Episode
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: Spectrum Strikes Back
Overview
The Mysteron Gun and the Mysteron detector - two new anti-Mysteron devices - are unveiled at a top secret location.
Details
- Series
- Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 1967-11-24
- Runtime
- 26 min
Episode context
Spectrum Strikes Back is Episode 9 in Season 1 of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. It aired on 1967-11-24. The runtime is 26 min.
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Episode 8: Operation Time
The Mysterons' cryptic threat to ’kill time’ has the Spectrum personnel stumped until Magenta realises that their target is General Tiempo, the Commander of Western Region World Defence.
Episode 10: Special Assignment
Captain Scarlet resigns from Spectrum and deals arms to Captain Black! Can our hero really have joined the Mysterons?
More episodes from this season
Episode 7: The Trap
Following the latest Mysteron threat, Scarlet is dispatched to supervise security at the International Air Conference at Glen Garry Castle. Discovering a plot to gun down the delegates, he is captured and thrown in the castle dungeons...
Episode 11: The Heart of New York
As the Mysterons threaten to destroy the ‘Heart of New York’, Scarlet and Blue investigate the theft of Grade A Security documents from the Spectrum security vaults.
Episode 6: White as Snow
The Mysterons threaten to kill Colonel White and after their initial attempt fails, White elects to leave Cloudbase so as not to place the other Spectrum agents in jeopardy.
Episode 12: Lunarville 7
When the Lunar Controller announces the Moon's independence from Earth in the war of nerves with the Mysterons, Scarlet, Blue and Green journey to Lunarville 7 to investigate.
Episode 5: Avalanche
The Mysterons threaten to destroy key links in the Frost Line Outer Space Defence System.
Episode 13: Point 783
When the Mysterons threaten the life of the Supreme Commander of Earth Forces, Scarlet and Blue are assigned to escort him to SHEF HQ in New York to chair a briefing on the Unitron, an advanced unmanned tank.
Episode 4: Manhunt
The Mysterons make their first mistake when Captain Black, revealed to have become a Mysteron agent, breaks into the Culver Atomic Centre and is exposed to radioactivity that will enable Spectrum to track him with directional geiger counters.
Episode 14: Model Spy
Captain Scarlet goes undercover as a Fashion PR when models are endangered by the Mysterons.
Episode 3: Big Ben Strikes Again
The Mysterons threaten to destroy London and a truck carrying an atomic device goes missing in the city. The only clue to its whereabouts is the truck driver, found unconscious in the street
Episode 15: Seek and Destroy
In a plot to kill the spectrum Angels, the Mysterons get into a thrilling mid-air dogfight with Melody, Rhapsody and Harmony.