The Champions

(United Kingdom | ITV | 1968 – 1969)

The Champions
Series Background

One of the best remembered ITC action series from the 1960s, The Champions involved the exploits of Craig Stirling (Stuart Damon), Richard Barrett (William Gaunt) and Sharron Macready (Alexandra Bastedo) — the top agents for the international NEMESIS organisation.

Unsurprisingly they weren't the usual type of secret agent. After being involved in a plane crash in Tibet they were given mysterious powers including telepathy, super strength and increased mental powers.

The usual story would see them battling against South American/European bad guys with a typically outlandish plan that only our three super-powered heroes would be able to deal with.

As with many of the ITC action series The Champions only ran for a single season. A DVD box set containing all thirty episodes has been released in the UK.
Further Reading

Silver Champions — Series Overview
by David McIntee
  • DreamWatch Bulletin #118
  • October 1993
DVD Releases

A DVD box set containing every episode of The Champions has been released in the UK. No subtitles.

The Champions: The Complete Series
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The Champions: The Sixth Sense is Death

by
John Garforth
Cover image: The Champions, The Sixth Sense is Death, Hodder Paperbacks Ltd (1969)
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Publication Date 1969
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ISBN 0340108592

The Sixth Sense is Death is a novelisation of two episodes from the television series.

Back Cover Blurb
Within hours of accepting a holiday assignment designed to develop her psychic powers, Sharon Macready found herself made prisoner, cut off from civilisation in an eerie and frightening laboratory. And the only neighbours she seemed to have were an old man of a hundred and four living in a glass house, and twelve zombies with super powers, all called Tommy Atkins.

So that when Craig Stirling and Richard Barrett came to England to investigate a biological warfare establishment, all three found themselves caught up in a process that seemed destined to convert humanity into robots, and wipe the face of the earth with bacteriological extinction.
Television Episodes
60 Minutes | ITV | Colour

1968 The Beginning Dennis Spooner
1968 The Experiment Tony Williamson
Notes
Back cover blurb supplied by Stephen Barker
Les Champions: Lavage de Cerveau

by
Pierre Silva
Cover image: Les Champions, Lavage de Cerveau, Presses de la Cité (1977)
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Publication Date 1977
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Lavage de Cerveau is a novelisation of an episode of the television series.

Television Episodes
60 Minutes | ITV | Colour

1968 The Interrogation Dennis Spooner
Notes
  • The title, Lavage de Cerveau, translates as Brainwash.