Screenplay by TONY WILLIAMSON   Directed by DON SHARP     The Champions become boffins when a leading scientist is murdered and many others disappear—victims of a remarkable series of kidnappings.     The murder of a scientist named Travis (JOHN MOORE) is the culmination of a series of strange disappearances from among top scientific brains. The Nemesis organisation has a certain amount of information to go on—but not enough. The information is that these scientists, of various nationalities, have left their jobs to join a top secret research programme called “Project Zero”, all in the belief that they are working for the British Government. But Britain has no such project on hand. Nemesis now has the task of locating these scientists, with the added danger that their captors will be even more on the alert since the death of Travis: he must have discovered the truth.   Richard (WILLIAM GAUNT) is chosen to spring the trap. It is “leaked” that he is a boffin—a micro cell computer expert—who has resigned. The ruse works. It is not long before he is approached by a man named Forster (GOEFFREY CHATER), who introduces himself as a member of the Ministry of Science and Technology. He asks Richard if he would be interested in going before one of his Ministry Selection Boards.   Everything appears to be extraordinarily above-board. The place of the interview is to be the Ministry itself, and Richard is taken there. But the Selection Board interview itself is held in a nearby building—“for security reasons.” It’s now clear how the scientists have been fooled.   Richard is accepted and taken to the Project Zero secret establishment by ’plane. His contact with his co-Champions, Sharron (ALEXANDRA BASTEDO) and Craig (STUART DAMON), is broken. All he knows is that he has been told that the establishment is somewhere in Scotland.   The myth that the project is on behalf of the British Government is skilfully kept up: the other scientists already there have no suspicions. They are working on a fission gun that can wipe out the world’s atomic stockpiles—and the man who sees himself as a world dictator as a result is named Voss (RUPERT DAVIES). His associates are a Miss Davies (JAN HOLDEN) and Forster.   Becoming suspicious of Richard, Voss clamps an apparatus around his head which could blow him sky high. He thus has complete control over Richard’s movements, and it looks as though Voss will be able to complete his plans. But by now, Craig and Sharron have sprung the same trap and, masquerading as top scientists, are brought by Forster into the net. They arrive on the scene. Voss has three Champions to contend with...     AN PRODUCTION   Series created by Monty Berman and Dennis Spooner   © Copyright Incorporated Television Co. Ltd. MCMLXVII     Stuart Damon   Alexandra Bastedo   William Gaunt   Anthony Nicholls     Craig Stirling   Sharron Macready   Richard Barrett   Tremayne     Rupert Davies   Peter Copley   Geoffrey Chater   Reginald Jessup   Jan Holden   Nicholas Smith     Voss   Antrobus   Forster   Grayson   Miss Davies   Postmaster     Donald Morley   John Moore   Maurice Browning   John Horsley   Eric Lander   Jill Curzon   Bruce Beeby     Sloane   Travis   Wittering   Chairman   Hedges   Stewardess   Pilot     Associate Producer   Director of photography   Art director   Editor     Johnny Goodman   Frank Watts   Charles Bishop   Inman Hunter     Musical director   Theme composed by   Post-production supervisor   Production manager   Casting   Stunt arranger     Edwin Astley   Tony Hatch   Philip Aizlewood   Malcolm Chistopher   Judith Jourd   Bill Sawyer     Sound editor   Sound recordists     Music editor   Associate art director   Set dresser   Construction manager     Alan Corder   Len Abbott Claude Hitchcock   Deveril Goodman   John Graysmark   Brian Rider   Bill Greene     Second unit director   Second unit cameraman   Camera operator   Assistant director   Continuity   Special effects     Ray Austin   Jimmy Harvey   John Winbolt   Ernie Morris   Lillian Lee   Sid Pearson     Scenic artist   Production buyer   Make-up supervisor   Hairdressing   Wardrobe supervisor   Supervising electrician     A.J. Van Montagu   Sid Palmer   Gerry Fletcher   Michael Jones   Laura Nightingale   Ted Hallows       Made on location and at ASSOCIATED BRITISH ELSTREE STUDIOS ENGLAND.