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
Hilary Mason She was 52 , 89 years old when she died
Colin Gordon He was 58 , 61 years old when he 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
Tom Watson He was 2 , 34 years old when he died
Arnold Diamond He was 54 , 76 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

Crew

Name Job title
Counterstrike (55 years)

Ended

  • First Air Date: 1969-09-08
  • Runtime: [50] minutes
  • Number of Episodes: 10