The BEST episodes written by Tony Barwick
#1 - Element of Risk
The Persuaders! - Season 1 - Episode 15
At a London airport, a gang of crooks who are planning a bullion heist mistake Danny for a criminal mastermind when the man's suitcase accidentally ends up in Danny's luggage cart.
#2 - Inferno
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - Season 1 - Episode 28
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.
#3 - Court Martial
UFO - Season 1 - Episode 20
Foster is suspected of being a security leak but, during the trial, Straker learns that Foster's apartment was bugged.
#4 - Confetti Check A-O.K.
UFO - Season 1 - Episode 22
Straker recalls his marriage, and the stormy days that followed as he worked covertly to get SHADO up and running and recruited personnel.
#5 - Survival
UFO - Season 1 - Episode 13
Foster, with his radio knocked out and his oxygen line cut, is presumed lost during a confrontation with a UFO on the moon's surface. Foster is found by an alien, and they develop a bond when the alien attempts make-shift repairs on Foster's suit.
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#7 - Special Assignment
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - Season 1 - Episode 10
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.
#8 - Computer Affair
UFO - Season 1 - Episode 21
After a pilot is killed when Moonbase operatives fail to give him course change information, the personnel are recalled to Earth for an investigation. A UFO crashes in northern Canada and the same personnel are assigned to the operation to find the UFO.
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#9 - Crater 101
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - Season 1 - Episode 17
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.
#11 - The Responsibility Seat
UFO - Season 1 - Episode 25
Freeman takes over temporarily while Straker deals with a woman apparently determined to investigate what SHADO is all about.
#12 - A Question of Priorities
UFO - Season 1 - Episode 5
"Important? What can be more important than your own son's life?" Straker faces the toughest decision of his career when his son is critically injured in an accident. The drug that can save his life can only be ferried from New York in time aboard a SHADO transporter - the same transporter that is in the prime position to track an Alien defector on the West Coast of Ireland
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#14 - Manhunt
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - Season 1 - Episode 4
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.
#15 - Lunarville 7
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - Season 1 - Episode 12
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.
#16 - The Heart of New York
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - Season 1 - Episode 11
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 the 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 helplessly crashed off the high mountainous 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.
#17 - A Man Called Quinn
The Professionals - Season 5 - Episode 10
A former colleague of Cowley's who is now a patient in a mental hospital reappears in London, going on the run when he believes that the KGB have drugged him.
#18 - Ricochet
Thunderbirds - Season 2 - Episode 5
Just when it seems Alan and Brains will have to endure another story about the good old days of space exploration, Jeff Tracy is distracted by what Tin Tin considers music. Jeff may be a little out of touch with what's hip, but the music he hates so much broadcasts from a pirate radio station orbiting the earth. Tin Tin fails to see the harm caused by her favorite DJ, but Jeff does, saying that an unregulated satellite could cause a serious accident among all the other countless government-sanctioned ones. Right on cue, a rocket suffers a malfunction shortly after blastoff, and must be taken out after veering off course. Unaware of the music satellite's existence, mission control destroys the rocket right near it. The violent explosion jolts the vessel out of orbit, forcing the DJ and his engineer aboard on a slow descent toward Earth. Still worse, the engineer is trapped in the airlock after surveying the damage outside. Can anything save the DJ from a deadly crash and his engineer fr
#19 - Flight to Atlantica
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - Season 1 - Episode 30
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.
#20 - The Inquisition
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - Season 1 - Episode 32
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.
#21 - Winged Assassin
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - Season 1 - Episode 2
Scarlet's first assignment, with his powers of retro-metabolism still remaining, is to protect the Director General of the United Asian Republic from assassination at the hands of the Mysterons, who is due to leave London by private jet. Unbeknown to Spectrum, an international flight from New York has been destroyed and recreated, and is in effect, a booby-trap waiting to strike...
#22 - Big Ben Strikes Again
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - Season 1 - Episode 3
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...
#23 - Shadow of Fear
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - Season 1 - Episode 18
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.
#24 - Dangerous Rendezvous
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - Season 1 - Episode 19
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.
#25 - Treble Cross
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - Season 1 - Episode 21
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.
#26 - Nuisance Value
The Persuaders! - Season 1 - Episode 18
After Danny is accused of kidnapping his blind date, a rich man's spoiled daughter, Brett and Danny decide to help rescue her from the real kidnappers but have problems keeping her rescued.
#27 - Flight 104
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - Season 1 - Episode 22
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!
#28 - Noose of Ice
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - Season 1 - Episode 24
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
#29 - Traitor
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - Season 1 - Episode 29
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.
#30 - Lord Parker's 'Oliday
Thunderbirds - Season 2 - Episode 4
Lady Penelope and Parker are off on vacation, invited by a small Italian village to join in on a historic celebration. Thanks to a remarkable invention by a local scientist, the town is set to become the first to have all of its electricity needs completely powered by the sun. For Penelope and Parker, however, it seems like they've never left home, thanks to a rare rainstorm that's drenched the resort town. A porter at the hotel at which they're staying -- perhaps bitter about all the extra work the influx of guests has caused -- predicts disaster, claiming that the sun will seek revenge for the theft of its power. Initially dismissed as crazy, the porter's words seem prophetic, as the storm grows in intensity and sends the solar generator toppling over the side of a cliff. The town is safe for now, as the guests bask in the intense glow of the moonlight reflected by the generator once the storm has passed. It'll be a different story when day breaks, however, as the now wrongly positio
#31 - Spy Probe
The Professionals - Season 5 - Episode 6
An organisation which hires killers to assassinate virtual nobodies on sight is infiltrated by Bodie and Doyle, who must find out who the perpetrators are and why, by going undercover and posing as potential hitmen themselves.
#32 - Ordeal
UFO - Season 1 - Episode 19
Foster is abducted from a health spa by aliens and is taken into space, presumably back to the alien homeworld. However, the UFO is damaged and crashes on the moon. While the Moonbase personnel try to free Foster of the alien environmental suit, he wakes up in the steam room back at the health spa.
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#33 - Spectrum Strikes Back
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - Season 1 - Episode 9
A divulged, top-secret meeting with the World President and two Spectrum Intelligence Agency officers, one of which is a general, the other a science doctor, who has created a new Mysteron electrical gun & detector following the inexplicable events with the late Doctor Magnus who attempted to kill General Tiempo, 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 helplessly attempt to prevent Spectrum from conducting the usage of their two brand new and innovative mobile weapons where one can kill a Mysteronised person with a strong electricity voltage, the other can distinguish and identify Mysteron characteristics within a person using normal X-Ray systems. But, unbeknown to the group of men, their security officer-in-charge, Captain Indigo, has been murdered in cold-blood by Captain Black.
#34 - Attack on Cloudbase
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - Season 1 - Episode 31
The threat that Spectrum have been awaiting for had to come, and Cloudbase being the principal headquarters of the organisation makes it an obvious target which would make seizing control over Earth a lot more easier for the Mysterons in order for them to complete their raging war of nerves, so the "aircraft-carrier in the sky" is targeted for destruction. With Symphony Angel stranded in the desert due to an unknown explosion on her Angel Interceptor, forcing her to eject, Captain Blue especially becomes agitated, for obvious romantic reasons, at the fact that she could die. With instructions for any aircraft entering a 100-mile radius of the airbase to be destroyed, and itself sealed from all external contact, the Mysterons themselves decide to visit Earth to obliterate Cloudbase personally, making this threat the most vengeful of all their past avengements.
#35 - The AB Chrysalis
Space: 1999 - Season 2 - Episode 12
Alpha is bombarded by strong electrical waves that seem to be emanating from a nearby planet. After investigation, Koenig determines that the best course of action is to convince the spherical residents of one of the moons that orbit the planet that Alpha poses no threat to them.
#36 - Thunder-Roar
Terrahawks - Season 1 - Episode 3
Zelda defrosts one of her monsters, Sram, who unleashes his devastating voice against the Terrahawks.
#37 - Close Call
Terrahawks - Season 1 - Episode 6
The Overlander is hijacked, but the hijacker, a news reporter by the name of Darrel, is a potential security hazard for the Terrahawks.
#38 - From Here to Infinity
Terrahawks - Season 1 - Episode 10
An old space probe approaches Earth, but the Terrahawks worry because it was never meant to return.
#39 - Happy Madeday
Terrahawks - Season 1 - Episode 4
Sergant Major celebrates the day of his creation, whilst the master of infinite disguise, Moid, travels to Earth and takes the place of Hiro, who is being held captive in Antartica after being shot down by Zelda
#40 - Gunfight at Oaky's Corral
Terrahawks - Season 1 - Episode 8
Ninestein enters an old-fashioned gun fight between one of Zelda's Cubes in the Arizona desert.
#41 - The Ugliest Monster of All
Terrahawks - Season 1 - Episode 5
The Terrahawks find a teddy bear-like alien adrift in a space capsule and take him back to Hawknest. However, he is actually one of Zelda's monsters and begins to wreak havoc in the base.
#42 - The Gun
Terrahawks - Season 1 - Episode 7
Yung-Star devises a way to make the Cubes more powerful by combining them. Zelda forms a group of them into a gun and threatens to destroy a newly constructed dam.
#43 - Thunder Path
Terrahawks - Season 1 - Episode 9
Zelda gives Sram another chance to defeat the Terrahawks by sending him to hijack the Overlander, an automated vehicle that delivers vital supplies to Hawknest.
#44 - Mind Monster
Terrahawks - Season 1 - Episode 11
The Terrahawks pick up a capsule in space containing only a strange vapour. However, it actually contains a gaseous monster that meddles with their minds.
#45 - The Midas Touch
Terrahawks - Season 2 - Episode 12
Zelda deploys the alien Krell to Earth and plots the destruction of the space equivilant of Fort Knox
#46 - Operation S.A.S.
Terrahawks - Season 2 - Episode 1
Zero and Dix-Huit roll to the rescue after Kate and Stu are kidnapped by Yung-Star and Yuri.
#47 - Ten Top Pop
Terrahawks - Season 2 - Episode 2
Kate is taken hostage by Andeburr Records employee Stuart "Stew" Dapples, who is under Zelda's control.
#48 - Unseen Menace
Terrahawks - Season 2 - Episode 9
Moid, Master of Infinite Disguise, transforms himself into the Invisible Man to create trouble for the Terrahawks
#49 - Midnight Blue
Terrahawks - Season 2 - Episode 5
While pursuing a ZEAF, Hawkwing flies too high and is marooned in space.
#50 - Play it Again, Sram
Terrahawks - Season 2 - Episode 3
Kate Kestrel wins the world song contest and goes on to compete in the interstellar song contest. Zelda contends that as a resident of Earth's solar system she has a right to participate too, and challenges Kate to a sing-off on a neutral planetoid with her family and Sram as her band.