Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: The Prisoner, Do Not Adjust Your Set, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, ITV News at Ten, Callan, Pinky and Perky, The Forsyte Saga, Man in a Suitcase, The Golden Shot, Dante's Inferno, Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width, At Last the 1948 Show, Omnibus, The Bowler and the Bunnet, Not in Front of the Children, Market in Honey Lane, Turn out the Lights. Excerpt: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as Captain Scarlet, is a 1960s British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, John Read and Reg Hill. First broadcast on ATV Midlands between September 1967 and May 1968, it has since been transmitted in more than 40 other countries, including the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Combined with scale model special effects, characters are presented as marionette puppets in a filming technique that the Andersons dubbed "Supermarionation," a technology that incorporated internal solenoid motors as a means of producing mouth movements synchronised with pre-recorded dialogue. Set in 2068, the series charts the hostilities between Earth and a race of Martians known as the Mysterons. After a misunderstanding results in human astronauts obliterating their base, the vengeful Mysterons declare war on Earth, initiating a succession of reprisal attacks that are countered by Spectrum, an international security organisation. Spectrum boasts the remarkable abilities of its top agent, Captain Scarlet, who comes to possess the Mysteron healing power of "retro-metabolism." This ability to return to life, even after suffering fatal injuries, essentially makes Scarlet "indestructible." Captain Scarlet, the eighth of ten puppet series that the Andersons produced in the 1950s and 60s, follows Thunderbirds and precedes Joe 90 and the...