The BEST episodes of The Champions
Every episode of The Champions ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Champions!
Craig Stirling, Sharron Macready and Richard Barrett were agents for Nemesis, an international intelligence organization based in Geneva. Their first mission as a team was to investigate some potentially lethal experiments in Communist China, but when they were escaping, their plane was damaged. They crashed into a remote part of the Himalayas where they were rescued by members an unknown civilization. They came away from the encounter with superhuman powers--telepathy, superior strength, memory, etc.--and returned to the outside world as "Champions of law, order and justice", to quote the series' opening.
#1 - Twelve Hours
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/18/1968
Richard and Sharron accompany a visiting President and his wife on a submarine journey, but an assassination attempt means that they will require all of their powers to save the President.
#2 - Shadow of the Panther
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1969
Voodoo magic? Or something with a logical explanation? This is what the Champions have to find out when a Nemesis scientist apparently dies of fear ... to the sinister background of throbbing Voodoo drums.
#3 - The Dark Island
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/4/1968
When three agents fail to return from a tropical island, the Champions are sent to investigate.
#4 - Autokill
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/30/1969
Using a fake Police Station as a hideout, a doctor programmes Nemesis agents to kill each other. When Richard is brainwashed, the Champions face their deadliest foe - each other.
#5 - The Interrogation
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/29/1969
Craig Stirling awakes to find himself imprisoned, and brutally questioned..... Why is Tremayne unconcerned?
#6 - Project Zero
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/12/1969
The Champions, disguised as scientists, investigate the disappearance of several key boffins working on the same top-secret experiment.
#7 - Nutcracker
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/2/1969
To check if a NATO vault is truly impregnable, the agents are assigned to test its security. However, the vault is programmed to kill any intruder.
#8 - Get Me Out Of Here!
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/26/1969
A world-famous doctor is held captive on a Caribbean island and The Champions are sent to the rescue.
#9 - The Experiment
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1968
Mad scientist Cranmore tries to recreate super-humans to equal the Nemesis trio. Sharron is tricked into the experiment and Cranmore awaits her rescue, hoping to ensnare Craig and Richard.
#10 - A Case of Lemmings
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/22/1969
The Champions are sent to Italy to find out why a number of Interpol agents have committed suicide.
#11 - The Night People
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/5/1969
Sharron takes a few days' holiday in Cornwall and disappears. Craig and Richard's search leads them into an encounter with hooded monks, ghostly woods and the supernatural.
#12 - The Mission
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/5/1969
Craig and Sharron pose as a gangster and his moll in an attempt to block an escape route for criminals.
#13 - The Silent Enemy
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/12/1969
Craig, Richard and Sharron have to follow the path of a nuclear submarine in which all of the crew were found dead.
#14 - Reply Box No. 666
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1968
Craig masquerades as a dead foreign agent. When he is given away as a spy, he is dropped into the ocean and Richard and Sharron frantically search the Caribbean for him.
#15 - To Trap A Rat
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1968
Drug addicts are becoming victims not only of their vice but of the lethal effects of tainted dope that is being distributed in London. Scotland Yard cannot track down the dealers and the Nemesis organisation is asked to help.
#16 - Operation Deep-Freeze
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1968
A tyrannical Central American leader establishes a nuclear missile base in Antarctica. Craig and Richard get a frosty reception.
#17 - The Beginning
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1968
Nemesis agents Craig Sterling, Richard Barrett and Sharron Macready crash-land in Tibet after stealing bacteriological material from the Chinese. Rescued by an unknown Tibetan tribe who give them special powers, they must use them to escape the pursuing Chinese.
#18 - The Search
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/1/1969
After stealing an atomic submarine, loaded with four nuclear weapons, a neo Nazi regime holds London hostage. The Champions are now in a race against time to stop these villains.
#19 - The Final Countdown
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/16/1969
The Champions, after uncovering the latest plans of a neo-Nazi Group, find that have to trace an unexploded bomb before it detonates.
#20 - The Invisible Man
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1968
Craig is captured by Dr. Hallam and has a small device implanted into his ear while unconscious. When Craig re-awakens, he hears voices in his head giving him orders. Richard and Sharron must get to Craig before he is killed.
#21 - Desert Journey
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/19/1969
The country of El Hammi is close to revolution and can only be restored with the return of the Bey, a young man currently enjoying life in Rome, who is reluctant to return to his strife ridden homeland. Craig, Sharron and Richard abduct him and try to force him to return home but with people who are making money from the turmoil looking to kill him, it might be too late.
#22 - Full Circle
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/26/1969
Craig poses as a prison inmate to find out who is attempting to free another prisoner. His subsequent escape leads him into further danger.
#23 - The Survivors
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1968
While investigating the murder of three students in the Austrian Alps, the Champions discover a map that leads them to a mine where a group of German soldiers were buried alive by the SS.
#24 - Happening
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1968
Three men find themselves in an atomic test area with a bomb due to go off at any time. If it does, it will devastate much of Australia. One of the men there is Richard Barrett.
#25 - The Gilded Cage
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1969
Richard is kidnapped from his flat and is held prisoner by a mysterious gang. Craig is sent by Tremayne to track down Richard's whereabouts.