The Champions

1968 - 1969 NR 1h 00m 7.5

After a plane carrying three UN 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.

Craig Stirling, Sharron Macready, and Richard Barrett were agents for Nemesis, an international intelligence organisation based in Geneva. Their first mission as a team: investigate some potentially lethal experiments in Communist China, but as they were escaping, their plane was damaged, and crashed into a remote part of the Himalayas. When they were rescued by members an unknown society, they came away with superhuman powers; telepathy, superior strength, memory, etc. They returned to the outside world as "Champions of Law, Order, and Justice."

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Episodes:

Episode 1 The Beginning

1. The Beginning

Aired: Sep 25, 1968

Sharron MacReady, Craig Stirling and Richard Barrett work as agents for inter...

Episode 2 The Invisible Man

2. The Invisible Man

Aired: Oct 2, 1968

Surgeon John Hallam has perfected an 'invisible man', a device which is trans...

Episode 3 Reply Box No. 666

3. Reply Box No. 666

Aired: Oct 9, 1968

A young explosives expert called Semenkin is found murdered in his Jamaican h...

Episode 4 The Experiment

4. The Experiment

Aired: Oct 16, 1968

Sharron is met at an airport whilst on holiday by Major Cranmore who invites ...

Episode 5 Happening

5. Happening

Aired: Oct 23, 1968

The Champions are Down Under and Richard has infiltrated a terrorist group wh...

Episode 6 Operation Deep-Freeze

6. Operation Deep-Freeze

Aired: Oct 30, 1968

A party of scientists from the Scott Base in Antarctica, sent to investigate ...

Episode 7 The Survivors

7. The Survivors

Aired: Nov 6, 1968

The murder of three students in their tent by a lake in Austria is the latest...

Episode 8 To Trap a Rat

8. To Trap a Rat

Aired: Nov 13, 1968

Junkie Jane Purcell crashes her car after getting a fix, making her the twelf...

Episode 9 The Iron Man

9. The Iron Man

Aired: Nov 20, 1968

The Champions are required to prevent an assassination attempt on the life of...

Episode 10 The Ghost Plane

10. The Ghost Plane

Aired: Nov 27, 1968

Several American military aircraft have been attacked in the East by 'the Gho...

Episode 11 The Dark Island

11. The Dark Island

Aired: Dec 4, 1968

An American submarine crew find a rocket launcher on a small Pacific island a...

Episode 12 The Fanatics

12. The Fanatics

Aired: Dec 11, 1968

The assassination of a Middle Eastern dignitary in London is the latest in a ...

Episode 13 Twelve Hours

13. Twelve Hours

Aired: Dec 18, 1968

Sharron and Richard are acting as bodyguards to visiting Eastern European pre...

Episode 14 The Search

14. The Search

Aired: Jan 1, 1969

At Holy Loch in Scotland a team of Nazi frogmen infiltrate a nuclear submarin...

Episode 15 The Gilded Cage

15. The Gilded Cage

Aired: Jan 8, 1969

After his file is stolen from the Nemesis headquarters Richard is abducted fr...

Episode 17 A Case of Lemmings

17. A Case of Lemmings

Aired: Jan 22, 1969

In Paris three Interpol agents each separately and inexplicably commit suicid...

Episode 18 The Mission

18. The Mission

Aired: Jan 29, 1969

On the face of it Winthrop House Mission in rural Surrey is a home for down-a...

Episode 19 The Interrogation

19. The Interrogation

Aired: Feb 5, 1969

On return from a mission to Hong Kong Craig is captured and subjected to a br...

Episode 20 The Silent Enemy

20. The Silent Enemy

Aired: Feb 12, 1969

The entire crew of the submarine 'Keppel' are found dead at their posts. All ...

Episode 21 The Body Snatchers

21. The Body Snatchers

Aired: Feb 19, 1969

Two journalists find the body of missing military expert General Patterson fr...

Episode 22 Get Me Out of Here!

22. Get Me Out of Here!

Aired: Feb 26, 1969

Whilst on a philanthropic visit to her home island of San Dios medical resear...

Episode 23 The Night People

23. The Night People

Aired: Mar 5, 1969

A poacher is killed by white-robed figures he sees round a fire near Trennick...

Episode 24 Project Zero

24. Project Zero

Aired: Mar 12, 1969

Dr. Travis is shot by the post master in a remote Scottish village as he trie...

Episode 25 Desert Journey

25. Desert Journey

Aired: Mar 19, 1969

The cobalt-rich Arab country of El HaMi is on the verge of civil war and must...

Episode 26 Full Circle

26. Full Circle

Aired: Mar 26, 1969

British agent Paul Westerman is remanded in prison on suspicion of having sto...

Episode 27 Nutcracker

27. Nutcracker

Aired: Apr 2, 1969

After a trip to the dentist government minister Lord Mauncey enters a secret ...

Episode 28 The Final Countdown

28. The Final Countdown

Aired: Apr 16, 1969

After twenty-five years in prison for war crimes Nazi Field Marshall von Spli...

Episode 29 The Gun-Runners

29. The Gun-Runners

Aired: Apr 23, 1969

A cache of Japanese arms from WW2 is unearthed in a Burmese jungle before gun...

Episode 30 Autokill

30. Autokill

Aired: Apr 30, 1969

George Brading, a Nemesis agent, goes missing for two days and when he re-sur...

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Current Status: Ended

Network: ITV1

Genres: Adventure, Thriller, Sci-Fi