The Champions - Vol. 2 - Reply Box 666 / Experiment / Happening / Operation Deep Freeze

Starring: Alexandra Bastedo, Stuart Damon Director: Cyril Frankel, Don Sharp, Freddie Francis, John Gilling, John Llewellyn Moxey, Leslie Norman, Paul Dickson, Ray Austin, Robert Asher, Roy Ward Baker, Sam Wanamaker Original UK Premiere: 1968 Dvd Release: 12th February, 2001 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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The Champions was a British espionage / science fiction adventure series produced over the course of 30 episodes during 1968-1969. The series starred Stuart Damon as Craig Stirling, Alexandra Bastedo as Sharon Macready & William Gaunt as Richard Barrett. The trio were agents for a secret spy organization called Nemesis. During a mission, their plane crashes in the Himalayas & they are rescued by an advanced civilization who save their lives & give them superhuman powers. The series was created by Dennis Spooner & its episodes were written by veterans of a number of popular British spy series of the time, including The Avengers & Danger Man. In fact, the series used an unproduced script originally written for Danger Man. The powers possessed by the three heroes included the ability to communicate with one another over long distances by ESP & the ability to foresee events that were about to happen. Although short-lived, the series is fondly remembered & is available on DVD in Britain. A North American release is expected in 2005. Posters Of The Champions

Stuart Damon is an American actor born in New York. After a series of appearances on Broadway, his appearance as the Prince in Rodgers & Hammerstein s Cinderella helped pave the way to a career in television & soap opera. He has played the role of Dr Alan Quartermaine, Sr. on General Hospital for many years & repeated the role on Port Charles. As Craig Sterling, he was one of the three stars of the cult 1960s series, The Champions. He has been married since 1961 to the former Deirdre Ann Ottewill. Perry Mason. The Case of the Killer Kiss - 1993. Young Doctors in Love - 1982 - cameo appearance. Posters Of The Champions

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Donald Sharp is a British film director. His most famous films were made for Hammer Studios in the sixties & included Kiss of the Vampire & Rasputin, the Mad Monk. Also in 65 he directed The Face of Fu Manchu, based on the character created by Sax Rohmer, here played by Christopher Lee. It is probably his finest & best-loved film. Among his other credits are the spy-comedy Our Man in Marrakesh, the fantasy Jules Vernes Rocket to the Moon & the 1978 remake of The Thirty-Nine Steps, starring Robert Powell. Don Sharp at the Internet Movie Database. Posters Of The Four Feathers

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Freddie Francis is a British cinematographer & film director. He has achieved his greatest successes as a cinematographer, including winning two Academy Awards, for Sons & Lovers & Glory. As a director, he has cult status on account of his association with the British horror studios Amicus & Hammer in the 1960s. // Originally on the way to a career in engineering, Francis left school at the age of sixteen, becoming an apprentice to a stills photographer. This led to Francis successively becoming a clapper boy, camera loader & a focus puller. In 1939, Francis joined the army, where he would spend the next seven years. About this, Francis said, Most of the time I was with various film units within the service, so I got quite a bit of experience in all sorts of jobs, including being a cameraman & editing & generally being a jack of all trades. Upon his return to civilian life, Francis spent the next ten years working as a camera operator. Some of the films he worked on during this period include The Elusive Pimpernel, The Tales of Hoffmann, Beat the Devil & Moby Dick. Posters Of The Champions

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Ray Austin is a British television director. He started his career as a stunt man & stunt coordinator, but got gradually involved as a director for film & TV. Perhaps due to his background as a stuntman, his style of direction is often highly visual & physical with a lot of movement. From some reason he appears to be surprisingly good at influencing actors to perform at peak level. 1999, The New Avengers & V He has also directed several televsion movies, including The Return of the Man from UNCL,E. The movie Virgin Witch has a minor cult following. Ray Austin at the Internet Movie Database. Posters Of Airwolf

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Sam Wanamaker was an American actor & director. Born in Chicago, Wanamaker left the States in the late 1940s because he thought he might be blacklisted due to his leftist convictions. He settled in England, where he continued his career on the stage & in pictures. He later began a long-standing affair with actress Jan Sterling. Wanamaker was instrumental in rebuilding the Globe Theatre in London. Sadly, he died of cancer before it opened in 1997. His daughter is actress Zoe Wanamaker. Posters Of The Champions

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