Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

Mysteron Reconstructions: TVR-17 satellite and crew (destroyed in re-entry/destroyed by Rhapsody Angel), Ensign Soames (drowned/shot by Scarlet).

Spectrum Losses: Scarlet is killed but recovers.

Collateral Damage: Original TVR-17 and crew are destroyed.

When Colonel White is being lowered to the submarine, you can clearly see that the harness is around his chest, with his arms outstretched, but as he comes down the last few feet, he is gripping the harness strap with his hands.

The ground controller says that the TVR-17 will be landed at 1400 hours, but a few seconds later he says 1900 hours, before they decided to change it to midnight.

Surely the submarine captain would have checked to make sure everyone was safely inside the vessel before ordering it to dive.

Reconstructing the TVR-17 DJ (and presumably the rest of it's crew) seemed rather pointless given that he wasn't needed to fly the satellite as it was under the Mysterons control the whole time. He wasn't even needed to keep the music playing as the Mysterons could have done that as well.

The Mysterons have been shown in previous episode to be able to directly affect machinery, so instead of recreating the TVR-17 and crashing it into Cloudbase, they could have just taken over Cloudbase itself, switched off it's engines, and watched as it fell to Earth. They would have suceeded in killing Colonel White, and would have wiped out most of Spectrum in the process leaving Earth defensless.

Strangely, the Mysterons needed Captain Black to manually crash the TVR-17 instead of just taking control of it directly like they have done many times before.