Captain Scarlet

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons ( Captain Scarlet in short) is a British science-fiction series from the 1960s with puppets in the lead role, created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, the makers of the much more famous series Thunderbirds. Like that series Captain Scarlet was a cult series and a 1960s phenomenon.

Captain Scarlet is stylistically seen exactly the same as the Thunderbirds: many many many puppets, cardboard sets and models. As with the Thunderbirds play special vehicles and spectacular explosions a large role. Also, the bombastic music by Barry Gray again. The connection between the two series is that the Zero-X spaceship in the feature film "Thunderbirds Are Go" his entrance made for a disastrous flight to Mars. With the first episode of Captain Scarlet, we see the Marslander of the Zero-X, the MEV (Martian Exploration Verhicle) will be back on Mars. The crew, including Captain Black, will come under the influence of the Martian Mysterons.

However, the series is very different from the Thunderbirds, the story contains less humor, the plot is more complicated and the violence is more realistic. Captain Scarlet was more on an adult audience while Thunderbirds was more for children.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The series plays, just like the Thunderbirds, in the future, around 2068. One day is going to be a group of astronauts on an expedition to the planet Mars. During this expedition they discover a large city on Mars and when they want to enter the city, they are suddenly shot at. In self-defense they decide to destroy the city. This lure they unintentionally an interplanetary war.
 * 1.1 The Mysterons
 * 1.2 Spectrum
 * 1.3 Captain Scarlet
 * 2 the development of the series
 * 3 Dolls
 * 4 Episodes
 * new series 5
 * 6 other media
 * 6.1 comics
 * 6.2 Original novels
 * 6.3 Movies
 * 7 voice actors
 * 8 Trivia
 * 9 Translations
 * 10 References
 * 11 external links

The city turned out to belong to the Mysterons, a race of aliens that has super powers. The Mysterons now want to take over the Earth and wiping out the complete nature population. They do this by various terrorist attacks. Spectrum is an international security organisation to stop these evil creatures.

Captain Scarlet is one of the agents of Spectrum, he has supernatural powers and is therefore most important asset in the fight against evil Spectra. ===The Mysterons[ Edit] === The Mysterons are never throughout the series. They always remain invisible and the only thing the viewer hears from them is their voice. Every time the Mysterons plotting an attack, they announce it in advance over the radio. Each episode begins the same: while the characters introduced are you hear the leaden threatening voice of the Mysterons say the following words: ''This is the voice of the Mysterons, we know you can hear us Earthmen! today we shall......'' there then follows the description of the attack that they will commit in the relevant episode.

Another special feature of the Mysterons is that they are able to copy exactly people or vehicles (in the series "retrometabolism" called). This copy can then be used by them as a weapon. To copy to the person or vehicle must first be killed or destroyed, after this is done two light circles about the misfortune after which the person or vehicle exactly copied appears. In this way, the Mysterons easy able to infiltrate in the society.Captain Black, a former agent of Spectrum, was killed by the Mysterons and then copied. His copy is the main enemy of the series. He is head of spy for the Mysterons and comes in each episode his character again for. The concept of destroying and copy also comes in for each episode. ===Spectrum<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The organization that combats this threat for works from Captain Scarlet cloudbase (one in the clouds floating complex). All agents of Spectrum (spectrum is the name of colors in a beam of light) have a color as code name: so have you also next to Captain Scarlet, Captain Blue and Lieutenant Green. The leader of Spectrum, Colonel White is. (Also about this name is considered: all colors come in a spectrum in white together.)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In addition, Spectrum also added a team of five female Jet pilots, Angels (English for "Angels") called: Destiny, Harmony, Melody, Symphony and Rhapsody Angel. Spectrum is armed with fighter jets (Angel Jet), army tanks (SPV and MSV), fast sports cars (SPC) and helicopters.

<p lang="en" len="39" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Overview of all the Spectrum staff: ===Captain Scarlet<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Scarlet, real name Paul Metcalfe, together with Captain Brown by the Mysterons was killed in a car accident and then replicated. At the end of the first episode, the replicated Scarlet to smithereens of the London parking tower Skyview; However, he appears to have "survived" the fall, but for some reason, no longer under the influence and control of the Mysterons. Scarlet is the main agent of Spectrum: in the repliceringsproces he is indestructible and thus become a great means in the fight against the Mysterons. Captain Scarlet should now record against (the replica of) his former friend Captain Black, who has become a villain. ==The course of the series<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The first broadcast of Captain Scarlet appeared in september 1967 on the tube. And 32 weeks long would the series every week on Friday evening at 8 pm on the UK commercial channel ATV to show up. Later in 1969, the series was sold to several international tv channels. So it was to see the series in Netherlands at the AVRO as a successor of the Thunderbirds, but was stopped after six episodes already. Not until 1996 were all episodes broadcast by TROS in the afternoon hours.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There were a total of 32 episodes of every 25 minutes. The series was an instant success but yet the series never become as well known as the Thunderbirds. This was mainly due to the limited playing time of 25 minutes: this was too short to a complicated story to tell. Also there was too little time for character development and for using irony, humor, two qualities that the Thunderbirds had with his 50 minutes in each episode.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Though Captain Scarlet grew just like the Thunderbirds to a cult phenomenon. Immediately after the beginning of the series there were fan clubs and appeared there comic books and comic strips in TV2000, toy vehicles, dolls and posters of the series. This stuff have now become expensive collector's items. Because of the stylish design and the unique atmosphere is Captain Scarlet now considered a typical 1960s phenomenon.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A big disappointment for many fans was that the series had no real end that clearly showed the fate of Spectrum and the Mysterons. The last episode, "The Inquisition", eena clip show episode was. At the end of the series still against the Mysterons, Spectrum and moisture was Captain Black still the Mysterons main agent on Earth. ==Dolls<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Or the dolls of the various Anderson series modeled for real people, and what if any people, is still the subject of discussion. Gerry and Sylvia Anderson have admitted that the puppet designers have some characters based on real celebrities by then, and others on the voice actors. In Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Captain Blue and Colonel White are based on their voice actors, Ed Bishop and Donald Gray. Of the Captain Scarlet character is still often claimed that he would be based on Cary Grant, Roger Moore,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FABFacts-86_1-0" len="197" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]  and Scarlets voice actor Francis Matthews. Although there is no clear answer is, claimed Matthews that Gerry Anderson wanted the Captain Scarlet base on Cary Grant, while Anderson in his biography<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-GAbio_2-0" len="191" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  claimed that the Matthews choice was.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Lieutenant Green was the first black character that occurred in a Gerry Anderson series. His voice was voiced by the black actor Cy Grant.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Captain Scarlet meant the introduction of a new type supermarionationpop. In the previous Anderson-series was the action that the lips and eyes of the dolls move left in the head of the doll, which makes the dolls had very large heads. In Captain Scarlet sat this mechanism in the body and was also much smaller, making the head of the doll could be reduced to the correct ratio with the body. Anderson later gave, however, that this may be an error, since the big heads that the dolls were a reason the public as claims. ==Episodes<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==New series<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2004, revived the series creator Gerry Anderson with a CGI (computer-generated) series, Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet is called. There are 26 episodes produced. The characters are the same as in the dolls series (but with other votes), the fight against the Mysterons goes through. The vehicles look like the old versions but are somewhat changed in order the sale of new toys of this new series to promote. The new version is received with mixed feelings, poorly programmed in the British television broadcasts and a new season does not seem likely. ==Other media<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Comics<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In TV2000] are some comics by Captain Scarlet appeared. In addition there was a comic about Destiny, Harmony, Melody, Symphony and Rhapsody Angel. They had their own comic book, titled The 5 Julia's -probably because "angels" in the Dutch with bees and wasps is associated instead of angels. ===Original novels<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="73" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Several novels of the series were published in the 1960s:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Corgi Books published four novels In 1993 based on four episodes, aimed at young readers: The Mysterons, Noose of Ice, "Lunarville 7, and The Launching. ===Movies<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Appeared In 1981 TV movie Captain Scarlet vs the Mysterons. This movie consisted of reused footage from the television series. The film was followed by Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars, which likewise from reused footage existed. This second film was used for the second episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 . ==Voice Actors<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Translations<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, John Theydon (pseudonym for John w. Jennison), 1967
 * Captain Scarlet and the Silent Saboteur, Theydon, 1967
 * The Angels and the Creeping Enemy, Theydon, 1968 (not published under the Captain Scarlet series title)
 * Francis Matthews -Captain Scarlet
 * Ed Bishop -Captain Blue
 * Donald Gray -Captain Black
 * Cy Grant -Lieutenant Green
 * Paul Maxwell -World President
 * Elizabeth Morgan -Destiny Angel
 * Jeremy Wilkin -Captain Ochre
 * Charles ' Bud ' Tingwell -Captain Brown
 * Martin King -additional voices
 * Gary Files -Captain Magenta
 * Sylvia Anderson -Melody Angel
 * Janna Hill -Symphony Angel
 * Lian-Shin -Harmony Angel
 * David Healy -additional voices
 * Neil McCallum -additional voices
 * Shane Rimmer -additional voices
 * Scarlett & Black musicalduo the 80 's has their names of the characters Captain Scarlet and Captain Black.
 * Later editions of the episodes also contain a voice over by Colonel White that was: "Captain Scarlet is indestructible. You are not. Remember this. Do not try to imitate him. " This was a warning for young viewers that they were not to try to imitate Captain Scarlet. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-IMDB-CaptainScarlet_3-0" len="205" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]
 * The Zero-X mission from the film Thunderbirds Are Go is both seen as mentioned in the pilot episode.
 * As many dolls in Anderson series, are the four Angels modeled after celebrities:
 * Destiny Angel on actress Ursula Andress.
 * Harmony Angel on actress Tsai Chin
 * Rhapsody Angel on model and actress Jean Shrimpton.
 * Melody Angel on singer and actress Eartha Kitt.
 * French: Capitaine Scarlet