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COLLECTION · Series · 1969

Counterstrike

Counterstrike is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC in 1969. The series starred Jon Finch as an alien living on Earth as a human named Simon King. He was assigned to live there to prevent an alien invasion of the planet. The programme lasted for one series of ten episodes, but only nine episodes were actually transmitted. The screening of the sixth episode, "Out of Mind", was canceled on the day it was due to be shown due to a late schedule change, being replaced by a documentary on the Kray brothers who had been refused leave to appeal against their prison sentences on that same day. For reasons that will probably never be known, "Out of Mind" was never rescheduled; it was subsequently wiped from the BBC Archives and has never been screened – thus making it possibly one of the rarest pieces of British science fiction television. The first four episodes – "King's Gambit", "Joker's One", "On Ice" and "Nocturne" – still exist in the BBC Archives as 16mm Black & White Film telerecordings, while the remaining five transmitted instalments – "Monolith", "The Lemming Syndrome", "Backlash", "All That Glisters" and "The Mutant" – are listed as missing by the Lost Shows website.

Source: TMDB
* 7.0 (2)DramaFantasyScience FictionUnited Kingdom
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Creators
Tony Williamson
Countries
United Kingdom
Studios
BBC One · BBC
Runtime
50 min/ep
Release
08/09/1969
Score
7.0 / 10 (2)
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Seasons and episodes
Miniseries
10 episodes · 1969

Simon King, an alien agent from the Inter Galactic Council, is sent to Earth on a mission to stop unscrupulous refugees from a dying planet from wiping out Mankind and taking over the planet Earth.

Episode 1. King's Gambit
1969-09-08 · 50 min

Two apparently respectable businessmen, running an electronics factory, are investigated by a journalist called Simon King. The businessmen turn out to be far from respectable and the journalist, they discover, is not a journalist. Who is…

Episode 2. Joker One
1969-09-15 · 50 min

Every war has a flashpoint, a fuse, a detonator—something, however small, that triggers it. In 1914, it was an assassin's bullet at Sarajevo. What could trigger an atomic war today? The Centaurans think they have the answer. And Simon, of…

Episode 3. On Ice
1969-09-22 · 50 min

Three scientists are mysteriously lost on a sledging party that set out from a polar research station.

Episode 4. Nocturne
1969-09-29 · 50 min

The madman lives in a No-Man's-Land a borderline between fantasy and reality... where the real becomes unreal, the unreal real, and life itself a waking nightmare. Simon finds himself living in such a nightmare. Has he gone mad or is he…

Episode 5. Monolith
1969-10-06 · 50 min

Sir Charles Munday is the richest man in the world. Might there be a Centauran plan to murder him?

Episode 6. Out of Mind
50 min

Mary, visiting a village where she stayed as a child, finds that the woman who used to look after her, Hannah Webley, is now regarded as a witch by the superstitious villagers and Mary herself is soon caught up in the ensuing witch hunt.…

Episode 7. The Lemming Syndrome
1969-10-20 · 50 min

143 people in one small seaside town commit suicide by drowning. Or were they under some strange and alien influence? Simon decides they probably were...

Episode 8. Backlash
1969-10-27 · 50 min

In a period of student riots, strong calls for a return to 'law and order' are made by General Falcon, a blood-and-guts commander of the Korean war. Suddenly, he starts to emerge as an important political figure capable of swaying public…

Episode 9. All That Glitters
1969-11-03 · 50 min

When adults start acting childishly, it is no surprise to Simon. By his standards, most people are childish. However, when they start acting childish even by their own standards—when a grown man plays hopscotch and another falls off a…

Episode 10. The Mutant
1969-11-10 · 50 min

A deadly new germ gets loose at a biological warfare laboratory. Can an antidote be found before the germ spreads into a killer plague?

Cast by season
Jon Finch
Jon Finch
Simon King
Sarah Brackett
Sarah Brackett
Mary
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