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The Worst Episodes of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

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The Worst Episodes of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as Captain Scarlet, is a 1960s British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions company...

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  1. 6.6/10(72 votes)

    #1 - The Inquisition

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    S1:E32

    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.

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    Director:Ken Turner
  2. 6.9/10(77 votes)

    #2 - Renegade Rocket

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    S1:E16

    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.

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    Director:Brian Burgess
    Writer:Ralph Hart
  3. 7.1/10(68 votes)

    #3 - Traitor

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    S1:E29

    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.

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    Director:Alan Perry
  4. 7.2/10(72 votes)

    #4 - Model Spy

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    S1:E14

    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.

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    Director:Ken Turner
  5. 7.3/10(86 votes)

    #5 - Spectrum Strikes Back

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    S1:E9

    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.

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    Director:Ken Turner
  6. 7.3/10(68 votes)

    #6 - Expo 2068

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    S1:E25

    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.

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    Director:Leo Eaton
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  8. 7.4/10(89 votes)

    #7 - The Trap

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    S1:E7

    Following the latest Mysteron threat, Captain Scarlet is dispatched to supervise security at the International Air Conference at Glen Garry Castle in Scotland.

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    Director:Alan Perry
  9. 7.4/10(84 votes)

    #8 - Point 783

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    S1:E13

    The Mysterons take control of an experimental super-tank in an attempt to assassinate the Supreme Commander of earths armed forces.

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  10. 7.4/10(78 votes)

    #9 - Shadow of Fear

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    S1:E18

    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.

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    Director:Robert Lynn
  11. 7.4/10(71 votes)

    #10 - Fire at Rig 15

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    S1:E20

    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.

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    Director:Ken Turner
  12. 7.5/10(73 votes)

    #11 - Seek and Destroy

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    S1:E15

    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.

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  13. 7.5/10(69 votes)

    #12 - Inferno

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    S1:E28

    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.

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  14. 7.5/10(73 votes)

    #13 - Flight to Atlantica

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    S1:E30

    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.

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    Director:Leo Eaton
  15. 7.6/10(100 votes)

    #14 - Manhunt

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    S1:E4

    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.

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    Director:Alan Perry
  16. 7.6/10(88 votes)

    #15 - Operation Time

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    S1:E8

    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.

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  17. 7.6/10(77 votes)

    #16 - Special Assignment

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    S1:E10

    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.

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    Director:Robert Lynn
  18. 7.6/10(83 votes)

    #17 - The Heart of New York

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    S1:E11

    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.

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    Director:Alan Perry
  19. 7.6/10(73 votes)

    #18 - Dangerous Rendezvous

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    S1:E19

    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.

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  20. 7.6/10(67 votes)

    #19 - Flight 104

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    S1:E22

    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.

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    Director:Robert Lynn
  21. 7.6/10(67 votes)

    #20 - Codename Europa

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    S1:E27

    The Mysterons threaten to destroy the Triumvirate of Europe, the three most powerful men on Earth after the World President.

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    Director:Alan Perry
    Writer:David Lee
  22. 7.7/10(114 votes)

    #21 - Winged Assassin

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    S1:E2

    The Mysterons second target is the Director General of the United Asian Republic. Spectrum swings into action to protect him as he prepares to board his private plane at London Airport.

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    Director:David Lane
  23. 7.7/10(92 votes)

    #22 - Avalanche

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    S1:E5

    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.

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  24. 7.7/10(65 votes)

    #23 - Treble Cross

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    S1:E21

    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.

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    Director:Alan Perry
  25. 7.7/10(72 votes)

    #24 - Place of Angels

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    S1:E23

    Mysteron agent Judith Chapman, steals a phial of deadly K14 virus - enough to kill ten million people - from Biological Research Station with the intent of poisoning a unknown cities water supply.

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    Director:Leo Eaton
    Writer:Leo Eaton
  26. 7.7/10(73 votes)

    #25 - Noose of Ice

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    S1:E24

    Tritonium alloy mining operations at Hotspot Tower in the North Pole are threatened when a Mysteron agent cuts the power to vital heating elements.

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    Director:Ken Turner

Worst Episodes Summary

"The Inquisition" is the worst rated episode of "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons". It scored 6.6/10 based on 72 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".