Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35168 in VHS
• Released on: 2000-06-26
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: PAL
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 100 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
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 Champions was 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 Two includes: "Reply Box: 666", which concerns a Caribbean parrot and a bomb plot, with guest star Imogen Hassall; and "The Experiment", in which the baddies try to create a superhuman anti-Champions team, with Nicholas (Doctor Who) Courtney. --Kim Newman

Synopsis
'Reply Box No 666' is an espionage adventure set in Jamaica and 'The Experiment' is the story of a power-mad scientist.

From the Back Cover
Two men and a woman work for the top secret Nemesis organisation. Dramatically given powers, which raise their minds and senses to a fantastic level, they become super humans...but not immortal. Episode 3: Reply Box No. 666 Episode 4: The Experiment