as often as I do. *g*

I first saw an episode in 1995. I fell for it without knowing I'd fallen for it. *g* A kind person gave me about 12 episodes (copies of copies of copies) and that's when I knew I was in trouble. I was never a Doyle fan or a Bodie fan--I was a Bodie/Doyle fan. Their relationship, with all it's layers and difficulties and joys, speaks to something deep within me. I reckon if they can make it, if they can be together, then there's hope in the world.

So, happy 30th Anniversary! Let's celebrate!

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

30 years eh? I know I watched the first ever episode way back when ( I was 12 when it first aired. I kept a scrapbook, which I *wish* I still had:)) I must have watched it fairly regularly because when I got the DVDs about two years ago, I realised I had pretty good recall of the episodes.

Of course, the slash then went WAY over my head, though there was some inarticulated attraction, even then, to the whole male-bonding thing ( Starsky and Hutch obsession, war films, the Professionals, football even.*g*).

Fast forward to 2006 and there I am, squealing with pleasure as the first rinky-dinky police car rounds a corner in pursuit of the Turkel brothers in episode 1. Found the fandom side of things through fic recs from izzie7. And boy did that gal know what she was doing - Chances by Angelfish, Rules by PFL and Catch a Fallen Star by Rosemary were the first three. Unsurprisingly I've been hooked ever since.

I live too far away to have met any of you, but the warmth and passion for Pros online makes me feel decidedly loved and close by. It has become my favourite fandom to be a part of, because of the lads and because of all of you.

And so before I get completely wibbly...

Happy Anniversary!!

And thank you for such a lovely idea.

[runriggers.livejournal.com]

I remember the first time I saw the Professionals. I was in university in 1984 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. I happened to walk into the TV room late one night and several residents of the residence I lived in were watching this show. It had British actors, which immediately caught my interest. I remember the last ten minutes of one episode exactly .... Doyle getting shot, Bodie coming in and shooting the man who shot Doyle, and Cowley coming in to help mop up the mess. The words they spoke stayed with me - Bodie - "There's a better man over there" - It wasn't until 2004 that I finally found information on the Internet - I remembered the names Bodie, Doyle, and Crowley (yes, I got Cowley's name wrong). I found the DVDs and someone managed to convert an X-box to play international DVDs .... and fell in love all over again.

It was wonderful when I found others who liked the boys, and after several watchings of the series, my eyes settled on Murphy - even though I started out liking Doyle and still do (and of course, Bodie's mischevious smile). Then getting into the fanfiction that knocks my socks off - so many talented writers!

It's not about the plot - although there were a few good ones - its about the friendship between the men that comes across in all the episodes, and about the friendships that have arisen because of the men.

[angel-ci5.livejournal.com]

Thank you for such a gorgeous anniversary picture and comments!
My memories are relatively new - I bought a Pros DVD purely on a whim a couple of years ago, and was utterly blown away immediately. Mainly by Bodie, but then by everything else too! Bodie, Doyle and Cowley; the humour; the action; the storylines (mostly!); the camera work; the stunts; the writing (and ad libbing)... nothing else comes even close. As for finding the fandom, well it's been like coming home! *g*
It's transformed my life from nothing to something, and I'm eternally grateful.

Happy 30th Anniversary!

[bistokidsfan77.livejournal.com]

Thirty years is a long time. I date my love for the show back to 1988, when I was living in Japan. Alone, with little Japanese, I remember sitting down to watch television one night. What to my wondering eyes should appear, on a Sunday night no less, was a little show they translated to "CI-5". I was transfixed, I was in love, and wasn't Bodie hot! After a few episodes, I had caught on to the whole B/D vibe and was on board. I never even saw all the episodes back then, but I loved the Lads all the same.

It was years later that I found the web presence of Pros fandom and I dove in with both feet. My life has gone up and down, and I've dabbled in other fandoms which I love, but no fandom has held me like Pros. It had everything - adventure, action, love, and partnership - plus some really good looking blokes. Who cares about the plotholes. I believe that's what fanfic is for :P Happy Anniversary Pros!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, excellent post! Happy anniversary! *vbg*

Thirty years of Pros... I didn't know who they were thirty years ago, I know I didn't. I was only 10 (that's okay, you can do the maths!), and I would never have been allowed to stay up and watch it at 9pm, even if it was broadcast on the same day etc in Australia... which I somehow doubt it was!

I'm not sure, now, when exactly I discovered the lads, because I don't remember watching any specific episode except Discovered In A Graveyard. They were on late-ish at night, and I'm fairly sure I watched from my beanbag, in prime position nearest the telly so that I wouldn't miss anything... *g*

I do know it was sometime before 1981, because I was in Year 9 then, and when I went away to the Big Smoke on Work Experience I spent most of my hard-earned cash buying all the novelisations - and I remember being desperate to read the DiaG book, because oh Doyle nearly dead! Guess I was kind of an h/c girl even back then... *g* But I was so (fannishly, if I'd only known it!) determined that I would have all the books, even though I knew my mother would be furious at what she saw as a waste of money (she was! I didn't care, I had the books then!)

I collected what cuttings I could from the TV Times and the other Australian magazines too, I know that because I found some just a couple of years ago - not enough mind, I know I'd had more than that, I must have! Amazed even they'd survived gawd knows how many moves around the world etc though... I liked Doyle best, there was something about him that appealed to me - the same things that still do, I suspect (*g*) although these days I'm very happy for Bodie to have him instead, and I appreciate Bodie alot more too.

But then the lads faded, somehow, as I did my HSCs, and moved to the UK - I didn't even think of the fact that I was on their streets then. Got caught up with a bloke, as you do, (who happened to be on the skinny side, with good shoulders, and curly brown hair - so maybe there was still something lingering... *g*), did the uni thing, the work thing, the getting rid of said bloke thing - well, he was no Doyle... Or Bodie... *g* There was a brief flicker when I was nearly-mugged (http://byslantedlight.livejournal.com/14119.html) in the middle of the 1990s, and I was still a Pros girl then, deep down, cos I just squeed with happiness when Chappy said his Pros-bit.

And then, just over two years ago now (gosh, is that all?!) I added Pros dvds to my Lovefilm requests out of pure nostalgia when I spotted them on the list, and they were sent to me almost immediately, and I sat down and fell in love with the boys all over again - only this time I noticed that little something else about our lads... *g* And there was me gone. I went away and googled to find the rest of the dvds, found Kitty Fisher's Feasting With Panthers (http://www.devinemadness.com/kittyfisher/feasting.htm) and the_safehouse and fandom instead, and the next thing I know it's 30th December 2007 and here we all are... *vbg*

So yeay Happy 30th Anniversary, Pros!

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

30th Dec 1977 -- sixteen and almost certainly out on the razz ... cut to a point several decades and many nights on the razz later and I'm at home going out of my mind with a small squealing thing ... watched a few eps of Pros on Granada Plus, then bought all the videos (and hid them ... I'm a secretive fandom sort). The Lads kept me company on long nights with partner absent and ... gah! two small squealing things! Love the London stuff, love the grittiness of the work, love the fact that they're so very beautiful and they love each other to death. The fandom, it goes without saying, is bloody *marvellous*, so Happy Anniversary to them and to us *chink* and thank you Crimson for the pic and the memory prompt!

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

I loved the story 'Stranded' crimson_37 posted today for her DIALJ entry, so I emailed her and we had a little talk. I mentioned a story I'd written, which rather mirrors hers, but in an earlier time period. She encouraged me to post it, which I thought was very generous of her. So this story is dedicated to crimson_37. Thanks, hon, for the fun things you've given me today.

If it sounds a tiny bit familiar, it is an expansion of the drabble I posted on the drabble challenge a few months back, and edited by several very special friends who are kind enough to give the time and energy to beta for me.

http://sc-fossil.livejournal.com/8036.html?#cutid1

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Ah, Happy Anniversary to everyone! I've fallen for Pros relatively recently, I suppose - I don't remember watching much TV exactly thirty years ago, though I can just remember the show's existing, because I think I missed a lot of it by being in France and then TV-deprived back in the UK - but lately I've been blissfully seduced by high quality fic. But it's not just that; there are some wonderful writers whose work I still occasionally enjoy in a couple of other fandoms, but there's something about Pros, something more ... that feels like home. I suppose I feel that I know them and their world so much better (well, not the actual guns and violence bit; that's something of which I don't mind being ignorant in any real sense!) and the bond between the lads is so strong while each of them remains so strongly individual. And it's just such a great fandom, too; I love the fact that people are so generous with their time and talent, and I love that we seem to run pretty much across any age from 18 to .... a bit over 18 and everywhen in between, and I love that people's take on the show and the relationship (it's all about the relationship) can range from hilarious to very moving and back again via cracking action and characterisation that can't be beat. I just love everything about this fandom, and I'm so glad I found my way here.

[probodie.livejournal.com]

Ahh Pros. What does it mean to me?

Gorgeous sexy men, fab stories (yeah, I know, so sue me lol - oh except The Gun), tight jeans. Capris. It's where my love of Capris came from.

I've enjoyed reading and writing in the fandom, and even better, I love making icons in the fandom.

I know this is a crap post, but hey, thats me innit?

*hugs*

[alicambs.livejournal.com]

30 years!" Geez I feel old *g* I remember the Pros the first time round and I still mourn the, now lost, large poster of Doyle that my boyfriend of the time, now hubby, bought for me because I was so besotted with the guy!

Martin Shaw is now in his 60s, and still damn gorgeous (one of the few thing my mum and I happily agree on, the universal desirability of Mr Shaw) while I continue to enjoy drooling over pictures of both guys and reading good stories about them. Age has not lessened my love for Doyle, but it has increased my appreciation for Bodie. I like my Bodie and Doyle together and I'm thankful that a surprisingly large number of other people do as well.

[paris7am.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your meaningful post and for the outpouring it's prompted.

30 years. 30 billion units of emotion from so many fans, all over the world - crazy, burning hot like fire, laughing like drains, crying with heart broken, bursting with happiness... all because of the Pros.

I only discovered the Pros in 1991, and then I only had fan fic and didn't even realize that Bodie and Doyle were actual characters from a television show! I remember the first time I saw actual footage of them - it was PRZed's vid, "Wicked Ways" - and I almost died of the love I felt, astonished to actually *see them, moving*! I devoured music vids much like I'd devoured fic. When I finally watched the actual show for the first time, it was practically religious. I think that I left a fairly good rendition of that as I bubbled and boiled over quite exuberantly in my LJ. *HEARING THEIR VOICES*. I couldn't believe how incredible their voices are.

Finding the Pros fandom, and all of these other people, revolutionized my world. Sharing the love and obsession, knowing I'm not alone - laughing, conjecturing, drooling, theorizing, sending up, comforting, healing, dreaming - together, all round the world. Always here online or traveling to be together in person, our community is incredible. I don't know what I would do without it.

Bodie and Doyle. Love them, love them, love them, forever and ever.

[firefly1311.livejournal.com]

1977 my twin and I were sent to London to improve our language skills. Our guest family thought we would learn a lot better watching all kinds of british TV films. The father was a military ex-pilot who recommended them, when we came back in January 1978 and that was it. We went crazy for the lads! Fortunately I was earning very much money at the time (being the 17 year old belly dancing darling of the rich arabs - and dancing was ALL I did!), so we could afford to spend all our school holidays in London. First we bought a camera, we set in front of the TV and filmed the screen (!), next we bought the most expensive Video recorder, took it with us and recorded them. We left a lot of money at the vin-mag store in Brewer Street for every available picture, book, magazine (and kept them till today) and when they finally went on air in Germany, we soon found follow addicts. We both were into slash before, so we wrote stories for each other, especially when my twin moved 500 miles away to study. As much as the other fan girls loved h/c stories back then they didn`t liked the idea of slash, so after some discussions we kept that to ourselves. It was only a year ago, when I started to look in the web for pros... and found not only incredible stories, but a rather old fashioned community in the best sense of the word: constant, caring, warm, friendly...
When you`re working on stage, you know, you will get the audience you deserve: if you`re cheap and superficial you will attract likewise - if you are authentic and true, your fans will stay with you for more than 30 years!
Cheers to the pros years to come!

[magenta-blue.livejournal.com]

Lovely wallpaper! Thank you for that - it is now gracing my desktop :)

I was more into Bagpuss when the Professionals first aired, and I have a feeling that 9pm was my bedtime when it ended, as when I finally watched the show some 20 odd years later the intro graphics were very familiar so that was no doubt as far as I was allowed to get before the dreaded 'BED!' shout meant I missed everything interesting. I so knew the best programmes were after 9pm...

Never thought anymore about it until a few years ago when I caught half of Mixed Doubles on Granada Plus (old Sky channel) and thought hello - who are they?!! After that it was a quick skip to buy the first series. It was SO exciting watching the show for the first time, I just loved all of it - them, the dialogue, London so gritty and grainy a backdrop - I was totally hooked. And still am :)

[rosie55.livejournal.com]

Sorry to come late to the party, girls - I've been busy with visitors today but I'm having such fun catching up now! (And yes, slightly late but I have watched PMPD! and raised a glass to the beautiful lads!)
Being of a more mature vintage than many of you, I saw and adored Pros first time around - never missed an ep, was a DD from that very first time and that hasn't changed, though I can now appreciate that Bodie has his attractions!
We didn't have video recorders in those days and I had a few of the novelisations but gradually forgot about Pros, until about two or three years ago. Daughter J, then about 20 and I were watching Martin in JJD and I commented that I thought MS was, by a long chalk, the sexiest bloke on TV. Poor J was horrified. After all, imagine your mother admitting, at her advanced age, to finding a bloke sexy - doesn't bear thinking about really. "He's wrinkly, mother" says she. Well, that's ok, I thought, I can cope with a few wrinkles if he can. But no, she really could not see what I was on about. So I remembered Pros and thought that, if I could show her the beautiful young Martin, instead of the beautiful older Martin, the scales would be struck from her eyes and we could adore MS together. And it dawned on me that, in the wonderful new age of DVD,it was probably possible to get the set. Two minutes on Amazon and I was away, and the parcel arriving felt like ten birthdays rolled into one. There were episodes I could remember really clearly - yes DIAG, of course, Look after Annie, Man without a past) and I was amazed how much it felt like coming home to see them again. Not to mention the nostalgia of watching the seventies clothes and cars and the whole thing, couldn't believe how much life has changed since then, looking back!) I watched an episode or two a night and I fell head over heels again. J didn't by the way, still doesn't get it but hey, she'll grow up one day! Son R, at 20 will very happily watch eps with me but we may not be enjoying quite the same aspects, methinks.
And then, searching the web for more information, etc, I somehow came across fanfic - and I was instantly hooked And, through a story by Helen Raven, I discovered LJ and made more and more and more friends who shared my love of the lads. And a wonderful crowd you are!
Watching the ep tonight, and I admit that I read more than I watch these days, I was, as ever, struck by how brilliant this programme is, the guys, the action, the relationships, the banter- not one whit diminished by thirty years. I think I'm going to have to start working my way through again!!!
Thank you to all of you who feed our adoration with fics and reviews and vids and all the other elements that make this such a very special fandom. And thank you to all of you for being such a special, supportive and generous crew in sharing with someone who doesn't write.
I'll be needing my zimmer, I expect, if I'm still around by the time another 30 years has gone by but I shall live in hope!

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

I feel like I have a terrible cheek even answering this question! I 'discovered' Pros as a fandom something like two months ago. I've made up for my tardiness though, methinks, by reading every single story on the entire intarwebs in those two months. ;-p

Thinking about the old days though, I do remember the first time Pros played in New Zealand. I was all of four, and my parents had just split up, and my mother and I had left the UK to come home, in some disgrace and to many I told you so's. Well not me per se, but my poor mum. And we were living at my grandmother's house, with my last unmarried (varsity student) aunt, and mum's oldest brother who was a confirmed bachelor and probably fancied he was Bodie and Doyle rolled into one as he pulled numerous birds. And noone had any sense that it wasn't a show for four year olds, so we'd all five of us squeeze on the couch with the fire lit on Friday nights and watch together. Outstanding. A seminal part of growing up.

But kiwisue and mab_browne have nagged me a bit over the years, and repeat viewings of "A Fire is Burning", which I always thought was one of the best fanvids ever made, even when I was in frivolous young fandoms, finally brought me over to the dark side in October, and boy am I glad. And mum's been watching my new dvds with me, and it's a pretty different vibe, I must say, from thirty years ago, as now we're both heaving and sighing over the boys.

I'm so glad you're all here and I'm not the last one to the party, by myself.

[windrain10.livejournal.com]

Silver_Cyanne pimped me into Pros. She coerced me into watching ep after ep, which all bored me to tears, never mind that I couldn't see what was happening (we had copies of copies of copies) nor understand what anyone was saying. The accents completely baffled me.

Then one day she was visiting and she popped in, "Stakeout". Even tho the DVD keep stopping and the aspect was all wrong and it was in black and white for some reason . . . slowly, I started to get it.

Then she put in, "Mixed Doubles". That did it. It hit me, like a ton of bricks. And I've never looked back.

I tend to see deep reasons behind things that happen to me. I got into Pros at a time when I thought I just couldn't go on. I couldn't make it. I wasn't going to survive the future.

During that time, coming home each night to be able to see an ep, or a vid, or read endless stories, did get me through the bad time. I became convinced that someone had opened my eyes to Pros, just exactly when I needed the show in my life.

So I'll never cease to be grateful to silver_cyanne for hanging in there with me until I "got it". And I'll never cease to be grateful to all the people in Pros that have helped me learn more and more about the show and the lads.

I hope I'm still here in another 30 years. And I hope each of you is, as well.

[schnuffi.livejournal.com]

I remember that I watched Pros in 1981 when they started airing it in Germany. I even remember that "The Rack" was the first episode I ever saw. Hence my weakness for Doyle I guess - he looks so gorgeous in that one *sigh* I even had that naked chest and cigarette poster over my bed for ages afterwards. Then, after a while, I sort of forgot about it - yeah I know, shame on me.

Then last year on Nov. 1st I re-watched that old Sindbad movie for the umpteenth time. You know, the one starring Martin Shaw. I always loved that movie especially because of MS. Only this time dim memories started to rise and I trundled over to YouTube to check out if any Pros stuff was to be found.

There was. Lots of fantastic fan vids. I was mesmerized and soon after decided to order the complete series box. I went through all 57 episodes in just 2,5 days. The rest is history.

Soon afterwards my F-list started to grow as I met more and more follow addicts. And boy did it feel good to have peeps with whom I could talk about my new obsession without them getting bored or telling me to shut the fuck up.

And then there was this incredible load of fan fic all around! Though I had to admit that I couldn't imagine the lads being slashed at first. But it was just a short erring and suddenly I had found my OTP.
I just love about everything about the guys: their looks (minus some of the more hideous outfits), they way they move, all those looks and touches they exchange, the fab bantering, the cars, the thrill, everything!

So it's been a bit more than a year since I stumbled into this cozy little community and it has been a fantastic year indeed. Thanks and praise to the guys who decided to show that particular movie on that particular day. If they hadn't I wouldn't have met all you wonderful wonderful peeps.