6.6/1063 votesLoading...#1 - The Inquisition
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/14/1968
Captain Blue disappears from a restaurant. He awakes to find it is 3 months later and Spectrum Security want to know where he has been, and if he is even the real Captain Blue.
Director: Ken Turner
Writer: Tony Barwick
6.9/1072 votesLoading...#2 - Renegade Rocket
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/19/1968
The Mysterons engineer the launch of a Variable Geometry Rocket from Base Concord and their agent, Major Reeves, escapes with the destruct mechanism and target information.
Director: Brian Burgess
Writer: Ralph Hart
7.1/1067 votesLoading...#3 - Model Spy
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/29/1967
Destiny and Symphony Angels go undercover as models when the Mysterons target fashion designer Andre Verdain, who is also the secret controller of the European Area Intelligence Service.
Director: Ken Turner
Writer: Bill Hedley
7.2/1059 votesLoading...#4 - Traitor
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/23/1968
After a series of suspicious Spectrum hovercraft crashes, Captain Scarlet and Captain Blue are sent to the Australian Outback investigate if the Mysterons claims that their is a traitor in Spectrum is true.
Director: Alan Perry
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.3/1083 votesLoading...#5 - The Trap
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1967
Following the latest Mysteron threat, Captain Scarlet is dispatched to supervise security at the International Air Conference at Glen Garry Castle in Scotland.
Director: Alan Perry
Writer: Alan Pattillo
7.3/1079 votesLoading...#6 - Spectrum Strikes Back
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1967
Spectrum and the World President attend a secret conference on an African game reserve to demonstrate two new anti-Mysteron gadgets, a Mysteron Detector and a Mysteron Gun but the aliens announce they intend to sabotage the event.
Director: Ken Turner
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.3/1063 votesLoading...#7 - Expo 2068
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/26/1968
A truck carrying an atomic core reactor to the new Manicougan power complex falls into the hands of the Mysterons who intend to use it to strike the Atlantic Seaboard of North America.
Director: Leo Eaton
Writer: Shane Rimmer
7.4/1078 votesLoading...#8 - Point 783
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/22/1967
The Mysterons take control of an experimental super-tank in an attempt to assassinate the Supreme Commander of earths armed forces.
Director: Robert Lynn
Writer: Peter Curran, David Williams
7.4/1074 votesLoading...#9 - Shadow of Fear
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/2/1968
Captain Scarlet and Captain Blue are sent to observe an operation to obtain vital orbital reconnaissance photographs of Mars. But the project is put in danger when one of the astronomers is taken over by The Mysterons.
Director: Robert Lynn
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.4/1067 votesLoading...#10 - Fire at Rig 15
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/16/1968
When the Mysterons threaten to immobilize the whole of Spectrum, Captain Scarlet and Captain Blue are sent to the Spectrum oil refinery at Bensheba to protect the fuel that powers all of Spectrums vehicles.
Director: Ken Turner
Writer: Bryan Cooper
7.5/1082 votesLoading...#11 - Operation Time
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1967
The Mysterons' cryptic threat to "kill time" has the Spectrum personnel stumped until Captain Magenta realizes that their target is General Tiempo, the Commander of Western Region World Defence.
Director: Ken Turner
Writer: Stephen J. Mattick, Richard Conway
7.5/1071 votesLoading...#12 - Special Assignment
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1967
The Mysterons threaten to obliterate the continent of North America, but Spectrum is left without its number one agent when Captain Scarlet is dismissed for gambling offenses.
Director: Robert Lynn
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.5/1069 votesLoading...#13 - Seek and Destroy
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/5/1968
When the Mysterons threaten to kill one of the Angels, Captain Scarlet and Captain Blue are sent to Paris, where Destiny Angel is on holiday, to escort her back to the safety of Cloudbase.
Director: Alan Perry
Writer: Peter Curran, David Williams
7.6/1094 votesLoading...#14 - Manhunt
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1967
A manhunt begins for former Spectrum agent Captain Black after a failed break in at a nuclear power plant, where he is accidentally exposed to radiation and becomes detectable for 48 hours.
Director: Alan Perry
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.6/1078 votesLoading...#15 - The Heart of New York
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1967
As the Mysterons threaten to destroy the "Heart of New York", Captain Scarlet and Captain Blue investigate the theft of Grade A Security documents from the Spectrum security vaults.
Director: Alan Perry
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.6/1068 votesLoading...#16 - Dangerous Rendezvous
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/9/1968
Using the Mysteron pulsator recovered from the complex in Crater 101, Dr Kurnitz has developed a transmission device with which Colonel White attempts to contact the Mysterons and sue for peace.
Director: Brian Burgess
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.6/1063 votesLoading...#17 - Flight 104
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/1/1968
When the Mysterons threaten to sabotage a vital conference at Lake Toma in Switzerland, Scarlet and Blue are assigned to escort the world's leading astrophysicist, Dr. Conrad, to Geneva.
Director: Robert Lynn
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.6/1060 votesLoading...#18 - Inferno
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/16/1968
Captain Scarlet and the rest of Spectrum are in a desperate race against time to defeat the Mysteron's latest threat, the total destruction of the massive desalination plant at Najama, high in the Andes Mountains.
Director: Alan Perry
Writer: Tony Barwick, Shane Rimmer
7.6/1064 votesLoading...#19 - Flight to Atlantica
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/30/1968
Spectrum personnel inexplicably take leave of their senses, due to drinking some champagne drugged by the Mysterons, who have threaten to destroy the World Navy Complex at Atlantica.
Director: Leo Eaton
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.7/1085 votesLoading...#20 - Avalanche
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/1967
When the Mysterons threaten to destroy key links in the Frost Line Outer Space Defence System, Captain Scarlet and Lieutenant Green race to investigate the mysterious deaths of the personnel at Red Deer Base.
Director: Brian Burgess
Writer: Shane Rimmer
7.7/1069 votesLoading...#21 - Crater 101
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/26/1968
Captain Scarlet, Captain Blue and Lieutenant Green volunteer for a dangerous mission to remove the power source of the Mysteron complex inside Crater 101, on the far side of the Moon, before it is destroyed by a low yield atomic device.
Director: Ken Turner
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.7/1061 votesLoading...#22 - Treble Cross
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/23/1968
Captain Black engineers the death of chief test pilot Major Gravener, who is retrometabolised as a Mysteron agent as part of the Mysterons' plan to destroy the World Capital, Futura City.
Director: Alan Perry
Writer: Tony Barwick
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7.7/1063 votesLoading...#24 - The Launching
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/2/1968
When the Mysterons threaten to destroy President Roberts within twelve hours, Captain Scarlet is assigned to guard the skeptical President of the United States.
Director: Brian Burgess
Writer: Peter Curran, David Williams
7.7/1059 votesLoading...#25 - Codename Europa
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/9/1968
The Mysterons threaten to destroy the Triumvirate of Europe, the three most powerful men on Earth after the World President.
Director: Alan Perry
Writer: David Lee
The Worst Episodes of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
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Worst Episodes Summary
"The Inquisition" is the worst rated episode of "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons". It scored 6.6/10 based on 63 votes. Directed by Ken Turner and written by Tony Barwick, it aired on 5/14/1968. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Renegade Rocket".