| "Noose of Ice" | |
|---|---|
| Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons episode | |
| Episode no. | Episode 23 |
| Directed by | Ken Turner |
| Written by | Peter Curran & David Williams[1] |
| Cinematography by | Julien Lugrin |
| Editing by | Bob Dearberg |
| Production code | SCA 26[1] |
| Original air date | 12 March 1968 |
| Guest character voices | |
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"Noose of Ice" is the 23rd episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company Century 21 Productions. Written by Peter Curran and David Williams and directed by Ken Turner, it was first broadcast on 12 March 1968 on ATV Midlands.
Set in 2068, the series depicts a "war of nerves" between Earth and the Mysterons: a hostile 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 murdered by the Mysterons and replaced by a reconstruction that later 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.
In "Noose of Ice", the Mysterons target an undersea Arctic mine that is extracting a rare metal which is vital to the construction of a new Earth space fleet.