The Champions Logo 'The Final Countdown'
by John Kelsey
Champions Cast

Hamburg, Germany: After twenty-five years, Herr Marshall Von Splitz is released from a Russian prison, and immediately rejoin his former Nazi comrades of the Luftwaffe High Command; together they begin a search to locate a missing atom bomb dropped somewhere in Germany in 1945. When Nemesis learns of Von Splitz's plan, Craig, Richard and Sharron are sent to investigate. They track down the bomber's original pilot, who tells them the whereabouts of the device; but the three Champions arrive too late - Von Splitz and his men have found the bomb - and have armed it, planning to use the weapon to start World War III...

Stuart Damon (Craig Stirling), Alexandra Bastedo (Sharron Macready), William Gaunt (Richard Barret), Anthony Nicholls (Tremayne), David Bauer (Opening Voice-overs)*, Alan MacNaughtan (Von Splitz), Wolf Frees (Doctor Neimann), Derek Newark (Kruger), Basil Henson (Wolf Eisen), Morris Perry (Schultz), Hannah Gordon (Helden), Michael Lees (Tom Brooks)
*Uncredited

Directed by John Gilling

Produced by Monty Berman


TX:
UK (ATV Midlands):
16th April, 1969 @ 8.00 pm - 9.00 pm

Notes:
*Featuring Craig Stirling, Sharron Macready, Richard Barrett and Tremayne

*The intro-sequence: Richard is digging his Land Rover out of the snow when he spots some children playing with an unexploded mortar shell. He runs over and hurls the bomb away, and it explodes harmlessly.