The Professionals (TV Series) The Madness of Mickey Hamilton (1979) User Reviews

Senator Palpatine

[ewaf58 · 8/10 · 23 February 2017]

I thought the character Mickey looked slightly familiar. It's the actor Ian McDiarmid who went on to feature in several Star Wars films.

Here he plays an unhinged character bent on taking revenge on the National Health service after losing his wife. He acts very well with an air of revenge mixed with despair.

Strong stuff

[Leofwine_draca · 8/10 · 14 November 2020]

THE MADNESS OF MICKEY HAMILTON is a pretty strong episode of THE PROFESSIONALS, with guest star Ian McDiarmid - best known for playing one of those indelible roles from my childhood, that of the Emperor in RETURN OF THE JEDI - playing a man with mental health problems who goes on a rampage with a sniper rifle. It's tense, suspenseful stuff, not particularly politically correct when viewed in a modern light, but it still makes for gripping viewing.

Kill with "kindness "

[McQueen1980 · 8/10 · 3 July 2020]

Mickey Hamilton starts off by killing a political figure which gets the Professionals involved even though he was targeting a doctor , representing any doctor who messed up a personal issue. Apparently knowing that the doctor he goes back to the same hospital and goes on a mini rampage . He then goes to a nun who is minding his dying daughter and the nun tells him he must "Soldier on" (grin on his face) . He goes to a priest who says it's ok "to kill with kindness " (another grin on his face) . This provokes him to go to a doctors conference for a potential rampage. However the professionals had caught up with him by then and he had to face to them in a stunning climax. However is it the ultimate irony that we could blame the church for "okaying" his actions?

The Madness of Mickey Hamilton

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 7 March 2019]

If this was made today. You will get plenty of warnings before the show started and a telephone number of a helpline after it finished.

It is rather a violent one. No less than Emperor Palpatine plays Mickey Hamilton, an anxious ex soldier with mental health issues.

Hamilton blames the local hospital doctor for the death of his wife and his daughter getting brain damage.

Hamilton is an ex soldier who attempts to shoot a doctor and gets a diplomat by mistake. As the diplomat was shot, Bodie and Doyle get involved.

However after Hamilton goes on a rampage at the hospital killing doctors, Cowley wants him stopped. Doyle wonders what Hamilton will do next.

A rather disturbing episode. Hamilton is clearly a perplexing figure. A religious man who has suffered a great loss but prepared to commit mass murder and not giving a thought that doctors are saving other's peoples life.