The BEST episodes of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons season 1
Every episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons season 1!
The finger is on the trigger... about to unleash a force with terrible powers, beyond the comprehension of man. This force we shall know as, The Mysterons. This man will be our hero, for fate will make him indestructible. His name: Captain Scarlet.
#1 - The Launching
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/2/1968
Mervin Brand, a reporter for The Tribune newspaper, is killed in his jet by thunder-lightening while en route to the press conference with President Roberts. When reconstructed promptly by the Mysterons, so Tribune Control don't suspect that the real Mervin Brand has crashed and died, the Mysteron Brand continues his flight to the press conference, but is stopped in his tracks by the Angels, who have strict instructions to attack & destroy any aircraft violating the restricted airspace over the President's residence, due to his life being under siege by the Mysterons. His arrogance and egotism doesn't assist matters, as he believes the enemy foes preparing to kill him will not achieve their latest ploy of revenge, and ignores the fact that the Mysterons killed the Director-General of the United Asian Republic. Spectrum continue to secure his residence, but when the President reveals the new atomic-liner ship, built by the Trans-Pacific Shipping Corporation, is being named after him and
#2 - Inferno
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/16/1968
An SKR-4 recovery vehicle is sent by the Euro-Space Tracker Station to destroy a live rocket, containing a malfunctioning destruct system, but ends being blown out of orbit and completely destroyed, when it collides with a considerably large meteorite. Re-produced and controlled by the Mysterons, it becomes the bombing weapon, which will accomplish the forces' newest target: the Najama Complex, a vital colossal desalination plant, situated by the foothills of the Andes mountains. Its purpose is to process seawater from the Pacific Ocean, and irrigate the interior, and without it, hundreds of square miles would regress to waste land. The complex is automated and requires very few personnel to administer the process, however it consists of vulnerable tanks, each containing liquid oxygen which would turn the whole valley into a ""blazing inferno"" if attacked with strong force. While the complex personnel are evacuated, Captains Scarlet, Blue, Magenta and Ochre are sent to set-up surveillan
#3 - Special Assignment
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1967
Spectrum Intelligence entrust Captain Scarlet with a ""special assignment"" which is to deliberately lose a large sum of money 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 violating the organisation's code of conduct, and his career is over. Living in a cheap shabby hotel room temporarily, a pair of Mysteron agents, posing as sought after gangsters, 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 utilized to break into the Nevada Nuclear City Complex, with an atomic incendiary device, which will obliterate the whole of North America.
#4 - The Trap
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1967
A World Air Force plane, carrying Commodore Goddard and his right-hand man, and being escorted by Melody Angel, is struck by a shocking clash of thunder and lightning, and crashes, directly becoming the object to be reconstructed by the Mysterons. The force broadcasts it's current threat, that they aim to kill all 10 of the worlds' 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 and the UK; Glen Garry Castle, in Scotland, which the Mysteronised Goddard has chosen to hold the conference to be. 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,
#5 - Crater 101
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/26/1968
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 oppurtunity to somehow come into direct contact with The Mysterons themselves, to try and come to a peaceful settlement. All 3 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 ord
#6 - Seek and Destroy
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/5/1968
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, so Captains Scarlet and Blue fly to Paris to pick her up and accompany her back to Cloudbase. On the way back, 3 brand new, un-painted Angel Interceptors, reconstructed from those that were subsequently destroyed in a scorching warehouse fire, open fire upon the Spectrum personnel, but a daring dynamic and enthralling aerial dogfight between the Mysteron aircraft and the real Spectrum Angels ensures, testing Melody's Rhapsody's and Harmony's outstanding skills and training to the maximum.
#7 - Lunarville 7
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/1967
The commanding controller of Lunarville 7, a small colonised base on the opposite side of where the main Mysteron complex is located on Mars, 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, but 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 non-attentively leave Lunarville 7, and travel to the Humboldt Sea, the far side of the Moon, where an enormous, and potentially powerful Mysteron complex is being developed and built in Crater Number 101.
#8 - The Heart of New York
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1967
A professional vault break-in duo seek out a minor Spectrum Security Vault, near the coast of New York, where ""useless"" documentation is taken, 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 tthe American capital, as hopeless, potentially dangerous drunks. They set-up their car with fake look alike puppets to deceive the warden into thinking that the 3 drunken men that he just warned, has helplessy crashed off the high mountaineous road, and exploded into a fireball. The gang then take care of the warden and, deliberately posing as Mysteronised humans, they announce the force's latest peril 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 full-fill the threat, as it stocks the en
#9 - Manhunt
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1967
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.
#10 - Expo 2068
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/26/1968
A newly produced core reactor is being transported to the Manicougan Power Complex, which is near enough found near the Atlantic Seaboard of North America, which the Mysterons have announced that they will submit a ""heavy blow to the prestige of the world."" While conducting security checks within the designated area, it becomes aware that a missing, off-route Transporter 43, which has already inadvertently crashed over the edge of a demolished bridge, thanks to Captain Black's deliberate diversion of the planned route, is what the Mysterons are using to smuggle the reactor. With the core reactor already being aerially ferried in a shipping helicopter, and with the controller at the Expo 2068 construction site looking down at the barrel of Captain Black's hand-gun, Spectrum are back to square one before they can investigate the reactor situation. It becomes apparent however, that the copter's target is the Expo 2068 site, and evidence confirms that the thermal safety valve has been remo
#11 - Fire at Rig 15
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/16/1968
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 from there daily used purposes. With the ultra-sonic oil wells or Spectrum's main oil refinery at Bensheba, not so far from Rig 15, as possible & potential 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 when the tractor is forced forwards, burying the real Smith under the debris, but extinguishing the fire. 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 it's ent
#12 - Noose of Ice
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/12/1968
The Hotspot Mining Complex, situated at the North Pole, is responsible for producing from the only existing natural source, commercial quantities of tritonium alloy, which is being used for constructing the nose casings for a rocket. General Rebus, the commander-in-chief of the Space Administration, is hoping to send the rocket to Mars, presumably to perform in-depth research assignments regarding the Mysterons. Captains Scarlet and Blue travel to the North Pole to act as security supervisors, in the inevitable time that the Mysterons may strike upon the complex, which they do when they take control over a maintenance engineer and instruct him to disconnect the massively high voltage current power lines between the booster power station and the tower. The 100,000 volt current is crucially-needed, as the heating rods located under the tower keeping the below-freezing ice at bay, and when the current is distorted, the ice will surround the tower, slowly but surely crushing the structure
#13 - Codename Europa
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/9/1968
Professor Gabriel Carney, an awarded scientist for designing original electronics, is assassinated at his own gadgets-fulfilled home by Captain Black, in order for the Mysterons to use his skills and knowledge of the hi-tech subject to kill the three joint presidents of the Congress of Europe, additionally recognised as The Triumvirate of Europe. The names of those three men are: Conrad Olafson, John L. Henderson and Joseph Meccini, and this specific trio of men are apparently dubbed the most powerful figures on Earth, after the World President. The Mysterons elect Conrad Olafson as the first to be killed, whom is located in an underground suite, 40-feet underground Vandon Base, a maximum-security centre where plentiful Spectrum security personnel are scattered over, and in addition, the Angels commencing repeated aerial patrols over the area and Captain Ochre acting as the officer in charge of security. Their attention is diverted instantly by a realistically audible incoming military
#14 - Treble Cross
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/23/1968
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 recover the test-pilots' original body, named Major Gravener, from the lake where the car ditched in, and successfully resuscitate him in a recovery constitute. 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 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.
#15 - Flight 104
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/1/1968
Captain Scarlet and Captain Blue are tasked with covertly escorting Doctor Congrad, a leading astrophysicist, to Switzerland for a conference with the World President. To avoid suspicion, they travel on a typical commercial airline flight. Spectrum has discreetly booked every seat on the plane, leaving it nearly devoid of passengers. However, after the plane lifts off they are surprised to discover that it is also devoid of crew...and the plane is flying itself straight into a French alp!
#16 - Dangerous Rendezvous
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/9/1968
Concluding from where Crater 101 left of, 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 at 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, and 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.
#17 - Big Ben Strikes Again
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1967
An atomic device, being transported to a construction site, is hijacked and hidden. Captains Scarlet and Blue, have until midday to find it and to save London from total destruction. The only clue they have is from the driver who is delivering it, who claims Big Ben struck Thirteen...
#18 - Flight to Atlantica
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/30/1968
The Spectrum Cloudbase officers host a non-permitted party, excluding the ultimately strict Colonel White, to celebrate the 1st anniversary of the world-security organisation, with the assistance of an anonymous well wisher supplying the champagne, which has in fact been spiked with an organic compound which causes sporadic amnesia and general irresponsibility. After being severely cautioned by the Colonel, whom discovers the party and becomes very angry at his personnel for not receiving official permission to celebrate the anniversary, the Mysterons announce their intentions to destroy the World Navy Base of Atlantica, an invulnerable underwater complex protected by sea-to-air rockets and offensively-equipped submarines. Captains Blue and Ochre are handed the assignment to disband a wreckage which is being carried by heavy currents towards the Atlantica base, but the champagne has already taken control over them, turning them into juvenile rebelists. Captain Black manages to changeov
#19 - Point 783
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/22/1967
A modern super-tank, the Unitron, a deadly computer-assisted vehicle, is seized by the Mysterons to destroy the Supreme Commander of the Earth Forces, when he is escorted by Captain Blue to the tanks' testing range field in the Sahara desert. Two of the Commander's highest-ranking officers, Colonel Storm and Major Brooks, while en route to the SHEF headquarters, are killed in an explosive collision in a mountain-integrated tunnel, involving their car and a gasoline tanker truck, and reconstructed by the Mysterons to carry out the threat.
#20 - White as Snow
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1967
When a radio station relay and communications satellite is recreated by the Mysterons and its course altered towards Cloudbase, Colonel White orders the fatal missile to be destroyed before it collides with the aerial base. Infuriated at his superior for dis-regarding the non-existent, but beknown to Scarlet, lives of the men on-board the satellite, he declines White's proposition to be 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 exposed to Lieutenant Green, 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.
#21 - Place of Angels
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/8/1968
Once again, the Mysterons target the Spectrum Angels in their latest act of retaliation, but it isn't actually one of the Angels, it's one of their home cities. Receiving a report 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, & 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 suspsected of the theft, who is the only person to be granted access to it, Judy Chapman. Assessing that the forces' target is the Boulder Dam of Los Angeles, which the city's name stands for ""The Angels"", Scarlet places his non-indestructible life, in this particular case, on the line, to recover the phial, although he to faces imminent death.
#22 - Traitor
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/23/1968
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 discover that there isn't any traitors within Spectrum at all.
#23 - Model Spy
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/29/1967
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 the countries' capital 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 confidential 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.
#24 - The Inquisition
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/14/1968
While relaxing at a smart countryside restaurant during a late evening, Captain Blue, accompanied by Captain Scarlet, starts to feel strange after drinking a cup of black coffee. When Scarlet issues himself to fetch their coats, Blue instantaneously disappears, and when awakening, finds himself sitting in Lieutenant Green's chair back on Cloudbase, with a Spectrum Intelligence agent, who calls himself Colgan, sitting in Colonel White's chair. He explains that Blue has been absent without leave for three months, and must prove his identity by disclosing top-security information; the Spectrum cipher codes, before he can return to active duty. Without having to do this, Captain Blue instead story-tells three Spectrum assignments involving the Mysterons: the nuclear attack on London, the mission of destroying the Mysteron complex in Crater 101, and the prevention of a Mysteronised Commodore and his aid from slaughtering the Supreme Command of the World Air Force at the Scottish Glen Garry
#25 - Shadow of Fear
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/2/1968
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 out 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.