I still prefer the less well known remake, with the elderly llama.

I actually remember watching this series when it was first on. (Nothing said European eleganza and je ne sais quoi quite like that big jet of water in Geneva, even though it appears to be spurting out of the top of Stuart Damon's head.)

But I missed the very first episode and the playground was buzzing with it the next day. (I'd have been 6 when it first appeared on our screens, at the arse-end of 1968.) To this day, I've never ever seen it. I'm about to put that right. If it's brim-full of comic potential, I might join you on Thursday for a second dollop.

Besides, I've got unfinished wasp-related business with OSP.

Someday there will be the right moment to watch The Wasp Woman. You could always start your own thread! Someone will want to watch it...

The 1st episode of The Champions is one of the best openers to a series I have ever seen. I love it. And the feem toon!

OOOOOHhhhhhh, can I join in? Pretty Please. You know that I absolutely love The Champions. Got the bubble gum cards somewhere, and the paper back book, plus I had the Joe 90 comics that it appeared in and I've also purchased the music CD recently.

Get on board, littlesue! We're off to the Himalayas! (It's a very gender-specific mountain range.)

DRINKING GAME FOR THIS EPISODE: EVERY TIME SOMEONE USES A WET WIPE.

Mine is the same as yours. Is the box set supposedly set out in 'proper' order? On this rewatch, littlesue, I just do what M'Virn tells me to....I'm scared of her...

Get on board, littlesue! We're off to the Himalayas! (It's a very gender-specific mountain range.)

DRINKING GAME FOR THIS EPISODE: EVERY TIME SOMEONE USES A WET WIPE.

Mine is the same as yours. Is the box set supposedly set out in 'proper' order? On this rewatch, littlesue, I just do what M'Virn tells me to....I'm scared of her...

Just getting my DVDs ready.
Are we going to have the correct running order as per the original broadcast back in 68/69? For us in the Southern TV region it was on Saturday evening. I've just looked at my DVD set and it doesn't seem to have them in the right order. It should be The beginning, The invisible Man, Reply box No. 666 and then The Experiment (my Grandson's fave for some reason). My disc has the the first 2 and then Operation Deep Freeze followed by A Case of Lemmings.

Well, wet wipes were invented in 1957, so they'd had time to migrate to the Himalayas.

So it's teetotal tonight then. I have choc. It's better...maybe...

Thanks for that Sue. It's going to be nice having someone sensible in the Non-B7 rewatches. Hope you enjoy it!

IMDB has a running order with dates. Seems to follow the one you quoted.

ONE sensible person on the Thursday rewatch. Will you cope with the adulation, littlesue?

Sorry I won't be able to make it tonight - a very tedious meeting, for which I am taking the minutes. I will make sure to watch this episode, though, as it looks like it's the one that sets the whole thing up.

Bother. But you're doing the Right Thing by your fellow-citizens, a characteristic the Federation promotes and respects, so you should feel doubly virtuous.

Got the menu of my box set up and running. Lovely theme tune for 7 minutes.

But since AA isn't here are we starting bang on time, M' Boss?

I hope so. Otherwise LittleSue might explode.

I've an LP of TV Themes and the Champions theme on it doesn't sound anything like one the TV...to make matters worse the chappie who wrote the sleeve notes calls it the theme from Campion House!!!! It is the Champions theme but nowhere near as nice.

Shall we strive for 7.45?