Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to simply as Captain Scarlet, is a British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions Television company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, John Read and Reg Hill. It was first broadcast in the United Kingdom (originally on ATV Midlands, but later the whole of the UK) between September 1967 and May 1968. It was filmed using a form of marionette puppetry known as Supermario...
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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to simply as Captain Scarlet, is a British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions Television company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, John Read and Reg Hill. It was first broadcast in the United Kingdom (originally on ATV Midlands, but later the whole of the UK) between September 1967 and May 1968. It was filmed using a form of marionette puppetry known as Supermarionation and scale model special effects.
Set in the year 2068, the series charts the hostilities between Earth and a race of Martian extraterrestrials known as the Mysterons. After human explorers destroy their city on Mars over a misunderstanding, the Mysterons declare war on Earth and begin a series of revenge attacks, which are countered by a worldwide security organisation, Spectrum. Spectrum boasts the extraordinary abilities of its top agent, Captain Scarlet, who comes to possess the Mysteron power of "retro-metabolism" — the ability to...
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