Captain Scarlet is the code name the Spectrum Organisation has assigned to Paul Metcalfe, a fourth-generation military officer and a former colonel in the World Army Air Force Special Forces. This article is about the Mysterons, the alien race at war against the people of Earth in the original Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. This had some of the best sets. Captain Scarlet is the best Supermarionation series from a production stand point. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Sign in to see videos available to you. The costumes, special effects and vehicles were first class. Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2020. A literally unkillable agent leads an international intelligence agency's fight against an extra-terrestrial terror campaign. To mark its fiftieth anniversary, the series has been remastered in HD from the original 35mm film elements for this Blu-ray edition it has never looked better!The year is 2068; after a misunderstanding leading to an attack on their Martian city, the Mysterons declare war on the inhabitants of Earth. The Mysterons threaten to blow up London with a bomb they have stolen. Do not upload anything which you do not own or are fully licensed to upload. I'm surprised at just how much I have enjoyed watching this through from start to finish over the past few weeks. For men & women of a certain age, this will be nostalgia that makes you glad to be the age you are. [[Category:Treble Cross][[Category:Nurses] The product label for the Captain Scarlet 4-disc set says it plays on all Regions’ (A,B & C) blu-ray players. 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. 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. Captain Scarlet was the first show where the characters looked like real people (no exaggerated eyes & lips like before). Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2015. Please try again. This was quality t.v. Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons is a thirty two episode television show created by the legendary duo of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. I love Captain Scarlet. 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. The stories match the rest of the production. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: 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. The show was produced by the company Century 21 Productions and distributed through ITC Entertainment back from September 1967 through to May 1968. ‘Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons’ is a more serious, mature and altogether darker creation than Gerry Anderson’s earlier triumphs of sci-fi supermarionation from ‘Supercar’ via ‘Fireball XL5’ and ‘Stingray’ to the bigger-budget ‘Thunderbirds’. They were - without doubt - the best thing on t.v. Spectrum race against time to stop this latest and greatest threat to mankind. And if your kids laugh about it being performed using puppets where you can see the strings, remind them that to make a show like it using real actors would have cost millions. This had the most human puppets. This is a list of episodes of the British science-fiction television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, filmed by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's production company Century 21 for distribution by ITC Entertainment.The series ran for 32 episodes and was first broadcast between 1967 and 1968 on the Associated Television network. Video availability outside of United States varies. It gave us strong female characters too with Spectrum's Angels and probably gained a bigger audience for it. © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. the only cons i have for this series is getting the theme song out of my head. Mysteron agent Judith Chapman steals a phial of deadly K14 virus - enough to kill ten million people - from Biological Research Station D near Manchester. When the Mysterons threaten to immobilise the whole of Spectrum, Scarlet and Blue are sent to the Spectrum oil refinery at Bensheba. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Although only 32 episodes were produced, they all still consist of unique, though-provoking and original entertainment, in both adult-written and well-structured script-writing (with special thanks to script editor Tony Barwick, who wrote an amazing 18 scripts, and was shockingly not credited for this), expensive and truly-realistic miniature special effects and pyrotechnics (with a second thanks to the late Derek Meddings, who worked on various 1974-1995. movie) and the most advanced puppet techniques tested and tried to the limit and brought to our screens. His name, Captain Scarlet." SIG! with none of the "actors" behaving like divas. for children at the time. 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.