As a kid growing up, Gerry Anderson television shows were practically mandatory watching. My parents grew up on the likes of Thunderbirds, Stingray and Joe 90 etc and sort of passed on down to me with re-runs on the television. After a recent house move, my young four year old daughter found an old Stingray DVD box that I forgot about and we started watching. This resulted in myself buying up the previously mentioned shows and of course, Captain Scarlet.
Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons is a thirty two episode television show created by the legendary duo of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. The show was produced by the company Century 21 Productions and distributed through ITC Entertainment back from September 1967 through to May 1968. Each episode is around twenty five minutes long and features the martian based Mysterons taking revenge on the people of Earth for destroying one of their Mars facilities. This results in many car chases, in air dog fights, an impressive amount of explosions.
I quite literally haven't seen Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons for a good twenty five years until this past month. I must admit, I am very impressed how well the show has held up. The storylines aren't quite as detailed as the previous show but they're well written, mature and don't drag for a second. The tone is considerably darker than the most famous Anderson show Thunderbirds. There are a lot of brutal murders, at least one in each episode and Captain Scarlet himself dies in some really horrific circumstances. For a children's shows, it's pretty intense stuff. I love the design of the vehicles, the Spectrum Angels fly some seriously cool jet fighters and there's a lot of fun humour for all ages.
The bluray release was handled by Network and was sourced from the original 35 mm film negatives. I am very impressed with the visual quality of this bluray. For a show that's now well over fifty years old, it looks spectacular. The image is extremely clean, so clean in fact I could have swore the actors were on strings. Either way, it's a very sharp and colourful remaster. Perhaps the best looking it will ever be. I am very impressed.
I will always be a Thunderbirds fan boy first and foremost but I will always have a soft spot of Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons (and other shows). It may be a little pretentious in ways but it's still a fast paced, action packed television show. Something that we don't see on television these days and that in itself makes this bluray well worth having. Buy it, enjoy it and show your children or grand children. They'll appreciate having a show that does not pander, does not insult their intelligence and has enough explosions to make you wonder why we use CGI at all.
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Sly Bacon
5,0 av 5 stjärnor
This is the voice of the old git on a nostalgia trip............
Recenserad i Storbritannien den 1 maj 2016
I'm surprised at just how much I have enjoyed watching this through from start to finish over the past few weeks. As a supposedly 'grown man' of 51 I suspected that I was maybe buying this on a wave of nostalgia for the carefree days of my 1970s childhood; that I'd watch an episode or two, realise that it hadn't stood the test of time and then confine it to gather dust on the shelf in the vain hope that it might one day appeal to Grandchildren I am as yet to be blessed with. These fears were unfounded thankfully; I have loved every minute of it.
The first thing I realised is that - as a child - I didn't really 'get' Captain Scarlet (and besides I was far more into Thunderbirds) and I have found myself surprised at just how 'dark' this is for what was essentially a programme for children. There is something very sinister in the depiction of how (in nearly every episode) a character is sent to their death and then reanimated by the Mysterons. Usually the shot dwells on the aftermath of whatever disaster as befallen this weeks victim, complete with puppet 'corpse' followed by a cut to the reactivated character standing over his / her own death scene. The reactivated female character in 'The Place Of Angels' is particularly sinister, graphically choking a security guard to death with the 'grabbers' used to handle dangerous chemicals. The bad guys are The Mysterons - usually shown only as two rings of light hovering over their latest victim, or heard at the start of each week setting out their latest plot in their ongoing 'War Of Nerves' against Earth. You always have poor old Captain Black (quite a cool dresser in his black leather jacket and turtleneck) skulking around with his omnipresent binoculars and usually instigating whatever calamity is going to befall the latest Mysteron victim before giving instructions to the reanimated version ('You know what you must do')
The good guys are the Agents of Spectrum of course - each codenamed with a colour, with Captains Scarlet and Blue usually at the forefront of the action and of course the lovely Angels who provide Spectrum's airborne support. Captain Scarlet himself is a dashing hero - but he is also the Mysterons biggest balls up in their evil plan; killing him off in the first episode and then reanimating him to serve their evil purposes (he is indeed a 'baddie' in the very first episode) but then finding that his better nature wins the day, whilst retaining the Mysteron power to effectively mend himself from any fatality (hence him being 'indestructible')
Another element that I missed first time round is that, in terms of the Mysteron conflict, it is definitely a case of 'we started it' whether intentionally or not, but this does add a certain edge to the entire show.
As for the show itself, the puppets, sets, effects (especially the vehilces, planes and regular, spectacular explosions) are surprisingly effective and convincing to this day - aided of course by the superb music of Barry Gray, giving a show that is set in the mid 21st Century a quintessential 'swinging sixties' appeal.
As for the box set itself, you get all 32 episodes of the show plus plenty of extra bits and bobs to be found - terrific value at the price.
So all in all I have thoroughly enjoyed watching this show properly for the first time - definitely one for my (eventual) Grandchildren to watch with Grandad - whether they like it or not!
The first thing I realised is that - as a child - I didn't really 'get' Captain Scarlet (and besides I was far more into Thunderbirds) and I have found myself surprised at just how 'dark' this is for what was essentially a programme for children. There is something very sinister in the depiction of how (in nearly every episode) a character is sent to their death and then reanimated by the Mysterons. Usually the shot dwells on the aftermath of whatever disaster as befallen this weeks victim, complete with puppet 'corpse' followed by a cut to the reactivated character standing over his / her own death scene. The reactivated female character in 'The Place Of Angels' is particularly sinister, graphically choking a security guard to death with the 'grabbers' used to handle dangerous chemicals. The bad guys are The Mysterons - usually shown only as two rings of light hovering over their latest victim, or heard at the start of each week setting out their latest plot in their ongoing 'War Of Nerves' against Earth. You always have poor old Captain Black (quite a cool dresser in his black leather jacket and turtleneck) skulking around with his omnipresent binoculars and usually instigating whatever calamity is going to befall the latest Mysteron victim before giving instructions to the reanimated version ('You know what you must do')
The good guys are the Agents of Spectrum of course - each codenamed with a colour, with Captains Scarlet and Blue usually at the forefront of the action and of course the lovely Angels who provide Spectrum's airborne support. Captain Scarlet himself is a dashing hero - but he is also the Mysterons biggest balls up in their evil plan; killing him off in the first episode and then reanimating him to serve their evil purposes (he is indeed a 'baddie' in the very first episode) but then finding that his better nature wins the day, whilst retaining the Mysteron power to effectively mend himself from any fatality (hence him being 'indestructible')
Another element that I missed first time round is that, in terms of the Mysteron conflict, it is definitely a case of 'we started it' whether intentionally or not, but this does add a certain edge to the entire show.
As for the show itself, the puppets, sets, effects (especially the vehilces, planes and regular, spectacular explosions) are surprisingly effective and convincing to this day - aided of course by the superb music of Barry Gray, giving a show that is set in the mid 21st Century a quintessential 'swinging sixties' appeal.
As for the box set itself, you get all 32 episodes of the show plus plenty of extra bits and bobs to be found - terrific value at the price.
So all in all I have thoroughly enjoyed watching this show properly for the first time - definitely one for my (eventual) Grandchildren to watch with Grandad - whether they like it or not!

M. Hevingham
5,0 av 5 stjärnor
Best its ever looked
Recenserad i Storbritannien den 1 oktober 2020
I grew up watching the Gerry Anderson shows on a creaky black and white TV. As a child, lack of colour was not really an issue, but seeing it again in my teens in the 80s, in full colour opened my eyes to the amazing spectacle of this show. The DVDs looked good. The Blu-rays look WOW.
Transferred from the original 35mm elements gives the best image 1080p can offer. The image is clean, bright and the colours are well rendered. In short this is the best the show has ever looked.
For a kids show, Captain Scarlet is a curiosity - its made like something for adults. Its violent, bloody and exciting and BRILLIANT ENTERTAINMENT. In these days where kids are shielded from such things it will not be everyone's cup of tea, but it certainly is a high watermark not only in kids' TV but British TV in general.
The first 25 minute episode feels like a mini movie. From the surface of Mars, to the streets of New York, the spectacle of Cloudbase and the finale on the London "Car-Vu" this is TV writ large! One of the best Anderson pilots, the first (unnamed) episode is a corker.
Across the series there are several mini arcs - which require the viewer to follow along - years before these kinds of ongoing story lines were the norm. The extras a re interesting and at he price its a steal. Gerry Anderson and the team knew how to catch the imagination of the kids and 50+ years on my generation still remember the green circles (or light grey as they were on my BW Set!!) the 7 note drum beat and the eerie music. As the Mysteron voice would suggest if you are thinking of buying this set "You know what to do......!"
Transferred from the original 35mm elements gives the best image 1080p can offer. The image is clean, bright and the colours are well rendered. In short this is the best the show has ever looked.
For a kids show, Captain Scarlet is a curiosity - its made like something for adults. Its violent, bloody and exciting and BRILLIANT ENTERTAINMENT. In these days where kids are shielded from such things it will not be everyone's cup of tea, but it certainly is a high watermark not only in kids' TV but British TV in general.
The first 25 minute episode feels like a mini movie. From the surface of Mars, to the streets of New York, the spectacle of Cloudbase and the finale on the London "Car-Vu" this is TV writ large! One of the best Anderson pilots, the first (unnamed) episode is a corker.
Across the series there are several mini arcs - which require the viewer to follow along - years before these kinds of ongoing story lines were the norm. The extras a re interesting and at he price its a steal. Gerry Anderson and the team knew how to catch the imagination of the kids and 50+ years on my generation still remember the green circles (or light grey as they were on my BW Set!!) the 7 note drum beat and the eerie music. As the Mysteron voice would suggest if you are thinking of buying this set "You know what to do......!"

Mr. R. Culshaw-lewis
4,0 av 5 stjärnor
Spectrum is Green ....and Red......and Blue.
Recenserad i Storbritannien den 3 november 2016
In the 1960's Gerry Anderson productions couldn't put a foot wrong. They were - without doubt - the best thing on t.v. for children at the time. Captain Scarlet was the first show where the characters looked like real people (no exaggerated eyes & lips like before). The costumes, special effects and vehicles were first class. The show stood up well considering it followed on from Anderson's previous hit Thunderbirds. It gave us strong female characters too with Spectrum's Angels and probably gained a bigger audience for it. Like all of Anderson's work, Captain Scarlet is a reminder of a world gone by, before Computer games or the like. For men & women of a certain age, this will be nostalgia that makes you glad to be the age you are. And if your kids laugh about it being performed using puppets where you can see the strings, remind them that to make a show like it using real actors would have cost millions. This was quality t.v. with none of the "actors" behaving like divas.

Anglian Traveller
5,0 av 5 stjärnor
The Indestructible Captain Scarlet: Gerry Anderson is seduced by the Dark Side
Recenserad i Storbritannien den 9 juli 2016
‘Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons’ is a more serious, mature and altogether darker creation than Gerry Anderson’s earlier triumphs of sci-fi supermarionation from ‘Supercar’ via ‘Fireball XL5’ and ‘Stingray’ to the bigger-budget ‘Thunderbirds’. Great as these earlier series were, in ‘Captain Scarlet’ new miniature-solenoid technology allowed the marionettes’ heads to be proportional to the bodies while the mouths and eyes were still moveable, so they look less like caricatures and more realistically human. Moreover the characters are realized as more thoughtful, complex and nuanced: the mysteron enemies sometimes win, the “good guys” often get it wrong, and almost every episode sees a character suffer a violent death prior to being reanimated by the mysterons in pursuit of their relentless terror-war against the human race.
The series is full of sinister double agents and James Bond-like plots, and it is tempting to see the Martian mysterons as an allegory for the Cold War Soviets. The ‘indestructible’ Captain Scarlet (real name in the series = Paul Metcalfe) is the eponymous hero. Killed and resurrected by the mysterons to be used as one of their agents under neurological control, Metcalfe’s strength of character leads him uniquely to rediscover his moral compass and break the mind-control while retaining his mysteron regenerative powers, so he “changes sides” and re-joins SPECTRUM as their greatest asset in the war against the mysterons.
The series production values are so good that sometimes it’s easy to forget you’re watching puppets, rather than actors. Although the original series dates from 1967 the storylines have a contemporary feel in that they deal with how to stop serial acts of terrorism and the effective deployment of actionable intelligence. Though the head of SPECTRUM is Colonel White (the SPECTRUM personnel have uniforms coloured according to their code names), and the sinister resurrected-from-death Captain Black remains under the control of the mysterons, the show’s writers ensure the “good guys” and “bad guys” are not always painted as black-and-white: sometimes good people with the best intentions make poor decisions which result in disastrous consequences. This interplanetary war was instigated by ‘us’ humans, albeit by mistake but one the mysterons do not and will not forgive.
The sets, SPVs and ‘Angel’ fighter-aircraft (piloted by five exotic young women), the SPECTRUM uniforms, the spectacular ‘Cloudbase’ as a kind of giant aircraft carrier in the stratosphere, special effects and pre-CGI-era explosions in each episode all look terrific and manage to be futuristic in that wonderful 1960s style while still being surprisingly ‘ageless’. Barry Gray’s atmospheric soundtrack is perfect, adding suspense and menace, and the end-credits of each episode showcase some superb comic-book action stills. The series however lacks the light touch and humour of Anderson’s earlier shows like ‘Thunderbirds’ and ‘Stingray’; we’re in more serious film-noir territory here.
The 32 titled episodes from both series are offered on six differently coloured (SPECTRUM-style) DVDs, five containing the 32 episodes and the final DVD with extras. For purists: the image resolution is the original 1:1.33 (3:4) from the 1960s TV series, so has not been cropped to fit 21st century widescreen TV.
The series is full of sinister double agents and James Bond-like plots, and it is tempting to see the Martian mysterons as an allegory for the Cold War Soviets. The ‘indestructible’ Captain Scarlet (real name in the series = Paul Metcalfe) is the eponymous hero. Killed and resurrected by the mysterons to be used as one of their agents under neurological control, Metcalfe’s strength of character leads him uniquely to rediscover his moral compass and break the mind-control while retaining his mysteron regenerative powers, so he “changes sides” and re-joins SPECTRUM as their greatest asset in the war against the mysterons.
The series production values are so good that sometimes it’s easy to forget you’re watching puppets, rather than actors. Although the original series dates from 1967 the storylines have a contemporary feel in that they deal with how to stop serial acts of terrorism and the effective deployment of actionable intelligence. Though the head of SPECTRUM is Colonel White (the SPECTRUM personnel have uniforms coloured according to their code names), and the sinister resurrected-from-death Captain Black remains under the control of the mysterons, the show’s writers ensure the “good guys” and “bad guys” are not always painted as black-and-white: sometimes good people with the best intentions make poor decisions which result in disastrous consequences. This interplanetary war was instigated by ‘us’ humans, albeit by mistake but one the mysterons do not and will not forgive.
The sets, SPVs and ‘Angel’ fighter-aircraft (piloted by five exotic young women), the SPECTRUM uniforms, the spectacular ‘Cloudbase’ as a kind of giant aircraft carrier in the stratosphere, special effects and pre-CGI-era explosions in each episode all look terrific and manage to be futuristic in that wonderful 1960s style while still being surprisingly ‘ageless’. Barry Gray’s atmospheric soundtrack is perfect, adding suspense and menace, and the end-credits of each episode showcase some superb comic-book action stills. The series however lacks the light touch and humour of Anderson’s earlier shows like ‘Thunderbirds’ and ‘Stingray’; we’re in more serious film-noir territory here.
The 32 titled episodes from both series are offered on six differently coloured (SPECTRUM-style) DVDs, five containing the 32 episodes and the final DVD with extras. For purists: the image resolution is the original 1:1.33 (3:4) from the 1960s TV series, so has not been cropped to fit 21st century widescreen TV.