ksf@security.UUCP (Kieth S. Fung) (08/29/83)
THE CHAMPIONS The CHAMPIONS was one of those imported British series that was brought over during the sixties. If I remember correctly, the show was in black and white. This is a short synopsis on the first episode ( from memory of course). The series delt with a trio of British agents, one woman (blond) and two men (dark hair). In the first episode the three were sent into the Himilaian (sp?) Mountains to find and stop some sort of nasty warlord. As the three were in the mountains, they were ambushed and wounded "gravely" (actually they were all killed, but more on that later). All three of them "dreamed" of an old wise man and a strange temple. When they woke up, there was no old man, nor a temple. They awake to find that they are all healthy and well. Believing that it was all some sort of mass hysteria, they forget the episode and continue on their assigned mission. They try to track down the warlord and so, split up. The woman and the younger man are captured by the warlord, and so the two try to fake that the younger man has been killed when one of the warlord's men hits him on the head. The henchman walked over to the agent (now lying face up in the snow) and prods agent with his rifle. He cocks the rifle and the woman screams, suprised, the agent opens up his eyes (remember he was playing dead) and the henchman, realizing that the agent was faking, shoots him in the chest. The woman was dragged away, leaving the agent. The older agent appears, and finds that the younger one is not dead, only stunned, an the bullet struck a metal case in the agent's pocket. (Now here is where the show got interesting) Both men track down the warlord's carravan and decide to rescue the woman and carry out the mission. The younger man is "found" by some bad guys and he leads them to a face of a natural wall. The older agent seeing that things weren't going down just what they planned, trys to help the other agent. The bad guys come closer with their guns ready, as the older agent desperately looks for a weopon. He winds up trying to move a huge rock that drops on the pursuing men. (Now this rock is big, infact too big for a normal human to move it) The rest of the show goes on.... Final scene, All three agents realize that they are no longer what they were before the mission. All of them displayed some form of limitted telepathy, parahuman strength, extremely fast reations, ability to ignore vast amounts of pain, and other powers. All three check their bodies and find strange scar tissue where they were most greviously hurt in their "dream". They all agree that there must be no telling of their experience in the temple and that their superiors must never learn the true story. They all return to England and their boss congrats them on a sucsessful mission. End, Roll credits, Music , Fade out. This show was very exciting and (unfortunately) had very few episodes that were made. The series had the trio fight adversaries that dealt in the darker aspects of magic (eg. modern witches) to science (other espers). A very different and interesting format for a television show that has never been done again. (* NOTE: I have NOT seen this show since it was originally on my local UHF station back in the early seventies, so I can't claim that my memory on the program is all correct, but I am sure that I got over 90% right any way. I was also just a little one back then [ I'm only 21 now, its amazing what sticks in your mind isn't it]. *) Keith Fung Mitre Bedford
msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow) (08/30/83)
The Champions starred Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo and I forget who.
It *was* in colour. The offices of their organization was in Geneva and
the credits always showed the Geneva fountain. It was another one of
Lord Low Grade's mid-atlantic productions distributed by his ITC company.
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Mark Callow, Saratoga, CA.
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