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Counterstrike (1969 TV series)

1969 British TV sci-fi series

Summary

1969 British TV sci-fi series

Field	Value
genre	Science fiction
starring	Jon Finch
Sarah Brackett
Katie Fitzroy
Fraser Kerr
theme_music_composer	Anthony Isaac
country	United Kingdom
language	English
num_seasons	1
num_episodes	10 (1 unaired; 6 missing)
runtime	50 minutes
channel	BBC
first_aired
last_aired

Sarah Brackett Katie Fitzroy Fraser Kerr Counterstrike is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC in 1969. It starred Jon Finch as an alien living on Earth posing as a journalist named Simon King. As King, he attempts to prevent an alien invasion.

Star Jon Finch called it "a big disappointment... a good cast but poor scripts."

The series

Counterstrike was originally proposed to the BBC in 1966 and a theme tune and effects were produced, but the project was shelved due to the airing of the US import series The Invaders on ITV, which had a similar premise.

It lasted for one series of ten episodes, of which nine episodes were actually transmitted. "Out of Mind", the sixth episode, was cancelled on the night it was due to be shown and was replaced by a documentary on the Kray brothers who, on the same day, had been refused leave to appeal against their prison sentences. "Out of Mind" was, for unknown reasons, never rescheduled; it remained unscreened and was subsequently wiped from the BBC Archives, thus making it one of the rarest pieces of British science-fiction television.

"King's Gambit", "Joker One", "On Ice" and "Nocturne" still exist in the BBC Archives as 16mm black and 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.

Cast

Jon Finch as Simon King
Sarah Brackett as Mary
Katie Fitzroy as Control
Fraser Kerr as Control

Episodes

Episode descriptions are from the Radio Times

References

Nisse, Neville. (25 November 1971). "Young man going places fast". Grimsby Evening Telegraph.
[http://wiki.delia-derbyshire.net/wiki/Counterstrike ''Counterstrike''] on the WikiDelia.
(May 20, 1967). "Granada - Monday 22nd May". TV Times.
link. (27 September 2007 , ''Lostshows.com''.)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20160919051051/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?adv=0&q=counterstrike&media=all&yf=1923&yt=2009&mf=1&mt=12&tf=00%3A00&tt=00%3A00#search BBC Radio Times online archive search], accessed 25 August 2015
Originally scheduled for 13/10/1969.

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