
Written by
Gerald Kelsey | Directed by
Paul Dickson

Whilst driving in the countryside, Richard suddenly slams on the brakes and avoids hitting a small boy who runs onto the road to collect his football.
"A premonition, a clear warning of danger. One more reminder of the fantastic, astounding event that took place in the snows of Tibet. An event that enabled Richard and his two friends to walk away from the crashed plane and return to our civilisation. Able to use their powers to their best advantage as the Champions of law, order and justice. Operators of the internationla agency of Nemesis."

While investigating a large explosion in Antarctica, Craig and Richard who suspect it was nuclear, cross paths with a despotic Central American ruler, General Gomez, who plans to use atomic weapons to gain recognition from the United Nations. He captures the Nemesis agents and locks them up to freeze to death unaware that they have set his weapons to go off in two hours.

A rare disappointing episode that doesn't reach the heights which it should, given the premise and good beginning. It lacks quality for a few reasons. Firstly, Sharron is not in the episode until the last five minutes. She is sorely missed as the audience expects all three of them to be involved in the missions together, and when one of them is not there (usually it is Sharron), the team work is not as evident and therefore the episode isn't faithful to the show's original premise.
Secondly, the characters opposing Richard and Craig aren't very good. They should be menacing and believable, but they are not. General Gomez is not believable at all, along with the people who assist him. They seem far too camp, but also quite boring. Thirdly, the plot is not great, not too bad, but it is familiar territory. Tremayne stresses at the beginning how many nations inhabit the South Pole, but for some reason a small South American nation is able to have secret bases and explode nuclear weapons on the continent.
But on the pro-side, the episode starts well. The breifing by Tremayne to Craig and Richard is quite good, a lot of good humour as the audience has come to expect from the guys. Tremayne says how he is envious of their mission, since he'd like to go to Antarctica, Richard then replies that he'll bring a penguin back for him.
Along with what was said above, another problem was the below-average set design. As in "Happening", the geography and environment of the landscape can not be faithfully painted on studio walls and be realistic.


Patrick Wymark
Walter Gotell
Robert Urquhart
Peter Arne
Dallas Cavell
George Pastell
Michael Godfrey
Martin Boddy
Derek Sydney
Alan White
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General Gomez
Captain Jost
Hemmings
Margoli
The Ship's Captain
Colonel Santos
Mendoza
Commander Gregson
Zerrilli
Hoffner
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