Both Judy Davis and Ingrid Pitt carry off superbly powerful female roles written beyond token-women-posing-with-machine-guns. Particularly Pitt who's performance adds a sadistic ominance whenever she's on screen. His course ran for three weekends at the Finchley drill hall and then a fortnight straight off at St Martins Plain Folkestone Camp. It was not a holiday camp that was for sure.

Let's face it, though, we all wanted to be Bodie and not old Velcro-hair. Bodie looked cool and smart (he never wore jeans in any of the episodes) got the decent crumpet (who due to plot lines would conveniently die at the end of the episode), had a decent car (as long as you liked Capris) and even rode bikes. His character was never troubled by self-doubt. When asked by a besotted, helpless woman (there were plenty of those in The Professionals) which is Bodie and which Doyle, Bodie replies insouciantly: "Bodie's the incredibly handsome one.""That still doesn't tell me which is which," she says.

As is sometimes the case with British films, Who Dares Wins was given a more generic title for its American release, where it was known as The Final Option. One modern review of the film I read stated that the film went by the unfortunate title of "The Final Solution", but no, it wasn't quite that bad. And oh, the action. The hand-to-hand fights are brutal and balletic. The two action pieces at the end of the film, one dealing with the precision rescue of Rosalind Lloyd and the other the retaking of the hostage house are unforgettable. We the former "LCFC Team" would like to send our very best wishes to all Lew's fans today, where ever you are in the world. And we send love and best wishes to Michelle, Oliver, Elliot and Cameron for letting us share our very special memories of our time with Lew. Very much missed by us all. Love Ruth, Debbie, Chris and Deb. xx The terrorist take over the American embassy in London and ask impossible demands of the government.

Who Dares Wins does get bogged down a little in the posturing grandstanding of Woodward, Widmark and Davis late on where the focus changes. Despite being sexually experienced and not living with his mum, he was accepted into the Territorial Army and even hankered after a spot in the real SAS. Legend has it that he passed the tests (a camouflaged Capri was seen around the SAS base of Hereford in the early '80s) but his face was too well-known for him to be accepted into this shadowy unit. The group overtakes the Residence and holds the persons inside hostage. Included in the hostages are the American Secretary of State (Richard Widmark) and a high ranking American General, Ira Potter (Robert Webber). Outside, Commander Powell (Edward Woodward) and SAS commander Col. Hadley (Tony Doyle) prepare to rescue the hostages. Negotiations between Powell and Frankie are initiated. Now supposedly a civilian, Skellen rolls up to a club where the group's leaders hang out, and where Frankie appears in anti-nuclear agit-prop music and dance performances, where she plays the not too taxing role of an American nuclear missile.This film in addition to the heroic exploit of the British Special Air Service SAS, has very intelligent dialoge which exposes the hypocrisy of certain "pseudo-pacifist" organizations. This film is a definite case study of how radicals can manipulate , shape events to promote their agenda's.