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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
32 Episodes 1967 - 1968
Episode 1
The Mysterons (Pilot)
27 mins
Captain Black mistakes a Mysteron camera for a cannon, which I understand since it looks like one, and attacks a Mysteron complex. The Mysterons misunderstand and start a war of nerves, putting Captain Black under their control. They threaten to kill the World President. Captain Scarlet and Brown are killed and reconstructed by the Mysterons. The first attempt fails, and during the second attempt Colonel White discovers that the Captain Brown that escorted the president wasn't really Captain Brown, and that Captain Scarlet is under the control of the Mysterons as well. This means the President is in danger.
Episode 2
Winged Assassin
26 mins
The Mysterons second target is the Director General of the United Asian Republic. The Director is on a visit to London and is scheduled to fly back to Asia via London airport but the Mysterons have other plans. After a failed assassination attempt, the Mysterons destroy and rebuild a DT-19 aircraft to aid their mission. Meanwhile Captain Scarlet returns to duty, apparently now virtually indestructible, but will this be enough to stop the Mysterons?
Episode 3
Big Ben Strikes Again
26 mins
A nuclear device is stolen while being transported through London and it doesn't take long for the Mysterons to announce the city itself as their latest target. All Spectrum have to go on is a lead from the driver of the nuclear transporter, who claims that he heard Big Ben strike thirteen times. With time running out, can Spectrum use this cryptic clue to find the device before it's too late?
Episode 4
Manhunt
26 mins
The Mysterons make their first mistake when Captain Black, revealed to have become a Mysteron agent, breaks into the Culver Atomic Centre and is exposed to radioactivity that will enable Spectrum to track him with directional geiger counters.
Episode 5
Avalanche
26 mins
The Mysterons threaten to destroy the Frost Line Outer Space Defence System. When one base suddenly falls silent, Colonel White sends in Captain Scarlet and Lieutenant Green to investigate.
Episode 6
White as Snow
24 mins
Colonel White leaves Cloudbase after the Mysterons threaten to kill him, reasoning that such a threat endangers the other members of Spectrum. He takes refuge on board a submarine and is assigned protection in the form of Ensign Soames. However, neither the crew nor the Colonel realize that Soames is a Mysteron agent. With the Mysterons seemingly free to carry out their threat, could this be the end for Colonel White?
Episode 7
The Trap
24 mins
Captain Scarlet is sent to a remote Castle in Glen Garry, Scotland, to supervise security for the International Air Conference after the Mysterons threaten to wipe out the entire Supreme Command of the World's Air Force.
Episode 8
Operation Time
26 mins
The Mysterons announce that they are going to kill time. This baffling statement has Spectrum following up countless leads until Captain Magenta guesses the answer. The Spectrum forces prioritize the security of General Tiempo, whom they believe to be the Mysterons target and who is scheduled to undergo revolutionary surgery at the hands of Doctor Magnus. Unbeknownst to Spectrum, Magnus is a Mysteron agent and the General's life is in greater danger than they think.
Episode 9
Spectrum Strikes Back
26 mins
Spectrum Intelligence reveals two new anti Mysteron gadgets (A Mysteron detector and a Mysteron gun) developed from previous knowledge of the Mysterons. These are The Mysterons, however, have different ideas. When Spectrum discover that Captain Indigo is in the hands of the Mysterons, Captain Scarlet is sent after him. However, he has a time limit; Indigo has activated the lift mechanism and nicked the master key, trapping everyone below the lodge as the elevator can't be used at the same time as the lift mechanism. Can Scarlet get the key back and reverse the direction of the lift mechanism before Captain Blue, Colonel White, Dr Giadello, General Peterson and the World President are crushed?
Episode 10
Special Assignment
26 mins
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.
Episode 11
The Heart of New York
26 mins
The Mysterons threaten to destroy "the heart of New York," and the city is evacuated. Meanwhile, a trio of human bank robbers learn about the Mysterons' powers and decides to fake their own deaths in order to rob the second national bank.
Episode 12
Lunarville 7
25 mins
When the Lunar Controller announces the Moon's independence from Earth in the war of nerves with the Mysterons, Scarlet, Blue and Green journey to Lunarville 7 to investigate reports of an unauthorised complex under construction in the Humboldt Sea.
Episode 13
Point 783
25 mins
The Supreme Commander of Earth Forces is threatened with death by the Mysterons. Scarlet and Blue escort him to a briefing at SHEF, narrowly averting an assassination attempt. Moving the Supreme Commander to a fortified bunker in the desert, Spectrum faces an even greater challenge: the new Unitron tank has been programmed to destroy the Supreme Commander at all costs.
Episode 14
Model Spy
24 mins
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.
Episode 15
Seek and Destroy
24 mins
The Mysterons take over three newly built Angel aircraft to use in their latest threat to kill one of the Spectrum Angels. Meanwhile, Scarlet and Blue are sent to Paris to escort Destiny back to Cloudbase, unaware of the danger above.
Episode 16
Renegade Rocket
25 mins
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.
Episode 17
Crater 101
26 mins
When it's discovered that Myserons are building a secret base on the moon, Scarlet, Blue, and Green volunteer for a dangerous mission to destroy it, but first they must remove its power source before an atomic bomb is set to go off.
Episode 18
Shadow of Fear
24 mins
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.
Episode 19
Dangerous Rendezvous
24 mins
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.
Episode 20
Fire at Rig 15
24 mins
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.
Episode 21
Treble Cross
24 mins
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.
Episode 22
Flight 104
25 mins
Captain Scarlet and Captain Blue are tasked with escorting astrophysicist Dr. Conrad to Lake Toma, Switzerland, where he is to attend a conference discussing a possible return mission to Mars.
Episode 23
Place of Angels
24 mins
Mysteron agent Judith Chapman has stolen a vial of synthetic virus, which has the potential to kill 10 million people. Spectrum must work out where her target, "The Place of the Angels," might be.
Episode 24
Noose of Ice
26 mins
The Mysterons threaten to stop Earth's return to Mars, so Captain's Scarlet and Blue are sent to protect a mining complex at the North Pole which is responsible for extracting Tritonium, a rare metal needed for earths space fleet.
Episode 25
Expo 2068
26 mins
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.
Episode 26
The Launching
25 mins
When the Mysterons threaten to destroy President Roberts within twelve hours, Captain Scarlet is assigned to guard the stubborn President of the United States.
Episode 27
Codename Europa
25 mins
The Mysterons threaten to destroy the Triumvirate of Europe, the three most powerful men on Earth after the World President.
Episode 28
Inferno
24 mins
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.
Episode 29
Traitor
25 mins
After a series of suspicious Spectrum hovercraft crashes, Captain Scarlet and Captain Blue are sent to the Australian Outback to investigate if the Mysterons' claims that there is a traitor in Spectrum are true.
Episode 30
Flight to Atlantica
25 mins
Spectrum personnel inexplicably take leave of their senses, due to drinking some champagne drugged by the Mysterons, who have threatened to destroy the World Navy Complex at Atlantica.
Episode 31
Attack on Cloudbase
26 mins
After the Mysterons threaten Spectrum's Cloudbase headquarters, a large fast-moving trace appears on the radar and it looks like the Martian menace have finally come to Earth to destroy the base themselves.
Episode 32
The Inquisition
24 mins
Whilst on a night out at a posh restaurant, Captain Blue disappears. He then awakens to find 3 months have passed and that Spectrum Security want to know if he can prove his identity by giving up top secret security codes.