Everyone loves Thunderbirds but this is the best Gerry Anderson show (imo)
I enjoyed how every single episode ended with Captain Scarlet suffering some kind of injury and then someone saying “he’d definitely be dead if he wasn’t completely indestructible”. It’s like Greek tragedy.
“thiiis is the voice of the mysterons,
can you hear us?”
“yes clem fandango i can hear you!”
Loved how weird this show was. Special mention to Stingray too though
Attack on Cloud base was such a cool episode. Imagine if any other kids programme had an episode where the baddies appear to turn up and just… Kill off all of the characters.
Absolutely loved Captain Scarlet!
I loved Cpt Scarlett
I love the full version of the end credits song where it shoes him in all those perilous situations and then zooms out to show he’s even more fucked than it seemed.
My die cast captain scarlet tank sits on my plant shelves in the conservatory. Still waiting for someone to recognise it.
They always get distracted by the thundercats…
Modern kids tv needs more indestructible Cary Grants who have to fight invisible aliens that possess people to turn them into suicide bombers.
Captain Black’s five o’clock shadow used to scare me. Dunno why, but it did.
My favourite Gerry Anderson show growing up. Waiting for ITV Retro to start uploading episodes, since they already have Thunderbirds, Stingray, Joe 90 and Terrahawks.
Humans started the war in Captain Scarlet.
Man if ITV had the balls to make a prestige Sci Fi TV show, a Live Action Adult focused version of this ala Battlestar Galactica would go hard.
It’s amazing the careers some people have, Captain Black now managing Arsenal.
It’s been at the back of my mind for ages to run a Captain Scarlett RPG.
The character team – Captain Plum, Lieutenant Heliotrope, Cantata Angel and Captain Cerise who are all very much *not* indestructible. They are highly-trained operatives for a hugely well-funded secret government agency but they are ultimately disposable cannon fodder in the deadly ongoing struggle against the utterly alien, Mysterons.
It’d probably have quite a Call-of-Cthulhu vibe. Probably a lot of undercover investigation from the team (at least one car-chase in a SPV) and then culminating in them tracking the Mysteron agents to an abandoned warehouse in Swansea. They go in to check it out, but get into a gunfight. They are *way* out of their depth so solve the problem by calling-in an airstrike to obliterate the building and the surrounding area.
The gunshot after he’s machine gunned and the dying groans in the opening titles will never be topped
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When I become an Evil Dictator, Im using a voice synthesizer to mimic the voice from the Mysterons (Captain Scarlet)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs13rCqfH9k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs13rCqfH9k)
Everyone loves Thunderbirds but this is the best Gerry Anderson show (imo)
I enjoyed how every single episode ended with Captain Scarlet suffering some kind of injury and then someone saying “he’d definitely be dead if he wasn’t completely indestructible”. It’s like Greek tragedy.
“thiiis is the voice of the mysterons,
can you hear us?”
“yes clem fandango i can hear you!”
Loved how weird this show was. Special mention to Stingray too though
Attack on Cloud base was such a cool episode. Imagine if any other kids programme had an episode where the baddies appear to turn up and just… Kill off all of the characters.
Absolutely loved Captain Scarlet!
I loved Cpt Scarlett
I love the full version of the end credits song where it shoes him in all those perilous situations and then zooms out to show he’s even more fucked than it seemed.
My die cast captain scarlet tank sits on my plant shelves in the conservatory. Still waiting for someone to recognise it.
They always get distracted by the thundercats…
Modern kids tv needs more indestructible Cary Grants who have to fight invisible aliens that possess people to turn them into suicide bombers.
Captain Black’s five o’clock shadow used to scare me. Dunno why, but it did.
My favourite Gerry Anderson show growing up. Waiting for ITV Retro to start uploading episodes, since they already have Thunderbirds, Stingray, Joe 90 and Terrahawks.
Humans started the war in Captain Scarlet.
Man if ITV had the balls to make a prestige Sci Fi TV show, a Live Action Adult focused version of this ala Battlestar Galactica would go hard.
It’s amazing the careers some people have, Captain Black now managing Arsenal.
It’s been at the back of my mind for ages to run a Captain Scarlett RPG.
The character team – Captain Plum, Lieutenant Heliotrope, Cantata Angel and Captain Cerise who are all very much *not* indestructible. They are highly-trained operatives for a hugely well-funded secret government agency but they are ultimately disposable cannon fodder in the deadly ongoing struggle against the utterly alien, Mysterons.
It’d probably have quite a Call-of-Cthulhu vibe. Probably a lot of undercover investigation from the team (at least one car-chase in a SPV) and then culminating in them tracking the Mysteron agents to an abandoned warehouse in Swansea. They go in to check it out, but get into a gunfight. They are *way* out of their depth so solve the problem by calling-in an airstrike to obliterate the building and the surrounding area.
The gunshot after he’s machine gunned and the dying groans in the opening titles will never be topped
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