Stars: Tim Turner, Debbie Watling, Lisa Daniely, Ernest Clark

Director: Pennington Richards

Summary: Features the episodes 'Jailbreak', 'Blind Justice', 'Bank Raid', 'Strange Partners', 'Odds Against Death' and 'Picnic With Death'.

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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 Championswas 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 One covers: "The Beginning", the pilot story, with Felix Aylmer as a Tibetan lama; and "The Invisible Man", which features cranial implants and bank robbery, with Peter Wyngarde (who played the title role in Jason King) as the baddie. --Kim Newman

Aspect Ratio:	4:3 Full Frame
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 0
Special Features:	6 Interactive Chapter Points
Release Date:	July 29, 2002
Runtime:	150 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	I P D 10682
Label:	Altitude
Keywords:	Man, General, Invisible, Tv, Drama, Vol
Genre:	Drama