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196730 minEnded

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

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S01E32 - "The Inquisition"

Aired on May 14, 1968, 9:30 AM

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The Mysterons: sworn enemies of Earth, possessing the ability to recreate an exact likeness of an object or person. But first, they must destroy. Leading the fight, one man fate has made indestructible. His name: Captain Scarlet.In the year 2068, a manned mission to the planet Mars ends in disaster when the crew of an Earth exploration vehicle encounters an amazing Martian city populated by the invisible Mysterons; misinterpreting the inhabitants' use of cameras as an act of aggression, the crew believe that they are under attack and destroy the entire complex with missiles. However, the Mysteron city then recreates itself using the unearthly process known as retrometabolism, and the enraged Mysterons vow to exact their revenge upon Earth by engaging humanity in a war of nerves. The Mysterons are able convert anyone or anything to their cause by destroying the original and then recreating it as a new, ‘Mysteronised' agent - capable of employing any means necessary to bring about the downfall of the human race…Earth's line of defence against the alien attackers is the world security organisation known as Spectrum; led by Colonel White, Spectrum uses all its available resources to thwart the Mysteron threat, including a crack team of colour-coded agents, the sleek but deadly Angel Interceptors and the tank-like Spectrum Pursuit Vehicles. One of Spectrum's top agents is Captain Scarlet; once a Mysteron agent, Scarlet was able to throw off his conditioning and regain his sense of loyalty to Spectrum, with the added bonus that he is now indestructible. Fearless in his mission to protect Earth, Captain Scarlet is aided by the brave and intelligent Captain Blue, and together they attempt to defeat the menace of the Mysterons.Developed by Gerry Anderson, ‘Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons' is a darker, grittier series to its predecessor, ‘Thunderbirds'. The puppets used are more lifelike and correctly-proportioned, and the show has an increased level of reality and violence - characters are injured, and even die, and Spectrum are not always successful in defeating the latest Mysteron masterplan.

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Status
Ended
Language
English
Runtime
30 min
Premiered
September 29, 1967
Ended
May 14, 1968
Schedule
Saturday at 10:30 AM

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Episodes (1 Season · 32 Episodes)

The Mysterons

The panicked destruction of a mysterious base on Mars unleashes the wrath of an alien race calling themselves 'The Mysterons', who promise their revenge for the attack. Captain Black is taken over to act as the Mysteron's first agent on Earth. Captains Scarlet and Brown are killed and copied by the Mysterons, with orders to kill the World President!

Sep 29, 1967

30 min

Winged Assassin

A Mysteron sniper performs an unsuccessful attempt on the forces' new target: The Director General of the United Asian Republic, with Captain Grey arriving in the nick of time, and succeeding in disposing of the eavesdropping gunman. From then on, all personnel from Cloudbase and Spectrum H.Q. – London, along with the recovering Captain Scarlet, and his original partner Captain Blue, are dispatched to protect the Director General at all costs, whom has made arrangements to return to his home country. But the Spectrum officers are completely unaware of the inbound Mysteron-reconstructed civilian Stratojet airliner, the enemies' tool to fix and complete their assassination upon the important international foreign figure.

Oct 6, 1967

30 min

Big Ben Strikes Again

In the centre of London, the capital of England, a double police-escorted transporter, carrying a nuclear explosive device, built for civilian use, seemingly goes out of control, shaking of its' motor guards and its driver regaining consciousness in a back alley. The transporter, now in the remote-controlled possession of the Mysterons, has been hidden in an under construction car park. Captains Scarlet and Blue are assigned to investigate the drivers' mysterious discovery, that the famous Big Ben clock struck 13 times, which may be a clue to finding the transporter, before it destroys the whole of Central London. However, the driver's founding's are more than unreliable due to his perplexed state of memory.

Oct 13, 1967

30 min

Manhunt

At the Culver Atomic Centre, located in Yorkshire, England, Captain Black accidentally exposes himself to a short-term radioactive isotope, when detected by the security guards, causing his hesitation. Although the isotope is physically harmless, it makes him a straight-forward target when using radiation-tracking systems during Spectrum's full-scale manhunt, to uncover and apprehend the Mysteron agent. But when the organisation is decoyed, Black manages to kidnap Symphony Angel, who disobeys direct orders from Colonel White. Instead of maintaining her aerial surveillance mission, she finds herself on death row, in a radiation chamber, and Black in absolute control, with the judgment of killing her, or letting her go free.

Oct 20, 1967

30 min

Avalanche

The Frost Line Outer Space Defence System is endangered by the Mysterons when they destroy a maintenance truck, murdering its engineer/driver in the process, as a cover to infiltrate the defence bases sited in Northern Canada, where the Mysteronised engineer intends to proceed in removing all oxygen from the bases' self-contained atmosphere. With bases' "Red Deer" and "Cariboo" already taken down, the next base in the ring, "Big Bear", is the Mysterons' final target. But if the base is attacked also, the commander-in-chief of the defence network plans to commence a vengeful missile strike on Mars, where the main Mysteron complexes are established. Colonel White desperately wants to prevent this from happening, and so, he assigns Lieutenant Green to his first off-base, "in-the-field" assignment, along with Captain Scarlet, to evaluate just how the bases are being cut off, and stop the maintenance engineer from triggering off a global disaster.

Oct 27, 1967

30 min

White as Snow

When a radio station relay and communications satellite is recreated by the Mysterons and its course altered towards Cloudbase, Colonel White orders it to be destroyed before it collides with the aerial base. Infuriated at his superior for disregarding the lives of the men on-board the satellite, Scarlet declines the opportunity to be the temporary commander-in-chief of Cloudbase, and therefore, the offer is handed to the honoured Captain Blue. Leaving for a surreptitious destination, which only White has told to Lieutenant Green about, and with harsh instructions not to publish it to anyone at all, he arrives on board the USS Panther II submarine, with the alias Robert Snow, where shortly after one of the ensign officers is, with intent, murdered and reconstructed by the Mysterons in their newest play of vengeance to kill Colonel White.

Nov 3, 1967

30 min

The Trap

A World Air Force plane carrying Commodore Goddard and his right-hand man, being escorted by Melody Angel, is struck by lightning, and crashes, soon being reconstructed by the Mysterons.The force broadcasts its current threat: that they aim to kill all 10 of the world's top air-chiefs, who make up the executive Supreme Command of the World Air Force, who want to discuss a plan to dissolve the war of nerves between Earth and the hostile force. They plan on doing so by holding an International Air Conference at the loneliest location in Europe; Glen Garry Castle in Scotland.This is however unknown to Colonel White, who is awaiting the approval from Captain Scarlet that the castle's security is set up and approved. After she brings the delegates to the castle to start the conference, Symphony Angel is taken prisoner, as is Captain Scarlet, who unexpectedly discovers the brutal plan before the delegates arrive. Leaving the air-chiefs with no warning, and in perfect firing positions to be massacred by Goddard and his personal cohort aid, will Colonel White realise in time that something is wrong? Can Captain SCarlet save the day?

Nov 10, 1967

30 min

Operation Time

General J.F. Tiempo, the Commander of the Western Regional World Defence Government, is submitted as the Mysterons' next punishment target, and the doctor who will perform a major and much-required operation on Tiempo is eradicated during a dramatic car crash involving Captain Black, and reconstructed by the Mysterons. Spectrum are still befuddled on how the force have declared their act of retaliation as to "kill time", but Captain Magenta eventually cracks the dilemma and an elaborate game is underway by the Spectrum personnel, in order to trap the person who will take the life of the General, but the Spectrum officers discover two Msyteron secrets, which will undoubtedly assist them immensely in their continuing battle with the Mysterons. But what they don't realise is that the doctor who will perform the neurosurgery operation on the General is a Mysteron killer.

Nov 17, 1967

30 min

Spectrum Strikes Back

A top-secret meeting is held with the World President and two Spectrum Intelligence Agency officers to showcase the new Mysteron electrical gun and detector. Following the inexplicable events with the late Doctor Magnus, who attempted to kill General Tiempo, the meeting takes place in the shooting grounds of an African private game reserve. Colonel White and Captains Scarlet and Blue find themselves in a treacherous hunting sport when the Mysterons attempt to prevent Spectrum from introducing their new and innovative mobile weapons in the fight against them.But, unbeknown to the group of men the security officer-in-charge, Captain Indigo, has been murdered in cold-blood by Captain Black and is now threatening the lives of everyone at the meeting. Can Scarlet stop him in time and save everyone?

Nov 24, 1967

30 min

Special Assignment

Spectrum Intelligence imparts Captain Scarlet with a "special assignment" in which he is to consciously lose at a casino, and to place himself on their debt owners list for 5,000 credits. When this is reported to Spectrum Headquarters, Colonel White fires Scarlet on the spot, for improper use of the organisation's code of conduct. Living in a shabby hotel room temporarily, a pair of Mysteron agents, posing businessmen, formulate a deal with the now Paul Metcalfe, with his I.O.U. for 5,000 credits, in return for a Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle which will be used to brake into the Nevada Nuclear City Complex and, with an atomic incendiary device onboard, obliterate the whole of North America.

Dec 1, 1967

30 min

The Heart of New York

A team of professional robbers break into a minor Spectrum Security Vault near the coast of New York, where "useless" documentation is kept, which proves quite valuable to the lawbreakers. Along with another gang member, they simulate a fake play-act for a forest lookout warden, just on the outskirts of the American capital as hopeless, potentially dangerous drunks. They set-up their car with fake lookalike puppets to deceive the warden into thinking that the 3 drunken men that he just warned has helplessly crashed off the high mountainous road, and exploded in a fireball.The gang then takes care of the warden and, deliberately posing as Mysteronised humans, they announce the force's latest plan to destroy the Second National Bank of New York, however the real Mysterons have yet to announce this at all, except for stating that they will destroy "The Heart of New York", but Colonel White understands that the bank is more than vital to fulfill the threat, as it stocks the entire gold reserve for the whole Eastern Seaboard of the country.The robbers nevertheless intend to achieve their goal, again by posing as senior agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and succeed in gaining entry through the Spectrum roadblock. With the entire American city evacuated, the bank is a sitting-duck, but Captain Black is awaiting their arrival, and only has fatal intentions in mind

Dec 8, 1967

30 min

Lunarville 7

The commanding controller of Lunarville 7 on the moon, announces that he has made direct contact with the force, and agreed to a undisturbed, and peaceful settlement, and to finally end the war of nerves. However this is a trick by the Mysterons, as the controller and his personnel aid are reconstructed agents, and have Captain Scarlet, Captain Blue and Lieutenant Green trapped on the compound when they are sent to investigate how he managed to make a deal with the Mysterons. When suspecting that the controller and his right hand man could be Mysteron agents, they leave Lunarville 7, and travel to the Humboldt Sea on the far side of the Moon, where an enormous and potentially powerful Mysteron complex is being developed and built in Crater 101.

Dec 15, 1967

30 min

Point 783

When the Mysterons threaten the life of the Supreme Commander of Earth Forces, Scarlet and Blue are assigned to escort him to SHEF HQ in New York

Dec 22, 1967

30 min

Model Spy

Two models, eager to make their names publicised and internationally known in France, are killed in a dramatic staged monorail train crash, while en route to Paris, and are rebuilt by the Mysterons, in a bid to assassinate Andre Verdain owner of the "House of Verdain", a top modelling & fashion design company, which keeps his real occupation as the controller of the European Area Intelligence Service a secret. Captains Scarlet and Blue, along with Angels Symphony and Destiny are assigned to act as French newspaper photographers and stunning, attractive models, in order to guard Verdain from any Mysteron attacks, but they are absolutely oblivious of the presence of the two female model doppelgangers.

Dec 29, 1967

30 min

Seek and Destroy

The Mysterons present to Spectrum their new act of avenge; to kill one of the Angel pilots, and with Destiny on vacation, she is their apparent target. Captains Scarlet and Blue fly to Paris to pick her up and accompany her back to Cloudbase.On the way back, three brand new un-painted Angel Interceptors, reconstructed from those that were destroyed in a scorching warehouse fire, open fire upon the Spectrum personnel, but a daring and enthralling aerial dogfight between the Mysteron aircraft and the real Spectrum Angels ensures, testing Melody Rhapsody and Harmony's outstanding skills and training to the maximum.

Jan 5, 1968

30 min

Traitor

The Australian Spectrum Hovercraft Centre, Koala Base, the university-style academy where several trainees are sent to brush up their skills and sit their practical and mental exams to become Spectrum hovercraft pilots, is the most likely place for Captains Scarlet and Blue to investigate, where several explosive sabotages have been made upon Koala's state-of-the-art hovercrafts, hence why the Mysterons latest threat states that there is a traitor within the world security organisation, and that it threatens to tear it apart from within. Already settling on a few probable suspects, including the cadet leader, their suspicions rise even further when their room is set ablaze when sleeping. But when attending a routine test-run the next day, with one of their selected suspects, the duo discovers that the traitor isn't quite what they expected...

Jan 12, 1968

30 min

Renegade Rocket

A Variable Geometry Rocket is hijacked by a Space Major Reeves, an old friend of Colonel White, who launches the space-plane and makes a quick departure in a fighter jet with the rocket's flight programme unit, to which only he knows the 4-letter self-destruct code, to obliterate the rocket before it knocks out an essential target, which happens to be Base Concord, the state-of-the-art airbase where the rocket originally left from.Captains Scarlet and Blue are assigned to self-destruct the rocket before it reaches Base Concord, but to accomplish this, they have to check 10,000 possible 4-lettered code-words, starting from 'ABLE', and they don't even know that Reeves has set the destruct code-word as 'ZERO'.

Jan 19, 1968

30 min

Crater 101

This episode concludes from where Captain Scarlet, Captain Blue and Lieutenant Green left the remains of the Lunarville 7 compound, where before they discovered a brand new Mysteron complex being assembled in Crater Number 101 of the Humboldt Sea, situated on the far side of the Moon. The power source will also provide Spectrum with ample opportunity to somehow come into direct contact with The Mysterons themselves, to try and come to a peaceful settlement. All three men volunteer to carry out a full-scale expedition by infiltrating the complex and removing its power source, so it won't become of any harmless use and so the Mysterons will not be able to reconstruct the whole complex after it's destruction. However, the bomb which is transported to destroy the entire complex is set for 10:00 S.E.T. instead of the agreed Midnight deadline, by a Mysteron agent, disguising himself as a technician officer of Lunarville 4, the space-base that equipped and informed the 3 Spectrum officers, in order to perform the mission.

Jan 26, 1968

30 min

Shadow of Fear

Captains Scarlet and Blue travel to the Himalayas to supervise and administrate Spectrum's new phase to monitor signals from a space satellite that has been launched into the orbit surrounding Mars, and to snap-shot high resolution detailed pictures of the planet, which will be relayed and received by the large mountain satellite station that the probe was launched from.The second satellite, with the first acting as a decoy, successfully lands on Mars, and sets to have Spectrum successfully completing the code-named "Project Sword" operation, but the whole carefully planned arrangement is placed under threat when one of the participating technicians ostensibly falls dead and is brought back to life by the Mysterons, with one instruction: to sabotage the observatory and to interrupt the satellites' transmission before Earth comes to learn every single detail about the force and prevent them from continuing the war of nerves and retaliation against the planet.

Feb 2, 1968

30 min

Dangerous Rendezvous

Concluding from where "Crater 101" left off, Spectrum take a chance by commencing a maximum security operation to bodyguard radio communications expert, Doctor Kurnitz from the Nash Institute of Technologies, up to Cloudbase to send a broadcasted voice message by Colonel White to the Mysterons base on Mars, in an effort to solve their differences and to end the raging war of nerves between them. But the Mysteron pulsator stolen by Captain Scarlet during the expedition to Crater 101 is used as an explosive charge to start a chain reaction on-board Cloudbase which will no doubt utterly destroy the aerial base. With Scarlet drawn away by Captain Black to prevent him from saving his fellow officers, the world-security organisation known as Spectrum is condemned to be crippled.

Feb 9, 1968

30 min

Fire at Rig 15

A flaming 1000 feet inferno at a deliberately impaired oil-drilling rig, Rig Number 15, attracts the attention of Spectrum when the Mysterons explain their new threat to "immobilize" the international- security organisation, which would render all their aerial, sea and land vehicles useless.With the ultra-sonic oil wells and Spectrum's main oil refinery at Bensheba not so far from Rig 15, and possible targets, explosive specialist Jason Smith is hired to extinguish the fire with his vast range of high explosive charges. Approaching the blazing rubble, Smith falls down in front of his tractor and is reconstructed by the Mysterons The fire is extingyished, but the real Smith is buried in the rubble by his duplicate. The next day, the doppelganger Smith departs early from the site leaving his original body near the downed rig alerting Captain Scarlet that the Mysteron is on his way to the Bensheba oil refinery to annihilate its entire processing plant.

Feb 16, 1968

30 min

Treble Cross

The Chief Test Pilot of Slaton Air Base is killed and reconstructed in a staged car crash by Captain Black, but when two medical doctors pass by, they revive the test-pilots' original body, named Major Gravener. Following this miracle, the Mysteron Major Gravener attempts to leave Slaton Air Base in a fighter jet armed with a live nuclear warhead, but is stopped in time when the base office is contacted by the hospital who revived the real Gravener. With Spectrum investigating the Mysterons' latest threat concerning the annihilation of the world capital, Futura City, they are alerted about the bewildering incident and use the real Gravener in a risky operation as the bait to discover if the Mysteron's will fall for the Major Gravener, and spring a net on the wanted Captain Black, even when the Mysteron doppelganger is already dead.!

Feb 23, 1968

30 min

Flight 104

Spectrum are involved with the safe, quiet transportation of escorting the world's leading astrophysicist, Doctor Congrad, to a conference with the World President at Lake Toma in Switzerland.After boarding their mysteriously-empty flight, which could possibly be due to it being the "slack" season with planes flying usually 3/4 empty but with no hostesses around, Captains Scarlet and Blue become suspicious, and realise that they are trapped on board the airliner, along with two tagging-along and over-confident news reporters. They soon learn that there aren't any pilots flying the machine, immediately suspecting the Mysterons are controlling it.But that's not the least of their worries when the plane starts to descend rapidly, and its nose pointing straight in the direction of the French Alps.

Mar 1, 1968

30 min

Place of Angels

Once again, the Mysterons crypic threats make Spectrum believe they are targeting the Angels for a second time, but it isn't actually one of the Angels, it's one of their home cities. Or so Spectrum thinks...A report is received from a biological research station on the outskirts of Manchester, England, regarding the theft of the phial of the K-14 virus. This is a revolutionary and brand new strain that has the capability to kill 10 million people. Captain Scarlet and Captain Blue start a timed race to find the station's research assistant suspected of the theft, who is the only person to be granted access to it, Judy Chapman. Assessing that the force's target is the Boulder Dam of Los Angeles, which the city's name stands for "The Angels", Scarlet places his indestructible life on the line to recover the phial, although he soon faces imminent death.

Mar 8, 1968

30 min

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