Counterstrike 55 years old
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.
Credits
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Jon Finch He was 28 , 71 years old when he died | |
| David Jason He was 29 , now 84 years old | |
| James Villiers He was 35 , 64 years old when he died | |
| Colin Gordon He was 58 , 61 years old when he died | |
| Hilary Mason She was 52 , 89 years old when she died | |
| Richard Hurndall He was 58 , 73 years old when he died | |
| Bruce Boa He was 39 , 73 years old when he died | |
| Robert Beatty He was 59 , 82 years old when he died | |
| Roy Boyd He was 31 , now 86 years old | |
| Clive Merrison He was 23 , now 79 years old | |
| Freddie Earlle He was 45 , 83 years old when he died | |
| John Abineri He was 41 , 72 years old when he died | |
| David Jackson | |
| Barbara Shelley She was 37 , now 92 years old | |
| Kevin Stoney He was 48 , 86 years old when he died | |
| Noel Johnson He was 52 , 82 years old when he died | |
| Tom Watson He was 2 , 34 years old when he died | |
| Arnold Diamond He was 54 , 76 years old when he died |
Crew
| Name | Job title |
|---|
Counterstrike (55 years)
Ended
- First Air Date: 1969-09-08
- Runtime: [50] minutes
- Number of Episodes: 10