This episode is a blast! It's a refreshing change from the usual much more serious storylines that dominate the rest of the series. The seriousness isn't a bad thing however as there's not a great deal of humour to be gleaned from a series involving aliens attacking the Earth and trying to destroy it. As the characters were under the influence of Mysteron spiked drink, the second time Spectrum officers have been, or nearly been, killed by Champaign, it doesn't really affect them in the long run as it's clearly not them. I really liked that Captain Ochre, one of the best characters, got a lot to do and some good lines. Of course, his conversations with Blue in the plane are funny. Something of note is that every main character appears here, although some don't speak, and we get see them all drunk at their stations later on. Another good thing, is only the second appearance of Colonel White's hat. That doesn't happen often.
Hilarious episode and the Mysterons half win as well.moreless
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The Spectrum Cloudbase officers host a non-permitted party, excluding the ultimately strict Colonel White, to celebrate the 1st anniversary of the world security organisation, with the assistance of an anonymous well wisher supplying the champagne, which has in fact been spiked with an organic compound which causes sporadic amnesia and general irresponsibility.
After being severely cautioned by the Colonel, whom discovers the party and becomes very angry at his personnel for not receiving official permission to celebrate the anniversary, the Mysterons announce their intentions to destroy the World Navy Base of Atlantica, an invulnerable underwater complex protected by sea-to-air rockets and offensively-equipped submarines.
Captains Blue and Ochre are handed the assignment to disband a wreckage which is being carried by heavy currents towards the Atlantica base, but the champagne has already taken control over them, turning them into juvenile rebelists.
Captain Black manages to changeover their assignment papers with irrelevant ones which order them to destroy Atlantica's Defence Control Tower, which they proceed in doing, and eventually annihilate the whole complex.moreless
After being severely cautioned by the Colonel, whom discovers the party and becomes very angry at his personnel for not receiving official permission to celebrate the anniversary, the Mysterons announce their intentions to destroy the World Navy Base of Atlantica, an invulnerable underwater complex protected by sea-to-air rockets and offensively-equipped submarines.
Captains Blue and Ochre are handed the assignment to disband a wreckage which is being carried by heavy currents towards the Atlantica base, but the champagne has already taken control over them, turning them into juvenile rebelists.
Captain Black manages to changeover their assignment papers with irrelevant ones which order them to destroy Atlantica's Defence Control Tower, which they proceed in doing, and eventually annihilate the whole complex.moreless
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Shane RimmerSergeant - Maxwell Field
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Jeremy Wilkin
Captain Ochre (Richard Fraser)
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Francis Matthews
Captain Scarlet (Paul Metcalfe)
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Ed Bishop
Captain Blue (Adam Svenson)
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Janna Hill
Symphony Angel (Karen Wainwright)
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Donald Gray
Colonel White (Charles Grey) / Captain Black (Conrad Turner) / Voice Of The Mysterons
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Cy Grant
Lieutenant Green (Seymour Griffiths)
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The Score: Half the Mysteron targets are destroyed. Draw. Spectrum: 25 Mysterons: 6.
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Mysteron Reconstructions: None.
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Spectrum Losses: None, although there will be a lot of lost dignity and respect for the Spectrum personnel.
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Collateral Damage: 1 Atlantica Base control tower and associated missiles, 1 Air Force bomber.
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As the bomber skims the ocean, one of it's engine pods can be seen to break off and remain floating in the water, but in all later shots, it has been reattached.
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As their bomber crashes, a shot from behind Blue and Ochre shows Ochre moving his head from side to side, but he was meant to have passed out a while ago.
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The close up of Scarlet's hands pouring Champaign into a test tube show the tube filled nearly to the top, but in the shot of the puppet Scarlet holding the tube, there is barely anything in it.
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According to dialogue, the last scenes of this episode are set on July 10th 2068, the exact same date on which "Winged Assassin" and "Treble Cross" are meant to be set.
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QUOTES (1)
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Mysterons: This is the voice of the Mysterons. We know that you can hear us Earthmen. We intend to destroy the World Navy Complex at Atlantica. Atlantica will be annihilated.
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NOTES (6)
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The cockpit of the bomber previously appeared in "Flight 104".
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Colonel White reveals that Spectrum was formed in July 2067, with the charter drawn up on July 7th and signed by the World President on the 10th.
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This is one of only two episodes of the series in which all of the regular cast appear, although most don't have lines. This would happen again in "Attack On Cloudbase".
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The music that Blue and Ochre listen to on the radio is called Dangerous Game, which was a major plot point in the Thunderbirds episode "The Cham Cham", which, coincidentally, also featured the aircraft Blue and Ochre are piloting.
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The bomber aircraft used by Captain Blue and Ochre previously appeared as the ill-fated RTL-2 jet in "The Cham Cham" episode of Thunderbirds and, more recently, as a airliner in Captain Scarlet's "Place of the Angels".
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The Maxwell Airbase building previously appeared as the Glenn Field Zero-X control center in the movie Thunderbirds Are Go.
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ALLUSIONS (0)
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The Inquisition
S 1 : Ep 32
Aired 5/14/68 (25:00)
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Attack On Cloudbase
S 1 : Ep 31
Aired 5/7/68 (25:00)
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Flight To Atlantica
S 1 : Ep 30
Aired 4/30/68 (25:00)
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Traitor
S 1 : Ep 29
Aired 4/23/68 (25:00)
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