Review of Stake Out

The Professionals: Stake Out (1978)
Season 1, Episode 10
6/10
Stake Out
7 December 2018
It is only the first series and the producers were already recycling the guest cast. After appearing as nurse held hostage. Pamela Stephenson returns in this episode as a junkie. You might think she was going out with a member of the production team.

An undercover CI5 agent called Fraser was meant to check out a drugs gang operating from a bowling alley. Fraser instead finds something that is nuclear but neglects to tell Cowley properly about it. Fraser winds up dead.

Bodie and Doyle are sent to the bowling alley to find out what Fraser accidentally stumbled across. What they find is a man poisoned by plutonium and a supremacist group wanting to keep South Africa white and they have something special planned for Black Friday and it is not the Amazon one day sale.

There is a race against time element as Silver, sorry David Collings tries to disarm a dirty bomb. The director pulls out all the stops to make it looks tense. Collings perspires so much I thought he was going to drown in his own sweat.

At least the show places the spotlight on the supporters of the then South African apartheid regime.
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