Further Broadcasts and Releases
Although short-lived, the series had three repeat runs across the ITV regions up to 1976, and once more on ITV in the mid 1980s. It was also regularly repeated in the UK, on ITV's digital channel ITV4 until January 2011. The Champions was broadcast on BBC2 in 1995, at about the time when Gaunt was appearing in the sitcom Next of Kin and it had at least three further repeat runs after that.
Episodes were released on DVD in North America, and in the UK, where the full series has been released twice, with the most recent edition seeing Damon, Bastedo and Gaunt reunite to provide a commentary for several episodes (Damon's continuing role on US series General Hospital meant that Bastedo and Gaunt had to be flown to America for this to occur).
In 2010 company Network DVD re-released The Champions : The Complete Series'' as a complete DVD Region 2 box set of all episodes on 9 discs (including the rare 'bookends' version of the first episode). (Also they released the music from the series on 3 CDs.)
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