The Champions

:For the Marvel Comics team, see The Champions (comics)

Overview and premise

The series starred Stuart Damon as Craig Stirling, Alexandra Bastedo as Sharon Macready and William Gaunt as Richard Barrett. The trio were agents for a United Nations law enforcement organisation called "Nemesis" which was based in Geneva. During a mission, their plane crashed in the Himalayas and they were rescued by an advanced civilisation who saved their lives and gave them superhuman powers.

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Stuart Damon - Alexandra Bastedo - William Gaunt

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The powers possessed by the three heroes included the ability to communicate with one another over long distances by ESP, and the ability to foresee events that were about to happen. They also had enhanced senses, reasoning power and physical abilities up to the limit of known human abilities. One feature of the series was that they had to learn about the use of their new powers as they went along.

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Their boss, Tremayne, who was played by Anthony Nicholls, spent quite a lot of time pretending that he did not know that they had special powers. In fact, apart from the occasional mock innocent question about how they had carried out a specific task while on a mission, he never referred to their new abilities at all.

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The three agents had different backgrounds and skills. Barrett was a code breaker, Stirling a pilot and Macready was a scientist and doctor. Many of the stories featured unusual villains, such as fascist regimes from unspecified South American countries, neo-Nazis or the Chinese. The villains' schemes often threatened world peace in some way — this was because Nemesis' brief was supposed to be international, dealing with threats that transcended national interests and concerns.

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