I recently watched the whole season again. It was completely different to what I remember as a kid, I didn't realize how political and bloodthirsty it was, and explosions galore. The attention to detail was truly exceptional. Gerry Anderson was a genius ahead of his time. Pure gold!
It's easy to see how many shows had not only predictive programming in them to socially engineer the masses once you KNOW about who ran MEDIA corporations & still does.
4:45 That facial expression on Captain Black's always sends shivers down your spine, because you know he's not only turned bad, but also about to work under the menacing, petrifying control of the Mysterons.
Certainly scared the crap out of me as a four year old. Not even the aliens from UFO managed that until Christopher Lee as Dracula did so about about 6 years later. The appearance of the "circles"on the screen along with the music a classic and unforgetable memory.
Now I've just realized they sent out Zero-X armed with weapons of mass destruction, wiped out an entire city; what kind of space program were they running?
A good friend of mine from The UK just sent me this. How did we not have this in The US??? I would’ve loved this show when I was a kid! Shit, I loved it now at 58!🤣 I imagine the action figure toy line from this show must’ve made millions. The late 60’s and early 70’s was the greatest era for Saturday morning tv.
Ohhhh what was that other show with "Mariiiinaaaaa, Aqua Mariiiiinaaaaaa" as the outro? They were always in a submarine and Marina could breathe underwater. 🤔
I had forgotten just how dark this show was - every episode had some horrific death scene and those mysterons never gave an inch.Thunderbirds was always so very upbeat with the emphasis on saving lives, whereas this series gave us some of the most nightmarish scenes ever made for a kids' tv show. Gerry Anderson was a genius!
“Those Mysterons never gave an inch.” Well, you could be extremely pissed too if you were curious about some visitors and they suddenly responded with utter destruction of everything you had.
Edward Bishop who played;Captain Blue passed away from a chest infection in 2005.I believe,it was in the fall?There’s only one angel 😇 left from Captain Scarlet,but,I’m afraid I don’t know the actresse’s name.But,I think she played Melody 🎵 Angel?Maybe,somebody could tell who this actress is?Because,I really,don’t know who she is!
Yeah.. I remember.. Those mysterons put the sh!ts up me and I got a torch for Christmas off of my parents that projected 2 white rings on to the wall. I used it once and sh@t my beige and brown nylon underpants.. (it was the 70s🙄😳😳) I also loved Aquamarina... From Stingray.. and tried to hold my breath underwater like she does.. I nearly f#£king drowned.. Gerry Anderson really was the king of childhood mental trauma for me.. I would not swap puppets for social media in childhood tho.. As Brian said in the 80s...It's A Puppet 🤔🙄🤣🤣🤣🤣
Omg I've gone back to the early 70s growing up here in Australia (my mum says I'll never grow up 😉) between this, stingray,Thunderbirds, space 1999, fireball XL5 & ufo this was a great time to be a kid. (Plus throw in kimba the white lion, gentle ben & the banana splits.😁)
I was born in 92 so not around when this was originally on but i first watched it in the late 90s when bbc 2 were showing it and watched it with my late dad. To this day it's still one of my favourite shows. This, thunderbirds and only fools and horses were my go to watch when i was off sick from school as my dad had a lot of video tapes of them. It wasn't until years later i realised the voice of the mysterons were done by the same person who voiced colonel white
He is alive and well and lives in London, don`t believe me??? Then take a look at Mikel Arteta . . .The Arsenal Manager!!!!!! Pretending to be a Footie manager, wow these mysterons will try anything!!! lolol
As a kid, the century 21 intro with arrow made my hair stand on end and got my heart thumping hard. No doubt in my young mind something special was coming. Then I had the long wait to watch the closing credits and argue with my brothers abour our favourite image. They're my screensavers, even today.
Absolutely loved this as a kid on Saturday mornings , if i missed an episode, it would ruin my week . The model making was fantastic when you look at the detail . Very dark & trippy on purpose.
Having started primary school at age 5 when I watched Captain Scarlett c.1969 and not presumably not having seen these opening episodes [would not have understood them then], I was surprised at the maturity of this scene - not just having some mindless alien aggressor - but then same human fear and aggression instincts in The Day the Earth Stood Still etc. Of course, as some have pointed out, contrary to the naive human projection of human aggression, greed and conquest onto ETs, no intelligent species capable of interstellar travel would need Earth's minerals or other resources as they could easily get them from nearby asteroids or by chemical synthesis etc. I was also surprised at how much more polished and mature the whole production was than the kiddies stuff I was expecting.
To be fair the camera looked like a gun so I can see why Black panicked it’s like if someone draws a pistol at you and you already have your pistol out, you either let the other man shoot first and kill you or you shoot first and save your own life.
Loved all things Gerry Anderson. When I saw this on TV in the 60’s, it was Captain Grey, Captain Light Grey, Captain Dark Grey…. Still we had Captain Black 😂
What an amazing trip back to my youth. I loved this show and had several of the die-cast models. The SPV was my favourite with Captain Scarlett in his swing down seat.
The pilot! THIS is simply THE BEST Series SENSEI GERRY ANDERSON concocted ever! (with all due respect to my beloved THUNDERBIRDS). Darker,more realistic,better built dummies. I was REALLY scared by The Mysterons when I was a child. THANKS a bunch Shout Factory ✊👏👏✨
The innovation on this show was staggering. For example, all-female pilots, a black character (Lt Green), real-hand close-ups, microphones that dropped down from the peak of the caps. The whole thing is brilliant!
They came to regret the backwards-facing car seats because when it came to filming, the traditional close-up shots of the driver ,when edited with longer shots that showed the car speeding along, had an unwanted jarring effect on the viewers, especially if they were new to the show and didn't know about the deliberately rear-facing seats. This led to them adding dialogue to explain the orientation of the driver e.g. when re-fuelling the petrol pump attendant would remark on the innovation and ask the driver if it was difficult to drive facing backwards. @@iconicshrubbery
My nieces and nephews now watch Shaun the sheep 🐏. I try to wean them on to bugs Bunny 🐇 and the gang whenever they visit but they still prefer the sheep 🐏
When I was younger a boy I used to dress up as Captain Scarlet and watch the videos of Captain Scarlet so many times. Captain Scarlet versus the Mysterons was my favourite video which I owned.
I remember those 'Captain-in-peril' beautifully drawn artwork at the end credits. Lovely. As stiff as it looks now, you can tell a lot of work was put into getting everything just right. Appreciate it.
This show is simply FAB!!! ... I mean SIG! I have been humming this theme song for years, for no apparent reason either! I watched this show religiously as a kid and that must be why.
The explosion of the building at 11:24 is something chief of special effects Derek Meddings remembered well. Unfortunately for the wrong reason. As recalled in a book to accompany the 2001 re showing in Britain, Derek had built this building with many little rooms full of scaled furniture and you would see it all when the building exploded. Unfortunately the dust from the explosion was so major all the detail was lost
What marvellous mayhem! I almost feel like a kid again! Now, if I could just get my hands on the first Thunderbirds movie. It covers the same ground as this episode and makes it clear that it was the hostile and unprovoked attack by the humans that began the war with the Mysterons.
And don't forget Derek Meddings, who was responsible in both series for those wonderful sets and models. His career went right up to the 1990 Batman film.
Gerry Anderson was actually approached by Stanley Kubrick to work on 2001: A Space Odyssey. He turned him down for a reason that seemed right at the time (and which I forget) but which he admitting to being a great regret. The model-making was first rate, as was much of the miniature photography of things like explosions and the raging inferno of a burning oil well.
60 here, My dad was stationed at Shafter / Schofield in Hawaii back in the early 70, this was my favorite show after school. It would be cool if someone could do it now with today's technology.
12/1/22 How on earth did I miss this series growing up? I think the characters are much stiffer with less movement and expression than Thunderbirds but the amazingly detailed set pieces won me over. Big laugh for a human hand entering the picture to unzip a uniform pocket! Very cool and creative series from a "grown-ups" POV.
Actually, other way around ^^; captain scarlet's puppets were made to be more movement and expression, to the point they made the puppets realistic..... there is one slight problem withit though. In the first series they had this special system that tried to mimic extreme emotions too, and it reeeeeeally didn't look good XD so they stopped using it after season one..... honeslty those faces got horrific or comedically funny lol
I love the different take on alien life in this show. The Mysterons were never hostile beings and didn't have the idea of attacking them. They wanted to welcome humans to their world.
And yet they're not intelligent enough to comprehend that the expedition from Earth only attacked them because the mechanism that was observed resembed a gun. A race like that would almost certainly be known for starting agressions against others over misunderstandings.
Yeah the humans were the bad guys in this. They invaded and shot first. The production values in this show are truly amazing. So much better than multi million dollar Hollywood productions of today. Without crap CGI and al that stuff with identity politics. Hell, all the Angel pilots were women. The storylines were so far ahead of their time and really scary but thrilling. Gerry Anderson, we love you ❤
@@bogusmogus9551 I find that argument illogical. It would be like saying police officers who accidentally killed kids who pointed realistic looking toy guns at them are bad guys. The humans had no way of knowing that the device wasn't destructive. It looks like a weapon.
If only Captain Black had just said "Sorry, my bad" things could have worked out different. Also, bit of a over reaction on the Mysterons part, they rebuilt their base instantly, so no real harm done, and i don't blame them for being mad at Capt Black. But to decide to kill all life on Earth! 😲 Bit of a dick move.
Being indestructible, he's got these great facial expressions, like "christ, not the bloody spikes AGAIN" or, "off a building again is it? Here we go again then".. ⭐👍
Hollywood actors, with their CGI and multi million dollar budgets cant come with anything near as good as Gerry. This stuff is over 50 years old. Their marionettes were better actors than the assh*les they have in their multi million dollar holly'wood' productions. Those 'actors' are plastic, cant act without the help of some CGI. Boll*cks to them. Gerry is the real deal
Gerry and Sylvia made a point to break down racial barriers throughout their work and immediately show human nature when the expedition fired on something they didn’t understand......❤
Remember watching this for this first time on BBC 2 in the late 90s along with thunderbirds when i was really young. Use to watch them with my late dad and to this day captain scarlet is still one of my favourite shows to watch. Many happy and cherished memories watching them with him. My dad had a lot of captain scarlet and thunderbirds on video and they use to be my go to watch along with his only fools and horses videos whenever i was off sick from school.
Still to this day, a television CLASSIC. Children's TV with an edge. Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons was Gerry Anderson's best work. Century 21 at the top of it's game
I loved Captain Scarlet as a kid, I have a boxed set of Captain Scarlet DVDs. The Mysterons, Captain Black, awesome adventure. Dark and silly. Puppets. Crude yet sophisticated. More nuanced than Thunderbirds which I also loved. Supermarionation. Team America. Lol.
It was Captain Black. And defending themselves from what? A wholly ineffectual attack from a single Earth vehicle that did no permanent damage? And for a supposedly peaceful race, they certainly dialed it up to 11 awfully quick.
My late comment is this: from Four Feather Falls up to UFO those series evolved, in detail, in sophistication and in plotlines. Cptn.Scarlet was a big step up.And we happy kids BOUGHT INTO it, we grew up with those series. UFO was the final step towards adulthood, with real men and women, mixed races and young and old. In respect, Anderson was an Education, now we are his School!
Great to see this. I think Captain Scarlet was one of my imaginary friends back in the 60's. The artwork at the end its fantastic still, glad to see that I could google him. Ron Embleton
This would be the only time that we would see Captain Black in his full Spectrum uniform as for the rest of the series, he would completely ditch it in favour of wearing black leather jackets, trenchcoats with dark grey sweaters and pants with long boots while fully embracing the entire persona of a Mysteron agent. I also loved that he never ever talked much and was mostly silent which made him more like a zombie but would only say a few words in that deep robotic voice. The glazed eyes, the pale skin and unshaved apperance complimented his new look perfectly. My all time favourite villain out of the entire Gerry Anderson shows.
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I recently watched the whole season again. It was completely different to what I remember as a kid, I didn't realize how political and bloodthirsty it was, and explosions galore. The attention to detail was truly exceptional. Gerry Anderson was a genius ahead of his time. Pure gold!
lol, blood thirsty, try watching Jo 90, little boy offs people like there is no tomorrow ... still love these shows...
It's easy to see how many shows had not only predictive programming in them to socially engineer the masses once you KNOW about who ran MEDIA corporations & still does.
100 times superior than any Disney movie made the past 5 years
Yes but no "trans" feelings were hurt..
@@ickleshousenot much blood in a plastic puppet
4:45 That facial expression on Captain Black's always sends shivers down your spine, because you know he's not only turned bad, but also about to work under the menacing, petrifying control of the Mysterons.
Certainly scared the crap out of me as a four year old. Not even the aliens from UFO managed that until Christopher Lee as Dracula did so about about 6 years later. The appearance of the "circles"on the screen along with the music a classic and unforgetable memory.
And you just know those other two officers aren't long for this world.
Now I've just realized they sent out Zero-X armed with weapons of mass destruction, wiped out an entire city; what kind of space program were they running?
You can tell he has not slept for days! Lol!
@@PatrickMcGowan-ch4ho Yes... you've got to have a little sympathy for those Mysterons. 🤔
A good friend of mine from The UK just sent me this.
How did we not have this in The US???
I would’ve loved this show when I was a kid! Shit, I loved it now at 58!🤣
I imagine the action figure toy line from this show must’ve made millions.
The late 60’s and early 70’s was the greatest era for Saturday morning tv.
I thought it was an American show, the whole time.
Ohhhh what was that other show with "Mariiiinaaaaa, Aqua Mariiiiinaaaaaa" as the outro?
They were always in a submarine and Marina could breathe underwater. 🤔
@@1Flyingfistthe show was called Stingray.
Ebay has a few Konomi vehicles,plus Corgi in the UK has just released the SPV and an Angel interceptor.
I think it did well in Japan as vehicles from the series were made by the Japanese scale model company Imai. They also made Thunderbirds kits.
Love the expression on Captain Scarlet's face when he gets shot.
A thing of wonder
That look he made cracked me up!
@@princessalaina4589 :-(
Yeah it was so expressive. Not wooden at all.
They created a specially made puppet head just for this shot.
I had forgotten just how dark this show was - every episode had some horrific death scene and those mysterons never gave an inch.Thunderbirds was always so very upbeat with the emphasis on saving lives, whereas this series gave us some of the most nightmarish scenes ever made for a kids' tv show. Gerry Anderson was a genius!
What channel did it come on? I don't remember this one on any of the big 3. (Back in the day, there were only 3 stations in the USA)
Poor Capt. Scarlet has to die and resurrect like every week. It's specified that he feels all the pain, too. 😅 What a trooper.
@@rwarren58 It was syndicated in the US. Only local stations showed it.
“Those Mysterons never gave an inch.” Well, you could be extremely pissed too if you were curious about some visitors and they suddenly responded with utter destruction of everything you had.
This show scared me as a child.
They should do a Reunion Show. Are all the original puppets still alive?
Most of these people are dead
@@BushCampingTools I hope they passed their very good looking genes 😀
🤣
Despite their Wooden Acting;
I think you will find that many of them, are not readily available 🤞
Edward Bishop who played;Captain Blue passed away from a chest infection in 2005.I believe,it was in the fall?There’s only one angel 😇 left from Captain Scarlet,but,I’m afraid I don’t know the actresse’s name.But,I think she played Melody 🎵 Angel?Maybe,somebody could tell who this actress is?Because,I really,don’t know who she is!
1 minute after seeing the city, they yell "they're hostile. Let 'em have it"!
They are human alright.
That city looks like a place carnies would go for the winter.
The city is coming right at us!
@@timlevis3630 pppp0
It's even worse in classic Dr. Who. The moment an alien appears the military fires without any provocation. "You look different, I'll shoot you!"
It's really hard to take the Mysterons as the 'villlians' after that
My childhood right here. Captain Scarlet. Thunderbirds. Stingray! Good times.
Aye:)
Translate to English? OK. Aye!
Those Angels were as cool as ice cream. Schloop!
Oh, yeah. Childhood memories for me, here.
Yeah.. I remember.. Those mysterons put the sh!ts up me and I got a torch for Christmas off of my parents that projected 2 white rings on to the wall. I used it once and sh@t my beige and brown nylon underpants.. (it was the 70s🙄😳😳) I also loved Aquamarina... From Stingray.. and tried to hold my breath underwater like she does.. I nearly f#£king drowned.. Gerry Anderson really was the king of childhood mental trauma for me.. I would not swap puppets for social media in childhood tho.. As Brian said in the 80s...It's A Puppet 🤔🙄🤣🤣🤣🤣
Better acting then some recent shows I've watched
Better acting THAN
Omg I've gone back to the early 70s growing up here in Australia (my mum says I'll never grow up 😉) between this, stingray,Thunderbirds, space 1999, fireball XL5 & ufo this was a great time to be a kid. (Plus throw in kimba the white lion, gentle ben & the banana splits.😁)
Omg I would so love Kimba to come back!!
@@vegetariansuniteworldwide8091 I had a look on TH-cam & there are some episodes there so give it a go.
How about Lost in Space ?
UFO trust me
@@seymourskinner2533 recently watched the full episodes on TH-cam last year, good to see it for first time since the 70s.
I was born in 92 so not around when this was originally on but i first watched it in the late 90s when bbc 2 were showing it and watched it with my late dad. To this day it's still one of my favourite shows. This, thunderbirds and only fools and horses were my go to watch when i was off sick from school as my dad had a lot of video tapes of them. It wasn't until years later i realised the voice of the mysterons were done by the same person who voiced colonel white
Ah I was the same (well, born 93) it was always The Simpsons at six then Captain Scarlet at 25 past on a Monday.
Awesome show. This is what is lacking today: imagination! Creativity! Innovation!
One of the BEST pilot episodes for one of the BEST series EVER.
I saw a familiar name, Ed Bishop. He went on to star in the Gerry Anderson show UFO.
The Anderson’s definitely liked the idea of being in your seat well before you were in your vehicle .
Saves on all the puppeteering.
@@Spudtron98 Exactly. All part of trying to hide they are puppets. So they walked very little if at all.
Captain Black had this haunted and gaunt features after returning from the planet Mars. Great childhood memories.
He is alive and well and lives in London, don`t believe me??? Then take a look at Mikel Arteta . . .The Arsenal Manager!!!!!! Pretending to be a Footie manager, wow these mysterons will try anything!!! lolol
@@chrismadge5472Just looked, he’s the image of Captain Black 😂
Terrific! 1967. I was 11yrs old. The howling of the Interceptor still sounds wicked. Thankyou. Thankyou. Thank Yow!
I was 4 but I saw this later in the 70's . Good memories 😊
this is much better than just cartoon animation, i love it
so well done, all the models, shots and effects
As a kid, the century 21 intro with arrow made my hair stand on end and got my heart thumping hard. No doubt in my young mind something special was coming. Then I had the long wait to watch the closing credits and argue with my brothers abour our favourite image. They're my screensavers, even today.
Absolutely loved this as a kid on Saturday mornings , if i missed an episode, it would ruin my week .
The model making was fantastic when you look at the detail .
Very dark & trippy on purpose.
I had the box set for my 58th birthday from my son. Love this show. Im 63 now and still get it out and wztch it
"They are looking at us. They must be aggressive. Let kill them". 😂
Having started primary school at age 5 when I watched Captain Scarlett c.1969 and not presumably not having seen these opening episodes [would not have understood them then], I was surprised at the maturity of this scene - not just having some mindless alien aggressor - but then same human fear and aggression instincts in The Day the Earth Stood Still etc. Of course, as some have pointed out, contrary to the naive human projection of human aggression, greed and conquest onto ETs, no intelligent species capable of interstellar travel would need Earth's minerals or other resources as they could easily get them from nearby asteroids or by chemical synthesis etc.
I was also surprised at how much more polished and mature the whole production was than the kiddies stuff I was expecting.
To be fair the camera looked like a gun so I can see why Black panicked it’s like if someone draws a pistol at you and you already have your pistol out, you either let the other man shoot first and kill you or you shoot first and save your own life.
Loved all things Gerry Anderson. When I saw this on TV in the 60’s, it was Captain Grey, Captain Light Grey, Captain Dark Grey…. Still we had Captain Black 😂
Captain Fifty Shades of Grey...
This was the 60's ?
No wonder...
So many hours as a kid watching these wonderful creative videos.
The thing that stands out from ALL the various series is.....the music....fcuking brilliant..
What an amazing trip back to my youth. I loved this show and had several of the die-cast models. The SPV was my favourite with Captain Scarlett in his swing down seat.
Me too
Be cool if you still had them.
@tinfoilskullcap7034 I handed them down to my son, but I'm not sure where they are today. They were certainly played with. 🤣
The pilot!
THIS is simply THE BEST Series SENSEI GERRY ANDERSON concocted ever!
(with all due respect to my beloved THUNDERBIRDS).
Darker,more realistic,better built dummies.
I was REALLY scared by The Mysterons when I was a child.
THANKS a bunch Shout Factory ✊👏👏✨
Without a doubt. As a kid this was serious business.
UFO was simply the Gold Standard.
I'd almost forgotten how beautiful the background music was!
Just think, a simple apology to the Mysterons would have solved everything.
They do not accept apologies! Lol!
outstanding no CGI.!!
The innovation on this show was staggering. For example, all-female pilots, a black character (Lt Green), real-hand close-ups, microphones that dropped down from the peak of the caps. The whole thing is brilliant!
Yes, innovative ,eg. backwards- facing drivers and backwards - swept wings!!
Weren't there 5 Angel Pilots?
@@mariakelly90210They were called the Angel Flight Melody,Symphony,Rhapsody,Destiny,Harmony!!!❤
They came to regret the backwards-facing car seats because when it came to filming, the traditional close-up shots of the driver ,when edited with longer shots that showed the car speeding along, had an unwanted jarring effect on the viewers, especially if they were new to the show and didn't know about the deliberately rear-facing seats. This led to them adding dialogue to explain the orientation of the driver e.g. when re-fuelling the petrol pump attendant would remark on the innovation and ask the driver if it was difficult to drive facing backwards. @@iconicshrubbery
Child mind forming of what the future of the world would be ,,, amazing the how they had it all planned.... beyond amazing
I always loved how the Angel's crew room chairs took them straight to the Angel Interceptors.
Everything there is automatic 😂 probably computer controlled probably like lunar vill 7 before it got destroyed
...I due remember how exquisitely detailed the set interiors were!
All the sets are just so well done, really cool show
My favorite of Anderson's series. Many, many puppets were harmed in making of it. :)
Yaaay!
Stingray is the one, with that sexy red head Atlanta
@@MrJohnnyseven I loved Marina ❤
As a child I thought the song ("Aquamarina") went "Mariiiina, QUACK-QUACK Mariiiina..". Well she did have a bit of a duck-face Lol.
Marina aqua Marina what is that strange smell of fish whenever your near 😂
Wonderful memories of Jerry and Sylvia Anderson’s productions in a safe 1960s.
Better acting than eastenders or love island
Absolutely!
You mean there's actors in Eastenders??!! 😱😲😱😲😱
Grew up with this in the 60's. Loved it
One of my fav tv shows. It sure was way, way ahead of its time. Gerry Anderson was a genius.
I was born in 99 and my dad used to watch these with us as kids. Now that I found it I remember why I liked it so much.
My nieces and nephews now watch Shaun the sheep 🐏. I try to wean them on to bugs Bunny 🐇 and the gang whenever they visit but they still prefer the sheep 🐏
@@alice_agogo Says a lot about people today, in 2021-22.
@@Beamshipcaptain Shaun the Sheep is great. The kids have good taste. They'll probably come around to Bugs Bunny someday.
When I was younger a boy I used to dress up as Captain Scarlet and watch the videos of Captain Scarlet so many times. Captain Scarlet versus the Mysterons was my favourite video which I owned.
I remember watching this as kid. Little did I realise that years later I found out they were all based on true stories!
🤣
Now this is a blast from the past. Reminding me of Sci-Fi Channel’s origins.
before it was just reality shows and wrestling?! oh how i miss those days..
I remember those 'Captain-in-peril' beautifully drawn artwork at the end credits. Lovely. As stiff as it looks now, you can tell a lot of work was put into getting everything just right. Appreciate it.
Yeah that was fantastic stuff.
Painted by Ron Embleton. Also, the 2001 or 2002 UK Captain Scarlet Calendar solely featured these classic images in large format....
The technical difficulties of production of the show is next level and I doubt it will ever be replicated
This show is simply FAB!!!
... I mean SIG!
I have been humming this theme song for years, for no apparent reason either! I watched this show religiously as a kid and that must be why.
what does sig mean ?
"They're getting ready to attack, let 'em have it!........
What a modern attitude to have!
Always had great atmospheric music...
The explosion of the building at 11:24 is something chief of special effects Derek Meddings remembered well. Unfortunately for the wrong reason. As recalled in a book to accompany the 2001 re showing in Britain, Derek had built this building with many little rooms full of scaled furniture and you would see it all when the building exploded. Unfortunately the dust from the explosion was so major all the detail was lost
Brings to mind the Zabriskie Point (Michaelangelo Antonioni) explosion scene.
born in 85 and still got to watch this show befor I was even a teen and loved it.
I really am impressed with the puppetry. Some of the little details are really interesting, and I'm enjoying the retro miniatures. 👍
Simply unbelievable. A master piece !
Masterpiece
@@stuartwray6175🚨🚨🚨
Here from Tom Scott driving the SPGK ^^,
What marvellous mayhem! I almost feel like a kid again! Now, if I could just get my hands on the first Thunderbirds movie. It covers the same ground as this episode and makes it clear that it was the hostile and unprovoked attack by the humans that began the war with the Mysterons.
Its on TH-cam, and on Blue-ray with THUNDERBIRD SIX.
@@Beamshipcaptain Ahaa! So I needn't look far. I thank you very much for your reply!
In that movie, Zero X encounters no Mysterons, just rock snakes.
@@CultureJudge Ahh, thanks! It's been a very long time and memories fade.
I’m 65 this year and this really brings back memories. What a contrast to some of the rubbish cartoons that kids have to endure now!
Both captain Scarlett and thunderbirds were amazing. Major props to the late great gerry and silvia anderson.
Don't forget Stingray and Fireballxl5
And don't forget Derek Meddings, who was responsible in both series for those wonderful sets and models. His career went right up to the 1990 Batman film.
Gerry Anderson was actually approached by Stanley Kubrick to work on 2001: A Space Odyssey. He turned him down for a reason that seemed right at the time (and which I forget) but which he admitting to being a great regret. The model-making was first rate, as was much of the miniature photography of things like explosions and the raging inferno of a burning oil well.
I'm 65 now, the good old days. No money, drink, cigarettes, wuman, bills, taxes, just toys, cómics, sweeties,cartoons.❤❤❤😊
Correct!
60 here, My dad was stationed at Shafter / Schofield in Hawaii back in the early 70, this was my favorite show after school.
It would be cool if someone could do it now with today's technology.
with ya there
And Drakes Ring Dings. The original ones, the ones they have today were called Ring Ding Jr. Oh and walke Talkies.
@@RonnieSixxNah all the original puppets would sue for copyright infringement.
These are my heroes and angels thank you so much. Back to my childhood with this!
This is amazing puppetry. Considering that the film makers had no CGI and the technology what we have now. Absolutely wonderful. My respect to you.
I noticed they have black strings attached to their heads, any idea what s i g means ?
@@paul-u2y9y
Spectrum is green.
meaning everything is a go.
Then you have
Spectrum is red
Which means something is wrong.
@@coreyjay1660 thanks
12/1/22 How on earth did I miss this series growing up? I think the characters are much stiffer with less movement and expression than Thunderbirds but the amazingly detailed set pieces won me over. Big laugh for a human hand entering the picture to unzip a uniform pocket! Very cool and creative series from a "grown-ups" POV.
Actually, other way around ^^; captain scarlet's puppets were made to be more movement and expression, to the point they made the puppets realistic..... there is one slight problem withit though. In the first series they had this special system that tried to mimic extreme emotions too, and it reeeeeeally didn't look good XD so they stopped using it after season one..... honeslty those faces got horrific or comedically funny lol
Good stuff.
I love these old shows.
Thanks.
As a kid I was always worried about that screaming cat in the beginning and those Mysterons creeeeeeeped me out!
Absolutely amazing skill and craftsmanship went into making these.
I love the different take on alien life in this show.
The Mysterons were never hostile beings and didn't have the idea of attacking them. They wanted to welcome humans to their world.
And yet they're not intelligent enough to comprehend that the expedition from Earth only attacked them because the mechanism that was observed resembed a gun. A race like that would almost certainly be known for starting agressions against others over misunderstandings.
Yeah the humans were the bad guys in this. They invaded and shot first.
The production values in this show are truly amazing. So much better than multi million dollar Hollywood productions of today. Without crap CGI and al that stuff with identity politics. Hell, all the Angel pilots were women. The storylines were so far ahead of their time and really scary but thrilling. Gerry Anderson, we love you ❤
@@bogusmogus9551 I find that argument illogical. It would be like saying police officers who accidentally killed kids who pointed realistic looking toy guns at them are bad guys. The humans had no way of knowing that the device wasn't destructive. It looks like a weapon.
If only Captain Black had just said "Sorry, my bad" things could have worked out different. Also, bit of a over reaction on the Mysterons part, they rebuilt their base instantly, so no real harm done, and i don't blame them for being mad at Capt Black. But to decide to kill all life on Earth! 😲 Bit of a dick move.
Being indestructible, he's got these great facial expressions, like "christ, not the bloody spikes AGAIN" or, "off a building again is it? Here we go again then".. ⭐👍
Another one of my favorite childhood memories , especially the theme song , I love this stuff !
Shout out to Tom Scott for bringing me here.
I Loved This Show...It Was So Refreshingly DARK For A Kids Series!
This has brought back so many memories, thank you.
The acting in this show is superb, better than anything Hollywood can come up with these days!!!
Seemed wooden to me.
Honestly, the lack of subtlety in the intro scene kinda put me off. But I'm intrigued by this show.
The MC can be pretty awkward at times
@S.V.SaulVazquezJr. You missed the joke.
Hollywood actors, with their CGI and multi million dollar budgets cant come with anything near as good as Gerry. This stuff is over 50 years old. Their marionettes were better actors than the assh*les they have in their multi million dollar holly'wood' productions. Those 'actors' are plastic, cant act without the help of some CGI. Boll*cks to them. Gerry is the real deal
Gerry and Sylvia made a point to break down racial barriers throughout their work and immediately show human nature when the expedition fired on something they didn’t understand......❤
LOVE you for posting this. Brilliant !
Remember watching this for this first time on BBC 2 in the late 90s along with thunderbirds when i was really young. Use to watch them with my late dad and to this day captain scarlet is still one of my favourite shows to watch. Many happy and cherished memories watching them with him. My dad had a lot of captain scarlet and thunderbirds on video and they use to be my go to watch along with his only fools and horses videos whenever i was off sick from school.
I watched them in the 60s and 70s. Check out Supercar, Fireball XL5 , Space Patrol, Stingray all great Anderson creations.
@@RobertGraziose Stingray i have watched before and really enjoyed it
Still to this day, a television CLASSIC. Children's TV with an edge.
Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons was Gerry Anderson's best work. Century 21 at the top of it's game
We were spoilt rotten when you think about all the wonderful tv shows ❤
It’s all crap now
These Puppets Are Better Actors Than Most Of The People Working In Hollywood Today.
Its a shame they cannot get nominated for Oscars! Captain Scarlet and Captain Black would win every time!
令人興奮又能看到紅上尉 五十多年前我上小學時 這是台灣小朋友最喜歡的電視影集
After all these years I never knew that Capt Scarlet was Cary Grant, it certainly sounds like him.
It was based on Roger Moore
The voice actor was Francis Mathews
Spent hours watching this on black & white tv 📺.. blast 💥 from the past 😎
I loved Captain Scarlet as a kid, I have a boxed set of Captain Scarlet DVDs. The Mysterons, Captain Black, awesome adventure. Dark and silly. Puppets. Crude yet sophisticated. More nuanced than Thunderbirds which I also loved. Supermarionation. Team America. Lol.
I did buy the DVDs also. I'll be 57 in a few days !
3:02 The moment when we find out why the Mysterians hate the humans guts.
"sir, should the mars expedition be crewed by paranoids, and heavily armed? "sure, what could happen?"
They just sent the Americans. It's in their nature.
Last time they went there, they ended up getting shot at by rock snakes.
Ed Bishop voice is just perfect
Captain scarlet started the war with the mysterons... they were only defending themselves
It was Captain Black. And defending themselves from what? A wholly ineffectual attack from a single Earth vehicle that did no permanent damage?
And for a supposedly peaceful race, they certainly dialed it up to 11 awfully quick.
@@GalapagosPete Like America
#satire lol
Captain Black did it. Scarlet was killed by them on Earth and given indestructability
Commander striker from UFO in the jet pack
My late comment is this: from Four Feather Falls up to UFO those series evolved, in detail, in sophistication and in plotlines. Cptn.Scarlet was a big step up.And we happy kids BOUGHT INTO it, we grew up with those series. UFO was the final step towards adulthood, with real men and women, mixed races and young and old. In respect,
Anderson was an Education, now we are his School!
16:28 ejected somewhere near Hankley common, Elstead, Surrey, according google earth . I dont waste my evenings 😂😂😂
Captain Black is such a tragic villain, and now we know why Captain Scarlet became "indestructible."
Though it was never fully explained properly
i was such a big fan.. a lot darker than the thunderbirds. a lot more fun
Here from Tom Scott.
Almost reminds me of secret invasion, cool dope storyline with puppets
This is the voice of the mysterons, we know that you can hear us, earthman… We all tried to imitate that voice as kids in the early 70s.
Fun fact for you, the voice actor for the Mysterons was the same person who voiced Colonel White.
ジェリーアンダーソンのSF作品は非常に凄い！サンダーバートとキャプテンスカーレット ジョー90 スペース1999 UFOは特に好きだった！ウォルトディズニーとは対立する程でした！！
Always loved the opening credits
Great to see this. I think Captain Scarlet was one of my imaginary friends back in the 60's. The artwork at the end its fantastic still, glad to see that I could google him. Ron Embleton
This would be the only time that we would see Captain Black in his full Spectrum uniform as for the rest of the series, he would completely ditch it in favour of wearing black leather jackets, trenchcoats with dark grey sweaters and pants with long boots while fully embracing the entire persona of a Mysteron agent. I also loved that he never ever talked much and was mostly silent which made him more like a zombie but would only say a few words in that deep robotic voice. The glazed eyes, the pale skin and unshaved apperance complimented his new look perfectly. My all time favourite villain out of the entire Gerry Anderson shows.
Captain Black was brilliant - but I hope he wasn't paid by results ! 🤣
just arrive here after looking for 4 Feathers falls ....but i am very happy to discover these collection of series..that never had seen before....A PUPPETS THAT SMOKE...THAT IS AWESOME-...!!!!! IT IS CLEARLY TO ME ...NOWADAY SOCIETY HAS INVOLUTIONED..!!!!
One of the best marionette series ever made ... Captain Scarlet is the greatest ...
Stingray
Absolutely Amazing ! Gerry was before his time.
Supermarionation must have came out between Supermarioland and Supermarioworld.
Much better than I thought it was and I loved the show back in the day. Wonderful stuff.
Nice to see captain black reinvent himself as manager of arsenal
I'd love to see that go viral! :D
I haven't watched since this I was ten years old. i'm amazed at how well it holds up. But damn, this is way darker than I remember