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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often shortened to Captain Scarlet, is a British science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company Century 21 Productions for distributor ITC Entertainment.
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- Overview
- Paul Metcalfe, the Earthman military hero
- Captain Scarlet, Spectrum
- The Mysteron War begins
- Captain Scarlet's abilities
- The super-marionation programme: Behind the scenes
- The "hyper-marionation" programme
—From the description in the programme's narration.
Captain Scarlet is the colour code name the Spectrum Organisation has assigned to Paul Metcalfe, a fourth-generation military officer and a former colonel in the World Army Air Force Special Forces. He is the title character both of the "super-marionation" (motorised marionettes-based) television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and of its "hyper-marionation" (computer-generated images-based) reboot,
Born on 17 December, 2036, in Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom, Paul Metcalfe is the son and only child of a World Army Air Force general officer (some fanon sources name this general officer as Charles Metcalfe) and represents the fourth generation of his family to serve in either the World Army or the World Army Air Force combined service.
(Since the super-marionation puppet that was originally sculpted to represent him later saw repeat duty in The Secret Service, where the same puppet also represented the character of Paul Blake, who was shown to be an agent of the Universal Secret Service, fanon speculation holds that this character is Paul Metcalfe's grandfather on his mother's side, and also describes him as one of Charles Gray's predecessors as the Universal Secret Service's London Director.)
See Multiple Duty Puppets for more details.
He is a trained historian, holding degrees from Winchester University (his graduation from it making him an "Old Wykehamist") in technology and mathematics as well as in history. Enrolling in the West Point Military Academy for its four-year course of training, he was "First Captain," or valedictorian, of his graduating class.
When the Spectrum Selection Committee learned about Colonel Metcalfe from World Space Patrol Colonel Conrad Turner (see Captain Black) in the middle 2060s, it recruited him into its ranks, making him one of the first personnel so chosen. During his course of training, Captain Black became Metcalfe's teacher and friend on Australia's outback roads.
Those outback roads led to Koala Base, the Spectrum Organisation's Training Academy; fanon specifies its location as ten miles north of Liberty Point Mines in Australia's Great Sandy Desert, and provides a duration of one year for training there.
Metcalfe grew rather fond of the Spectrum code name he was assigned, "Captain Scarlet," since his favourite colour is red. During his years of studying in the West Point Military Academy, his nickname was "Big Red," since "red," short for "redcoat," was a reference to the British trainees there, and since he himself was the top-ranked redcoat during this period. (Fanon notes that he found the regulation Spectrum duty uniforms for colour-coded senior officers too gaudy at first, however, not least in regard to his own, and that he needed a long time to accustom himself to them.)
Whenever he is geared up in his Spectrum uniform, Captain Scarlet can be said with some accuracy to be outfitted in "battle-lantern colours." He became one of Spectrum's top agents and formed a great friendship with fellow agent Captain Blue; fanon describes this friendship as having initially developed when they were amongst recruits being evaluated as Cloudbase's senior staff officers. At the time, however, they were not field partners.
In the spring of 2068, a mistaken, illegal, and unprovoked attack that Captain Scarlet's former teacher, Captain Black, made on the Mysterons' complex on Mars (an attack that Captain Black had made in violation of orders from his own superiors after mistakenly assuming the Mysterons to be hostile) led to them declaring a war of nerves on Earth. Their first act of retaliation consisted of plans to assassinate James T. Younger, President Of The World Government of Earth.
Captain Scarlet, by then a full-fledged senior Spectrum officer, was then "field-partnered" with another Spectrum senior officer, whose own code name was Captain Brown. Both were assigned by their Supreme Commander-In-Chief, Colonel White, to protect World President Younger.
They were driving down a mountain road in New York to rendezvous with Younger and escort him to a Spectrum Maximum Security Building. Captain Brown was put in charge of the escort operation, while Captain Scarlet was to report back to Cloudbase after the rendezvous had been put into effect. Captain Scarlet understood his field partner's nervousness as they were fighting a new enemy with powers beyond their understanding and they both agreed to stay vigilant.
Unfortunately, however, the Mysterons used their powers to sabotage one of the tyres of their Spectrum Saloon car, causing it to skid off the road and drop to the bottom of a gully, exploding into flames and killing both officers. Captain Brown died from a broken neck, but Captain Scarlet's death seemed much worse than his field partner's, judging by the state that his original body was in afterwards.
Like most Mysteron agents, his original body was slain and an exact likeness of it was re-created as a tool to carry out the Mysterons' plans. However, once Captain Scarlet's likeness was freed from Mysteron control, he retained his original memories and personality, whilst also retaining remarkable abilities, including:
•Retro-metabolism: The ability to regenerate damaged tissues of even fatal wounds, leaving the body fully healed without the appearance of even a scar. This extends to self-resurrection from the dead, which apparently takes a full six hours to complete.
•Sixth Sense: In a few instalments, Captain Scarlet would feel nauseated and disoriented, and would suffer severe sinus headaches, whenever a Mysteron agent or any other reconstruction was nearby. However, this apparently disappeared soon after, indicating it was possibly a temporary effect. But fanon explains that Captain Scarlet retains that "sixth sense," and that Mysteron agents on Earth do not always immediately trigger its perceptions of them.
•Imperviousness to Roentgen radiation: His X-ray photographs will not show bones, only a normal body--i.e., an ordinary photographic likeness. Fanon maintains that x-rays are all but obsolete in the late 2060s, and that more sophisticated equipment is employed in the steads of x-rays. It identifies Dr. Theodore Magnus, a neurosurgeon whose likeness tried to assassinate General J. F. Tiempo in the instalment "Operation Time", as one of the only physicians who still used x-rays by then.
•Imperviousness to photography: If he is photographed, only a silhouette will be shown. Fanon disputes this last and instead includes a "photographic jammer" among Spectrum equipment, which Spectrum personnel are issued when on special assignments to conceal their identities.
In spite of his special Mysteron-based abilities, Captain Scarlet is still vulnerable to high-voltage electricity that can instantly kill him, which is the main weakness of any Mysteronised Human.
The model(s) for the puppet
Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson did not use any one model for the likeness of the super-marionation puppet of Captain Scarlet; they commissioned his puppet's sculptors to base him upon several distinct models. Of these, the one considered to have the greatest import was actor Francis Matthews, who, as detailed below, provided the character's voice for the programme. Actor Cary Grant, whose voice Matthews imitated in character, was presumably one of at least two other models for the puppet; actor Roger Moore is commonly believed to have been a third.
The Francis Matthews connexion
Gerry Anderson "came close...[to moving] heaven and Earth to get" Matthews to provide the voice of Captain Scarlet. Matthews, who was then appearing on stage in a live production of Noel Coward's play Private Lives, provided Captain Scarlet's voice in imitation of actor Cary Grant; he became an extensive traveller between his engagement there and the recording sessions for ITC Entertainment. Matthews was chosen for the character-voice role entirely on the basis of his ability to imitate Grant (who himself was British-born though he pursued the majority of his career in the United States) with an uncanny accuracy. Before his role of voicing the title character, he had always been either uninterested in, or unavailable for, any previous Anderson projects or programmes. But when the series came into development, Gerry Anderson refused to rest till he had secured Matthews's commitment, and this time he obtained it.
Captain Scarlet a robot?
Unbelievably, the original plan for the series was for Mysteron agents on Earth to be But after they had been toying with that idea for a brief period, the then Anderson spouses ultimately abandoned it, as they realised that making Captain Scarlet a robot would not engender audience identification with him to the degree that making him a virtually-indestructible clone, nay likeness, of a normal Earthman would. This also added the psychological element of giving Captain Scarlet a measure of reason for doubt of his own humanity.
In Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet, a reboot of the 1960s programme which is a "hyper-marionation" programme consisting mainly of three-dimensional CGI, or computer-generated imagery, actor Wayne Forester is the provider of the title character's voice.
The title character is slightly different as he is not the West Point First Captain his super-marionation counterpart is described as having been; rather, it is his field partner, Captain Blue, who has the distinction of West Point alumnus graduation.
Captain Scarlet is the fictional main character in Gerry Anderson's British Supermarionation science-fiction television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and its animated remake, New Captain Scarlet.
Captain Scarlet is the code name the Spectrum Organisation has assigned to Paul Metcalfe, a fourth-generation military officer and a former colonel in the World Army Air Force Special Forces. He is the title character of the television series programme Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons .
A 1967-1968 action crime drama about Spectrum agents fighting the alien Mysterons from Mars. Captain Scarlet is the indestructible leader of Spectrum, who can survive any wound and shake off the Mysteron control.
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