Captain Scarlet vs. the Mysterons

Captain Scarlet vs. the Mysterons
A squadron of fighter aircraft circles the Earth in space. Seated in his cockpit, one of the pilots is facing the viewer. The image is overlaid with the text: "FHE - Family Home Entertainment - Presents "Captain Scarlet vs. The Mysterons".
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Based onCaptain Scarlet and the Mysterons
by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson
Developed byRobert Mandell
Voices ofFrancis Matthews
Ed Bishop
Cy Grant
Donald Gray
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time96 minutes
Production companyITC Entertainment
Original release
Release1981 (1981)
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Captain Scarlet vs. the Mysterons is a 1981 television film based on the 1960s British puppet TV series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. Produced by the New York office of the series' distributor, ITC Entertainment, the film is a compilation of the Captain Scarlet episodes "The Mysterons", "Winged Assassin", "Seek and Destroy" and "Attack on Cloudbase".[1] It follows an earlier Captain Scarlet compilation, Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars.

Set in 2068, the original series depicts a "war of nerves" between Earth and the Mysterons: a race of Martians with the power to create functioning copies of destroyed people or objects and use them to carry out acts of aggression against humanity. Earth is defended by a military organisation called Spectrum, whose top agent, Captain Scarlet, was killed by the Mysterons and replaced by a reconstruction that subsequently broke free of their control. Scarlet's double has a self-healing power that enables him to recover from injuries that would be fatal to anyone else, making him Spectrum's best asset in its fight against the Mysterons.

  1. ^ "Miscellaneous — Multimedia: Videos". spectrum-headquarters.com. Retrieved 2 May 2007.