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The Professionals

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An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit. From TMDB

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  • Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 4, 2026

    Think a Dad movie has got to be a western. And if it’s a western it has to be The Professionals

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  • Opinionated Eurasian @opinioneurasian.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2026

    Movie quote from 1966 The Professionals: Bad guy: “You bastard.” Lee Marvin, with impeccable delivery: “Yes, Sir. In my case, an accident of birth. But you, Sir, you're a self-made man."

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  • Gerdzilla @gerdzilla.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 10, 2026

    Last four watched x 2 💐 Special Effects (1984) 🇲🇽 The Professionals (1966) 🌍 Beat the Devil (1953) 🎠 Ride the Pink Horse (1947( 🍔 Miracle Mile (1988) 🏹 Blue Ruin (2013) 🏃🏻‍♀️ Man on Fire (1987) 🍾 Fandango (1985) #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky

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  • Jeremy Williams @jerqwills.bsky.socialBluesky · May 22, 2026

    This weeks last 4 The Outfit (1973) The Professionals (1966) True Grit (1969) The Violent Men (1955) #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #lastfourwatched #filmsky

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 24, 2026

    #NowWatching THE PROFESSIONALS (1966). Director: Richard Brooks. Star-powered western has Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, & Woody Strode riding deep into Mexico to rescue Claudia Cardinale from Jack Palance. Rewatch. #filmsky 📽

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  • The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 7, 2026

    Born 7 Feb 1946, actor Peter Postlethwaite. After minor TV appearances including The Professionals, his 1st major success arose through the British autobiographical film Distant Voices Still Lives (1988). He had a breakthrough in Hollywood when he played David in Alien 3 (1992). #PetePostlethwaite

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  • Joe @damagedintransit.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 12, 2024

    #LetsGetAcquainted #MusicChallenge Day 12 -a song from a fave movie The Looters -Join The Professionals From “Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains”

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  • Chris Orton @chriso1.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 26, 2025

    The Great Escape is on. Cowley from The Professionals ruins it at the end by accidentally speaking English. Sorry if I’ve just ruined a 62-year old film for you.

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  • Jim Tatro @jimtatro.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2026

    Now Watching: The Professionals starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Jack Palance and Claudia Cardinale among others. I have heard nothing but great things about this film and found it on Netflix. This will be a first time watch.

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  • Art & Hue @artandhue.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2026

    Remembering Laurie Johnson who died two years ago today. Composer of classic film scores & TV themes including some of the best themes ever (fact) for The Avengers, The New Avengers, Jason King, & The Professionals. artandhue.com/laurie-johnson

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  • alexander-sims.bsky.social @alexander-sims.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 26, 2026

    Share an ACTION movie title that begins with the letter O or P 🎥🖤 The Professionals (1966) You'll notice Lee Marvin has a big pouch to carry. That's for food as he's always hungry

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  • Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 16, 2026

    17 June 1904 – 1991 Ralph Bellamy, 87, US actor. Spitfire (1934) * The Awful Truth (OscarNom) * Ellery Queen Film Series * His Girl Friday * Lady on a Train * Sunrise at Campobello (Tony Award + film) * The Professionals * Rosemary's Baby * Trading Places * Honorary Oscar (1986) Pretty Woman (1990)

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  • 💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 10, 2026

    Barquero is a personal favorite, as is The Professionals. But you don't often see anyone talking about Barquero, which is a shame. It's a wild movie, and what you might call a Quasi Spaghetti. Barquero's got a great many earmarks of a Spaghetti Western, without actually being Italian.

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  • Santiago Jones @santiagojones.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2026

    With this penchant for rehashing existing IP (cheaper than new ideas), they should retry revamping 70s shows again. Sky tried The Professionals, could be good in 2026. There was a Sweeney movie a while back, imagine new Sweeney. Or,,, the love that dare not speak its name: a BUS adjacent comedy?

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  • Joe Scaramangaaaarrrggghhh!!! @joescaramanga.co.ukBluesky · Oct 29, 2025

    A man who used to direct soft porn and episodes of The Professionals in the 70s made a better Daniel Craig movie than an actual Oscar winner.

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  • Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 8, 2025

    Anna Haugh eviscerating a man for using garlic flowers to make his dessert pretty on the Professionals series is one of the best moments committed to film.

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  • BOO! @ronandusty.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 29, 2025

    Good flicks on tv later. The Professionals on tg4 after 9. Burt Lancaster & Lee Marvin. Just watching this will raise your testosterone level. Those Who Wish Me Dead on RTE2 at the same time, crunchy action fun with Angelina Jolie and The Mission on 1 at 12ish. Tthe film that gave us Gabriel's Oboe.

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  • London Pub Map @londonpubmap.bsky.socialBluesky · May 24, 2025

    The Waterman’s Arms became a popular location for film and television, serving as the backdrop for The Long Good Friday and The Professionals. The pub operated as The Great Eastern for a time before undergoing a refurbishment, after which the Waterman’s Arms name was reinstated.

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  • Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 26, 2023

    Freeview (UK) #film of the day : The Professionals (1966 112 mins.) : #western starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin and Robert Ryan. [Great Movies Action 13.00 & +1] t.co/QS55bHNaTR

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  • UKPRES @ukpres1.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 10, 2026

    It's a Varity of programmes on Southern this Saturday with Buck Rogers, 321, Bless this house the film at 7.15. The Professionals Swing into action just after 9 and Brain Moore has the Big match back in 1981

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  • Spookalakah Meshobbab @tade-kuu-mushi.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 15, 2026

    …after that knock-out from Imamura, I thought I'd curtail movie-watching for the rest of the day & let it simmer… …but it's been 6 hours…& I see 'The Professionals' is on Netflix…never seen it… …maybe I'll turn in a little early, and put it on, in a couple hours… letterboxd.com/film/the-pro...

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  • Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 17, 2026

    Steptoe and Son Ride Again To The Manor Born The Room Herbie Goes Bananas Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo MasterChef The Professionals The Professionals Dracula A.D. 1972 Spiceworld the Movie My Neighbour Totoro Scrapheap Challenge

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  • DeBart @bdebart.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 30, 2026

    Lee Marvin was guaranteed to be incredible in every movie and TV show he was ever in. Like Cat Ballou The Professionals The Big Heat The Wild One The Dirty Dozen Bad Day at Black Rock Man Who Shot Liberty Valance The Killers Emperor of the North And TV M Squad The Twilight Zone among others.

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  • metacritic @metacritic.comBluesky · Jan 31, 2026

    The Professionals [75] is a $4 VOD: www.metacritic.com/movie/the-pr... #11pmspecial "There's something to be said for this kind of professionalism: the moviemakers know how to provide excitement and they work us over." - Pauline Kael

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  • Anthony S. @sevensoldiers.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2025

    RIP to Italian film star and 60's icon Claudia Cardinale. She is best known for her roles in 8½, The Leopard, The Pink Panther & The Professionals. In her later years she worked on women's rights issues for the UN. A woman of devastating beauty and talent. Ms. Cardinale was 87. #RIP

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  • JMS @jmsaasta.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2025

    I couldn't say that I was terribly familiar with Claudia Cardinale. Obvs. knew the name and the face (one of the loveliest in cinema history in fact). 8½, The Leopard (Il Gattopardo), The Pink Panther, The Professionals, C'era una volta il West (Once Upon a Time in the West), Fitzcarraldo. 📽️🎞️ RIP 🪦

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  • Pall Omen @paulowengames.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 13, 2025

    Share the last movie you watched. The Professionals, with Burt Lancaster

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  • Roy Dickinson @rjohndickinson.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 1, 2025

    No film or other TV programme comes even close to making me weep as copiously as does #Masterchef the Professionals (no spoilers, please - I’m still catching up on iPlayer). Only the professional version: I have no interest in people like me cooking adequately or even surprisingly well.

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  • Eltripol @eltripol.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 13, 2024

    THIS SATURDAY, MOVIE NIGHT RETURNS. INTO THE WORLD OF... SPORTS! GET YOUR BALLS OUT WITH THE PROFESSIONALS AS WE CELEBRATE STADIUMS, KICKING, TACKLING AND SLAPPING! ALL YOUR FAVORITES PLUS A GLIMPSE OF THE "FUTURE" OF SPORTS!! SATURDAY 03/16/2024 AT 6 PM PST

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  • QuirkyFilms @[email protected]Mastodon · Feb 7, 2024

    #TakingABreakFromFilming #TheProfessionals (1977-1983) Bodie and Doyle, senior agents of the British intelligence service CI5, and their handler George Cowley fight terrorism and similar high-level crimes. #LewisCollins #MartinShaw #GordonJackson enjoy a kick about. #TVMastodon 📺 🎬

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  • Bob Calhoun @bobcalhoun.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 18, 2026

    Just watched The Professionals on Netflix and that Richard Brooks script really pops!

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  • Mitchell Gang @mitchellgang.bsky.socialBluesky · May 16, 2026

    I think a lot of the cult around the film also has to do with Steve Jones and Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols appearing in it with their new band The Professionals. The song “Join The Professionals” that The Stains performed in 2 versions was from the 1st Professionals LP.

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  • metacritic @metacritic.comBluesky · Apr 18, 2026

    The Professionals [75] is now on Netflix: www.metacritic.com/movie/the-pr... #11pmspecial "There's something to be said for this kind of professionalism: the moviemakers know how to provide excitement and they work us over." - Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

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  • Fiery Mark @fierymark.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 20, 2025

    Gonna watch a film that’s ’The Professionals meets John Wick’. I may have consumed alcohol/substances. I will enjoy it no matter what.

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  • Cristina Snowblood @talkytina22.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 26, 2025

    Thats from The Professionals, a great movie!

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  • Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 17, 2025

    In fact he was a virtuoso at more than second fiddle to Cary Grant: Among other roles, he was the go-to guy to play FDR (stage & screen), "self-made bastard" in The Professionals, sinister Dr. Sappirstein in Rosemary's Baby, and greedy Randolph Duke in Trading Places. BOTD 1904. #moviesky #film

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  • Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 16, 2025

    17 June 1904 – 1991 Ralph Bellamy, 87, US actor. The Awful Truth (1937 OscarNom) * Carefree * His Girl Friday * Ellery Queen * The Wolf Man * Sunrise at Campobello (Tony Award + film) * The Professionals * Rosemary's Baby * Trading Places * Honorary Oscar (1986) * Pretty Woman (1990)

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  • John Keeps on Bloodsuckin’ 🚛🧛‍♂️ @johndrew-sky.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 16, 2025

    the gist. Best movie he introduced me to was THE PROFESSIONALS, the turn of the century western starring Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, and Claudia Cardinale. Marvin gets one of the best closing lines of any movie.

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  • Dan Grima @dangrima92.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 24, 2024

    Think the only Burt Lancaster movies I've seen so far are this and The Professionals and, man, is he just the definition of the term movie star. His turn from seemingly well off friend of the people to broken deadbeat is an all timer performance

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  • Purple Queen Publishing 📚💜 @purplequeenpub.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2023

    Repost with your earliest childhood crush from film/TV. (Martin Shaw, Doyle in The Professionals - UK)

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  • James Bond Collector @collectorbond.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 3, 2026

    TV Film Diecast Noddy Chitty Bang The Professionals #ad

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  • CinOvation 🫟 @cinovation.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 12, 2026

    I'd like to check out this movie. It's got a great lineup and Maurice Jarre composed the soundtrack. The Professionals was nominated for several awards and received good critical reviews. Looks like a good one. 🤠👍 m.youtube.com/watch?v=kX_4...

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  • Main Tenant @main-tenant.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 4, 2026

    I think it’s a cover of a song by The Professionals (Cook and Jones) who also show up in the film (with Paul Simonon moonlighting).

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  • GTC @gtcarisson.bsky.socialBluesky · May 27, 2026

    I totally agree. Sgt Rutledge is a wonderful film, and one of Ford's best later works. Woody Strode is amazing in everything from Spartacus to The Professionals. If you have Prime Video, check out E9 of Dangerous Assignment. He has a small role as an African guide who is a Sociology major from UCLA.

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  • mongoknowsmost.bsky.social @mongoknowsmost.bsky.socialBluesky · May 2, 2026

    But I thought the 1960s movies were some of his best: Elmer Gantry, Judgement at Nuremberg with Spencer Tracy, Birdman of Alcatraz, Seven Days in May, The Train (my fav) with John Frankenheimer directing, The Professionals with Lee Marvin, The Swimmer and Gypsy Moths. His biggest movie was….

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  • Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2026

    10am TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social The 1960 #Crime #Thriller film🎥 “THE PROFESSIONALS” directed by Don Sharp & written by Peter Barnes 🌟 William Lucas, Andrew Faulds, Colette Wilde, Stratford Johns, Vilma Ann Leslie, Edward Cast

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  • Rosalyn Connors BEM BCAc @rozzyc.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2025

    @martinmauthor1.bsky.social. And #BrianClemensThriller is mentioned too. 👍 I reckon we could do a good podcast on the restoration of The Professionals. I think it is possibly *the* most remarkable upgrade from SD to HD of an old British show that I've seen. 🙂 www.mark-1.co.uk/Professional...

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  • Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 30, 2025

    Film-wise: at 6.40pm, Home Alone 2 on Film4. At 7.35pm, The Professionals on Great Action. At 8pm, Skyfall on ITV4. At 9pm, Mission: Impossible – Fallout on E4 or The Northman on Film4. At 10pm, Gladiator on BBC2. At 10.30pm, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider on BBC3. At 11.30pm, Gemini Man on C4 #telly

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  • Charlene "Fish" Fertilizer, LHP @akameowmeow.blacksky.appBluesky · Nov 19, 2025

    Just watched The Professionals (1966) and rated it 4 stars on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/meowmeowfuzz/film/the-professionals/ #FilmSky 📽️🎥 Post made with @letterboxdposter.finiteui.com

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  • Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 6, 2025

    ... even Cowley from The Professionals (though to be fair it's quite hard to find a UK film from the 1945-1965 that DOESN'T feature Gordon Jackson somewhere).

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  • Dave Lauchlan @davelauchlan.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 23, 2025

    David Soul, once he was done with Starsky and Hutch went on to star in the excellent "Salem's Lot". Lewis Collins capitalised on his success in "The Professionals" as an undercover SAS agent in "Who Dares Wins" . I'll leave it to history to decide who was in the better film....

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  • Mr @missedmycue.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2025

    Gosh! I remember seeing Claudia Cardinale in The Professionals when I was very young and thinking that I hope she is in every film I watch from that moment on. Sad to say she wasn't.

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  • MovieMattSirois @moviemattsirois.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 9, 2025

    May I recommend The Professionals as a stop on your way to “Moonlight Graham”. It’s my personal favorite Burt Lancaster film with a cast stacked with legendary tough guy actors.

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  • Michael Sullivan @michaelsullivan.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 25, 2025

    Our short, The Professionals, was selected for this year's Silicon Beach Film Festival! If you're in LA on September 6th at 6pm, head over to TCL Chinese Theatres for the screening!

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  • Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 12, 2025

    Yeah it very much has an 'oh dear' ending. I enjoy it much like how my enjoyment of The Professionals goes up three-fold by spotting a future decent telly or film name in a bit part to pay the leccy bills.

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  • Hamo @hamo.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 2, 2025

    Oddly I've never really watched The Sweeney or The Professionals, although I'm well aware of both. I did see the updated Sweeney movie but I had a hard time suspending disbelief that Ray Winstone and Hayley Atwell were a couple...

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  • Geoff Bowser @geoffbowser.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 11, 2025

    bsky.app/profile/geof... Some early indications that NIH is just going to refuse to obey the Court Orders. I put together a short thread calling for a march of the Professionals that will probably only appeal to Gen X/old Millennials as it relies on a cultural connection to a French film from 1994

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  • May Contain Geeks @maycontaingeeks.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 19, 2025

    The Professionals: The Movie?

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  • RikerDonegal @[email protected]Mastodon · Oct 19, 2024

    I'm watching The Professionals 1x07 "The Female Factor" https://trakt.tv/shows/the-professionals/seasons/1/episodes/2 #TheProfessionals #trakt

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  • Morgan Dawn @morgandawn.bsky.socialBluesky · May 9, 2024

    Upcoming Fandom run conventions. Fan run conventions are by and for fans of TV, movie and books/manga - no actors or content creators. (Part 7/n) BistoCon August 2024 - The Professionals UK TV show - slash/shipping/fanfiction/fanvids- virtual - bistocon.org/wp/

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