The Champions - Cult TV 1960's Series
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Hello there,
Has anyone seen or watched The Champions from the 1960's ? I have got the entire series on Digitally Remastered DVD, I must say that the Picture has improved a lot on DVD's. The Champions stars: Stuart Damon - Craig Stirling & Alexandra Bastedo as Sharon Macready & Richard Gaunt as Richard Barrett. They were three Nemesis agent's who crashed in a Tibet civilization they were brought back to life and given Super Human powers - Better Sight, Vision, Hearing Better Fighting skills etc.
Overall it was a great series by ITC, I do wish that www.networkdvd.co.uk would hurry up by releasing Edwin Astley's fantasic The Champions Scores on a Soundtrack CD.
P.S Why don't you all E-Mail that NetworkDVD company by asking them to bring it out in time for Christmas.
Kind Regards
BarryA59
Has anyone seen or watched The Champions from the 1960's ? I have got the entire series on Digitally Remastered DVD, I must say that the Picture has improved a lot on DVD's. The Champions stars: Stuart Damon - Craig Stirling & Alexandra Bastedo as Sharon Macready & Richard Gaunt as Richard Barrett. They were three Nemesis agent's who crashed in a Tibet civilization they were brought back to life and given Super Human powers - Better Sight, Vision, Hearing Better Fighting skills etc.
Overall it was a great series by ITC, I do wish that www.networkdvd.co.uk would hurry up by releasing Edwin Astley's fantasic The Champions Scores on a Soundtrack CD.
P.S Why don't you all E-Mail that NetworkDVD company by asking them to bring it out in time for Christmas.
Kind Regards
BarryA59
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I wonder who will play the three agents ?
Any links to it saying it's true
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BarryA59
As for the film - it depends who makes it but if they looking for beautiful, English actress they'll only look as far as Keira Knightly but I'd choose Charlize Theron, and Daniel Craig as Craig Stirling and Damian Lewis as Richard..
(and please find a role for Alan Rickman )
It doesn't show any thought or originality. :mad: :mad:
No more remakes please! :mad: :mad:
Let's leave The Champions alone.
Thank you.
I can see Charlise Theron in her role
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:eek: (he was so awful in Night at The Museum he should never be allowed to be in anything again!!)
Sad to say its due for release December 2008 its being directed by David "Friends" Schwimmer so draw your own conclusions
While Gaunt has appeared in some tv shows over the years in the UK Stuart Damon went on to bigger success in the US.
He was due to appear in the 1971 ITC series The Adventurer with Gene Barry but Barry's star power enabled him to get Damon fired off the series because he was too tall:eek:
Damon was paid for a whole year for doing nothing but as he was not allowed to do other work he got forgotten.
He was on the verge of going bust when he landed a short term part in the US soap General Hospital.
The short term part lasted 30 years.
The dvd has a superb reunion documentary where the cast meet up for the first time since the end of the show and its filmed at the studio where GH is made.
He's only recently in the last year or so come out of it.
Bastedo was in a Spanish horror movie called Blood Spattered Bride ,made guest appearances in other ITC series and then starred in a BBC series around 1978 called The Aphrodite Inheritance.
That was shown by UK Gold about a decade ago.
Most of the Network dvd sets coming out are including series music to accompany the still galleries but the promised cd soundtracks dont seem to be any nearer.
The Champions set has 30 minutes of incidental music.
As most of it reused time and time again I doubt there's too much more.
Use your PC and DVD Audio Extractor to lift the music onto cd
Now that's shocking - the unbelievable directed by the incomprehensible..car crash filming at it's finest..did I hear someone say straight to video??
Am glad for Stuart Damon - he was my first crush (along with Scott Tracy..:)) - but it seems Alexandra didn't remain the cool blonde - shame she was lovely..any idea where/how she is looking now?
More like straight to the bargain bin says Mrs T as the concept sounds dreadful and the bloke who did the script is David Dorfman who wrote Anger Management
An episode of After They Were Famous a couple of years ago interviewed Bastedo who IIRC was running some kind of animal sanctuary.
Considering she must be about 60 she still looks really good
No, it's Guillermo De Toro who appears to have been signed on as director.
In a strange piece of inter-topic synchronicity, it actually seems to be The Persuaders movie that Schwimmer is attached to, which doesn't bode well...
I loved The Champions when I was a youngster, and had a massive crush on La Bastedo, but I have to say that seeing it again recently for the first time in decades, I was hugely disappointed in it, and the nostalgia factor didn't paper over the cracks for me...
wait, no
I dont get it.
What connection does Superstars have to The Champions?
She didnt have a big part, but check out the party guests near the end of Batman Begins
Alexandra Bastedo had a cameo role in Batman Begins. :cool:
Edwin Astley wrote the theme tune but his version was never given a commercial release (I love the drummer giving it loads) the Tony Hatch Orchestra version was issued as a PYE Records single in 1969
The Persuaders is a classic series & so well cast Roger Moore as the English Lord & Tony Curtis the self made man. You can't recreate such things.
Same with The Saint classic Roger Moore. As much as I like Ian Ogilvy, Return of the saint didn't work for me.
The Champions is the same classic but unfortunately will be ruined by any remake film.
Just look at the Saint movie utterly dire! Aside from the gorgeously curvy Liz Shue
Starsky & Hutch movie, the less said about that the better.
According to imdb Tony Hatch composed the theme music and is credited on every episode I've ever seen.
Edwin Astley and Robert Farnon also contributed but in what capacity isn't clear.
Whoever did it, it's still the best bit of the show, to which time hasn't generally been too kind. I loved it as a child but find it unwatchable now.
In that respect I hope no-one ever thinks about doing a remake of Man In A Suitcase
The Champions theme (used on the series )was written by Tony Hatch.
Thats why its his name credited on every cd release of the tune.
I believe Edwin Astley composed the incidental music although as with all ITC shows they often used stuff originally written for other ITC series aswell as accessing library music , which is likely where the Robert Farnon stuff came from.