CAPTAIN SCARLET AND THE MYSTERONS Episode Guide
Compiled By Makoto Yamamura
Spectrum agent Captain Black leads the Zero-X mission to Mars that encounters
unseen energy beings on Mars and unwittingly starts a war when he orders
the destruction of their base. The Mysterons--the name they tell the humans--vow
revenge for this unprovoked attack, take control of Captain Black, and threaten
the life of the World President. To carry out their threat, they kill two
Spectrum senior officers: Captain Brown and Captain Scarlet. The two men's
bodies are "Mysteronized"--regenerated via a special process known
as retro-metabolism --and turned into tools for destruction: Brown is turned
into a walking time bomb that nearly kills the President, while Scarlet
is turned into an ice-cold assassin who abducts the World President and
takes him to the top of the London Car-Vu observation deck, only to be shot
off the top of the deck by Captain Blue. Scarlet falls 800 feet to certain
death but incredibly recovers, thanks to his Mysteronized body, and regains
his memory. The Mysteron hold on him is broken...and Scarlet has become
indestructible.
"Winged Assassin"
As Scarlet recovers from the aftereffects of his experience with the
Mysterons and attempts to resume his duties as a Spectrum senior, the Mysterons
threaten the life of the Director-General of the United Asian Republic,
currently under Spectrum protection in London but ready to head back to
his home country--and a commercial jet liner headed for London International
Airport is the instrument of destruction.
"Big Ben Strikes Again"
The Mysterons threaten to destroy London as they take over a transporter
carrying a nuclear device, concealing it in an empty car park, then set
its five-key trigger to go off at 0900. Spectrum's only clue: The disoriented
driver's memory of Big Ben striking thirteen times.
"Manhunt"
Captain Black breaks into the Culver Atomic Research Centre in England
and is exposed to a short-lived isotope which turns him into a radioactive
source that Spectrum seeks to find with a tightly-woven net of mobile geiger
counter trucks and strategic roadblocks, while Black attempts to thwart
the net with a stolen Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle. But when Symphony Angel
disobeys a direct order and lands to intercept the SPV herself, Black kidnaps
her at gunpoint and goes back to the Culver Atomic Centre--and Spectrum
must locate a needle in a haystack before Black can kill Symphony.
"Avelanche"
Men are dying mysteriously at Outer Space Defence Force bases on the
Arctic Circle--the latest target of the Mysterons--and it's up to Lieutenant
Green and Captain Scarlet to solve the mystery before Space General Ward
launches an attack on Mars.
"White As Snow"
It's not just loud raucous music that has Colonel White jumpy: The latest
Mysteron threat is directly against him, and he orders the destruction of
a commercial radio transmission satellite that is on a collision course
with Cloudbase...a move Scarlet openly opposes due to the fact that there
could be innocent victims on-board. But when Scarlet learns that White knew
the satellite was a Mysteron booby-trap and didn't tell his men, he seeks
to make amends with White...who is now in hiding as deep-sea fisherman "Robert
Snow" on a submarine which has already been infiltrated by the Mysterons.
Meanwhile, Captain Blue takes command of Cloudbase...and his program of
extra drills and educational lectures guarantees White a warm welcome if
he returns.
"The Trap"
While flying escort duty, Melody Angel loses the plane carrying the
coordinators of a World Air Force conference that Spectrum has been assigned
to protect in a fierce electrical storm. But when the plane emerges from
the storm, its passengers have already been Mysteronized, and the duplicates
trick Spectrum into moving the conference to an isolated castle in Scotland...where
a trap has been set for Scarlet, Symphony, and the delegates.
"Operation Time"
A Mysteron threat to "kill time" brings world-famous brain
surgeon Dr. Magnus and his obvious-target patient, General J.F. Tiempo,
to Cloudbase--and with them, inadvertantly, a way to detect and kill Mysterons.
"Spectrum Strikes Back"
A peaceful game reserve is not what it seems: The World President, Space
General Peterson, Colonel White, Captain Scarlet, and Captain Blue convene
in a hunting lodge--really the above-ground covering for an underground
Spectrum Intelligence Agency conference center--to discuss the latest in
anti-Mysteron technology. But someone else is on hand: Captain Black, who
attacks the Spectrum senior officer corps liason to SIA, Captain Indigo,
and uses him as a vehicle to trap the elite group and keep them from ever
using their new technology.
"Special Assignment"
As a Mysteron threat to destroy North America looms large, Scarlet behaves
strangely, running up a $5000 gambling debt and getting himself drummed
out of Spectrum. But as Blue attempts to save his friend from himself, Scarlet
may be in bigger trouble: The gangsters who have bought his marker are Mysteron
agents...and they want him to steal an SPV for them.
"The Heart Of New York"
A botched break-in at Spectrum Headquarters New York nets the disappointed
robbers something more valuable than money: The papers they have stolen
detail Spectrum's knowledge of the Mysterons, dangerous information to be
floating loose as the Mysterons threaten to destroy "the heart of New
York". But as their ringleader plots to use this knowledge to steal
the gold reserves from the Second National Bank, Captain Black plots to
use them to carry out the Mysterons' plans.
"Lunarville 7"
The Lunar Commander of Earth's colony on the Moon, Lunarville, announces
that he has reached a truce with the Mysterons and declares his colony's
independence from Earth...but Colonel White is suspicious of his statements,
particularly in light of intelligence that reveals unauthorized construction
in the Humboldt region, and sends Scarlet, Blue, and Green to Lunarville
7 to investigate the situation.
"Point 783"
The Mysterons threaten to kill the Supreme Commander of Earth Forces,
and two of his aides are the chosen weapons. The first attempt is made at
Supreme Headquarters Earth Forces by the Commander's aide; the second, at
a secret test site in the Sahara Desert--Point 783--as the World Army's
newest weapon, the unmanned and indestructible Unitron tank, is being tested...a
test that goes awry when the Unitron begins seeking a target inside the
control room at Point 783 instead of following manual instructions, leaving
only Captain Scarlet and an SPV standing between the Supreme Commander and
certain death.
"Model Spy"
Fashion designer Andr Verdain is the unlikely target of the latest Mysteron
threat...unless one knows that Verdain is really the World Intelligence
Agency's European operations director and uses his fashion house as a cover
for his activities. But the Mysterons aren't fooled...and two of Verdain's
models are turned into agents of destruction on the eve of his spring Monte
Carlo show, where Scarlet, Blue, Destiny, and Symphony are working undercover.
"Seek And Destroy"
A Mysteron threat to kill the Spectrum Angels sends Scarlet and Blue
to Paris to retrieve a vacationing Destiny Angel. But on the way to the
airport, the trio are gunned down and trapped in a ditch by three Mysteronized
Angel aircraft...and only the real Spectrum Angel Flight can save them.
"Traitor"
The Mysterons' latest pronouncement is that there is a traitor in Spectrum's
midst...and a series of suspicious hovercraft crashes at Koala Base, the
Spectrum training academy, appears to bear this out. But when Scarlet and
Blue are sent to investigate, they find a climate of irrational suspicion
akin to a witch hunt...and Scarlet and another cadet are caught in the middle.
"Renegade Rocket"
A longtime friend of Colonel White's, Major Reeves, is about to assume
a new post at Base Concord as a rocket expert when the Mysterons attack
and destroy him--and his Mysteronized clone launches a new Variable Geometry
Rocket toward an unknown destination and takes the flight control box, with
the self-destruct codeword, away from Base Concord as fast as he can.
"Crater 101"
Scarlet, Blue, and Green head back to Lunarville to conclude some unfinished
business--namely the destruction of the Mysteron base being constructed
in Crater 101 during their last visit. The plan involves Scarlet, Blue,
and Green infiltrating the still-under-construction base and removing the
power source so it can be destroyed without the Mysterons regenerating it...but
the Lunarville technician planting the atomic destruction device is a Mysteron
agent, and new Lunar Commander Linda Nolan must find a way to notify the
Spectrum officers, who are out of radio range.
"Shadow Of Fear"
Scarlet and Blue are assigned to protect an observatory in the Himalayas
which has launched a satellite to take the first close-up pictures of Mars,
a satellite soft-landed on the Martian moon Phobos and literally photographing
the planet from the "shadow of fear" (the meaning of Phobos in
Greek)...but the Mysterons are determined to destroy the observatory before
the first pictures can reach it.
"Dangerous Rendezvous"
As the Mysterons threaten to destroy Cloudbase before midnight, electronics
expert Dr. Koenert comes to Cloudbase to make final adjustments to a communications
device powered by the diamond pulsator that Scarlet retrieved from the Mysteron
base in Crater 101. Colonel White uses it to transmit a message to the Mysterons,
urging them to negotiate a peaceful settlement to this war of nerves. The
Mysterons agree to negotiate, but only with a Spectrum agent who agrees
to carry no communications gear or weapons of any kind, in an isolated region
away from any Spectrum bases...in other words, they want Scarlet.
"Fire At Rig 15"
The Mysterons threaten to bring Spectrum to its knees by cutting off
its oil supply, mined from deep wells and refined at a single refinery at
Ben-Sheba, and a fire at Rig 15 is the first step. But the firefighting
expert hired to put out the fire becomes the Mysterons' weapon for an attack
on Ben-Sheba...and Scarlet must race against time to cut him off before
he gets to the refinery.
"Treble Cross"
Is is possible for the Mysterons to make a mistake? It is if they Mysteronize
someone who is only clinically dead and not brain-dead, as is the case when
a test pilot and his driver are run off the road into a lake and the pilot's
body is recovered by two doctors who manage to resuscitate him. Now Spectrum
must try and outwit the Mysterons with the real test pilot as the Mysterons
threaten to destroy the world capital, Futura City.
"Flight 104"
Scarlet and Blue go undercover to escort the World President's scientific
advisor, Dr. Conrad, to a secret conference in Geneva, Switzerland, but
two sharp-eyed reporters recognize the physicist and tail the trio, finally
managing to get on the same flight--a flight that Captain Black and the
Mysterons have already tampered with.
"Place Of Angels"
A Mysteron threat to destroy "the place of the angels" stumps
Spectrum's best efforts to solve the mystery, but they quickly figure out
the means: A new deadly virus called XK-14, stolen by the Mysteronized lab
assistant to the doctor who created it. But in trying to track down the
lab assistant, Scarlet and Blue encounter her wrecked car...and a broken
test-tube.
"Noose Of Ice"
The Mysterons have a powerful ally--Nature itself--to aid in their threat
against the world's only tritonium mine, an element essential for building
the new craft that will undertake the next mission to Mars. The mine is
in the ocean underneath the Arctic circle, and to keep the ice away, high
voltage electricity powers superheated rods...electricity that is endangered
when the Mysterons take over a maintenance technician scheduled to service
the base.
"Expo 2068"
A volatile nuclear reactor is stolen by its Mysteronized transport driver
and hijacked by Captain Black, who is controlling a robot helicopter being
used to construct the facilities for Expo 2068...and it's up to Scarlet
and Blue to track it down and stabilize it before it explodes and destroys
the eastern seaboard of North America.
"The Launching"
The Mysterons threaten to destroy President Roberts, sending Captain
Scarlet to Washington to protect the feisty U.S. President...as a Mysteronized
reporter makes his way to the nation's capital for another special occasion.
"Codename Europa"
The Mysterons vow to kill "the triumverate of Europe"--World
Government Ministers Olafsen, Henderson, and Macini--and Spectrum puts a
special plan codenamed "Europa" into action to protect the three
ministers. But a Mysteronized professor of engineering shows Spectrum just
how weak their defenses are as he mounts an apparently successful attack
on Olafsen, leaving Spectrum to search for clues to his next move.
"Inferno"
A Space Recovery Vehicle, on its way to destroy a renegade satellite,
gains a new target when the Mysterons attack and destroy it, then turn it
back toward Earth--headed straight for a vital desalinization plant in South
America, at the base of an Aztec temple, where Scarlet, Blue, Magenta, and
Ochre have set up observation posts in the hopes of thwarting the Mysteron
plans to destroy the complex.
"Flight To Atlantica"
On the first anniversary of Spectrum's charter, a mysterious well-wisher
sends a case of non-alcoholic champagne to Cloudbase, and Scarlet organizes
a celebration that White breaks up when he discovers it occurring during
duty hours. But the champagne is not what it seems...and only White and
Scarlet remain unaffected as one officer after another begins to exhibit
irresponsibility and apparent intoxication. Meanwhile, Captains Blue and
Ochre are on their way to destroy a shipwreck that threatens World Navy
defense post Atlantica--but Black takes advantage of their intoxication
to slip into their navigation pack a phony map that will take their bombing
run directly over Atlantica itself.
"Attack On Cloudbase"
A mysterious explosion in the back of Symphony's jet leads her to believe
she has been attacked, so she ejects and lands in the desert, where she
collapses from heat exhaustion as she attempts to reach help. Meanwhile,
the search for her is called off due to a Mysteron threat to destroy Cloudbase--a
threat that becomes very real as a mysterious craft shows up on Spectrum's
radar.
"The Inquisition"
Blue gets dizzy and sick in a restaurant one evening and passes out...and
awakens to find himself on Cloudbase, being interrogated by an intelligence
officer who demands he prove his identity.