The Champions
Alexandra Bastedo, Stuart Damon and William Gaunt in the opening credits of The Champions
Format	Sci-Fi Action Adventure
Created by	Dennis Spooner
Starring	Stuart Damon Alexandra Bastedo William Gaunt
Country of origin	UK
No. Dennis Spooner (born 1 December, 1932 in Tottenham London; died 20 September, 1986) was an English television Stuart Damon (born Stuart Michael Zonis; February 5, 1937) is an American Actor. Alexandra Bastedo (born 9 March 1946 is a British actress. Best known for her role as super-powered secret agent Sharron Macready in the 1968 British William Charles Anthony Gaunt (born 3 April 1937 in Pudsey, Yorkshire) is an English Actor, sometimes credited as The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located  of episodes	30
Production
Running time	60 min
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV
Original run	September 25, 1968 – April 30, 1969

The Champions was a British espionage/science fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network ITV during 1968–1969, produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. Independent Television (generally known as ITV) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters set up under the Independent Events 303 - On a voyage preaching the Gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Independent Television (generally known as ITV) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters set up under the Independent Lew Grade Baron Grade (25 December 1906&ndash13 December 1998 born Lev Winogradsky, was an influential Showbusiness Impresario and Television The Incorporated Television Company (ITC is a British television company largely involved in production and distribution ^[1] The series was first broadcast in the US on NBC, starting in summer 1968. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's ^[2]

Contents 1 Overview and premise 2 Production 3 Further broadcasts and releases 4 Adaptations 4.1 Films 4.2 Books 5 Episode guide 6 References 7 External links

Overview and premise

The series starred Stuart Damon as Craig Stirling, Alexandra Bastedo as Sharron Macready and William Gaunt as Richard Barrett. Stuart Damon (born Stuart Michael Zonis; February 5, 1937) is an American Actor. Alexandra Bastedo (born 9 March 1946 is a British actress. Best known for her role as super-powered secret agent Sharron Macready in the 1968 British William Charles Anthony Gaunt (born 3 April 1937 in Pudsey, Yorkshire) is an English Actor, sometimes credited as The characters are agents for a United Nations law enforcement organization called "Nemesis", which is based in Geneva. The United Nations ( UN) is an International organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in International law, International security Geneva (Genève is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French -speaking The three have different backgrounds and skills: Barrett is a code breaker, Stirling a pilot, and Macready a scientist and doctor.

During a mission, their plane crashes in the Himalayas and they are rescued by an advanced civilization living secretly in the mountains, who save their lives, granting them superhuman abilities in the process. The powers now possessed by the three heroes include the ability to communicate with one another over long distances by ESP (mental telepathy), and the ability to foresee events (precognition); they also have enhanced senses and reasoning power, and physical abilities up to the extent of human limits. ^[2][3]

Many of the stories featured unusual villains, such as fascist regimes from unspecified South American countries, neo-Nazis or the Chinese. The villains' schemes often threaten world peace in some way—Nemesis's brief is supposed to be international, so the agents deal with threats that transcend national interests and concerns. One feature of the series was that the main characters had to learn about the use of their new powers as they went along.

The only other series regular, Anthony Nicholls, played the Champions' boss, Tremayne. Tremayne does not openly acknowledge that his agents have acquired special abilities, though he does on occasion ask mock innocent questions about how they have carried out specific tasks while on missions.

Production

The series was created by Dennis Spooner and its episodes were written by veterans of a number of popular British spy series of the time, including The Avengers and Danger Man. Dennis Spooner (born 1 December, 1932 in Tottenham London; died 20 September, 1986) was an English television The Avengers was a British Television series featuring Secret agents in 1960s Britain. This article is about 1960s TV series aka "Secret Agent" also see 1990s TV series Secret Agent Man. In fact, the series used an unproduced script originally written for Danger Man.

The series was produced by Monty Berman who had co-produced, with Robert S. Baker, The Saint, The Baron and numerous B-movies of the 1950s. Nestor Montague Berman ( 26 March 1905 in Whitechapel, London, England - 14 June 2006 in London, Robert S Baker (born 1916 is a British film and Television producer, who has at times also been a Cinematographer and director The Saint was a long-running ITC Mystery Spy thriller, airing in Britain on ITV between 1962 and 1969 The Baron was a British Television series made in 1965/66 based on the books by John Creasey, written under the pseudonym Anthony Morton A B movie is a motion picture made on a low or modest budget Originally the term was used for films intended for distribution as the less-publicized second half of a Double Berman went on to produce, working with many of the same writers, directors and crew, other ITC series including Department S, Jason King, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and The Adventurer. Department S was a British Espionage / Science fiction adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. Jason King was a UK Television series produced from 1971 to 1972. Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased is a late 1960s British Private detective Television series starring Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope The Adventurer was an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one season from 1972 to 1973.

Because of budget constraints, many sets and pieces of stock footage were re-used and the series has three separate adventures set on a submarine, three set in the arctic and so on. Like most such ITC series much of the exterior action took place in and around the studio lot - usually, as was the case with The Champions, Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, Herts. Historically the name " Elstree Studios " refers to any of several Film studios that were based in the towns of Borehamwood and Elstree in

Further broadcasts and releases

Although short-lived, the series is fondly remembered and has seen several repeats in the UK, most recently on ITV's new digital channel ITV4. ITV4 is a UK Television station which launched on November 1, 2005, the channel began broadcasting 24 hours a day ^[4] In the early 1990s, the series was released on video tape in the UK. ^[5] More recently, episodes have also been released on DVD in North America,^[6] and in the UK, where the full series has been released twice, with the most recent edition seeing Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo and William Gaunt reunite to provide a commentary for several episodes (Damon's continuing role on US series General Hospital meant that Bastedo and Gaunt had to be flown to America for this to occur). DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is General Hospital (commonly abbreviated GH) is an American Soap opera broadcast on the ABC television network during the ^[7][5]

Adaptations

Films

In the 1980s, ITC edited episodes "The Beginning" and "The Interrogation" into Legends of the Champions, a feature length film intended for overseas markets. ^[5]

In November 2007, it was reported that Guillermo del Toro would produce, write and direct a film adaptation of The Champions for United Artists. Guillermo del Toro Gómez (born October 9, 1964) is an Academy Award -nominated Mexican filmmaker This article is about the film studio Previously it was affiliated with a cinema chain bearing its name now owned by Regal Entertainment Group. ^[8]

Books

Paperbacks based on the TV series include:

• The Sixth Sense is Death. By John Garforth. London: Hodder Paperbacks, 1969 (a novelisation of the episodes "The Beginning" and "The Experiment")^[9]
• Lavage de Cerveau. By Pierre Salva. Paris: Presses de la Cité, 1977^[10]

Episode guide

#	Title	Writer	Director	Guest actors	Uk airdate
01	"The Beginning"	Dennis Spooner	Cyril Frankel	Felix Aylmer, Burt Kwouk, Joseph Furst	25 September 1968
The three Nemesis agents recover from a plane crash in the Tibetan mountains to find their injuries healed. Dennis Spooner (born 1 December, 1932 in Tottenham London; died 20 September, 1986) was an English television Sir Felix Aylmer, OBE ( February 21, 1889 &ndash September 2, 1979) born Felix Edward Aylmer Jones, was a distinguished Burt Kwouk ( Chinese: 郭弼 Pinyin: Guō Bì (born July 18, 1930) is a Chinese - English Actor who was Joseph Furst was an international film and television actor known for his English language roles In the course of the episode, they learn they have new abilities bestowed on them by their rescuers, people from an ancient civilisation, and have to evade capture from the Chinese military.
02	"The Invisible Man"	Donald James	Cyril Frankel	Peter Wyngarde, Aubrey Morris, Basil Dignam, James Culliford, Steve Plytas, David Prowse	2 October 1968
The agents investigate a plot to steal the gold reserves of a bank in the City of London. Donald James (aka Donald James Wheal 1931 to 2008 was the author of the bestselling novels Vadim, Monstrum, The Fortune Teller and The Fall Peter Paul Wyngarde (born August 23 1933) is an Anglo-French actor best known for playing the character Jason King in two television series in the late Aubrey Morris (born 1926 is a British actor He has starred in over fifty films and been in many television programmes since the late-1950s Basil Dignam ( 24 October 1905 – 31 January 1979 was an English character actor James Culliford (1927–2002 was a British actor on stage film and television Steve Plytas ( 9 January 1913 in Istanbul &ndashDecember 1994 in Surrey, England) was an Actor who has worked in David Prowse, MBE (born 1 July, 1935) is an English bodybuilder weightlifter and actor most widely known for his role as the physical form
03	"Reply Box No. 666"	Philip Broadley	Cyril Frankel	Anton Rodgers, George Murcell, George Roubicek	9 October 1968
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. Anton Rodgers ( 10 January 1933 &ndash 1 December 2007) was an English Actor and occasional director best known for his
04	"The Experiment"	Philip Broadley	Cyril Frankel	David Bauer, Nicholas Courtney, Philip Bond	16 October 1968
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. David Bauer ( March 6, 1917 &ndash February 13, 1973) was an American Actor who was based primarily in Britain. Nicholas Courtney (born William Nicholas Stone Courtney on 16 December 1929) is a British Television Actor, most famous Nemesis is interested in the organisation because one of its graduates has tried to break into a military establishment and steal secrets.
05	"Happening"	Brian Clemens	Cyril Frankel	Jack MacGowran, Michael Gough	23 October 1968
Sharron, Craig and Tremayne are in Australia observing a nuclear test. Brian Horace Clemens (born 1931 in Croydon, England) is a Screenwriter and Television producer, possibly best known for his work on John Joseph "Jack" MacGowran ( October 13 1918 – January 31 1973) was an Irish character actor Michael Gough (born November 23 1913) is an Academy Award -nominated British Character actor who has appeared in over 100 films Meanwhile Richard is trapped at ground zero with amnesia, trying to stop the men who are attempting to sabotage the test.
06	"Operation Deep Freeze"	Gerald Kelsey	Paul Dickson	Patrick Wymark, Robert Urquhart, Peter Arne, Walter Gotell, George Pastell, Michael Godfrey, Derek Sydney, Martin Boddey, Alan White, Dallas Cavell	30 October 1968
Craig and Richard are sent to Antarctica to investigate an unexplained nuclear explosion and discover that an unnamed South America country is using the territory to develop its own nuclear weapon. Patrick Wymark ( 11 July 1926, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England — 20 October 1970, Melbourne Robert Urquhart was a Scottish Character actor who mainly worked in British Television during his career Peter Arne (born Peter Arne Albrecht, September 29, 1920 - August 1, 1983) was a British Character actor Walter Gotell ( March 15, 1924 - May 5, 1997) was a German -British actor known for his role as General Gogol, head
07	"The Survivors"	Donald James	Cyril Frankel	Clifford Evans, Donald Houston, Bernard Kay, Stephen Yardley, John Tate	6 November 1968
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 hide out in the local iron mines, complete with surviving Nazis. Clifford Evans ( 17 February 1912 &ndash 9 June 1985) was a Welsh Actor. Donald Daniel Houston ( November 6, 1923 &mdash October 13, 1991) was an impassive hardworking Welsh actor whose first two films Bernard Kay ( February 23 1928 in Bolton, England) is a British actor with an extensive television repertoire Stephen Yardley (born 24 March 1942) is an English Actor, known for his work on British Television in the 1970s and 1980s
08	"To Trap a Rat"	Ralph Smart	Sam Wanamaker	Kate O'Mara, Michael Guest, John Lee	13 November 1968
Using Sharron as a decoy, the agents investigate a drug running racket in London. Ralph Smart was a film and television producer director and writer born in London in 1908 and educated in England Sam Wanamaker ( June 14, 1919 &ndash December 18, 1993) was an American Film director and Actor, credited Kate O'Mara (b August 10 1939, Leicester) is an English film and television actress John Lee ( 31 March 1928 &ndash 21 December 2000) was an Australian actor
09	"The Iron Man"	Philip Broadley	John Moxey	George Murcell, Patrick Magee, Steven Berkoff	20 November 1968
This was one of the more comedic episodes. Patrick Magee ( 31 March 1922 – 14 August 1982) was a Northern Irish Tony Award -winning actor best known for his collaborations with Steven Berkoff (born 3 August 1937 is an English Actor, Writer and director. 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. However, the trio, who are posing as members of his household staff (Barrett as a chef, Macready as a secretary and Stirling as his head of security) manage to save him from the assassins, though their cover is blown in the process and they are revealed as agents of Nemesis.
10	"The Ghost Plane"	Donald James	John Gilling	Andrew Keir, Dennis Chinnery, Tony Steedman, John Bryans, Paul Grist, Derek Murcott	27 November 1968
The champions investigate a mysterious 'ghost plane' which is both faster than anything else in the air and of unknown origin. John Gilling ( May 29, 1912 - November 22, 1984) was an English Film director and Screenwriter, born in London Andrew Keir ( April 3, 1926 &ndash October 5, 1997) was a Scottish actor who rose to prominence featuring in a number of films from Dennis Chinnery (born 1926 is a British actor noted for his performances in Television. John Bryans (died 2 March 1989) was a British actor who appeared frequently on Television.
11	"The Dark Island"	Tony Williamson	Cyril Frankel	Brandon Brady, Vladek Sheybal, Alan Gifford, Andy Ho, Bill Nagy, Ben Carruthers, Richard Bond	4 December 1968
The champions are sent to investigate a tropical island where visitors have a history of disappearing. Tony Williamson (b Manchester 18 December 1932, d 19 June 1991) was a prolific British television writer, Vladek Sheybal (born Władysław Sheybal 12 March, 1923 - 16 October, 1992) was a Polish born Character actor, whose Coming on shore in two parties, they discover and thwart an international conspiracy to threaten world peace.
12	"The Fanatics"	Terry Nation	John Gilling	Donald Pickering, Julian Glover, Gerald Harper, Barry Stanton	11 December 1968
An unknown organisation is assassinating international leaders. Terry Nation ( August 8 1930 – March 9 1997) was a Welsh Television Screenwriter. Donald Pickering (born 15 November 1933) is an English actor Pickering has appeared in many television film and radio roles Julian Wyatt Glover (born March 27 1935) is an English Actor. Gerald Harper (born 15 February 1929 in London, England) is an actor best known for his work on Television, having played the title Richard, posing as a convicted traitor, is sent to infiltrate the organisation and try and bring it down from within.
13	"Twelve Hours"	Donald James	Paul Dickson	Mike Pratt, Peter Howell, Henry Gilbert, Rio Fanning	18 December 1968
The Champions are assigned to escort an Eastern European head of state, Dubrovnik, on his visit to Britain. Peter Howell (born 1919 is a British Actor. A regular in 1950s television hospital drama series Emergency Ward 10, he has made Henry Gilbert (died 29 January 1973) was a television actor who appeared in many popular 60s and 70s TV programmes 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. Once Dubrovnik is out of danger, Craig conveys instructions to Richard and Sharron on how to work the submarine via the scrambled phone link which, with their abilities, they can decipher.
14	"The Search"	Dennis Spooner	Leslie Norman	Joseph Furst, John Woodvine, Reginald Marsh, Gábor Baraker	1 January 1969
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. Joseph Furst was an international film and television actor known for his English language roles John Woodvine (born 21 July 1929) is an English stage and screen actor who has appeared in more than 70 theatre productions as well as a similar number This disambiguation page is on people named Reginald Marsh For other uses of "Marsh" see Marsh (disambiguation.
15	"The Gilded Cage"	Philip Broadley	Cyril Frankel	John Carson, Jennie Linden, Tony Caunter, Clinton Greyn, Vernon Dobtcheff, Sebastian Breaks	8 January 1969
After burglars break into Nemesis headquarters to access information on Richard, Craig is assigned to monitor him. John Carson (born 28 February, 1927) is a British actor noted for his appearances in film and television Jennie Linden (born 8 December 1939 in Worthing, West Sussex, United Kingdom) is an English film and television Actress Tony Caunter (born 22 September 1937 in Southampton, Hampshire, England) is a British actor best known for his portrayal Vernon Dobtcheff (born August 14, 1934) is an Anglo-French Actor. 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.
16	"Shadow of the Panther"	Tony Williamson	Freddie Francis	Zia Mohyeddin, Donald Sutherland	15 January 1969
While 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. Frederick William (Freddie Francis ( 22 December 1917 &ndash 17 March 2007) was an English Cinematographer and Zia Mohyeddin (born June 20, 1933) is a Pakistani actor famed for his voice Donald McNicol Sutherland OC (born July 17, 1935) is a Canadian Actor with a film career spanning over 50 years Richard and Craig become involved later, only to discover that Sharron has apparently been discovered by the plotters and brainwashed herself.
17	"A Case of Lemmings"	Philip Broadley	Paul Dickson	Edward Brayshaw, John Bailey	22 January 1969
The trio are sent to investigate when several Interpol agents commit motiveless suicide. Edward Brayshaw (born 18 October 1933, died 28 December 1990) was a British actor John Bailey ( 26 June 1914 in London, England - 18 February 1989) was a British actor with an extensive television 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. This proves almost too successful when Craig is slipped the "suicide drug" responsible and the others have to race against time to find him before he kills himself.
18	"The Interrogation"	Dennis Spooner	Cyril Frankel	Colin Blakely	29 January 1969
Craig is captured after a mission in Hong Kong, and held in a cell where he is subject to interrogation by various cruel means. Colin George Blakely ( 23 September 1930 - 7 May 1987) was a British Character actor. 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. Tremayne ends the investigation against the interrogator's protests, but the episode ends with Craig expressing bitterness towards his colleagues for their failure to intervene. This episode was unusual for featuring only one extra set (though it included flashbacks to earlier episodes) and for focusing mostly on one character.
19	"The Mission"	Donald James	Robert Asher	Harry Towb, Robert Russell	5 February 1969
The trio investigate an operation run by an ex-Nazi doctor who is providing plastic surgery, and hence future anonymity, for international criminals. Robert Asher (1919-1979 was a British Film director. Film career British director Robert Asher began his career as an Assistant director Harry Towb (born 27 July, 1925, in Larne, County Antrim in Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish Actor. Craig and Sharron go undercover as an Italian gangster and his moll but 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).
20	"The Silent Enemy"	Donald James	Robert Asher	Paul Maxwell, Marne Maitland, Esmond Knight, Rio Fanning, David Blake Kelly	12 February 1969
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. Robert Asher (1919-1979 was a British Film director. Film career British director Robert Asher began his career as an Assistant director Paul Maxwell ( 12 November 1921 - 19 December 1991) was an actor working mostly in British television and films where he was usually cast as Esmond Penington Knight ( 4 May, 1906 – 23 February, 1987) was an English Actor.
21	"The Body Snatchers"	Terry Nation	Paul Dickson	Bernard Lee, Philip Locke	19 February 1969
Barrett, tipped off by a journalist contact, investigates a project in the Welsh countryside which 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. Bernard Lee ( 10 January 1908 &ndash 16 January 1981) was an English Actor, best known for his role as M in Philip Locke ( 29 March 1928, London &ndash April 19, 2004) was an English actor Luckily for him (since he is captured by the people running the project and placed in cryogenic storage himself before he manages to escape) Craig and Sharron have been placed on his trail by Tremayne and help him to close the project down.
22	"Get Me Out of Here!"	Ralph Smart	Cyril Frankel	Philip Madoc, Eric Pohlmann, Godfrey Quigley	26 February 1969
The agents rescue an eminent female scientist who has returned to her home country and been detained against her will by the dictatorship which runs it. Philip Madoc (born 5 July 1934 in Merthyr Tydfil) is a Welsh actor who has had many Television and Film roles Eric Pohlmann ( July 18 1913 &ndash July 25 1979) was an Austrian - British theatre film and television Character actor Godfrey Quigley ( May 4, 1923 &ndash September 7, 1994) was an Irish stage film and television actor The government want her to do her work there, in order to gain reflected prestige from her medical discoveries. This episode featured a performance from Philip Madoc, as the scientist's sleazy estranged husband, and a sequence where Stirling and Barrett rescue the scientist from a blacked out police station (not a problem for them, as they can see in the dark).
23	"The Night People"	Donald James	Robert Asher	Terence Alexander, Adrienne Corri, Walter Sparrow, Michael Bilton, Jerold Wells	5 March 1969
Richard and Craig investigate Sharron's disappearance while on holiday in Cornwall and come across rumours of witchcraft. Robert Asher (1919-1979 was a British Film director. Film career British director Robert Asher began his career as an Assistant director Terence J Alexander (born 11 March 1923) is an English film and television Actor. Adrienne Corri (born on 13 November 1933 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is an actress of Italian parentage Michael Bilton ( 14 December 1919 &ndash 5 November 1993) was an English Actor best known for his role as Basil Makepeace Jerold Wells ( August 8, 1908 - July 19, 1999) was an English actor This turns out to be a cover for an entirely different undertaking.
24	"Project Zero"	Tony Williamson	Don Sharp	Rupert Davies, Peter Copley, Maurice Browning, Reginald Jessup, Donald Morley, Geoffrey Chater, Nicholas Smith, Jill Curzon	12 March 1969
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". Donald Sharp (born 19 April 1922, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) is a British Film director. Rupert Davies ( 22 May 1916 &ndash 22 November 1976) was a British actor Peter Copley ( May 20, 1915 &ndash October 7, 2008) was a British Television, Film and Stage Actor Maurice Browning (died 1 December 1983) was a British television actor Nicholas Smith (born 5 March 1934) is an English Actor who is best known for playing the bald jug-eared manager Mr 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. Once they get to the base they free Richard, who has been fitted with an explosive collar, and lead the scientists in an attack on the control room. However, they do not succeed in catching the people running the base and they escape with the super weapon the scientists have been developing. However, Sharron, who escaped earlier to get help, has sabotaged the weapon and the villains are destroyed when it explodes and vaporises their plane as they attempt to destroy the base.
25	"Desert Journey"	Ian Stuart Black	Paul Dickson	Jeremy Brett, Roger Delgado, Reg Lye	19 March 1969
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. Ian Stuart Black ( 21 March 1915, London - 13 October 1997) was a novelist playwright motion picture and television screenwriter Jeremy Brett (3 November 1933 – 12 September 1995 born Peter Jeremy William Huggins, was an English Actor famous among other things for his Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto ( 1 March, 1918 &ndash 18 June, 1973) was a British Actor 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 tile) to get him to his destination. Meanwhile Richard deals with the politicians in the principality, though it is Craig who saves the new Bey's life when an assassination attempt is made. This episode features Roger Delgado in a role as the Prime Minister/Vizier of the principality.
26	"Full Circle"	Donald James	John Gilling	Patrick Allen, Martin Benson, Gabrielle Drake	26 March 1969
A spy is captured at a foreign embassy but manages to dispose of the film, hiding what he was doing there. John Gilling ( May 29, 1912 - November 22, 1984) was an English Film director and Screenwriter, born in London John Keith Patrick Allen ( March 17 1927 - July 28 2006) was a British Actor and Voice actor. Gabrielle Drake (born 30 March, 1944) is a British actress who was born in Lahore Pakistan and lived in several Far East countries Craig is placed undercover as his cell mate so that he can arrange an escape, take the man with him, and find out who is employing him.
27	"The Nutcracker"	Philip Broadley	Roy Ward Baker	Michael Barrington, John Franklyn-Robbins, William Squire	2 April 1969
After a senior figure in British Intelligence is brainwashed into breaking in to his own secure vault (located underneath a tailor's shop) the champions are sent to test its security and find out what happened. Roy Ward Baker (born December 19, 1916) is an English Film director born in London. Michael Barrington ( London, April 19, 1925 &ndash June 5, 1988 in London was a British actor best known for his television work John Franklyn-Robbins (born 14 December 1931) is a British actor William Squire ( 29 April 1916, Death - 3 May 1989) was a Welsh actor of film and television
28	"The Final Countdown"	Gerald Kelsey	John Gilling	Hannah Gordon, Norman Jones, Morris Perry, Derek Newark, Alan MacNaughtan, Basil Henson	16 April 1969
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. Hannah Cambell Grant Gordon (born 9 April 1941) is a Scottish actress who is well known in the United Kingdom for her television Norman Jones (born 1935 is an English actor primarily on television best known for having appeared in three Doctor Who serials &mdash Morris Perry (born 28 March 1925 in Bromley, Kent, England) is an actor best known for his roles on Television. Derek Newark (born 8 June 1933 in Great Yarmouth - died 11 August 1998 in England) was an English actor Alan MacNaughtan (4 March 1920 &ndash 29 August 2002 was a British actor born in Bearsden, Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
29	"The Gun Runners"	Gerald Kelsey	John Gilling	William Franklyn, Wolfe Morris	23 April 1969
This was one of the few episodes which did not feature two stories running side by side. William Leo Franklyn (22 September 1925 &ndash 31 October 2006 was a British actor perhaps best known for voicing the "Schhh The three agents work on bringing a gun runner to justice and recovering a consignment of World War 2 Japanese rifles.
30	"Autokill"	Brian Clemens	Roy Ward Baker	Paul Eddington, Eric Pohlmann, Harold Innocent, Bruce Boa	30 April 1969
Barka (Eric Pohlmann) is using a lethal hallucinogenic drug to brainwash Nemesis agents and use them as assassins. Paul Eddington CBE ( 18 June 1927 – 4 November 1995) was an English Actor best known for his appearances in Eric Pohlmann ( July 18 1913 &ndash July 25 1979) was an Austrian - British theatre film and television Character actor Harold Innocent ( 18 April 1933 - 12 September 1993) was a British actor who appeared in many film and television roles Bruce Boa ( 10 July 1930 &ndash 17 April 2004) was a Canadian Actor, who found success playing the token North American Tremayne is its latest target, leading Craig, Richard and Sharron to work against time to find an antidote. During the course of their investigations, Richard is captured by Barka and subjected to the same treatment; the target he is given to eliminate is Craig. Although Richard's colleagues track down the villains and seize a sample of the drug from which an antidote can be created, the ensuing fight between them and Richard teaches Craig "a lesson in equality".

References

External links

• The Champions at the Internet Movie Database
• Series entry at BFI screenonline
• Series overview at CulTv
• Series review at Television Heaven
• Nemesis Headquarters, a fansite with comprehensive "in universe" sections

The British Film Institute ( BFI) is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to encourage the development of the arts of film television

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