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I assume I had a full set of all 45 The Champions collectable cards back in the day, but if not, I certainly had most of them. The accompanying 'confectionery' is anathema to me, so was swiftly disposed of by either immediately binning it or giving it to my brother or a friend. (Its precise fate would obviously depend on who - if anyone - was with me at the time of purchase.) Nowadays, modern card sets featuring all sorts of subjects are sold by themselves (usually in packets of 6) without the need to indulge a kid's sweet tooth - if only it had been like that back in my day.
I think the cards first became available in 1968 not long after the show debuted on TV, but they'd disappeared from my neck of the woods sometime in 1969. To my mind they were 'old hat' by 1970, so imagine my surprise when on holiday in Rothesay that year, I rediscovered them in abundance in a newsagents not far from where we were staying. I bought a goodly number of them, and, if I didn't have a full set first time around, I did this time.
Inexplicably, back home from holiday, I cut the margins off the cards, but for some reason never disposed of them; they lay scattered around the 'floor' of our loft for a couple of years and, when we moved house in June of '72, I gathered them up and took them with me to our new home where they took up residence in the attic. I guess I'd just become so used to seeing them in our old loft that I wanted to continue that familiarity in our new abode. They were there, if I recall correctly, for close to the entire 11 years of our first term in the place and, unless at some point I gathered them up and disposed of them before flitting, perhaps some yet remain there, awaiting rediscovery.
Anyway, thought you might enjoy being reminded of something from your youth if you're old enough to remember them, so here's the first card in the series along with its secret decoder. Any memories of the cards or the TV show that spawned them? Then feel free to share them in the comments section.
Incidentally, Alexandra Bastedo died in 2014 at the no-age-at-all of 67, and Stuart Damon passed away in June of this year, aged 84. The third and final Champion William Gaunt (though he's filled out a bit now) is still with us today, also 84. A few years ago I treated myself to the DVD boxed set of the show, but haven't actually watched any episodes - must get around to it sometime.
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