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  Captain Scarlet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On a mission to Mars in 2068, a Mysteron 'city' was destroyed by Captain Black, leading the Mysterons to declare a "War of Nerves" on Earth.
Captain Scarlet, already one of Spectrum's top agents, becomes their secret weapon after the events of the first episode, The Mysterons.
On Captain Scarlet, Captain Blue and Colonel White were said to particularly resemble their voice actors, Ed Bishop and Donald Gray respectively.
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 Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Together with Lieutenant Green, Captains Scarlet and Blue are sent to the moon to investigate claims by the Lunar Controller that he has established contact with the Mysterons and succeeded in coming to a peaceful agreement.
Arriving at the base, Captains Scarlet and Blue are on hand as the rocket suddenly reappears on the radar and it is discovered that Base Concorde is its target.
Captain Scarlet and Blue are assigned to escort the leading astrophysicist Dr Conrad to a special conference in Switzerland - the purpose of the conference, to decide the method and purpose of man's return to Mars.
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 Captain Scarlet: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Scarlet was the first series made after the international success of Thunderbirds in 1964-66, EHandler: no quick summary.
Captain fl is a fictional character who is the recurring enemy and agent of the mysterons from the 1960s british childrens science fiction on televisionscience-fiction...
The spectrum pursuit vehicle, or spv, is a fictional pursuit and attack vehicle from gerry andersons science fiction tv series captain scarlet and...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/captain_scarlet.htm   (2811 words)

  
 Definition of Captain Scarlet
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to in shorthand as simply Captain Scarlet, is a science fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Television company of Sylvia and Gerry Anderson and first shown in Britain between September 1967 and April 1968.
Scarlet was the first series made after the international success of Thunderbirds in 1964-66, which included two series of the TV show and two feature films.
As of 3 February 2004, Gerry Anderson was working on a new version of Captain Scarlet using computer generated imagery (CGI) instead of puppetry, although as a nod to Supermarionation, the show is promoted as being produced in "Hypermarionation".
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 DVD Review - Captain Scarlet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
And while "Captain Scarlet" may have a similar look to that of "Thunderbirds" and share the distinctive "Super-Marionation" technique, the tone and style of the show is much different.
In the process, they possess Captain Scarlet (all of the Spectrum agents are named after colors), who attempts to assassinate the World President.
The bottom-line is that "Captain Scarlet" is a very good science fiction story that would have been impossible to film as a live-action series at the time it was originally produced.
www.dvdreview.com /reviews/DVD/1754.shtml   (838 words)

  
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During KTMA season episode K02 (Captain Scarlet">Revenge of the Mysterons), his head was replaced with the now-familiar gumball machine used throughout the series.
Captain Black is a fictional character who is the recurring enemy and agent of the Mysterons from the 1960s British children's science-fiction television series Captain Scarlet">Captain Scarlet, produced by Gerry Anderson.
Captain Black is a code name; his real name is never revealed in the series, although subsequent publications have given...
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Captain-Scarlet.htm   (452 words)

  
 News: Captain Scarlet Teaser Movie - GamersHell.com
Captain Scarlet : Retaliation is a real time tactical strategy game that puts you in control of a team of up to six Spectrum Agents, each with their own unique abilities, as they attempt to stop the Mysterons from carrying out their threats.
Captain Scarlet combines intensely addictive gameplay with stunning graphics and the rich background of the television series to create a compelling game that will appeal to a wide range of gamers.
Captain Scarlet is currently being developed for PC by Batfish Studios and will be published in the UK by Digital Workshop in November 2003.
www.gamershell.com /news/9133.html   (406 words)

  
 CAPTAIN SCARLET AND THE MYSTERONS | A TELEVISION HEAVEN REVIEW
With Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Gerry Anderson fifth series, the art of Supermarionation took an expensive quantum leap forward in terms of sophistication.
Only Captain Scarlet is impervious to their influence, this plus the fact that he is indestructible makes him Earth's best defence and the Mysterons immortal enemy.
Hence Captain Black was the traitor, Colonel White the upright commander and Scarlet the dynamic action hero.
www.televisionheaven.co.uk /scarlet.htm   (633 words)

  
 DVD Verdict Review - Captain Scarlet
Now, Captain Scarlet is exactly as he was before the Mysterons killed him, except with the power to regenerate, allowing his enemies to kill him nearly every week without ending the show's run and putting a lot people out of work.
Captain Scarlet leads the fight because, hey, even if he's shot or blown up in a horrific car accident, he'll be back next week to do it all again.
Captain Scarlet is brought to DVD in a full screen transfer that looks pretty darn good for a 35-year-old obscure British television show.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/captainscarlet.php   (1202 words)

  
 Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons : DVD & Movie Reviews :
As the title suggests the hero for Earth is Captain Scarlet, an operative who was once taken over by the Mysterons but who survived and now - due to the wonderful and inexplicable process of retromotabilisation - cannot be killed.
Scarlet's colleagues are all colour-coded and come with nifty little uniforms that match their names.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons is marvelous stuff and I cannot wait to get the little ones joining me on the couch to watch it.
www.webwombat.com.au /entertainment/dvds/captain.htm   (439 words)

  
 DVD Talk > Reviews > Captain Scarlet
Captains Scarlet and Brown, agents of the Global protection agency SPECTRUM are en route to provide protection for the President, but before they arrive, they are killed by the Mysterons.
Captain Scarlet also tries but is shot by Captain Blue and plummets 800 feet to what is sure to be his death.
While there is word that Captain Scarlet is being brought into the 21st century via a new CGI series, it will be hard pressed to equal the sheer joy and delight these programs have offered.
www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?id=4312   (812 words)

  
 Captain Scarlet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Scarlet is killed but incredibly recovers, thanks to his Mysteronized body, and regains his memory.
Captain Scarlet is available from 8 October to buy for $49.95.
Oh, and Captain Scarlet died a few times, in a car crash and later he is shot and also falls from the 400 foot London Car-Vu, from then he is Indestructible.
www.videodrome.org /giveaways/capt_scarlet.html   (232 words)

  
 Captain Scarlet TV Show - Captain Scarlet Television Show - TV.com
Now called 'Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet' it now uses motion-capture CGI instead of Puppets which gives each character much more believability and enables each episode to be packed with break-neck action and stunning visuals as well as breath-taking scenes,mind-blowing action and dramatic...
Captain Scarlet and Captain Blue give chase to a mysteron replicant police officer, Rimmer, who has stolen a canister of deadly alien spores.
Scarlet and Blue are unware that Rimmer has passed the spores on to Brock and that they are looking for the worng person.
www.tv.com /captain-scarlet/show/30490/summary.html   (445 words)

  
 Captain Scarlet & The Mysterons - Nostalgia Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons is set in the year 2068.
Captain Scarlet was killed by the Mysterons and duplicated.
Captain Scarlet featured the voices of Francis Matthews, Donald Gray, Paul Maxwell, Ed Bishop (of UFO fame), Jeremy Wilkin, Gary Files, Cy Grant, Charles "Bud" Tingwell (Australia's own), Sylvia Anderson, Janna Hill, Lian-Shin and Liz Morgan.
www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/kids/scarlet.htm   (844 words)

  
 Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons TV Show - Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons Television Show - TV.com
Captain Scarlet & The Mysterons debuted on the U.K. terrestrial television network, ATV (the Midlands region only, at first), on Friday, 29...
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.
But Colgan still continues to question Blue regarding the cipher codes, whom hasn't caught on the fact that this mysterious S.I. officer is truthfully a Mysteron agent, and the Cloudbase interior a replica of the original, located in an abandoned warehouse.
www.tvtome.com /CaptainScarletandtheMysterons/goofs.html   (389 words)

  
 Captain Scarlet & the Mysterons
Captain Scarlet retains some of the Mysteron characteristics...he is human again, but can regenerate from fatal wounds.
We know that Scarlet is the hero, and that Captain Blue is his buddy...we find that Lt. Green is eager and energetic, and that Colonel White is a bit of a martinet.
Captain Scarlet may be the hero of this series but he fits the example.
www.badmovieplanet.com /inferno/archives/cptscarlet.html   (2224 words)

  
 TVShowsOnDVD.com - Review for Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - Captain Scarlet
Captain Black was regenerated and is now an agent of the Mysterons in the war against Earth.
Captain Scarlet was also regenerated, but a fall from a high building breaks the Mysteron hold.
There was an oddity in the first episode; when Captain Scarlet and Captain Brown are travelling in the car the picture fades from full color to magenta, then blue.
www.tvshowsondvd.com /reviewlist.cfm?ShowID=5020   (836 words)

  
 Captain Scarlet - feature
The premise for Captain Scarlet is also more complex than in previous Anderson productions with the cataclysmic mistake by Captain Black ofattacking the Mysteron base throwing humanity into an inter-planetary war.
You've got Colonel White, who's the head guy, very authoritative, Captain Blue's the foil, the nice guy, and then the girls, the Angels, are from all sorts of backgrounds: one's oriental, one's English, one's American, and so on.
"We were making Thunderbird 6 at the same time as Captain Scarlet and it is in my nature that if the left hand side of the studio is working on a television series and the right hand side is working on a feature film, then that is where my heart would have been," explained Anderson.
www.sci-fi-online.50megs.com /Features/cap_scar.htm   (802 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Complete Book of Captain Scarlet: Books: Chris Bentley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
"Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons" is one of the better "Supermarionation" series that came from the hands of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, known by Americans as well as those in the UK for their many classic puppet series "Supercar", "Fireball XL5", "Stingray", and especially "Thunderbirds"- and their classic live action "UFO" and "Space Precinct".
The Captain Scarlet series also was shown in the USA, but in a limited market originally and with wider exposure via compilation films on Showtime and HBO and later on SciFi Channel.
Captain Scarlet marked one of the first Supermarionation series to have a truly dark and serious storyline, with an invisible alien race, the Mysterons, seeking revenge for an attack made in error on their cities on Mars.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1842224050?v=glance   (659 words)

  
 Captain Scarlet: TV21, 1967-68
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons was the first new Anderson television series since the start of TV Century 21 nearly three years previously.
Captain Scarlet and Captain Captain Blue are in charge of defence of Unity City, and leave Cloudbase in a Spectrum Passenger Jet.
Scarlet survives, hurling himself to the ground, and manages to ride one of the elephants on to the observatory.
www.technodelic.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Upload01/Scarlet01.htm   (9000 words)

  
 IGN: Captain Scarlet Review
Their attempts at revenge are foiled when the rebuilt Captain Scarlet throws off the mental shackles of the Mysterons and becomes a near invincible agent on the side of good.
All that stands in there way is Spectrum and Captain Scarlet, who, in addition to his near invincibility, is able to detect when humans are under the control of the Mysterons.
In one of the first episodes of the series, Captain Scarlet and Captain Blue are in hot pursuit of an errant craft controlled by the Mysterons.
dvd.ign.com /articles/362/362731p1.html   (1316 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Captain Scarlet - Series 1: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Captain Scarlet, the best agent of the human's security force Spectrum, is the only one who can save them.
When I first heard they were remaking captain scarlet I was naturally dubious, remakes in my opinion tending to go wrong with only a few exceptions.
This was to coincide with the launch of a new range of Captain Scarlet vehicles and figures, comics and also the release of the DVDs, themselves.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000ANVNPS   (1549 words)

  
 BBC - Cult - Captain Scarlet - Introduction
Originally shown in September 1967, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons was Gerry Anderson's follow-up to the stunningly successful Thunderbirds.
Whether or not Captain Scarlet and Spectrum defeated them in the final episode is never made clear...
Captain Scarlet, Stingray and Thunderbirds ©; MMI Carlton International Media Limited.
www.bbc.co.uk /cult/anderson/scarlet/intro.shtml   (264 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Captain Scarlet - Complete Series Box Set [1967]: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The varied cast of Spectrum agents and their voice characterisations also aim at verisimilitude (Captain Scarlet, voiced by Francis Matt hews, sounds like a grim Cary Grant), while the puppetry is more realistic than ever.
Captain Scarlet himself is actually a Mysteron reconstruction who has lost their influence however is left with one major bodily gain: He is indestrucible.
Other characters include Captain Blue, (Captain Scarlets comrade), Captain Black who started an unprovoked atack on the Mysterons on a Mars expedition, and know works for them, Colonel White who is Captain Scarlets boss, and various other people.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005IBK9   (1433 words)

  
 "Captain Scarlet" (2005)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Captain Black: Ah, yes, the green stuff, I have some green stuff for you.
And if Scarlet is predictably loyal and heroic his worry about his invulnerability and the way it sets him apart from other humans adds another layer of depth to his character.
Given that the original Captain Scarlet was a puppet (marionette) show - with all the inherent limitations of movement and expression that entails - the new version is nothing short of miraculous.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0408377   (837 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Captain Scarlet (4pc): DVD: Francis Matthews,Ed Bishop,Donald Gray,Cy Grant,Elizabeth Morgan,Jeremy ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Their top agent in this war is Captain Scarlet, an agent who was subjected to the duplication process, but was still alive at the time.
Title character Captain Scarlet is the only man upon whom Mysteron takeover has failed, leaving him with the unique ability to regenerate from nearly any otherwise fatal wound and making him Earth's best single defense against the invisible threat of the Mysterons.
The humanity had sufficient evolved to elect a world-wide president and Captain Scarlet was charged to protect him of the terrible attacks of the Mysterons.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000065Q9A?v=glance   (2302 words)

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