Klansmen

Episode aired 1977
TV-MA
47m

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

144

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Lewis Collins and Martin Shaw in The Professionals (1977)

Action Comedy Crime

The Empire Society, a white supremacist group run by a man called Hulton, is terrorising blacks and trying to forcibly evict them. Cowley and Doyle are shocked at Bodie's apparent colour pre... Read allThe Empire Society, a white supremacist group run by a man called Hulton, is terrorising blacks and trying to forcibly evict them. Cowley and Doyle are shocked at Bodie's apparent colour prejudice when he meets a mixed race married couple but after Bodie is hospitalised Doyle goe... Read allThe Empire Society, a white supremacist group run by a man called Hulton, is terrorising blacks and trying to forcibly evict them. Cowley and Doyle are shocked at Bodie's apparent colour prejudice when he meets a mixed race married couple but after Bodie is hospitalised Doyle goes undercover and joins the Empire Society, learning that a property developer called Mille... Read all

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IMDb RATING

7.6/10

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Trivia
This episode, in which black people are harassed by a group that has modeled itself on the Ku Klux Klan, was banned and never shown in the UK because of its racial content.

Goofs
There is no Ku Klux Klan in the UK the KU KLUX KLAN is American.

Quotes
[a black couple are being evicted from their home in broad daylight. A man called Dinny is chucking their belongings and possessions into the street, while a crowd of people watch. A black lawyer called Zadie pulls up in a car, steps out, walks towards Dinny and orders him to stop]
Zadie: Now put all this back at once!
[Dinny squares up to the lawyer]
Dinny: You wanna mix it with me, nigger?
Zadie: The term "nigger" does not offend me. A corruption of Negro - and I am certainly that. And I've already mixed it with you. With something more powerful than my fist - the law. Now, take all these back and later we'll itemise the breakages and you can pay for them.
[Dinny raises his hand, ready to hit Zadie]
Zadie: I'd like you to hit me. I already have you for harassment. I'd like to add assault to that, I really would.
[Zadie turns his attention to the husband of the couple who are being evicted]
Zadie: You did the right thing calling me, Mr Culver. Don't worry - everything's going to be all right from now on.
[Zadie turns round and walks back to his car. Dinny spits at the spot where Zadie was stood]

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10/10

Brilliantly paired throughout til the very end

If you are not of the time you would, probably deliberately, want to dminish it. Fact is it's better written and handled than the cop outs of today by a light year. The whole 57 episodes are, better than anything of today. Your hi tech TVs and production values of today are why TV is so light weight. It's what you see not how it's written.