Season 1
- Gary Files as the voice of Captain Magenta
- Sylvia Anderson as the voice of Melody Angel/Supporting voices
- Janna Hill as the voice of Symphony Angel
- Lian-Shin as the voice of Harmony Angel
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 1]
The Mysterons
Shown 29 Sep 67
Captain Black leads a team of astronauts, the first men on planet Mars. They discover it is inhabited by the Mysterons, and accidentally destroy the Mysteron city. In revenge, the Mysterons vow to destroy the human race. Their first victim will be the President of Earth.
Captain Brown and Captain Scarlet are put in charge of the President's security. However, since this is the first Mysteron attack the Earthlings really have no idea what to expect.
Captain Black goes MIA upon his return to Earth. Anyone who pays attention to the opening credits will know that he has been compromised by the aliens. Is Captain Blue (Ed Bishop - U.F.O. ) able to take out an enemy trained and equipped to the same standard?
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 2]
Winged Assassin
Shown 06 Oct 67
The Mysterons' target is the Director General of the United Asian Republic. Captain Blue (Ed Bishop - U.F.O. ) is put in charge of the mission.
Captain Scarlet is being poked and prodded by the Spectrum doctors. He narrates a flashback to the car crash that killed him, which was aluded to but not shown in the previous episode. Scarlet has retained retrometabolism ... he can heal virtually any wound, even a fatal one.
The Colonel restores Scarlet to active duty, and he is sent to assist Blue. For better or worse, Scarlet gets a headache when he is close to a Mysteron construct.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 3]
Big Ben Strikes Again
Shown 13 Oct 67
The Mysterons announce their intent to destroy the City of London. By incredible coincidence, a nuclear bomb is being driven through the streets of London. Rather than just detonate it immediately, they remotely hijack the truck and park it in an underground garage. The driver is trapped inside, trying to escape.
The only clue to the truck's whereabouts is the fact that the driver heard Big Ben chime thirteen times at midnight. In the episode's final scene, Captain Blue (Ed Bishop - U.F.O. ) explains how this was a useful clue.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 4]
Manhunt
Shown 20 Oct 67
Captain Black leads a Mysteron mission to burglarise a science laboratory. He gets himself irradiated, which allows Spectrum to temporarily track his radiation signal. Symphony Angel is assigned to conduct surveillance. Somehow she gets herself captured. Does she get murdered and replaced? After all, this is the fate of another Spectrum employee this episode. However, none of the Spectrum staff even consider the possibility. Captain Blue (Ed Bishop - U.F.O. ) is just glad to have her back, since she is his date of choice.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 5]
Avalanche
Shown 27 Oct 67
The Mysterons intend to attack the Frost Line, the equivalent of the Cold War DEW stations. It is intended as an Outer Space defence system, although that does not explain why it is in Alaska and Canada. Also, why worry about alien spacecraft? The Mysterons can transmute artefacts on Earth at a distance.
Captain Scarlet and Lieutenant Green are sent to Red Deer base when it goes off-line after a Mysteron attack. General Ward wants to strike back. Apparently his missiles can hit the planet Mars!
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 6]
White as Snow
Shown 03 Nov 67
The Mysterons want to assassinate Colonel White, They will wipe out the entire Cloudbase to achieve this goal. Colonel White goes on vacation, using his contacts in the US Military to get him a passenger berth on a US Navy submarine. Of course, the Mysterons somehow discover this secret.
Captain Scarlet refuses the offer of temporary promotion, so one of the others assumes command.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 7]
The Trap
Shown 10 Nov 67
The Mysterons vow to attack whenever and wherever they are least expected. To make things worse, they give cryptic threats about when and where this will be.
The client changes the location to Castle Glengarry, which is apparently the most isolated spot in Europe. What we know, but Melody Angel only suspects, is that the client and his pilot have been replaced by the Mysterons.
For some reason, the Mysterons do not kill their prisoners. They plan a massacre, of course, but they will only kill when the plot requires it. Otherwise they just tie up victims who can easily escape and thwart their plans.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 8]
Operation Time
Shown 17 Nov 67
The Mysterons vow to kill Time. Captain Magenta suggests that the intended victim is General Tiempe, since Tiempe is the Spanish word for Time.
General Tiempe, a senior military leader, is scheduled to undergo brain surgery. Captain Black targets the General's surgeon. It seems that the Mysterons cannot just replace him directly, but that Black has to kill the man before he can be replaced.
The main twist is copied from a previous episode. However, there is a more subtle twist. Magenta is a real colour, although not part of the rainbow. In this episode it is portrayed as a shade of red, which puts it close enough to Scarlet for there to be a substitution.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 9]
Spectrum Strikes Back
Shown 24 Nov 67
Spectrum holds a special conference with the World President. Instead of having it at Cloudbase, they hold it at the secret lair of the Spectrum Intelligence Agency. This appears to be an independent organisation, with a similar-sounding name.
The base is in a remote hunting lodge. The entire building descends underground hydraulically, which is less extreme than the entire city of Marineville in Stingray but more than Straker's office in U.F.O. . The location has flat terrain with nowhere for intruders to hide, and the security includes a bunch of game hunters armed with rifles. Despite all this, somehow Captain Black gets in and out, not staying around to ensure the mission is accomplished.
The SIA has developed a couple of weapons based on the storyline of the previous episode. Yes, there is actual continuity between episodes. The Mysteron Detector is a polaroid camera with x-rays, and the Mysteron Gun is a tazer. Captain Scarlet gets to field-test them.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 10]
Special Assignment
Shown 01 Dec 67
The Mysterons vow to obliterate the continent of North America.
Captain Black murders a fuel station attendant, part of an over-complicated plan to kill and replace a couple of men. The Mysterons used to be able to kill people long-distance, but now it needs to look like an accident or something.
Captain Blue (Ed Bishop - U.F.O. ) accompanies Capt Scarlet to a casino. Scarlet loses a lot of money, and ends up in debt to the casino. He has three days to pay up, and when he cannot do so they inform his employers. Colonel White sacks him for breaking regulations, even though Scarlet is the only super-powered officer. This is completely unbelievable, clearly taken from The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.
Paul Metcalfe, no longer Captain Scarlet, is seriously in debt. Some gangsters offer his IOU in exchange for access to an SPV. He bargains up to a 25% share of the score they are planning. They take him to their base, a remote ranch house that looks like the hunting lodge from a couple of episodes ago.
The Mysterons need Metcalfe to obtain and drive an SPV so they can attack Nuclear City in Nevada USA. Captain Black's inside info may no longer be usable, since Spectrum must have updated their security procedures. But surely he can drive it himself.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 11]
The Heart of New York
Shown 08 Dec 67
A trio of burglars break into the Spectrum vault. They foolishly assume it is full of money or valuables. Instead it is full of paper printouts. Well, this show was made before the paperless office was a thing. Although they do not get any valuables, they get inspiration from the documents they find. All they have to do is copy the Mysterons Modus Operandi, and fake an incident to cause evacuation of a major bank.
By incredible chance the thieves blunder into a real Mysteron target. They come up against Captain Black, who was already inside the Spectrum security cordon. Will Captain Scarlett save them in time?
Colonel White delivers a moralising lecture at the end in order to justify the downbeat ending.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 12]
Lunarville 7
Shown 15 Dec 67
The moon settlers go independent, and claim they are neutral in the Earth-Mars war.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 13]
Point 783
Shown 22 Dec 67
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 14]
Model Spy
Shown 29 Dec 67
The Mysterons plan to kill the head of a French fashion house. It turns out he is an Intelligence operative who has been tracking Captain Black, so he actually poses a threat to the Mysterons plans. Captains Scarlet and Blue join his PR team, while a couple of the Angels go undercover as models.
The Mysterons derail a monorail to replace a couple of models. They have full access to the Mysteron target, but they insist on using a convoluted plan to abduct him. The Spectrum team bring a mysteron-detector with them, but do not bother using it on the models.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 15]
Seek and Destroy
Shown 05 Jan 68
The Mysterons vow to kill one of the Spectrum Angel pilots.
Captain Black destroys some replacement Interceptors that have not been delivered from the factory. The Mysterons then create three new Interceptors, which can be differentiated from the active service ones by their unpainted grey exteriors.
The French Angel is on leave in Paris. Scarlet and Blue go to collect her, Luckily Scarlet's sixth sense detects an imminent attack. The Mysteron Interceptors are great ground-attack vehicles. Will the Spectrum Interceptors be able to shoot them down?
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 16]
Traitor
Shown 12 Jan 68
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 17]
Renegade Rocket
Shown 19 Jan 68
The Mysterons vow to use one of the Earth military's incendiary rockets against an unspecified target.
Captain Black somehow kills a man just by looking at him through a pair of binoculars. The victim, replaced by a Mysteron duplicate, launches the Variable Geometry missile and steals the remote-control device that will trigger the missile's self-destruct. The Angels chase him in their Interceptors. Of course, he is a suicide bomber so he has no disincentive to destroy himself and the device.
Scarlet and Blue try to brute-force the self-destruct code by manually inputting ten thousand different four-letter words. While Scarlet will reconstitute if the building is destroyed, Blue has no chance of survival. And it never occurs to them that the Mysteron will chose the least likely word for them to input.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 18]
Crater 101
Shown 26 Jan 68
Moonbase has discovered a secret Mysteron base in Crater 101. Captain Scarlet, Capt Blue and Lieutenant Green are sent to enter the base and steal the Mysterons' energy source. Of course, the Mysterons have plans to stop them.
The female administrator of Moonbase takes a liking to Captain Scarlet. She gives him a keepsake, her medallion which dates her greatest achievement to the year 2058. By incredible coincidence, this will turn out to be useful later.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 19]
Shadow of Fear
Shown 02 Feb 68
Earth puts a spy satellite in orbit around Mars. The response will take four minutes, because Mars is 43 million miles away. The real plan is to put a probe on Phobos, the Martian Moon named after the god of Fear.
Captains Scarlet and Blue are at the observatory in the Himalayas, while Colonel White takes Cloudbase into the area so the Angels can provide air cover if necessary. However, the Mysterons do not need Captain Black to physically intervene. They can use flashing lights on Mars to kill anyone who looks at their planet with a telescope.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 20]
Dangerous Rendezvous
Shown 09 Feb 68
The Mysterons vow to destroy Cloudbase.
A scientist has experimented with the magical crystal recovered in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 18] Crater 101. He delivers a machine to Cloudbase which allows Colonel White to contact the Mysterons directly.
The Mysterons agree to peace talks on one condition. One of the Spectrum agents must go alone and unarmed, with no communications devices allowed. Scarlet agrees to go, and encounters Captain Black.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 21]
Fire at Rig 15
Shown 16 Feb 68
The Mysterons vow to paralyse Spectrum. They cannot target the pursuit vehicles, which are distributed to safe houses all around the globe. Instead they target the fuel supply. It turns out that the Spectrum vehicles require a certain high-quality fuel, which is only drilled from the deepest wells and is refined at a special refinery. There is no backup plan, which is a bad idea for a military-style organisation like Spectrum.
The Mysterons sabotage Rig 15. When it blows, the local equivalent of Red Adair is called in.
Once again, Captain Black can kill someone just by looking at them through his binoculars. However, the Mysterons construct does not know its mission. Instead, Captain Black has to approach it and verbally deliver the orders. At least this exposition is useful to the audience.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 22]
Treble Cross
Shown 23 Feb 68
The Mysterons vow to
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 23]
Flight 104
Shown 01 Mar 68
The Mysterons vow to
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 24]
Place of Angels
Shown 08 Mar 68
The Mysterons vow to
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 25]
Noose of Ice
Shown 12 Mar 68
The Mysterons vow to
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 26]
Expo 2068
Shown 26 Mar 68
The Mysterons vow to
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 27]
The Launching
Shown 02 Apr 68
The Mysterons vow to
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 28]
Codename Europa
Shown 09 Apr 68
The Mysterons vow to
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 29]
Inferno
Shown 16 Apr 68
The Mysterons vow to
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 30]
Flight to Atlantica
Shown 30 Apr 68
The Mysterons vow to
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 31]
Attack on Cloudbase
Shown 07 May 68
Symphony Angel gets shot down, and is forced to eject from her interceptor jet. She parachutes into a desert, without water or supplies.
The Mysterons threaten to destroy Cloudbase. Colonel White establishes a 100-mile exclusion zone, and orders his staff to work increased shifts - four hours on duty, two hours off.
Destiny Angel conducts a search sweep, but gets recalled to protect Cloudbase. Captain White (Ed Bishop - U.F.O. ) is upset that Symphony has been abandoned.
Rhapsody Angel investigates an incoming radar signal. It turns out to be a series of flying saucers. This all becomes a bit reminiscent of U.F.O. .
The regulars get wiped out, one at a time. It all gets quite apocalyptic.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) [Season 1, Episode 32]
The Inquisition
Shown 14 May 68
The Mysterons vow to
