List of Captain Scarlet episodes
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This is an episode guide for the Gerry Anderson television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, made for the British production company ITC Entertainment, and first broadcast between 1967 and 1968 on ATV Midlands. Episodes are listed in original ATV Midlands broadcast order, which is identical to the order of home release.
| Episode | Title | Original airdate | Production number |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Mysterons" | 29 September 1967 | 1 |
| Captain Black destroys an alien city on Mars, unleashing the horror of the Mysterons. Can Spectrum save the World President from assassination? And why does the Mysteron duplicate of Captain Scarlet wake up unharmed after an 800-foot fall? | |||
| 2 | "Winged Assassin" | 6 October 1967 | 2 |
| Scarlet's first assignment with his powers of retrometabolism is to protect the Director-General of the United Asian Republic from assassination at the hands of the Mysterons. | |||
| 3 | "Big Ben Strikes Again" | 13 October 1967 | 3 |
| Can Spectrum locate a hi-jacked atomic device and save London from total destruction? | |||
| 4 | "Manhunt" | 20 October 1967 | 5 |
| The hunt is on to apprehend Captain Black after he unwittingly becomes a radioactive hotspot. | |||
| 5 | "Avalanche" | 27 October 1967 | 11 |
| A series of crippling attacks on Frost Line Outer Space Defence bases sees Captain Scarlet and Lieutenant Green race to stop the Mysteron assailant before a trigger-happy general starts an interplanetary war with Mars. | |||
| 6 | "White as Snow" | 3 November 1967 | 8 |
| Colonel White himself is targeted by the Mysterons. | |||
| 7 | "The Trap" | 10 November 1967 | 17 |
| A summit of top military commanders is secretly a Mysteron ruse to eliminate the best minds of Earth's armed forces. | |||
| 8 | "Operation Time" | 17 November 1967 | 6 |
| Crucial Mysteron weaknesses are revealed when a leading brain surgeon is killed and reconstructed by the Mysterons to murder a top army general. | |||
| 9 | "Spectrum Strikes Back" | 24 November 1967 | 10 |
| Two brilliant devices are created to counter the Mysteron threat - but will the delegates at the conference survive a deadly trap? | |||
| 10 | "Special Assignment" | 1 December 1967 | 20 |
| Captain Scarlet turns double agent to thwart Mysteron plans to destroy the whole of North America. | |||
| 11 | "The Heart of New York" | 8 December 1967 | 13 |
| A group of professional bank-robbers try to get the Mysterons to work for them after the aliens target New York City. | |||
| 12 | "Lunarville 7" | 15 December 1967 | 16 |
| Scarlet, Blue and Green investigate strange signals emanating from the far side of the Moon, only to discover that a second Mysteron complex is under construction. | |||
| 13 | "Point 783" | 22 December 1967 | 4 |
| The Supreme Commander of Earth Forces is in the sights of a seemingly invincible, renegade superweapon. | |||
| 14 | "Model Spy" | 29 December 1967 | 18 |
| A French intelligence agent posing as a fashion designer is under the threat of kidnap by his own duplicated models. | |||
| 15 | "Seek and Destroy" | 5 January 1968 | 9 |
| When the Spectrum Angels are threatened by the Mysterons, reconstructed Angel fighters menace Scarlet, Blue, and Destiny. | |||
| 16 | "Renegade Rocket" | 19 January 1968 | 7 |
| A nuclear rocket vanishes from radar. Will the correct self-destruct code be found before the mystery target is annihilated? | |||
| 17 | "Crater 101" | 26 January 1968 | 22 |
| The sequel episode to "Lunarville 7", Scarlet, Blue and Green return to the Moon to destroy the second Mysteron complex. They are able to return the heart of the complex - a crystal pulsator - to Spectrum. | |||
| 18 | "Shadow of Fear" | 2 February 1968 | 12 |
| A powerful Himalayan observatory receiving precious photographs of Mars is under siege from one of its own reconstructed astronomers. | |||
| 19 | "Dangerous Rendezvous" | 9 February 1968 | 19 |
| For the first time, Earth is able to contact the Mysterons using the strange properties of the crystal pulsator recovered from the Mysterons' ill-fated lunar complex. But can Scarlet defend Cloudbase itself from obliteration? | |||
| 20 | "Fire at Rig 15" | 16 February 1968 | 14 |
| The source of all Spectrum's vehicle fuel is threatened when a demolitions expert contracted to put out an oil rig fire is killed and reconstructed by the Mysterons. | |||
| 21 | "Treble Cross" | 23 February 1968 | 29 |
| A test pilot survives a car crash brought about by the Mysterons and aids Spectrum in its latest attempt to capture Captain Black. | |||
| 22 | "Flight 104" | 1 March 1968 | 25 |
| Scarlet, Blue, a top space expert and a pair of journalists find themselves trapped on an airliner under Mysteron control. | |||
| 23 | "Place of Angels" | 8 March 1968 | 21 |
| A jar of a lethal new virus is stolen from a maximum-security laboratory. Scarlet must stop the Mysteron agent before Los Angeles' water supply is polluted with the contents. | |||
| 24 | "Noose of Ice" | 12 March 1968 | 26 |
| An undersea Arctic mine extracting a rare metal to be used in Earth's return to Mars is terrorised when its heating elements are sabotaged and the surrounding water threatens to freeze and crush the tower. | |||
| 25 | "Expo 2068" | 26 March 1968 | 23 |
| Scarlet must neutralise a stolen nuclear reactor before total devastation is brought to the Atlantic Seaboard of North America. | |||
| 26 | "The Launching" | 2 April 1968 | 15 |
| The President of the United States is apparently threatened with assassination. | |||
| 27 | "Codename Europa" | 9 April 1968 | 27 |
| Three of Europe's leading statesmen are targeted by a duplicated electronics entrepreneur. | |||
| 28 | "Inferno" | 16 April 1968 | 32 |
| Spectrum personnel are assigned to protect a South American irrigation plant from attack by an orbiting spacecraft taken over by the Mysterons. | |||
| 29 | "Traitor" | 23 April 1968 | 24 |
| A series of hovercraft accidents in the Australian outback means that Scarlet and Blue must expose humanity's traitor before he can strike again. | |||
| 30 | "Flight to Atlantica" | 30 April 1968 | 28 |
| Captains Blue and Ochre go on a mindless destructive spree of the world's most important naval complex after drinking drugged champagne. | |||
| 31 | "Attack On Cloudbase" | 7 May 1968 | 30 |
| The Mysterons themselves arrive on Earth to wipe out Cloudbase. | |||
| 32 | "The Inquisition" | 14 May 1968 | 31 |
| Captain Blue is drugged and wakes up three months later on Cloudbase facing stern questioning from a man claiming to be from Spectrum Intelligence. | |||
