The Professionals
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[edit] Introduction
The Professionals fan fiction community started in the early 1980s, soon after the show first aired. The community that resulted was slash heavy. This community would be very active in the zine community.
Parts of the community were actively engaged in and quietly circulating real person fic based on the actors from the show. Most of this material was kept very underground because other more vocal parts of the fandom heavily condemned this material.
Starting in the late 1990s, a preservation movement was started. This movement sought to preserve fanzines produced during an earlier period by putting this material on the Internet.
The Professional fan fiction community was also making the effort to move to on-line archiving of fan fiction. One of the more important archives became The Circuit Archive. Over the years, it had a number of changes, leading to the site becoming fully automated in 2004.
[edit] The Show
The Professionals was a police drama set in Great Britain in the late 1970's and early 1980's. It was centered on the work of CI5 or Criminal Intelligence 5. CI5 was not part of the the police structure though. It was headed by George Cowley who reported to the Home Secretary. The two main agents in CI5 were Bodie and Doyle. Contrary to current police practice in Britain at the time they carried guns. Cowley was a former intelligence operative; Bodie was ex-SAS, and Doyle was a former Met officer. CI5 dealt with everything from terrorists to drugs. The show aired between 1977 and 1983.
[edit] The Cast
Gordon Jackson - George Cowley
Martin Shaw - Ray Doyle
Lewis Collins - William Andrew Phillip Bodie
[edit] Terminology
Below is a list of terms and their definitions that are used in this fan fiction community.
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[edit] Timeline
Below is a partial timeline of events that took place in this fan fiction community.
[edit] 1977 to 1983
- The Professionals was on its first run on television.
[edit] 1980
- By this time, Star Trek fen had migrated to, among other fan fiction communities, this one. In doing so, they brought with them publishing traditions, critique habits and their terminology.
- By this time, Man from U.N.C.L.E. fen had migrated to The Professionals fan fiction community. They brought with them their publishing traditions. (Celeste)
[edit] 1980 to 1984
- The Professionals fan fiction community starts out as a primarily slash oriented community. (Sharon Brondos on FCA-L) The community also started slowly as the show did air on television in the United States. [1]
[edit] 1984 to 1988
- Personal computers, aided by their word processing programs, started to have an impact on the publication of fanzines. They, along with the growth of copying services, led to a growth in the number of fanzines and created a situation where more fen could produce their own, high quality fanzines. (Langley)
[edit] 1988 to 1990
- According to Ann Teitelbaum in a post cross posted to rec.arts.startrek.current, rec.arts.startrek.misc, rec.arts.startrek.fandom, alt.sex.fetish.startrek, alt.startrek.creative on November 26, 1995,
- Then again, I must agree with the idea that there's only so much you can
- say, even in alternate universes, time travel, etc. The passion just
- ain't in the creative community any more, I guess.
- Kinda like the way Professionals slash fandom took off and generated
- gobs of fanfic, but has slowed quite a bit. I think readers (as well as
- writers, who I can't speak for) do get bored after 8 - 10 years of the
- same single fandom....
[edit] 1993
- Fans of The Professionals start trying to put old The Professionals fanzines into the electronic medium. (http://www.trickster.org/fannishbutterfly/pros_faq.html )
[edit] 1996
- The Circuit Archive, a The Professionals fan fiction archive, was started by Meri. [2]
[edit] 2000
- On March 1, 2000, proslib, online circuit library for The Professionals, was founded. [3]
[edit] 2004
- On March 8, 2004, The Circuit Archive, a fan fiction archive, became fully automated. [4]
- The Professionals fandom was represented at Eclecticon 2004 with a panel dedicated to it. The panel topic was a question of where all the panels had gone.
[edit] 2007
According to nakeisha in a June 24, 2007 comment on fanthropology in regards to the slash, het, gen ratio in fandom:
- The Professionals - predominately slash, (in fact it was the first actual slash fandom[5]
[edit] Kerfluffles
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[edit] Influential Stories
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[edit] Fandom Members
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[edit] Fandom Size
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[edit] External Links
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Dave Matthew's Official Professionals Guide - http://www.mark-1.co.uk/Professionals/
The site for the professionals.
[edit] See also
[edit] Sources
Below is a partial list of articles and academic sources to help you continue to learn about this community.
- Cicioni, Mirna. "Male Pair-Bonds and Female Desire in Fan Slash Writing," in Harris, Cheryl, ed. Theorizing Fandom: Fans, Subculture and Identity. Cresskill, NY: Hampton Press. 1998.
- Jenkins, Henry. Textual Poachers Television Fans & Participatory Culture. New York: Routledge, 1992.
- http://www.thecircuitarchive.net/tca/about_the_archive.html
- Rogers, Dave (1986). The Complete Professionals. Queen Anne Press
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