About: The Games Affair

The Games Affair (1975) was New Zealand's first children's television serial. The Games Affair was a six-part thriller fantasy serial for children shown on the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation where three teenagers unintentionally become involved with solving 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 billeting during the Commonwealth youth conference, held in conjunction with the Games. They stumble upon attempts by a mad professor who uses his two assistants to shoot powerful enhancer drugs into athletes during the Games.