Sylvia Anderson
Director
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967)
Season 1
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!
Released Sept. 29, 1967
Episode 26 min
10+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction
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Production Companies: Century 21 Television, ITC Entertainment
Network: Associated Television
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - The Mysterons
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"?
Sept. 29, 1967, midnight
S1E2 - Winged Assassin
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.
Oct. 6, 1967, midnight
S1E3 - Big Ben Strikes Again
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.
Oct. 13, 1967, midnight
S1E4 - Manhunt
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.
Oct. 20, 1967, midnight
S1E5 - Avalanche
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.
Oct. 27, 1967, midnight
S1E6 - White as Snow
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.
Nov. 3, 1967, midnight
S1E7 - The Trap
Following the latest Mysteron threat, Captain Scarlet is dispatched to supervise security at the International Air Conference at Glen Garry Castle in Scotland.
Nov. 10, 1967, midnight
S1E8 - Operation Time
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.
Nov. 17, 1967, midnight
S1E9 - Spectrum Strikes Back
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.
Nov. 24, 1967, midnight
S1E10 - Special Assignment
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.
Dec. 1, 1967, midnight
6.0
S1E11 - The Heart of New York
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.
Dec. 8, 1967, midnight
S1E12 - Lunarville 7
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.
Dec. 15, 1967, midnight
S1E13 - Point 783
The Mysterons take control of an experimental super-tank in an attempt to assassinate the Supreme Commander of earths armed forces.
Dec. 22, 1967, midnight
S1E14 - Model Spy
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.
Dec. 29, 1967, midnight
S1E15 - Seek and Destroy
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.
Jan. 5, 1968, midnight
S1E16 - Renegade Rocket
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.
Jan. 19, 1968, midnight
S1E17 - Crater 101
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.
Jan. 26, 1968, midnight
S1E18 - Shadow of Fear
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.
Feb. 2, 1968, midnight
S1E19 - Dangerous Rendezvous
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.
Feb. 9, 1968, midnight
S1E20 - Fire at Rig 15
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.
Feb. 16, 1968, midnight
S1E21 - Treble Cross
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.
Feb. 23, 1968, midnight
S1E22 - Flight 104
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.
March 1, 1968, midnight
6.0
S1E23 - Place of Angels
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.
March 8, 1968, midnight
S1E24 - Noose of Ice
Tritonium alloy mining operations at Hotspot Tower in the North Pole are threatened when a Mysteron agent cuts the power to vital heating elements.
March 12, 1968, midnight
S1E25 - Expo 2068
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.
March 26, 1968, midnight
S1E26 - The Launching
When the Mysterons threaten to destroy President Roberts within twelve hours, Captain Scarlet is assigned to guard the skeptical President of the United States.
April 2, 1968, midnight
S1E27 - Codename Europa
The Mysterons threaten to destroy the Triumvirate of Europe, the three most powerful men on Earth after the World President.
April 9, 1968, midnight
S1E28 - Inferno
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.
April 16, 1968, midnight
S1E29 - Traitor
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.
April 23, 1968, midnight
S1E30 - Flight to Atlantica
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.
April 30, 1968, midnight
S1E31 - Attack on Cloudbase
After the Mysterons threaten Spectrum's Cloudbase headquarters, a large fast-moving trace appears on the radar.
May 7, 1968, midnight
S1E32 - The Inquisition
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.
May 14, 1968, midnight
Network: Associated Television
Episode Runtime: 26 min.
Season Runtime: 834 min.
Released: Sept. 29, 1967
Last Air Date: May 14, 1968, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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