The Champions Logo 'Reply Box No.666'
by Philip Broadley
Champions Cast

Jamaica: a GPU explosives expert named Semenkin is found stabbed to death in his hotel room; the man had been posing as a French businessman called M. Jean Valentin, and in his pocket is a newspaper cutting of an advertisement: ‘Wanted. A Parrot that speaks Greek. Reply Box No. 666’, with the 666 altered to ‘888’. Baffled, MI5 and the CIA enlist the help of Nemesis to investigate what Semenkin was doing in Jamaica. Craig poses as the dead man and is accepted into a group of criminals; but when they begin searching the Caribbean for something, Craig’s cover is blown - he is shot and thrown into the sea…

Stuart Damon (Craig Stirling), Alexandra Bastedo (Sharron Macready), William Gaunt (Richard Barret), Anthony Nicholls (Tremayne), David Bauer (Opening Voice-overs)*, Anton Rodgers (Jules), George Murcell (Nikko), Brian Worth (Bourges), Nike Arrighi (Corinne), Linbert Spencer (Clive), George Roubicek (Semenkin), Imogen Hassall (Cleo)
*Uncredited

Directed by Cyril Frankel

Produced by Monty Berman


TX:
UK (ATV Midlands):
9th October, 1968 @ 8.00 pm - 9.00 pm

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

*The intro-sequence: after a walk in the countryside, Craig and his girlfriend are returning to their car when the woman suddenly realises that she has lost her watch. Searching the field, Craig uses his super-hearing to locate the sound of the timepiece's ticking.