“The Mysterons – sworn enemies of Earth.” Standing between these Martian aggressors and the destruction of the human race is the Spectrum organisation, a global security force that…well, has good days and bad days. When they really commit themselves to fending off the Mysterons, Spectrum truly are second to none – which only makes their more half-hearted attempts to defend …

Captain Scarlet Day is almost upon us! But just why was July 10th chosen in recent years as the date for this annual celebration of all things Spectrum? To find out, we go back to the original 1967 Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons television series, which includes July 10th as a notable date in its second episode, Winged Assassin. Here …

Building on the success of their growing audio book and audio drama range, Anderson Entertainment is pleased to unveil a new range of TV Century 21 Audio Annuals starting with Anything Can Happen in July 2022. Narrated by Wayne Forester (New Captain Scarlet,Thunderbirds) and Nicholas Briggs (Doctor Who, the voice of the Daleks), these new Audio Annuals bring back classic …

The Spectrum hovercraft was the primary guest vehicle of the Captain Scarlet episode Traitor, in which Captains Scarlet and Blue investigated several hovercraft accidents at Spectrum’s Koala Base training facility in Australia. This four-seater vehicle (two crew and two passengers) was shown being used by the base’s cadets for training exercises, although the episode did little to clearly establish the …

George Victor Bishop was born at the Shore Road Hospital in Brooklyn on June 11th 1932, and moved with his family to New York at the age of 7. At the age of 20 he was called up for national service, spending two years working an announcer in the Armed Forces Radio service at St Johns, Newfoundland. After being discharged …

“The Mysterons: sworn enemies of Earth. Possessing the ability to recreate an exact likeness of an object or person. But first, they must destroy…” The Martian antagonists of Captain Scarlet followed an almost ritualistic process when embarking on their attacks against humanity; first they would make their threat of the week, and then we would be introduced to a guest …

The first scene of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons is also one of the show’s most memorable, showing the Zero-X MEV under the command of Spectrum’s Captain Black discovering the Mysteron city and subsequently destroying it after mistaking a scanning device for a weapon. This launches the war between the Earth and Mars, and is also the moment where Captain …

Two of the iconic paintings created for the end titles of 1967’s Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons will be up for auction next week at Bonhams! The original artwork was painted for the show’s end titles by the artist Ron Embleton, whose long and varied career also saw work on the Stingray and Captain Scarlet strips in the TV21 comic, …

In the universe of Captain Scarlet, humanity first reached the Moon in the early 1970s – and, unlike in our own world, lunar exploration continued to the point where a century later more than four thousand people were living and working on the Moon. The two episodes of the show that offered us a glimpse of how they lived (Lunarville …