The Champions are American Craig Sterling and Britons Richard Barrett and Sharron Macready – each endowed with the qualities and skills of superhumans.
Their extraordinary physical and mental skills were given to them after they were saved and healed by a tribe from a lost city in Tibet following a plane crash in the Himalayas in episode one.
As a result of this endowment, they had amazing intuition, computer-like intelligence and Olympian levels of strength and endurance. They could also communicate using telepathy.
Their ‘gifts’ are a closely guarded secret which enables them to use their powers to their best advantage as “champions of law, order and justice”, working as agents of Geneva-based international peace agency, “Nemesis” – dedicated to controlling the balance of power throughout the world.
The Champions missions were never trivial.
They dealt only with situations that might erupt into an international incident.
On the organisation’s behalf, the super-agents were dispatched to any situation judged capable of causing a serious threat to world stability.
What lifted The Champions above the ordinary was undoubtedly the screen presence of the main characters – American heartthrob Stuart Damon, William Gaunt and blonde bombshell-with-brains Alexandra Bastedo (pictured above), later seen as a guest star in Absolutely Fabulous – with Anthony Nicholls as the trio’s imperturbable boss at Nemesis, Tremayne.
Sharron Macready Alexandra Bastedo Craig Stirling
Stuart Damon
Richard Barrett
William Gaunt
Commander W. L. Tremayne
Anthony Nicholls
Episodes
The Beginning | The Invisible Man | Reply Box No 666 | The Experiment | Happening | Operation Deep-Freeze | The Survivors | To Trap A Rat | The Iron Man | The Ghost Plane | The Dark Island | The Fanatics | Twelve Hours | The Search | The Gilded Cage | Shadow Of The Panther | A Case Of Lemmings | The Interrogation | The Mission | The Silent Enemy | The Body Snatchers | Get Me Out Of Here | The Night People | Project Zero | Desert Journey | Full Circle | The Nutcracker | The Final Countdown | The Gun Runners | Autokill
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The Beginning | The Invisible Man | Reply Box No 666 | The Experiment | Happening | Operation Deep-Freeze | The Survivors | To Trap A Rat | The Iron Man | The Ghost Plane | The Dark Island | The Fanatics | Twelve Hours | The Search | The Gilded Cage | Shadow Of The Panther | A Case Of Lemmings | The Interrogation | The Mission | The Silent Enemy | The Body Snatchers | Get Me Out Of Here | The Night People | Project Zero | Desert Journey | Full Circle | The Nutcracker | The Final Countdown | The Gun Runners | Autokill
