Screenplay by TONY WILLIAMSON   Directed by FREDDIE FRANCIS     Voodoo magic, or something far more logically explained? This is what the Champions have to find out when a Nemesis scientist apparently dies of fear... to the sinister background of throbbing Voodoo drums.     Ralph Charters (HEDGER WALLACE) is a scientist attached to Nemesis, staying at an hotel in Haiti where there is an unusually high percentage of VIPs among the guests. He succeeds in warning Tremayne (ANTHONY NICHOLLS) that something is going on there. But that’s all. It is sufficient for Tremayne to despatch Sharron Macready (ALEXANDRA BASTEDO) to Haiti, and she goes to the same hotel—only to find that Charters is dead. His hair has turned white in a matter of moments. There is every sign of his having died of fright.   Sharron herself hears the throb of voodoo drums while descending in the elevator, and the macabre atmosphere is heightened when she meets a journalist named David Crayley (DONALD SUTHERLAND) and has a drink with him in the bar. Sharron suddenly spots something in his glass, and Crayley recognises it as one of the ouanga bags used for charms or curses—“This place reeks of Voodoo,” he comments—and, calling the manager, Prengo (ZIA MOHYEDDIN), complains. Prengo says there is a telephone call from New York waiting for him, and Crayley goes off to answer it. The next time Sharron sees him, he stares at her without recognition and says her has never seen her before.   Craig Stirling (STUART DAMON) and Richard Barrett (WILLIAM GAUNT) are sent to join Sharron who, meanwhile, has been watching a remarkable voodoo performance by an illusionist named Dambala. Part of his performance is putting a red-robed girl (TANIA) in a trance and placing her in a cage with a snarling panther. Following this, Sharron goes up to her room in the elevator, and again hears the sinister voodoo-drum beat. In the corridor, a poison dart is blown at her, but misses, and she sees the red-robed cabaret girl at the end of the corridor. Then two men leap at her, and the girl attacks her. Sharron succeeds in flinging herself into the elevator and getting away from them.   Craig and Richard arrive, and Sharron walks past them without a flicker of recognition...   They, too, discover that the elevator contains a clue to the mystery and, by a process of elimination, pin-point the ninth floor. Pressing the button, they walk out into a passage which takes them into a voodoo temple. Standing in front of the altar is Dambala; watching him are a number of VIPs who left the lounge—and Sharron, who reacts very slightly to Craig’s efforts to make telepathic contact with her. To their shocked surprise, they hear her warn Dambala: “There are two Nemesis agents staying in the hotel... Craig Stirling and Richard Barrett.”   Craig and Richard get back to their room without being seen. What’s going on? It is only when Sharron manages to speak to them that they learn the startling truth and the real identity of Dambala. Ruthless men can make use of both superstition and science...     AN PRODUCTION   Series created by Monty Berman and Dennis Spooner   © Copyright Incorporated Television Co. Ltd. MCMLXVII     Stuart Damon   Alexandra Bastedo   William Gaunt   Anthony Nicholls     Craig Stirling   Sharron Macready   Richard Barrett   Tremayne     Zia Mohyeddin   Donald Sutherland   Tony Wall   Hedger Wallace   Christopher Carlos   Tania   Kenneth Gardnier     Prengo   David Crayley   Riley   Charters   Doctor   Girl in Red   Waiter     Production supervisor   Director of photography   Art director   Editor     Geoffrey Haine   Frank Watts   Charles Bishop   Peter Pitt     Musical director   Theme composed by   Post-production supervisor   Production manager   Casting   Stunt arranger     Edwin Astley   Tony Hatch   Philip Aizlewood   Malcolm Chistopher   Anthony Arnell   Bill Sawyer     Sound editor   Sound recordists     Music editor   Associate art director   Set dresser   Construction manager     Alan Corder   Len Abbott Claude Hitchcock   Deveril Goodman   John Graysmark   Brian Rider   Bill Greene     Second unit director   Second unit cameraman   Camera operator   Assistant director   Continuity   Special effects     Ray Austin   James Allen   John Winbolt   Denny Lewis   Sally Ball   Sid Pearson     Scenic artist   Production buyer   Make-up supervisor   Hairdressing   Wardrobe supervisor   Supervising electrician     A.J. Van Montagu   Sid Palmer   Gerry Fletcher   Michael Jones   Laura Nightingale   Ted Hallows       Made on location and at ASSOCIATED BRITISH ELSTREE STUDIOS ENGLAND.