Counterstrike

(Counterstrike)

 Season 1

10 Episodes

Episodes from the first season

1 - KING'S GAMBIT

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Original title : King's Gambit
First Aired : 08.09.1969 (UK)
Director : Vere Lorrimer
Writing credits : Patrick Alexander
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The Story : Sent to Earth to protect it from invasion, Simon King comes across news stories about unidentfied objects seen over Penfield, Sussex which he belives could be the start of some new activity. Simon's investigations take him to a factory who are producing a revolutionary type of transistor radio. Simon visits the factory posing as a journalist. His visit worries the owners of the factory who look into his background. Inconsistances there make them nervous. Later that evening Simon is shot and rushed to hospital. Mary, the Doctor in casualty takes a blood sample but the results come back that the blood isn't from a human. Then King sneaks out of the hospital. Mary follows him to his home and what she finds there turns her world turned upside down...

2 - JOKER ONE

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Original title : Joker One
First Aired : 15.09.1969 (UK)
Director : Henri Safran
Writing credits : Ray Jenkins
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The Story : Peter, one of the North American agents is killed as he sends a desperate message to Simon. Simon and Mary go to New York to investigate. On arrival at the apartment Mary finds what she thinks is Simon's dead body. However, the body is Peter, as most of the agents on Earth look like Simon. Simon sees this as confirmation that whoever they are up against knows they are there and are laying a trap. Peter was posing as Doctor Westhoff, a member of a Think Tank set up to discuss ways of reducing the worlds population. Simon decides to spring the trap and takes Peter's place in the Think Tank...

3 - ON ICE

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Original title : On Ice
First Aired : 22.09.1969 (UK)
Director : Malcolm Taylor
Writing credits : Max Marquis
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The Story : Simon and Mary fake a crash landing in the Antarctic to get them into a research base there. A message from a Centauran was sent from the base. An observer sent in to find the source of the signal was killed in a sledging "accident". Simon and Mary arrive to find that the radio has been destroyed in an accident and the only contact with the outside world is a plane that will be arriving in a few days. This confirms to Simon that one of the men on the base is a Centauran. The question is, which on is it...?

4 - NOCTURNE

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Original title : Nocturne
First Aired : 29.09.1969 (UK)
Director : Cyril Coke
Writing credits : Anthony Skene
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5 - MONOLITH

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Original title : Monolith
First Aired : 06.10.1969 (UK)
Director : Henri Safran
Writing credits : Anthony Skene
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6 - OUT OF MIND

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Original title : Out of Mind
First Aired : UNAIRED
Director : Henri Safran
Writing credits : David Cullen & Patricia Hooker
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7 - THE LEMMING SYNDROME

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Original title : The Lemming Syndrome
First Aired : 20.10.1969 (UK)
Director : Vere Lorrimer
Writing credits : Cyril Abraham
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8 - BACKLASH

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Original title : Backlash
First Aired : 27.10.1969 (UK)
Director : Viktors Ritelis
Writing credits : Paul Wheeler
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9 - ALL THAT GLITTERS

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Original title : All That Glitters
First Aired : 03.11.1969 (UK)
Director : Viktors Ritelis
Writing credits : Adele Rose
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10 - THE MUTANT

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Original title : The Mutant
First Aired : 10.11.1969 (UK)
Director : William Sterling
Writing credits : Dick Sharples
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