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The Champions

Wed, Sep 25, 1968
  • Sci-Fi & Fantasy
  • Action & Adventure
Series · Synopsis

Synopsis

After a plane carrying three Agents crashes in the Himalayas, they are rescued by an advanced civilisation secretly living in Tibet who grant them enhanced versions of the ordinary five senses, and intellectual and physical abilities.

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Cast

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  • Alexandra Bastedo
    Alexandra Bastedo
    as Sharron Macready
  • William Gaunt
    William Gaunt
    as Richard Barrett
  • Stuart Damon
    Stuart Damon
    as Craig Stirling
  • Anthony Nicholls
    Anthony Nicholls
    as Cmdr. W.L. Tremayne
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Episodes

1 season · 30 episodes

Ended · 30 aired
Season 1
30 episodes · 30 aired
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  • E1
    The Beginning
    Aired · Wed, Sep 25, 1968 · 50m

    The three Nemesis agents recover from a plane crash in the Tibetan mountains to find their injuries healed. In the course of the episode, they learn they have had new abilities bestowed on them by their rescuers, people from an ancient civilisation, and have to evade capture from the Chinese military.

  • E2
    The Invisible Man
    Aired · Wed, Oct 2, 1968 · 50m

    The agents investigate a plot to steal the gold reserves of a bank in the City of London

  • E3
    Reply Box No. 666
    Aired · Wed, Oct 9, 1968 · 50m

    The agents are sent to the Caribbean to investigate a newspaper advert asking for "a parrot that speaks Greek", which Tremayne has worked out is a signal for participants in an undercover operation.

  • E4
    The Experiment
    Aired · Wed, Oct 16, 1968 · 50m

    Sharron is sent undercover to a training establishment in which a scientist is using new techniques to produce agents who have the same level of abilities as the Champions. Nemesis is interested in the organisation because one of its graduates has tried to break into a military establishment and steal secrets.

  • E5
    Happening
    Aired · Wed, Oct 23, 1968 · 50m

    Sharron, Craig and Tremayne are in Australia observing a nuclear test. Meanwhile, Richard is trapped at ground zero with amnesia, trying to stop the men who are attempting to sabotage the test.

  • E6
    Operation Deep-Freeze
    Aired · Wed, Oct 30, 1968 · 50m

    Craig and Richard are sent to Antarctica to investigate an unexplained nuclear explosion, and discover that an unnamed South American country is using the territory to develop its own nuclear weapon.

  • E7
    The Survivors
    Aired · Wed, Nov 6, 1968 · 50m

    The trio are sent to investigate the possibility that caches of guns have been left in Austria by the SS, and end up discovering a secret Nazi hideout in the local iron mines, complete with surviving Nazis who think the Second World War is still going on.

  • E8
    To Trap a Rat
    Aired · Wed, Nov 13, 1968 · 50m

    Using Sharron as a decoy, the agents investigate a drug-running racket in London.

  • E9
    The Iron Man
    Aired · Wed, Nov 20, 1968 · 50m

    This was one of the more comedic episodes.The trio are detailed to guard the former dictator of a small South American country, La Revada, who is living in exile in the South of France. This is because some of his political opponents are planning to assassinate him, which would destabilise the political situation in the region. El Caudillo (as the former dictator insists on being called) turns out to be a vainglorious, not-very-intelligent womaniser who likes to prove that he is superior to everyone around him.

  • E10
    The Ghost Plane
    Aired · Wed, Nov 27, 1968 · 50m

    The Champions investigate a mysterious 'ghost plane' which is both faster than anything else in the air and of unknown origin.

  • E11
    The Dark Island
    Aired · Wed, Dec 4, 1968 · 50m

    The Champions are sent to investigate a tropical island where visitors have a history of disappearing. Coming on shore in two parties, they discover and thwart an international conspiracy to threaten world peace.

  • E12
    The Fanatics
    Aired · Wed, Dec 11, 1968 · 50m

    An unknown organisation is assassinating international leaders. Richard, posing as a convicted traitor, is sent to infiltrate the organisation and try and bring it down from within.

  • E13
    Twelve Hours
    Aired · Wed, Dec 18, 1968 · 50m

    The Champions are assigned to escort an Eastern European head of state, Dubrovnik, on his visit to Britain. During a dive in a Scottish loch, their submarine is sabotaged and Dubrovnik is injured. Richard and Sharron are forced to face down a mutiny within the crew, who want to surface and save their lives; the submarine cannot be allowed to surface if Dubrovnik is to survive the surgery, which Sharron has performed.

  • E14
    The Search
    Aired · Wed, Jan 1, 1969 · 50m

    After a nuclear submarine is stolen by ex-Nazis who are determined to use it to continue the war, the Champions are tasked with hunting it down.

  • E15
    The Gilded Cage
    Aired · Wed, Jan 8, 1969 · 50m

    After burglars break into Nemesis headquarters to access information on Richard, Craig is assigned to monitor him. Richard, however, allows himself to be abducted, leaving a message for his colleague. He finds himself imprisoned in a luxurious room (the "gilded cage" of the title), where his captor (John Carson) threatens him that, unless Richard can decipher a code, a young woman, Samantha (Jennie Linden), will be killed.

  • E16
    Shadow of the Panther
    Aired · Wed, Jan 15, 1969 · 50m

    Whilst on holiday in Haiti, Sharron investigates a plot to brainwash important figures in the worlds of politics, science and business, apparently orchestrated by a local sorcerer, Damballa. Richard and Craig become involved later, only to discover that Sharron has apparently been discovered by the plotters and brainwashed herself.

  • E17
    A Case of Lemmings
    Aired · Wed, Jan 22, 1969 · 50m

    The trio are sent to investigate when several Interpol agents commit motiveless suicide. They discover that an Italian-American gangster forms the only connection between the agents, and set up a sting in which Craig threatens him, so as to discover his methodology.

  • E18
    The Interrogation
    Aired · Wed, Jan 29, 1969 · 50m

    Craig is captured after a mission in Hong Kong, and held in a cell where he is subject to interrogation by various cruel means. The unnamed interrogator (Colin Blakely) wants information about Craig's last mission. Despite nearing breaking point, Craig escapes the room, only to find he is at Nemesis headquarters; the interrogator is a member of Nemesis internal security, charged with finding out how Craig completed his last mission (his report had been less than clear at certain points, which were where his powers had come into play). Tremayne halts the investigation over the interrogator's protests, but the episode ends with Craig expressing bitterness towards his colleagues for their failure to intervene. All of the three are unhappy with Tremayne as well, owing to his part in the interrogation.

  • E19
    The Mission
    Aired · Wed, Feb 5, 1969 · 50m

    The trio investigate an operation run by an ex-Nazi doctor who is providing plastic surgery, and hence future anonymity, for international criminals. Craig and Sharron go undercover as an Italian gangster and his moll; however, Richard is forced to move in and masquerade as a vagrant, in order to provide a matching blood group for them (because vagrants provide the raw biological material for the operation).

  • E20
    The Silent Enemy
    Aired · Wed, Feb 12, 1969 · 50m

    The Champions are sent on a mission to recreate the journey of a submarine, which came into port with all of its crew dead from unknown causes.

  • E21
    The Body Snatchers
    Aired · Wed, Feb 19, 1969 · 50m

    Barrett, tipped off by a journalist contact, investigates a project in the Welsh countryside that is experimenting with freezing people at the point of death so that they can be revived once medical technology is advanced enough to help them.

  • E22
    Get Me Out of Here!
    Aired · Wed, Feb 26, 1969 · 50m

    The agents rescue an eminent female scientist who has returned to her home country and been detained against her will by the dictatorship that runs it. This government wants her to do her work there, in order to gain reflected prestige from her medical discoveries.

  • E23
    The Night People
    Aired · Wed, Mar 5, 1969 · 50m

    Richard and Craig investigate Sharron's disappearance while on holiday in Cornwall, and come across rumours of witchcraft. This turns out to be a cover for an entirely different undertaking.

  • E24
    Project Zero
    Aired · Wed, Mar 12, 1969 · 50m

    The agents are sent to investigate the disappearance of several eminent scientists—the only link is that all of them have theoretically been seconded to a non-existent "Project Zero". Richard goes undercover as an electronics expert and makes it to the underground base, but is discovered and has to pose as a journalist looking for a story. Craig and Sharron are forced to follow him in.

  • E25
    Desert Journey
    Aired · Wed, Mar 19, 1969 · 50m

    In order to restore stability to a small Middle Eastern principality, the agents kidnap the son of the former Bey (played by Jeremy Brett), who is leading a dissolute life as an exile in Rome. Craig and Sharron fly him into the area but are forced to land due to a sand storm and have to cross the desert (the "journey" of the title) to get him to his destination.

  • E26
    Full Circle
    Aired · Wed, Mar 26, 1969 · 50m

    A spy is captured at a foreign embassy but manages to dispose of the film, hiding what he was doing there. Craig is placed undercover as his cellmate so that he can arrange an escape, take the man with him, and find out who is employing him.

  • E27
    Nutcracker
    Aired · Wed, Apr 2, 1969 · 50m

    After a senior figure in British Intelligence is brainwashed into breaking into his own secure vault (located underneath a tailor's shop) the Champions are sent to test its security and find out what happened.

  • E28
    The Final Countdown
    Aired · Wed, Apr 16, 1969 · 50m

    Tracking an unrepentant Nazi who has been released after years in prison in East Germany, the Champions become involved in an attempt to stop him from obtaining an ex-Nazi atom bomb.

  • E29
    The Gun-Runners
    Aired · Wed, Apr 23, 1969 · 50m

    This was one of the few episodes that did not feature two stories running side by side. The three agents work on bringing a gunrunner to justice and recovering a consignment of Japanese rifles from the Second World War.

  • E30
    Autokill
    Aired · Wed, Apr 30, 1969 · 50m

    Barka is using a lethal hallucinogenic drug to brainwash Nemesis agents and use them as assassins. Tremayne is his latest target, leading Craig, Richard and Sharron to work against time to find an antidote. During their investigations, Richard is captured by Barka and subjected to the same treatment; the target he is given to eliminate is Craig.