The Champions Logo 'The Ghost Plane'
by Donald James
Champions Cast

Hong Kong: while out on a reconnaissance mission, a U.S. fighter squadron is destroyed; the survivors of the assault describe the aircraft that attacked them as a silver plane that flew at Mach 5. After Tremayne is informed by experts that such an aircraft is impossible, Richard and Sharron head off to the Alps to follow up a tip-off. They discover that a designer named Doctor Newman is now selling his plans for a high-speed aircraft to the Chinese, after the British decided to shelve the designs. He is shipping them two-hundred-and-fifty such planes, disguised as car parts. But when Sharron investigates, she is captured and locked up inside a freezer…

Stuart Damon (Craig Stirling), Alexandra Bastedo (Sharron Macready), William Gaunt (Richard Barret), Anthony Nicholls (Tremayne), David Bauer (Opening Voice-overs)*, Andrew Keir (Doctor John Newman), Hilary Tindall (Vanessa), Michael Wynne (Coates), Dennis Chinnery (Bridges), Tony Steedman (Hardwick), Derek Murcott (Admiral), Paul Grist (Pilot), John Bryant (Crolic)
*Uncredited

Directed by John Gilling

Produced by Monty Berman


TX:
UK (ATV Midlands):
27th November, 1968 @ 8.00 pm - 9.00 pm

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

*The intro-sequence: when a delivery man fails to engage the handbrake of his van, the vehicle begins to career down a hill towards a group of playing children. Seeing the danger, Craig chases after the speeding van and applies the brakes.