whats this cup fever on next week, starring loads of man utd players of the 60s, never heard of it before?

Early reminder for all you mature chit chatters out there. Starts Sunday 7th March 9pm

The Champions

Craig Stirling, Sharron Macready () and Richard Barrett were agents for Nemesis, an international intelligence organisation based in Geneva. Their first mission as a team; investigate some potentially lethal experiments in Communist China, but as they were escaping, their plane was damaged, and crashed into a remote part of the Himalayas. When they were rescued by members an unknown society, they came away with superhuman powers; telepathy, superior strength, memory, etc. They returned to the outside world as "Champions of law, order and justice."

Oh they talked did they Sparrow? Whenever Alexandra Bastedo was on screen I was smitten, didn't hear a word anyone said.

Ah well, I had forget about Alex

For those who haven't seen this film "Awakenings" is an excellent watch at 11.15pm tonight on the Sony Classic channel. 


Awakenings is a 1990 American drama film based on Oliver Sacks's 1973 memoir of the same title. It tells the story of a fictional character, neurologist Dr. Malcolm Sayer, who is based on Sacks and played by Robin Williams. In 1969, he discovered beneficial effects of the drug L-Dopa. He administers it to catatonic patients who survived the 1917–1928 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica. Leonard Lowe (played by Robert de Niro) and the rest of the patients are awakened after decades and have to deal with a new life in a new time. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards.

For those who haven't seen it the classic 60s film "A Kind of Loving" (1962) is on at 11.25pm tonight on the Talking Pictures channel.

Manchester draftsman Vic Brown (Alan Bates) becomes involved with secretary Ingrid Rothwell (June Ritchie), who works at his firm. After they sleep together, she gets pregnant. Vic feels a sense of responsibility -- although he's not really in love with her -- and proposes marriage. The couple is forced to live with Ingrid's mother (Thora Hird), who treats Vic with contempt because of his working-class background. But, when tragedy strikes, Vic must decide what his new wife means to him.

starts sunday 7/3 at 9,00pm, the most beautiful girl in the world in the series " THE CHAMPIONS" ALEXANDER BASTIDO

The Champions is a British espionage thriller/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure television series. It was produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company, and consists of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network ITV during 1968–1969.[1] The series was broadcast in the US on NBC, starting in summer 1968.[2]
Agents Craig Stirling, Sharron Macready and Richard Barrett work for a United Nations law enforcement organization called 'Nemesis', based in Geneva. Barrett is a codebreaker, Stirling a pilot, and Macready a recently widowed scientist and doctor.

During their first mission as a team, their plane crashes in the Himalayas. They are rescued by an advanced civilization living secretly in the mountains of Tibet, who save their lives, granting them enhanced abilities, including extrasensory powers to communicate with one another over distances (telepathy) and to foresee events (precognition), enhanced versions of the ordinary five senses, and intellectual and physical abilities reaching the fullest extent of human capabilities.[2][3]

Many stories feature unusual villains, such as fascist regimes from unspecified South American countries, Nazis (a common theme of ITC 1960s and 1970s TV, in part owing to both the writers and the domestic audience having been of the war generation) or the Chinese. The villains' schemes often threaten world peace; Nemesis' brief is international, so the agents deal with threats transcending national interests. The main characters have to learn the use of their new powers as they go along, keeping what they discover secret from friend and foe alike. Each episode begins with a close-up shot of a map, showing the region in which the story is to take place, followed by a teaser sometimes prefaced by stock footage; this is followed by the title sequence. Immediately following that is a post-title vignette, in which one or more of the Champions demonstrates exceptional mental or physical abilities, often astonishing or humiliating others. In one example Stirling participates in a sharpshooting contest. In another, Macready's car is blocked in, two laughing passing drunks try to lift it out but she goes round to the other side and pulls it out of the parking space one-handed. Paradoxically, the narration during these often-public demonstrations usually mentions the need to keep the powers a secret.

The only other series regular is the Champions' boss, Tremayne. He does not know that his agents have special abilities, although he does ask innocent questions about just how on their missions they managed to carry out certain tasks about which their reports were vague.

Yes scrabbler it was well worth a watch.

a boy , a girl and a bike, just watched it again this morning, fab scenery of west yorkshire, malham cove etc, and a beautiful honor blackman.

Just noticed that the film is followed at 11.30pm by a 1980 biography of Nijinsky starring Alan Bates

Yes elisjohn, Alexandra not Alexander

i would have her without any doubt top 5 most beautiful women of all time , maybe top of the tree

what a cast , worth it for that alone tho not seen it

Gambling ring investigation on at the moment on the channel.

For anyone who hasn't seen this at 10.35pm tonight on BBC4 is the incredible true story of Eddie Chapman the wartime double agent.


The line about truth being stranger than fiction is never truer than when applied to Eddie Chapman, a tall, dashing chap who was also a master safe-cracker, irrepressible womaniser and, at the same time, a Second World War double agent. Journalist Ben Macintyre tells Chapman’s story with the energy of the man himself – he re-creates a safe-cracking job at a London cinema, jumps out of a hotel window in Jersey and blows up deckchairs in the garden of the house where Chapman received training from his Nazi handlers. Best of all is superb footage of an elderly, unrepentant Chapman cheerfully recalling his past misadventures.

Summary
Ben Macintyre revisits the story of wartime double agent Eddie Chapman, the subject matter of his best-selling book Agent Zigzag. He reveals how, during the Second World War, Chapman was able to dupe Nazi Germany so successfully that he was awarded the Iron Cross, the country's most prestigious decoration. Includes footage from an interview the former spy gave three years before his death in 1997.
Cast & Crew
Presenter Ben Macintyre
Director Stephen Walker
Producer Sally George

Yes a great story deptford which I've seen a few times now.

sparrow great  cryptic tip for the edgar wallace at uttoxeter yesterday  ! well done hope you backed it!

8pm tonight for Dick Emery fans on Talking Pictures.

Ooh... You Are Awful is the 1972 feature-length 'The Dick Emery Show'. It starred Dick Emery, Derren Nesbitt, Ronald Fraser and Cheryl Kennedy.

Before his death, Reggie Campbell Peek deposited a stolen £500,000 into a Swiss bank account. But Peek left a record of the account number: the digits tattooed on the bottoms of four young women, none of whom knows the value of her asset. His friend and partner-in-crime Charlie Tully, using his talent as a "master of disguise", sets out to locate those women and gain sight of the digits. Meanwhile, Tully is being watched by other - more dangerous - criminals.

the boys from brazil was on last night ,seen it loads of times good film and a very menacing performance from gregory peck as dr josef mengele !

You couldn't may it up...


It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag (1957–1958) and Crime Sheet (1959), all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.[1]