"The Mysterons" is the first episode of the Supermarionation television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. It was first broadcast in the UK on 29 April 1967 in an unscheduled test transmission for the London area, but only made its official first appearance five months later on ATV Midlands on 29 September. It was written by the show's creators, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, and directed by Desmond Saunders.
After their Martian complex is att...
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"The Mysterons" is the first episode of the Supermarionation television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. It was first broadcast in the UK on 29 April 1967 in an unscheduled test transmission for the London area, but only made its official first appearance five months later on ATV Midlands on 29 September. It was written by the show's creators, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, and directed by Desmond Saunders.
After their Martian complex is attacked by Captain Black, the Mysterons declare a "war of nerves" on Earth, with their first threat being to assassinate the World President.
In the year 2068, the crew of the Zero-X, commanded by Spectrum officer Captain Black, are investigating the surface of Mars in their Martian Exploration Vehicle (MEV) to uncover the source of unidentified signals. Having found nothing, they are about to return to Earth when suddenly they succeed in their objective: the source is a city belonging to the Mysterons, an alien race. The Mysterons rotate their...
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