The Games Affair (1975), directed by Bruce Clark, was New Zealand's first children’s television series. The Games Affair was a six-part fantasy-thriller series broadcast by the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation where 3 teenagers unintentionally become involved with exposing the no-good antics of a professor and his two assistants during the Christchurch Xth Commonwealth Games.

The show begins with Henry Ropata and his son Chris arriving at Harewood Airport to pick up Australian teenager Alley Jones and Canadian Paul Chapman whom they are housing during the Commonwealth Youth Conference, held in conjunction with the Games. They stumble upon a mad professor who, along with his two assistants, attempt to shoot athletes with powerful performance enhancing drugs during the Games.

Cast

Heroes

• Brent Bullis
• Debbie Gowland
• Dominic Solia

Villains

• John Bach
• Herb Gott
• Lynsay Laws

Others

• Elizabeth McRae^[1]
• Tom Poata

Episodes

1. "A Question of Possibility"
2. "The Porcelain Runner"
3. "A Rude Awakening"
4. "This Time We Have Them"
5. "Day of Triumph"
6. "Back to the Beginning"

Notable Moments

• An elderly lady watching the athletic events was inadvertently hit with the enhancer when the assistant wielding the dart gun was distracted. As a result, the elderly lady ended up running and winning the 100 meter sprint.
• A traffic officer stopping the scientist's car due to it being unregistered and unsafe was shot with the enhancer. After doing several super fast star-jumps, the officer frantically ran away from the scene faster than his motorcycle.
• A high-diver shot with the enhancer broke through the ceiling, and flew quite a distance, surprising the passengers of an NAC Boeing 737 before landing in a river some miles away from the stadium.

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