The Champions
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196850 minZakończony

The Champions

Stacja:ITV1

Poprzedni odcinek

S01E30 - "Autokill"

Wyemitowany Apr 30, 1969, 11:00 AM

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Serial zakończony

Opis

Three already talented secret agents crash in the Himalayas and after being nursed back to health in a Shangri-la type temple, find that they have amazing new abilities.

Szczegóły

Status
Zakończony
Język
English
Czas trwania
50 min
Premiera
September 25, 1968
Zakończony
April 30, 1969
Harmonogram
Wednesday o 20:00

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Odcinki (1 Sezony · 30 Odcinków)

The Beginning

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.

Sep 25, 1968

50 min

The Invisible Man

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

Oct 2, 1968

50 min

Reply Box No. 666

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.

Oct 9, 1968

50 min

The Experiment

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.

Oct 16, 1968

50 min

Happening

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.

Oct 23, 1968

50 min

Operation Deep-Freeze

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.

Oct 30, 1968

50 min

The Survivors

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.

Nov 6, 1968

50 min

To Trap a Rat

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

Nov 13, 1968

50 min

The Iron Man

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.

Nov 20, 1968

50 min

The Ghost Plane

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

Nov 27, 1968

50 min

The Dark Island

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.

Dec 4, 1968

50 min

The Fanatics

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.

Dec 11, 1968

50 min

Twelve Hours

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.

Dec 18, 1968

50 min

The Search

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.

Jan 1, 1969

50 min

The Gilded Cage

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.

Jan 8, 1969

50 min

Shadow of the Panther

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.

Jan 15, 1969

50 min

A Case of Lemmings

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.

Jan 22, 1969

50 min

The Interrogation

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.

Jan 29, 1969

50 min

The Mission

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).

Feb 5, 1969

50 min

The Silent Enemy

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.

Feb 12, 1969

50 min

The Body Snatchers

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.

Feb 19, 1969

50 min

Get Me Out of Here!

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.

Feb 26, 1969

50 min

The Night People

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.

Mar 5, 1969

50 min

Project Zero

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.

Mar 12, 1969

50 min

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