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I'm old enough to have watched all those series but come on, there were plot holes galore and even the writers, producers, directors and actors have stated this on the commentaries of the series.

They could foresee videos or DVDs in the 60s anymore than the movie studios could foresee their films being shown on television, before television movie studios made films to show in movie theaters and once they end their circuit run in the theaters which were usually owned by the same movie studios that made the film, they got vaulted or destroyed.

This series clearly had a low budget, they use stock footage for a lot of episodes, in one episode Sharron and Craig's bllod is analyzed and is shown to have some abnormalities.

Then in a later episode Richard and Craig are exposed to a gas and refuse to get a check up by a Nemesis doctor until they see an attractive doctor walk in and they consent to the check up. In order to know if a gas has had any long term effects they would need to take a blood sample.

I also don't think that the continuity was very good on most series until the 90s when they knew that a lot of series and films would start finding their way into people's homes via videos and later DVDs, and again all the parties involved with these productions have stated these things on the DVD commentary.

I have several series from the 60s, 70s and 80s on DVD and plot lines and continuity are a problem on the commendatory on the series "The Prisoner" several people comment on how hard it was to keep continuity and that sometimes some story lines were edited to make them work because they would do all the location shots of The Village for several weeks of episodes and then go back to the studio film interior shots and some exterior shots that were actually sets modeled after the some of the buildings on the location shoot.

There is one episode where they're outside and Number Six gets hit and knocked to the ground where he's seen laying in wet mud and the jacket he's wearing has mud on it, when he gets up in another scene from a different camera angle from the rear his jacket is clean..

The women in the older series are also seen a sexist way, in one episode of the series Sharron is driving the car and hits something cracking the engine and Richard remarks "Female drivers" when it was clearly a plot device to make their get away more difficult. The funny thing about his remark is that Sharron ask him which raod to take because there is a fork in the road and he's the one that tells her to take the road with all the boulders and rocks on the road even though he had apparently scouted the region for a get awy by car earlier in the episode so he should have known which road to take.

I don't watch series from the past and expect them to be like series are now, anymore than when I watch a period or historical piece and expect people to behave the way they do now. I don't think they're any better because even I can see some of the plots are far fetched in pats and current series.

The current series are scrutinized more because people record them and watch them more than once, and can then go on line and point out plot holes, I think the creator and writer of the series "Supernatural" addresses this in an episode of the season 5 season finale using the fictional writer named Chuck to tell Sam and Dean's story. You can't please all the fans.

Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.

Thanks for the support a-carlton and Cromer52-Rosebud12! It's good to know that younger fans are still appreciated. I'd love to end up doing something in TV or movies that would allow me to pitch ideas like the Champions to people (but keeping a very close eye on where it they went with it of course).

Hang on, here's an idea that probably seems utterly pointless and crazy, however, I'll continue:

What would you think if one day, some guys at BBC sat down and decided to make more episodes of the Champions? Now I didn't say REMAKE, I said make MORE episodes. Let me explain - Basically what I mean is that they continue the series as if nothing has changed since the final episode, so if this was done, the first new episode would simply be set (TV schedule-wise) 1 week after the last episode of the classic series (as if there has been the usual weekly gap).

What they would do, is recast the lead roles (well, all the roles infact), choose some regular supporting cast members to play heros and villians (just like the old series) and then basically set to work creating the whole feel of a 60's TV show (the sets, the wardrobe, the general atmosphere). Nothing needs to be updated at all (it's still set in the late 1960's). As an added touch, they could make the BBC logo resemble the ITC logo at the start of each episode and other little things like that.

The problem is there are people who haven't seen the original series and won't understand why the characters have powers, so perhaps some kind of flashback could help.

Anyway, it's only an idea, what do you think?

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