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             CAPTAIN SCARLET AND THE MYSTERONS Character Guide
                         
                        Compiled By Kimberly Murphy
                       (kimberly.murphy@acenet.com)


Colonel White (Charles Grey)
     Commander-In-Chief, Spectrum; Commander, Spectrum Cloudbase.
     Born 14 July 2017, London, England.  Former World Navy
     Admiral.
Captain Scarlet (Paul Metcalfe)
     Spectrum's number-one agent and "indestructible man";
     Captain Blue's partner.
     Born 17 December 2036, Winchester, England.  Former World
     Army Air Force Colonel; graduated top of his class from West
     Point Military Academy.  Descended from a long line of
     generals.  Was killed by the Mysterons in a car crash and
     recreated as an indestructible human robot; fell 800 ft. off
     the London Car-Vu and survived, regaining his memory of his
     former self.  His Mysteronized body retained the property of
     retro-metabolism, or spontaneous regeneration, making him
     virtually indestructible.
Captain Black (Conrad Turner)
     Former Spectrum number-one agent; now chief agent of
     Mysteron terrorism on Earth.
     Born 2028, Manchester, England; date unknown (he was
     orphaned in the Atomic War of 2028).  Hero of the British
     Civil War of 2047, he served in the World Army Air Force as
     a pilot and with the World Space Patrol as Commander of
     Fireball XL3.  Was one of the first agents named to Spectrum
     and was appointed tutor to all new recruits.  Led the Zero-X
     mission to Mars that first discovered the Mysterons' complex
     and ordered his men to attack the complex when he
     misinterpreted a surveillance camera as a weapon.  The
     Mysterons vowed revenge and took total control of Black; he
     is now the embodiment of their presence on Earth.
Captain Blue (Adam Swenson)
     Spectrum senior officer; Captain Scarlet's partner.
     Born 26 August 2035, Boston, Massachusetts.  Former member
     of World Aeronautic Society; headed their security division
     before joining Spectrum.  Spectrum's top pilot and SPV
     driver.  In love with Symphony Angel.
Captain Grey (Bradley Holden)
     Spectrum senior officer.
     Born 4 March 2033, Chicago, Illinois.  Former Security
     Commander, World Aquanaut Security Patrol.
Captain Ochre (Richard Frazer)
     Spectrum senior officer.
     Born 23 February 2035, Detroit, Michigan.  Former Commander,
     World Police Force.  Only senior Spectrum agent without a
     formal university education.
Captain Magenta (Patrick Donaghue)
     Spectrum senior officer.
     Born 17 May 2034, Dublin, Ireland.  Former leader of a U.S.
     crime syndicate who reformed and joined Spectrum.  Sharp
     linguistic skills.
Lieutenant Green (Seymour Griffiths)
     Spectrum Cloudbase Communications Officer and Technical
     Specialist; Colonel White's personal aide.
     Born 18 January 2041, Port Of Spain, Trinidad.  Former World
     Aquanaut Security Patrol communications officer.  Designed
     Cloudbase's communication systems.
Dr. Fawn (Edward Wilkie)
     Chief Medical Officer, Spectrum Cloudbase.
     Born 10 July 2031, Yalumba, Australia.  Former World Medical
     Organization researcher responsible for a number of medical
     technology breakthroughs, including the widely-used
     autonurse robots.
Destiny Angel (Juliette Pointoin)
     Leader, Spectrum Angel Flight interceptor pilots.
     Born 23 August 2040, Paris, France.  Former World Army Air
     Force pilot.
Symphony Angel (Karen Wainwright)
     Interceptor pilot, Spectrum Angel Flight.
     Born 6 January 2042, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  Captain Blue's
     girlfriend.  Former Universal Secret Service agent and
     private fleet pilot.
Melody Angel (Magnolia Jones)
     Interceptor pilot, Spectrum Angel Flight.
     Born 10 January 2043, Atlanta, Georgia.  Former World Army
     Air Force pilot.
Rhapsody Angel (Dianne Simms)
     Interceptor pilot, Spectrum Angel Flight.
     Born 27 April 2043, London, England.  Daughter of World
     Government Official Lord Robert Simms.  Former lawyer and
     private fleet pilot.
Harmony Angel (Chan Kwan)
     Interceptor pilot, Spectrum Angel Flight.
     Born 19 June 2043, Tokyo, Japan.  Chief pilot for her
     father's air-taxi service; later ran the business on her
     own.  Record-holder for the fastest non-stop round-the-world
     flight.

              CAPTAIN SCARLET AND THE MYSTERONS Episode Guide

                        Compiled By Kimberly Murphy
                       (kimberly.murphy@acenet.com)


"The Mysterons" (a.k.a. "Mars--2068 A.D.")

Spectrum agent Captain Black leads the Zero-X mission to Mars
that encounters unseen energy beings on Mars and unwittingly
starts a war when he orders the destruction of their base.  The
Mysterons--the name they tell the humans--vow revenge for this
unprovoked attack, take control of Captain Black, and threaten
the life of the World President.  To carry out their threat, they
kill two Spectrum senior officers:  Captain Brown and Captain
Scarlet.  The two men's bodies are "Mysteronized"--regenerated
via a special process known as retro-metabolism--and turned into
tools for destruction:  Brown is turned into a walking time bomb
that nearly kills the President, while Scarlet is turned into an
ice-cold assassin who abducts the World President and takes him
to the top of the London Car-Vu observation deck, only to be shot
off the top of the deck by Captain Blue.  Scarlet falls 800 feet
to certain death but incredibly recovers, thanks to his
Mysteronized body, and regains his memory.  The Mysteron hold on
him is broken...and Scarlet has become indestructible.


"Winged Assassin"

As Scarlet recovers from the aftereffects of his experience with
the Mysterons and attempts to resume his duties as a Spectrum
senior, the Mysterons threaten the life of the Director-General
of the United Asian Republic, currently under Spectrum protection
in London but ready to head back to his home country--and a
commercial jet liner headed for London International Airport is
the instrument of destruction.


"Big Ben Strikes Again"

The Mysterons threaten to destroy London as they take over a
transporter carrying a nuclear device, concealing it in an empty
car park, then set its five-key trigger to go off at 0900. 
Spectrum's only clue:  The disoriented driver's memory of Big Ben
striking thirteen times.


"Manhunt"

Captain Black breaks into the Culver Atomic Research Centre in
England and is exposed to a short-lived isotope which turns him
into a radioactive source that Spectrum seeks to find with a
tightly-woven net of mobile geiger counter trucks and strategic
roadblocks, while Black attempts to thwart the net with a stolen
Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle.  But when Symphony Angel disobeys a
direct order and lands to intercept the SPV herself, Black
kidnaps her at gunpoint and goes back to the Culver Atomic
Centre--and Spectrum must locate a needle in a haystack before
Black can kill Symphony.


"Avelanche"

Men are dying mysteriously at Outer Space Defence Force bases on
the Arctic Circle--the latest target of the Mysterons--and it's
up to Lieutenant Green and Captain Scarlet to solve the mystery
before Space General Ward launches an attack on Mars.


"White As Snow"

It's not just loud raucous music that has Colonel White jumpy: 
The latest Mysteron threat is directly against him, and he orders
the destruction of a commercial radio transmission satellite that
is on a collision course with Cloudbase...a move Scarlet openly
opposes due to the fact that there could be innocent victims
on-board.  But when Scarlet learns that White knew the satellite
was a Mysteron booby-trap and didn't tell his men, he seeks to
make amends with White...who is now in hiding as deep-sea
fisherman "Robert Snow" on a submarine which has already been
infiltrated by the Mysterons.  Meanwhile, Captain Blue takes
command of Cloudbase...and his program of extra drills and
educational lectures guarantees White a warm welcome if he
returns. 


"The Trap"

While flying escort duty, Melody Angel loses the plane carrying
the coordinators of a World Air Force conference that Spectrum
has been assigned to protect in a fierce electrical storm.  But
when the plane emerges from the storm, its passengers have
already been Mysteronized, and the duplicates trick Spectrum into
moving the conference to an isolated castle in Scotland...where a
trap has been set for Scarlet, Symphony, and the delegates.


"Operation Time"

A Mysteron threat to "kill time" brings world-famous brain
surgeon Dr. Magnus and his obvious-target patient, General J.F.
Tiempo, to Cloudbase--and with them, inadvertantly, a way to
detect and kill Mysterons.


"Spectrum Strikes Back"

A peaceful game reserve is not what it seems:  The World
President, Space General Peterson, Colonel White, Captain
Scarlet, and Captain Blue convene in a hunting lodge--really the
above-ground covering for an underground Spectrum Intelligence
Agency conference center--to discuss the latest in anti-Mysteron
technology.  But someone else is on hand:  Captain Black, who
attacks the Spectrum senior officer corps liason to SIA, Captain
Indigo, and uses him as a vehicle to trap the elite group and
keep them from ever using their new technology.


"Special Assignment"

As a Mysteron threat to destroy North America looms large,
Scarlet behaves strangely, running up a $5000 gambling debt and
getting himself drummed out of Spectrum.  But as Blue attempts to
save his friend from himself, Scarlet may be in bigger trouble: 
The gangsters who have bought his marker are Mysteron
agents...and they want him to steal an SPV for them.


"The Heart Of New York"

A botched break-in at Spectrum Headquarters New York nets the
disappointed robbers something more valuable than money:  The
papers they have stolen detail Spectrum's knowledge of the
Mysterons, dangerous information to be floating loose as the
Mysterons threaten to destroy "the heart of New York".  But as
their ringleader plots to use this knowledge to steal the gold
reserves from the Second National Bank, Captain Black plots to
use them to carry out the Mysterons' plans.


"Lunarville 7"

The Lunar Commander of Earth's colony on the Moon, Lunarville,
announces that he has reached a truce with the Mysterons and
declares his colony's independence from Earth...but Colonel White
is suspicious of his statements, particularly in light of
intelligence that reveals unauthorized construction in the
Humboldt region, and sends Scarlet, Blue, and Green to Lunarville
7 to investigate the situation.


"Point 783"

The Mysterons threaten to kill the Supreme Commander of Earth
Forces, and two of his aides are the chosen weapons.  The first
attempt is made at Supreme Headquarters Earth Forces by the
Commander's aide; the second, at a secret test site in the Sahara
Desert--Point 783--as the World Army's newest weapon, the
unmanned and indestructible Unitron tank, is being tested...a
test that goes awry when the Unitron begins seeking a target
inside the control room at Point 783 instead of following manual
instructions, leaving only Captain Scarlet and an SPV standing
between the Supreme Commander and certain death.


"Model Spy"

Fashion designer Andr‚ Verdain is the unlikely target of the
latest Mysteron threat...unless one knows that Verdain is really
the World Intelligence Agency's European operations director and
uses his fashion house as a cover for his activities.  But the
Mysterons aren't fooled...and two of Verdain's models are turned
into agents of destruction on the eve of his spring Monte Carlo
show, where Scarlet, Blue, Destiny, and Symphony are working
undercover.


"Seek And Destroy"

A Mysteron threat to kill the Spectrum Angels sends Scarlet and
Blue to Paris to retrieve a vacationing Destiny Angel.  But on
the way to the airport, the trio are gunned down and trapped in a
ditch by three Mysteronized Angel aircraft...and only the real
Spectrum Angel Flight can save them.


"Traitor"

The Mysterons' latest pronouncement is that there is a traitor in
Spectrum's midst...and a series of suspicious hovercraft crashes
at Koala Base, the Spectrum training academy, appears to bear
this out.  But when Scarlet and Blue are sent to investigate,
they find a climate of irrational suspicion akin to a witch
hunt...and Scarlet and another cadet are caught in the middle.


"Renegade Rocket"

A longtime friend of Colonel White's, Major Reeves, is about to
assume a new post at Base Concord as a rocket expert when the
Mysterons attack and destroy him--and his Mysteronized clone
launches a new Variable Geometry Rocket toward an unknown
destination and takes the flight control box, with the
self-destruct codeword, away from Base Concord as fast as he can.


"Crater 101"

Scarlet, Blue, and Green head back to Lunarville to conclude some
unfinished business--namely the destruction of the Mysteron base
being constructed in Crater 101 during their last visit.  The
plan involves Scarlet, Blue, and Green infiltrating the
still-under-construction base and removing the power source so it
can be destroyed without the Mysterons regenerating it...but the
Lunarville technician planting the atomic destruction device is a
Mysteron agent, and new Lunar Commander Linda Nolan must find a
way to notify the Spectrum officers, who are out of radio range.


"Shadow Of Fear"

Scarlet and Blue are assigned to protect an observatory in the
Himalayas which has launched a satellite to take the first
close-up pictures of Mars, a satellite soft-landed on the Martian
moon Phobos and literally photographing the planet from the
"shadow of fear" (the meaning of Phobos in Greek)...but the
Mysterons are determined to destroy the observatory before the
first pictures can reach it.


"Dangerous Rendezvous"

As the Mysterons threaten to destroy Cloudbase before midnight,
electronics expert Dr. Kurnitz comes to Cloudbase to make final
adjustments to a communications device powered by the diamond
pulsator that Scarlet retrieved from the Mysteron base in Crater
101.  Colonel White uses it to transmit a message to the
Mysterons, urging them to negotiate a peaceful settlement to this
war of nerves.  The Mysterons agree to negotiate, but only with a
Spectrum agent who agrees to carry no communications gear or
weapons of any kind, in an isolated region away from any Spectrum
bases...in other words, they want Scarlet.


"Fire At Rig 15"

The Mysterons threaten to bring Spectrum to its knees by cutting
off its oil supply, mined from deep wells and refined at a single
refinery at Ben-Sheba, and a fire at Rig 15 is the first step. 
But the firefighting expert hired to put out the fire becomes the
Mysterons' weapon for an attack on Ben-Sheba...and Scarlet must
race against time to cut him off before he gets to the refinery.


"Treble Cross"

Is is possible for the Mysterons to make a mistake?  It is if
they Mysteronize someone who is only clinically dead and not
brain-dead, as is the case when a test pilot and his driver are
run off the road into a lake and the pilot's body is recovered by
two doctors who manage to resuscitate him.  Now Spectrum must try
and outwit the Mysterons with the real test pilot as the
Mysterons threaten to destroy the world capital, Futura City. 


"Flight 104"

Scarlet and Blue go undercover to escort the World President's
scientific advisor, Dr. Conrad, to a secret conference in Geneva,
Switzerland, but two sharp-eyed reporters recognize the physicist
and tail the trio, finally managing to get on the same flight--a
flight that Captain Black and the Mysterons have already tampered
with. 


"Place Of Angels"

A Mysteron threat to destroy "the place of the angels" stumps
Spectrum's best efforts to solve the mystery, but they quickly
figure out the means:  A new deadly virus called XK-14, stolen by
the Mysteronized lab assistant to the doctor who created it.  But
in trying to track down the lab assistant, Scarlet and Blue
encounter her wrecked car...and a broken test-tube.


"Noose Of Ice"

The Mysterons have a powerful ally--Nature itself--to aid in
their threat against the world's only tritonium mine, an element
essential for building the new craft that will undertake the next
mission to Mars.  The mine is in the ocean underneath the Arctic
circle, and to keep the ice away, high voltage electricity powers
superheated rods ...electricity that is endangered when the
Mysterons take over a maintenance technician scheduled to service
the base.


"Expo 2068"

A volatile nuclear reactor is stolen by its Mysteronized
transport driver and hijacked by Captain Black, who is
controlling a robot helicopter being used to construct the
facilities for Expo 2068...and it's up to Scarlet and Blue to
track it down and stabilize it before it explodes and destroys
the eastern seaboard of North America. 


"The Launching"

The Mysterons threaten to destroy President Roberts, sending
Captain Scarlet to Washington to protect the feisty U.S.
President...as a Mysteronized reporter makes his way to the
nation's capital for another special occasion.


"Codename Europa"

The Mysterons vow to kill "the triumverate of Europe"--World
Government Ministers Olafsen, Henderson, and Macini--and Spectrum
puts a special plan codenamed "Europa" into action to protect the
three ministers.  But a Mysteronized professor of engineering
shows Spectrum just how weak their defenses are as he mounts an
apparently successful attack on Olafsen, leaving Spectrum to
search for clues to his next move.


"Inferno"

A Space Recovery Vehicle, on its way to destroy a renegade
satellite, gains a new target when the Mysterons attack and
destroy it, then turn it back toward Earth--headed straight for a
vital desalinization plant in South America, at the base of an
Aztec temple, where Scarlet, Blue, Magenta, and Ochre have set up
observation posts in the hopes of thwarting the Mysteron plans to
destroy the complex.


"Flight To Atlantica"

On the first anniversary of Spectrum's charter, a mysterious
well-wisher sends a case of non-alcoholic champagne to Cloudbase,
and Scarlet organizes a celebration that White breaks up when he
discovers it occurring during duty hours.  But the champagne is
not what it seems...and only White and Scarlet remain unaffected
as one officer after another begins to exhibit irresponsibility
and apparent intoxication.  Meanwhile, Captains Blue and Ochre
are on their way to destroy a shipwreck that threatens World Navy
defense post Atlantica--but Black takes advantage of their
intoxication to slip into their navigation pack a phony map that
will take their bombing run directly over Atlantica itself.


"Attack On Cloudbase"

A mysterious explosion in the back of Symphony's jet leads her to
believe she has been attacked, so she ejects and lands in the
desert, where she collapses from heat exhaustion as she attempts
to reach help.  Meanwhile, the search for her is called off due
to a Mysteron threat to destroy Cloudbase--a threat that becomes
very real as a mysterious craft shows up on Spectrum's radar.


"The Inquisition"

Blue gets dizzy and sick in a restaurant one evening and passes
out...and awakens to find himself on Cloudbase, being
interrogated by an intelligence officer who demands he prove his
identity.
