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Counterstrike

★ 7.5 39 votes 1969–1969 1 seasons · 10 episodes Ended BBC One
Starring
Jon FinchSarah BrackettKatie FitzroyFraser KerrRobert BeattyTom Watson
Starring
Jon FinchSarah BrackettKatie FitzroyFraser KerrRobert BeattyTom Watson
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
02468
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S17.0

About

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.

All Seasons

(uk) season 11969
7.0710
EpTitleRatingVotesRuntime
1King's Gambit7.07
2Joker One
3On Ice
4Nocturne
5Monolith
6Out of Mind
7The Lemming Syndrome
8Backlash
9All That Glistens
10The Mutant

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Jon Finch Simon King
Sarah Brackett Mary
Katie Fitzroy Control
Fraser Kerr Control
Robert Beatty Pinot
Tom Watson Len Bryant
Neil Hallett Inspector
Barbara Shelley Elaine Pinot
John Horsley Chairman
Noel Johnson Baldock

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