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The Champions

Craig Stirling, Sharron Macready, and Richard Barrett were agents for Nemesis, an international intelligence organisation based in Geneva. Their first mission as a team: investigate some potentially lethal experiments in Communist China, but as they were escaping, their plane was damaged, and crashed into a remote part of the Himalayas. When they were rescued by members an unknown society, they came away with superhuman powers; telepathy, superior strength, memory, etc. They returned to the outside world as "Champions of Law, Order, and Justice."

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Stuart Damon
Craig Stirling
Alexandra Bastedo
Sharron Macready
William Gaunt
Richard Barrett

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

The Beginning

60 mins

Sharron MacReady, Craig Stirling and Richard Barrett work as agents for international law enforcement bureau Nemesis, based in Geneva, Whilst returning from a mission in China with bacteriological material stolen from the Chinese, their plane is shot down over the Himalayas. They survive and are nurtured by a Tibetan tribe, presided over by an elderly lama, who give them super-human strength, telepathic powers and augmented hearing. This allows them to best their pursuers and return to Geneva, though they keep their promise to the old lama not to divulge to their boss Tremayne - or anybody - how they have obtained their new strengths.

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