Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons — Season 1

Aired 29 September 1967 • 28 min

A manned expedition led by Captain Black of Spectrum lands on Mars; investigating the planet surface in an exploration vehicle, the crew discover a futuristic alien city.

Aired 6 October 1967 • 26 min

The Mysterons threaten the life of the Director General of the United Asian Republic and Spectrum swings into action to protect him as he prepares to board his private plane at London Airport.

Aired 13 October 1967 • 26 min

The Mysterons threaten to destroy London and a truck carrying an atomic device goes missing in the city. The only clue to its whereabouts is the truck driver, found unconscious in the street

Aired 20 October 1967 • 26 min

The Mysterons make their first mistake when Captain Black, revealed to have become a Mysteron agent, breaks into the Culver Atomic Centre and is exposed to radioactivity that will enable Spectrum to track him with directional geiger counters.

Aired 27 October 1967 • 26 min

The Mysterons threaten to destroy key links in the Frost Line Outer Space Defence System.

Aired 3 November 1967 • 26 min

The Mysterons threaten to kill Colonel White and after their initial attempt fails, White elects to leave Cloudbase so as not to place the other Spectrum agents in jeopardy.

Aired 10 November 1967 • 26 min

Following the latest Mysteron threat, Scarlet is dispatched to supervise security at the International Air Conference at Glen Garry Castle. Discovering a plot to gun down the delegates, he is captured and thrown in the castle dungeons...

Aired 17 November 1967 • 26 min

The Mysterons' cryptic threat to ’kill time’ has the Spectrum personnel stumped until Magenta realises that their target is General Tiempo, the Commander of Western Region World Defence.

Aired 24 November 1967 • 26 min

The Mysteron Gun and the Mysteron detector - two new anti-Mysteron devices - are unveiled at a top secret location.

Aired 1 December 1967 • 26 min

Captain Scarlet resigns from Spectrum and deals arms to Captain Black! Can our hero really have joined the Mysterons?

Aired 8 December 1967 • 26 min

As the Mysterons threaten to destroy the ‘Heart of New York’, Scarlet and Blue investigate the theft of Grade A Security documents from the Spectrum security vaults.

Aired 15 December 1967 • 26 min

When the Lunar Controller announces the Moon's independence from Earth in the war of nerves with the Mysterons, Scarlet, Blue and Green journey to Lunarville 7 to investigate.

Aired 22 December 1967 • 26 min

When the Mysterons threaten the life of the Supreme Commander of Earth Forces, Scarlet and Blue are assigned to escort him to SHEF HQ in New York to chair a briefing on the Unitron, an advanced unmanned tank.

Aired 29 December 1967 • 26 min

Captain Scarlet goes undercover as a Fashion PR when models are endangered by the Mysterons.

Aired 5 January 1968 • 26 min

In a plot to kill the spectrum Angels, the Mysterons get into a thrilling mid-air dogfight with Melody, Rhapsody and Harmony.

Aired 19 January 1968 • 26 min

A major is killed, resurrected and controlled by the Mysterons with the dastardly aim of launching a Variable Geometry Rocket!

Aired 26 January 1968 • 26 min

A dangerous lunar mission turns deadly for Scarlet, Blue and Lieutenant Green.

Aired 2 February 1968 • 26 min

Astronomers at K14 Observatory are monitoring signals from a hidden satellite that has made a successful landing on the Martian moon Phobos.

Aired 9 February 1968 • 26 min

Following a special discovery, Spectrum makes contact with the Mysterons in order to negotiate peace.

Aired 16 February 1968 • 26 min

An oil rig inferno enables the Mysterons to gain control of an explosives expert for deadly and destructive purposes.

Aired 23 February 1968 • 26 min

A world Air Force Major is killed and reconstructed by the Mysterons in order to destroy the world capital.

Aired 1 March 1968 • 26 min

A flight carrying Scarlet, Blue and their ward Dr Conrad - a leading astrophysicist - is put in jeopardy by the Mysterons.

Aired 8 March 1968 • 26 min

The Mysterons steal a deadly virus and threaten to drop it into the Los Angeles water supply.

Aired 12 March 1968 • 26 min

Tritonium alloy mining operations at Hotspot Tower in the North Pole are threatened when a Mysteron agent cuts the power to vital heating elements.

Aired 26 March 1968 • 26 min

A lorry carrying an atomic core reactor to the new Manicougan power complex falls into the hands of the Mysterons who intend to strike the Atlantic Seaboard of North America.

Aired 2 April 1968 • 26 min

When the Mysterons threaten to destroy President Roberts within twelve hours, Scarlet is assigned as bodyguard to the sceptical President. But when 11 hours pass without incident, Scarlet begins to suspect that he is guarding the wrong target!

Aired 9 April 1968 • 26 min

The Mysterons threaten to destroy the Triumvirate of Europe, the three most powerful men on Earth after the World President.

Aired 16 April 1968 • 26 min

The Mysterons threaten to destroy the de-salination plant at Najama in the Andes, so Scarlet and Blue are sent to observe the plant from an Aztec temple that overlooks it.

Aired 23 April 1968 • 26 min

The finger of blame points at Captain Scarlet after a series of hovercraft accidents.

Aired 30 April 1968 • 26 min

When the Mysterons threaten to destroy the World Navy Complex at Atlantica, Blue and Ochre fly a V17 Air Force bomber to destroy a wreck that has been sighted drifting towards the base.

Aired 7 May 1968 • 26 min

After the Mysterons threaten Spectrum's Cloudbase headquarters, a large fast-moving trace appears on the radar.

Aired 14 May 1968 • 26 min

A drugged Captain Blue awakes to find himself under interrogation on Cloudbase. He has apparently been missing for three months and must now prove his identity to Intelligence agent Colgan by revealing Spectrum's top secret cypher codes.