Endowed with the qualities and skills of superhumans - qualities and skills, both physical and mental, to the peak of human performance. Gifts given to them by an unknown race of people from a lost city in Tibet. Gifts that are a secret to be closely guarded - a secret that enables them to use their powers to their best advantage... as The Champions of Law, Order and Justice. Operators of the International Agency, Nemesis! Suspense and action are the keynotes of this stylish series in which danger is mixed with a dash of wry humour and a lot of charm and all this is set against the same global espionage backdrop as many other shows of the time.
Network DVD have released the entire remastered series as a special edition boxed set with an array of extras including 'We Were The Champions', a brand new documentary on the making of THE CHAMPIONS, featuring contributions from William Gaunt, Alexandra Bastedo, Stuart Damon - the first time they have been together since they made The Champions in the late 1960s - Johnny Goodman, Malcolm Christopher, Ken Baker, Cyril Frankel, Roy Ward Baker and Brian Clemens. There are also three audio commentaries featuring Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo and William Gaunt and others, previously unseen extended version of 'The Beginning' featuring specially shot bookend sequnces, artistes test footage, nearly thirty minutes of incidental music by Edwin Astley, Robert Farnon and Albert Elms, prepared as a musical suite and accompanied by an extensive image gallery including many behind the scenes stills, The Legend of the Champions - a feature-length compilation of The Beginning and The Interrogation, made by ITC for the overseas market in the early 1980s, an episodic Trailer gallery - a gallery of the nineteen remaining Champions trailers (with UK and US soundtracks), specially transferred from the original film elements for use in this set, a generic trailer gallery - a gallery of various generic trailers of differing lengths which have been transferred from the original film elements for use in this set., specially filmed 'Channel 9' promos, a merchandise Image Gallery of Champions memorabilia showcasing images of the merchandise produced for The Champions during the sixties and early seventies. It includes the full fronts and backs of all the Champions trading cards, Annual Material PDF - The Champions featured as an ongoing strip in the Joe 90 Top Secret comic, reconstructed ad-caps, and last but not least, variant Titles featuring unused title music composed by Robert Farnon. All in all a set well worth addign to your collection.
| title | Tx. Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| The Beginning | 25.9.68 | |
| The Invisible Man | 2.10.68 | |
| Reply Box: 666 | 9.10.68 | |
| The Experiment | 16.10.68 | |
| Happening | 23.10.68 | |
| Operation Deep Freeze | 30.10.68 | |
| The Survivors | 6.11.68 | |
| To Trap a Rat | 13.11.68 | |
| The Iron Man | 20.11.68 | |
| The Ghost Plane | 27.11.68 | |
| The Dark Island | 4.12.68 | |
| The Fanatics | 11.12.68 | |
| Twelve Hours | 18.12.68 | |
| The Search | 8.1.69 | |
| The Gilded Cage | 15.1.69 | |
| Shadow of the Panther | 22.1.69 | |
| A Case of Lemmings | 29.1.69 | |
| The Interrogation | 5.2.69 | |
| The Mission | 12.2.69 | |
| The Silent Enemy | 19.2.69 | |
| The Body Snatchers | 26.2.69 | |
| Get Me Out of Here! | 5.3.69 | |
| The Night People | 12.3.69 | |
| Project Zero | 19.3.69 | |
| Desert Journey | 26.3.69 | |
| Full Circle | 2.4.69 | |
| Nutcracker | 9.4.69 | |
| The Final Countdown | 16.4.69 | |
| The Gun-Runners | 23.4.69 | |
| Autokill | 30.4.69 |