I Watch TV: New Captain Scarlet
New Captain Scarlet Detecting strange signals from Mars, SPECTRUM, a world-wide peacekeeping organisation, sends two of their agents Captain Scarlet and Captain Black to investigate. Mistaking the strange city’s reaction to them as an attack* Captain Black launches his own attack. The city is momentarily destroyed before being recreated. Black and Scarlet return to Earth, but they are in fact copies of their original selves, manufactured by the Mysterons, the alien inhabitants of the city. The Mysteron’s control of Scarlet is broken and he is revealed to be indestructible. Meanwhile Black continues to act as a Mysteron agent, the Mysterons declaring a “war of nerves” – attempts to destabilise Earth governments and wreck their ability to fight back. This is the set up for Captain Scarlet, both original and new. The original was made with puppets and physical models, which was often charming in the limitations – to avoid the awkwardness of walking the puppets were often shot...
