Stars: Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo, William Gaunt

Summary: THE CHAMPIONS, one of many British spy TV shows to air in the 1960s and 1970s, presented a bit of a different take on the genre. The Champions are three agents, Craig Sterling, Sharron Macready and Richard Barrett, working for a group called Nemesis, who crash land in Tibet after escaping from a dangerous mission in China. There, there are saved by a tribe of Tibetans who give them special powers that they use to get back to England. There, they use their powers to help them ply their trade. Contains the first two episodes of the series: The Beginning and The Invisible Man.

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By the end of the 1960s, British television had done adventurers and sleuths to death. If Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)was the supernatural spin on the mystery format, The Championswas the science-fiction version, mixing comic-book superheroics into the globe-trotting do-gooders formula. In the pilot, square-jawed Craig Sterling (Stuart Damon), model-gorgeous Sharron Macready (Alexandra Bastedo) and ironic Brit Richard Barrett (William Gaunt)--agents of an international good-guy organisation called Nemesis--find themselves in a Shangri-La-style forgotten Tibetan civilisation, where they undergo training in extrasensory perception and superhuman strength. Back home, they use their powers to tackle a mixture of ordinary crime and more complicated nefarious plans that have a semi-science fiction feel. The good-looking Damon and Bastedo seem to have had their personalities erased in the mountains, leaving Gaunt to shoulder all the acting weight. Nevertheless, it has a kind of creaky, straight-faced charm, like some lost British take on Marvel Comics' superhero teams.

Volume One covers: "The Beginning", the pilot story, with Felix Aylmer as a Tibetan lama; and "The Invisible Man", which features cranial implants and bank robbery, with Peter Wyngarde (who played the title role in Jason King) as the baddie. --Kim Newman

Aspect Ratio:	4:3 Full Frame
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive Menus, Scene Access, Character Biographies
Subtitles:	None
Year:	1968
Release Date:	July 10, 2000
Runtime:	100 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	37115 00733
Label:	I T C
Keywords:	Man, Action, Beginning, Champions, General, Invisible, Tv, Adventure, Episodes, Vol
Genre:	Action/Adventure