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Vehicle spotlight – Spectrum hovercraft

The Spectrum hovercraft was the primary guest vehicle of the Captain Scarlet episode Traitor, in which Captains Scarlet and Blue investigated several hovercraft...

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Anderson legends: The life and work of Ed Bishop

George Victor Bishop was born at the Shore Road Hospital in Brooklyn on June 11th 1932, and moved with his family to New...

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Captain Scarlet: In For A Penny! – A Gerry Anderson A21 News Story

Spectrum were initially left baffled by a security breach in which a Mysteron agent escaped after stealing a rare and highly valuable coin....

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Anderson legends: The life and work of Shane Rimmer

Shane Rimmer was born Shane Lance Deacon in Toronto Canada on May 28th 1929. As a young man he got his start as...

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Captain Scarlet – top five scariest Mysteronisation sequences

“The Mysterons: sworn enemies of Earth. Possessing the ability to recreate an exact likeness of an object or person. But first, they must...

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The disappearing shipmates: what happened to Captain Black’s MEV crew?

The first scene of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons is also one of the show’s most memorable, showing the Zero-X MEV under the...

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Captain Scarlet end titles paintings up for auction!

Two of the iconic paintings created for the end titles of 1967’s Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons will be up for auction next...

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Life in Lunarville: the Moon colonies of Captain Scarlet

In the universe of Captain Scarlet, humanity first reached the Moon in the early 1970s – and, unlike in our own world, lunar...

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The ‘A’ factor – what Gerry Anderson’s work means to me

It’s rare that I feel it appropriate to comment on my own personal experiences with Anderson shows when writing articles for this website,...

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Captain Scarlet: a mechanical man?

Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s original script for The Mysterons followed pretty much the same story as the final version that aired on television...

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