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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
1967 - 1968 7.2 (26 votes) 1 Seasons
Genres
Action & Adventure Animation Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Networks
Associated Television
Created By
Gerry Anderson
Sylvia Anderson

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

Captain Scarlet is indestructible. You are not - remember this.

Overview

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as Captain Scarlet, is a 1960s British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, John Read and Reg Hill. First broadcast on ATV Midlands from September 1967 to May 1968, it has since been transmitted in more than 40 other countries, including the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Characters are presented as marionette puppets alongside scale model sets and special effects in a filming technique that the Andersons termed "Supermarionation". This technology incorporated solenoid motors as a means of synchronising the puppet's lip movements with pre-recorded dialogue. Set in 2068, Captain Scarlet presents the hostilities between Earth and a race of Martians known as the Mysterons. After human astronauts attack their city on Mars, the vengeful Mysterons declare war on Earth, initiating a series of reprisals that are countered by Spectrum, a worldwide security organisation. Spectrum boasts the extraordinary abilities of its primary agent, Captain Scarlet. During the events of the pilot episode, Scarlet acquires the Mysteron healing power of "retro-metabolism" and is thereafter considered to be virtually "indestructible", being able to recover fully from injuries that would normally be fatal.

Key Crew

Top Cast

Francis Matthews
Francis Matthews

Captain Scarlet (voice)

Ed Bishop
Ed Bishop

Narrator / Captain Blue (voice)

Donald Gray
Donald Gray

The Mysterons / Colonel White / Captain Black (voice)

Cy Grant
Cy Grant

Lieutenant Green (voice)

Seasons

Season 0 (2001)

No overview available.

1 episodes

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1967)

2068: Earth is at war with a bizarre Martian enemy - the Mysterons. Only Spectrum the world security organisation, and its number one agent, Captain Scarlet, can hope to defend the planet against the invading aliens and stop the interglactic war of nerves before Earth is destroyed!

32 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Mysterons
1967-09-29

Spectrum officer Captain Black attacks an alien city on Mars, invoking the wrath of its ethereal inhabitants: The Mysterons. Their first act of vengeance is the attempted assassination of the World President. As part of their scheme, The Mysterons kill Captain Scarlet. They reconstruct him, now invincible and under their control but otherwise indistinguishable from the real Captain Scarlet. Will Spectrum detect the imposter in time? Will fate free the un-killable Scarlet from the Mysteron influence, making him a powerful asset for humanity in this "war of nerves"?

Runtime: 28 min
Episode 2: Winged Assassin
1967-10-06

The Mysterons second target is the Director General of the United Asian Republic. Spectrum swings into action to protect him as he prepares to board his private plane at London Airport.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 3: Big Ben Strikes Again
1967-10-13

The Mysterons threaten to destroy London and a truck carrying an atomic device goes missing and is hidden somewhere in the city. The only clue to its whereabouts is the truck driver, found unconscious in the street.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 4: Manhunt
1967-10-20

A manhunt begins for former Spectrum agent Captain Black after a failed break in at a nuclear power plant, where he is accidentally exposed to radiation and becomes detectable for 48 hours.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 5: Avalanche
1967-10-27

When the Mysterons threaten to destroy key links in the Frost Line Outer Space Defence System, Captain Scarlet and Lieutenant Green race to investigate the mysterious deaths of the personnel at Red Deer Base.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 6: White as Snow
1967-11-03

The Mysterons threaten to kill Colonel White and after their initial attempt fails, White elects to leave Cloudbase so as not to place the other Spectrum agents in jeopardy.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 7: The Trap
1967-11-10

Following the latest Mysteron threat, Captain Scarlet is dispatched to supervise security at the International Air Conference at Glen Garry Castle in Scotland.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 8: Operation Time
1967-11-17

The Mysterons' cryptic threat to "kill time" has the Spectrum personnel stumped until Captain Magenta realizes that their target is General Tiempo, the Commander of Western Region World Defence.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 9: Spectrum Strikes Back
1967-11-24

Spectrum and the World President attend a secret conference on an African game reserve to demonstrate two new anti-Mysteron gadgets, a Mysteron Detector and a Mysteron Gun but the aliens announce they intend to sabotage the event.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 10: Special Assignment
1967-12-01

The Mysterons threaten to obliterate the continent of North America, but Spectrum is left without its number one agent when Captain Scarlet is dismissed for gambling offenses.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 11: The Heart of New York
1967-12-08

As the Mysterons threaten to destroy the "Heart of New York", Captain Scarlet and Captain Blue investigate the theft of Grade A Security documents from the Spectrum security vaults.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 12: Lunarville 7
1967-12-15

When the Lunar Controller claims he can negotiate peace between the moon and the Mysterons, Captain Scarlet, Captain Blue and Lieutenant Green are sent to the moon to investigate.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 13: Point 783
1967-12-22

The Mysterons take control of an experimental super-tank in an attempt to assassinate the Supreme Commander of earths armed forces.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 14: Model Spy
1967-12-29

Destiny and Symphony Angels go undercover as models when the Mysterons target fashion designer Andre Verdain, who is also the secret controller of the European Area Intelligence Service.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 15: Seek and Destroy
1968-01-05

When the Mysterons threaten to kill one of the Angels, Captain Scarlet and Captain Blue are sent to Paris, where Destiny Angel is on holiday, to escort her back to the safety of Cloudbase.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 16: Renegade Rocket
1968-01-19

The Mysterons engineer the launch of a Variable Geometry Rocket from Base Concord and their agent, Major Reeves, escapes with the destruct mechanism and target information.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 17: Crater 101
1968-01-26

Captain Scarlet, Captain Blue and Lieutenant Green volunteer for a dangerous mission to remove the power source of the Mysteron complex inside Crater 101, on the far side of the Moon, before it is destroyed by a low yield atomic device.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 18: Shadow of Fear
1968-02-02

Captain Scarlet and Captain Blue are sent to observe an operation to obtain vital orbital reconnaissance photographs of Mars. But the project is put in danger when one of the astronomers is taken over by The Mysterons.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 19: Dangerous Rendezvous
1968-02-09

Using the Mysteron pulsator recovered from the complex in Crater 101, Dr Kurnitz has developed a transmission device with which Colonel White attempts to contact the Mysterons and sue for peace.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 20: Fire at Rig 15
1968-02-16

When the Mysterons threaten to immobilize the whole of Spectrum, Captain Scarlet and Captain Blue are sent to the Spectrum oil refinery at Bensheba to protect the fuel that powers all of Spectrums vehicles.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 21: Treble Cross
1968-02-23

Captain Black engineers the death of chief test pilot Major Gravener, who is retrometabolised as a Mysteron agent as part of the Mysterons' plan to destroy the World Capital, Futura City.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 22: Flight 104
1968-03-01

When the Mysterons threaten to sabotage a vital conference at Lake Toma in Switzerland, Scarlet and Blue are assigned to escort the world's leading astrophysicist, Dr. Conrad, to Geneva.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 23: Place of Angels
1968-03-08

Mysteron agent Judith Chapman, steals a phial of deadly K14 virus - enough to kill ten million people - from Biological Research Station with the intent of poisoning a unknown cities water supply.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 24: Noose of Ice
1968-03-12

Tritonium alloy mining operations at Hotspot Tower in the North Pole are threatened when a Mysteron agent cuts the power to vital heating elements.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 25: Expo 2068
1968-03-26

A truck carrying an atomic core reactor to the new Manicougan power complex falls into the hands of the Mysterons who intend to use it to strike the Atlantic Seaboard of North America.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 26: The Launching
1968-04-02

When the Mysterons threaten to destroy President Roberts within twelve hours, Captain Scarlet is assigned to guard the skeptical President of the United States.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 27: Codename Europa
1968-04-09

The Mysterons threaten to destroy the Triumvirate of Europe, the three most powerful men on Earth after the World President.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 28: Inferno
1968-04-16

Captain Scarlet and the rest of Spectrum are in a desperate race against time to defeat the Mysteron's latest threat, the total destruction of the massive desalination plant at Najama, high in the Andes Mountains.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 29: Traitor
1968-04-23

After a series of suspicious Spectrum hovercraft crashes, Captain Scarlet and Captain Blue are sent to the Australian Outback investigate if the Mysterons claims that their is a traitor in Spectrum is true.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 30: Flight to Atlantica
1968-04-30

Spectrum personnel inexplicably take leave of their senses, due to drinking some champagne drugged by the Mysterons, who have threaten to destroy the World Navy Complex at Atlantica.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 31: Attack on Cloudbase
1968-05-07

After the Mysterons threaten Spectrum's Cloudbase headquarters, a large fast-moving trace appears on the radar.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 32: The Inquisition
1968-05-14

Captain Blue disappears from a restaurant. He awakes to find it is 3 months later and Spectrum Security want to know where he has been, and if he is even the real Captain Blue.

Runtime: 26 min

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