Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

The best part of this episode is that for most it, Spectrum has completely the wrong idea about what (or who) the Mysteron target is. While it's nice that they're a bit confused by the Mysteron threat, which hasn't really happened since Operation Time with the threat to destroy time, its odd that no one picked on th wording of the threat. The Mysterons said they'd "destroy" President Roberts which, if they mean the person, they'd use "kill" or "assassinate". This episode is notable as the only character moment for Harmony Angel when she talks to Brand and she's even voiced by an actual Japanese person when she does it not that she gets to speak at all from now on. This episode has got to be one of the strangest deaths for Scarlet so far when he's blown up by a bottle of Champaign. It's also got to be one of the luckiest wins for Spectrum when said bottle misses the ship by an inch. A great episode, and quite gruesome when Brand is kille din his plane near the beginning.

Mr Brand, a journalist, is flying his jet through a thunderstorm when a bolt of lightning hits the plane causing it to crash...Mr Brand is taken over by the Mysterons and is ordered to destory President Roberts.



Spectrum respond by protecting President Roberts, but are unaware that the target is in fact a liner (that's a boat by the way) called President Roberts. Anyway, the reason why this episode stands out for me is that Mr Brand tries to mow down Captain Blue...Captain Ochre attends to him - so sweet, Ochre holding Blue: very homoerotic :-D



NOTES:



Captain Black appears briefly on top of the President's house, confirming to Brand the Mysterons' threat. Black seems to change his clothes rarely, it's either all black or that ghastly pullover with an orange rim round the neck - ew!



When Brand shows Harmony (is it?) his idenity, it's clear that his passport photo is of Captain Indigo (a doomed agent of Spectrum from *Spectrum Strikes Back*) as the same muppet is used. A frequent occurance on the show.



David Healy who voices President Roberts features as Professor Plum in the CDI version of Clue/Cluedo and has also appeared in a James Bond movie.