The Beginning

Story

Three  Nemesis  agents  Craig Stirling, Richard Barrett & Sharron Macready are sent on a mission to steal bacteriological material from the Chinese. As they get away in their jet, the Chinese guards  shot at the plane and hit it. They are force to crash land in the mountains of Tibet, all are thought to be dead, but they are rescued by an unknown race of people who help them and give them superhuman powers. When they come to all three agents have no idea that they have these powers. The only clue they have is they all have gold scars where their injuries were....Sharron & Craig go off to try and get the stolen bugs back to the UN.  Hot on their trail are the Chinese while Richard goes off to see if he can find out the secret of who saved their lives....meanwhile Tremayne, (their boss), is under pressure to give them up for dead and makes plans to send new agents;Craig and Sharron get caught by the Chinese, while Richard finds the person who saved them and he tells  him that all three now have superhuman powers .....meanwhile, Craig gets shot and is it his powers that saves him.. not this time just his pocket compass this time. Will these superhumans be able to escape from the Chinese. That's all folks I never give away the end of the story.

Episode Rating

5 Nemesis Stars

Cast

Stuart Damon                                       Craig Stirling

Alexandra Bastedo                             Sharron Macready

William Gaunt                                       Richard Barrett

Anthony Nicholls                                   Tremayne  

Actors                                   

Characters

Felix Aylmer                                           The old man

Kenneth J. Warren                               Whittaker

Joseph Furst                                         Chislenkan

Eric Young                                             Ho Ling

Burt Kwouk                                          Chinese Major   

One liners .....after leaving Tremanye's office Sharron tells Craig and Richard-we will never be able to keep  this secret, we'll have to tell Tremanye.......Craig says:

"Sharron we don't even know what these powers are ourselves".

Points of interest

I think this is the only episode that mentions that Sharron

has been married  but her husband died.

I could be wrong let me know if you know different...

That's all for now I will of course add more and  if you can think of anything  more you would like me to add to "The Beginning" I'm open to offers and suggestions.

Rumour has it that there was a 74 minute version of this episode and that there was two more extra scenes filmed that showed Richard giving Tremayne a audio cassette of the events that took place in Tibet; At the start of the episode and the second scene at the end of the episode

all three Champions decide not to give Tremayne the cassette. A print of this episode is said to have been broadcast in Australia but as yet this has not resurfaced....

Well rumours are often true, a member of The Champions Fan Club  (click on the link you can join the club, it's free) has this taped, & has written verbatim the two scenes as below:

START

(Craig, Sharon and Richard are in Tremayne's office)

Richard: "Tremayne must have been delayed."

Craig: "Yeah, I guess so."

Richard: "Don't you think it's about time we told him what happened?"

Craig: "Told him? Tremayne? What, everything?"

Richard: "Yes, everything. How we crashed in the mountains; the meeting we had; the powers. How we ended up the way we did. Don't forget, Tremayne's got some ideas of his own already."

Sharon: "But they were only guesses."

Richard: "Well all the more reason, I'd have thought."

Sharon: "I don't know."

Craig: "I do. I'm against it. I mean, tell me Richard, how do you start?"

Richard: "At the beginning. And we wouldn't have to be present, we could put it on the tape."

Sharon: "So he couldn't ask any questions."

Richard: "If you like, yes." (Switches tape recorder on.) "Craig, Sharon and I have a story to tell you, Tremayne. A story for your ears only." (Original version of The Beginning starts, missing out the opening 'map' intro.) "It all started on our first mission together; that is, the first time Sharon worked with us. We'd arrived at the research centre. We'd left the plane at the foot of the mountains; the journey had gone as planned. We were watching the guards, waiting for our contact to signal..."

END

(Original version of The Beginning ends at the point where Craig says: "Well, when you put it that way, I guess we had a little luck.")

Richard: "And that's how we left it. We didn't give you any answers because we didn't have any. We didn't even know what the powers were ourselves." (Switches off tape recorder.) "Well, that's it."

Craig: "Every word." (Phone rings and Craig answers.) "Yes, OK, we understand, thank you." (Puts receiver down.) "Tremayne can't make it. He said he'd see us first thing in the morning."

Sharon: "Will you give him the tape then, Richard?"

Richard: "I don't know. Give it to him one day."

Craig: "Yeah. One day..."

                                   Prologue

This is the only episode without a Prologue being the first episode they don't have their powers at the beginning of the show. All other shows have a prologue to show us how Craig, Sharron & Richard use their powers on a day to day basis.

Within hours of accepting a holiday assignment designed to develop her psychic powers; Sharon Macready found herself made prisoner, cut off from civilisation in an eerie and frightening laboratory. And the only neighbours she seemed to have were an old man of a hundred and four living in a glass house, and twelve zombies with super powers, all called Tommy Atkins.

So that when Craig Stirling and Richard Barrett came to England to investigate a biological warfare establishment, all three found themselves caught up in a process that seemed destined to convert humanity into robots, and wipe the face of the earth with bacteriological extinction.

As in The paperback book "The Sixth Sense is Death"

Hodder Paperbacks, 1969, which you can read by joining

the fan club, you can read this book in it's entirety on the fan club (extra website) you need to be a fan club member, really no hidden charges (free means free LOL-makes a change!!!), this is a hobby for me, plus you get to meet people who love the show, but more importantly we get to meet you!

Another Version of the story could have gone like this.

The Beginning- Guest Appearances

(Click on actor's name to view their picture).

The very first ever episode

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