The thunderbirds scene with Kyrano was well picked. As a child that scene with the red glowing statue and the hood shouting to Kyrano scared me so much, that I immediately hit the fast forward button on the VHS player until I saw the Firefly and it was safe to look again.
I saw Captain Scarlet late in life,and,I enjoyed it,emmensely!I liked all the character’s,too!This was a nice documentary on Captain 👩✈️ Scarlet !The frightening episode’s!And,too,do you remember Paul Foster vomiting 🤮 green liquid?Yeah.this would be unexpected,too!The episode was called;Ordeal.
I went to see the Thunderbirds are Go movie at the cinema about the time of my 10th birthday and was totally freaked out when the rock snakes unwound. The image haunted me to the extent that a few years ago on a visit to Iceland, I saw the piles of black volcanic rock that cover the landscape around Reykjavik and was half wondering which of them would suddenly come to life.
Some will already know, but in the compilation film captain scarlet vs the mysterons. Attack on cloud bases ending was changed and re-edited to look as if it DID actually happen, then the Mysterons decide that maybe one day they can make peace with earth and use their powers to reverse time so the attack never happend. They also added some laser beams coming from the flying saucers
Honestly, to people who were 'outraged' by the Gainex ending. I would point out that there were subtle clues (Black popping up on Cloudbase and no one commenting on it) sprinkled throughout the episode that hinted all wasn't as it seemed. And Gerry Anderson specifically made dream episodes so they could do outlandish things they normally couldn't.
I'm a serious SCARLET fan, so when it comes to truly creepy moments, I love the more extremely uncomfortable kills that Black got up to. I mean, other bad guys shot or exploded their targets, but who calmly and coldly takes advantage of a guy working under a car, operates the lift, and crushes him against the ceiling ?? That's in a show for kids?? I was in awe. As for ATTACK ON CLOUDBASE, I really wanted the next season to be about Scarlet WITHOUT Spectrum, working on an Earth overrun with Mysteron copies of everyone ( until half way through the season, when he finds a small group of survivors, only to lose them at season's end. ). That would have been truly in the spirit of the show.
The two other 'What? In a kids' show? kills I always think of, are the really graphic electrocution of the Mysteron agent in 'Noose Of Ice', and the throttling of the guard, by a set of Waldos, in 'Place Of The Angels'. Adult shows of the time very seldom showed blood on gunshot wounds, or even 'corpses'. Captain Scarlet was short of neither. I remember my dad being quite shocked whilst watching 'Fire At Rig 15', on VHS, when Jason Smith's corpse was shown half buried. "And this was your childhood favourite show?", he asked me. "Bloody hell, that was a bit strong.", he continued. I didn't dare show him the Joe 90 episode 'Hijacked' after that...
I remember in a documentary about Gerry Anderson, Francis Matthews' (then) young son was watching the first episode of Captain Scarlet and was absolutely terrified by the sound of Donald Grey's slowed down and echoy voice as the Mysterons
Any scene that featured the Hood was scary (to an extent where I would take cover behind the couch) but the one episode that takes the cake for me is Desperate Intruder. The Hoods sadistic torturing of Brains and then leaving him to drown in a lake is so scary.
Absolutely no doubt a bout it When those rock snakes start firing at the Mars space ship MEV from Zero X freaks me out to this day and I'm 55 years old !!!
Captain Scarlet, both original and CGI, has all of my favourite dark moments from my childhood shows. Whether it's the horrifying voices of the mysterons, or knowing some innocent going about their day is about to meet a horrifying end, it always had me gripped. Especially Captain Black and all of the people he murdered. It's a shame the original never gave us an ending for him, or some more depth. But even now, years later, I'm still afraid of the original show, all because you reminded me that the Captain Scarlet we know and love all through the show.. isn't even the original one.. But also is.. while also kind of not being him. It's really bugging me now. Like, do you think they held a funeral for his and Captain Brown's old bodies? I'm thinking too much now
The Scottish episode of Captain Scarlet with the green Mysteron eyes behind the portrait in the castle still freaks me out to this day the music was great too and definitely helped set the atmosphere
Wow! I'd forgotten about that! I remember my mum asking my much younger self: "Shall I put in your Captain Scarlet video, Ryan?" "NOT GREEN EYES, PLEASE!!!"
Wish they made an episode involving International Rescue, WASP and Spectrum all unified. Would have even been hilarious how Titan with his Guards and X20 get on with Captain Black and The Hood
I always found the City of Fire episode of Thunderbirds quite scary, because it was a regular family trapped in a nightmarish situation in a confined space and the collapse of the Thompson Tower was always spectacular but scary within that episode and of course later it was to have parallels with 9/11.
When I was younger whenever the Hood was his glowing eyes thing and was looking straight at the screen I would always cover my eyes as I was scared he was trying to use them on me.
Another discoverer of Thunderbirds in the early 90s, here. The Hood's glowing eyes still make me squirm, a bit. Also, the opening to Captain Scarlet. You've got that long, slow pan around the graveyard to settle on Captain Black, then the rapid back-and-forth cuts to the next scene with booming drums. Each time it flashes back to Captain Black it closes in, until _he's looking right at you._ Then on with the show. Even cutting away leaves you with a lingering creeped-out feeling. He was aware of you, he's seen you, he knows where you are, and now you can't see him creeping up on you. He's coming to get you, Barbara!
11:32 - Even if International Rescue comes to the rescue, they would have been out of their depth against the Mysterons. They would've also been absolutely annihilated.
I do remember being afraid of the Hood's glowing eyes - especially, for some reason, in the episode 'Cry Wolf', where he threatens Mr Williams over the CCTV. He looks incredibly sinister in some shots. Also, as a kid, you just see him as a very persistent bad guy. As an adult, you realise that he's a classic psychopath. And that, in itself, is disturbing, in a childrens' show. Is it me, or does Kudus, from 'Fireball XL5', look very much like Gene Simmons from the band Kiss? Thompson, from 'Stingray', reminds me strongly of MOID from 'Terrahawks'. A blank wide-eyed face. Rhapsody Angel was always my favourite, too. Always liked redheads. And I was four in 1967, when 'Captain Scarlet' was first broadcast - it was the first TV show I can remember being utterly obsessed by. I loved 'Thunderbirds', but 'Captain Scarlet' took over my young life. The creepiest moment in any 'Supermarionation' show, has to be from 'Captain Scarlet': The episode 'Winged Assassin', when airliner DT-19, full of passengers and crew, is caused to crash into the sea by The Mysterons. A fragment of wreckage, bearing the marking 'DT-19' floats to the surface. The Mysteron Retrometabolisation rings scan across it, and in the sky above flies DT-19. Even writing this out, brought a chill down my spine. It never fails to creep me out.
For me, it will always be the first time Captain Black's face changes to being a Mysteron Agent "One of you will be under our control"..that face scared me so much....I mean, all credit to the sculptor for that creation and look. And the scene in 'Noose of Ice' where Captain Scarlet hides the power cable behind his back and then swings it at the Mysteron figure, who falls back onto the stairs and gets electrocuted....the actions of the figure and sound effects were just so scary.
That close-up came straight out of nowhere, too! There's a slow zoom-in to his original, heroic face and a few seconds later is an extreme close-up of a pale, horrifying zombie. Stone cold chilling!
I really like this list. The idea of killing off basically the entirety of Spectrum (or the top members at least) would be an amazing way to end the series! For what it's worth, the one thing I would add is I would end it with Cloudbase plummeting down and just as it's about to crash we cut to Symphony waking in the desert. We think it's all a dream and Scarlet and Blue rescue her. They all get into a Spectrum helicopter and she sees that the pilot is Captain Black (or perhaps there simply is no pilot). Everyone on Cloudbase really died and they are all now Mysterons and poor Symphony realises the awful truth. Roll credits. (I know the Mysterons could leave her to die in the desert and retrometabolise her but I don't think it's as chilling, personally.) Keep up the awesome work, guys! I love this channel!
When I was a child I had to switch channels or leave the room whenever the B.I.G. R.A.T. was used in Joe 90. I don't know if it was the noise, the size of the thing or the idea of Joe falling out and possibly being chopped to bits by it, but it scared the bejesus out of me. Since the machine being used was part of the show's opening titles, I tended to miss a lot of episodes of that show.
The hood. I mean I quit watching the thunderbirds at the age of 6 because I found it too scary at that time. Even when I went back at it around the age of 17 I skipped every episode were the Hood was involved with it. His mask, his theme, his yellow eyes was already scary enough. **The Desperate Intruder, Cry Wolf, Martian Invasion, Edge of Impact** scenes with him was .. well.. scary/creepy. The Zoom ins is the most scary part for me especially The desperate Intruder and edge of impact. I had the Same feeling at Captain Scarlet and the mysterons Attack on cloudbase in cry wolf, and that mask hanging on the gun/camara was creepy too. fantastic work!
I agree with Chris Dale that Attack on Cloudbase was a scary episode and see all of the characters killed off one by one and the base itself falling from the sky and I think the shot of the Hood's glowing eyes scared me I remember that one shot in the episode The Mighty Atom and it looks like he is staying right at you and making you to collapse under his powers and I think the Mysterons was always the scariest villain in Supermarionation and the shot of Captain Black standing in a graveyard at the start of every episode is scary.
Attack on Cloudbase, an episode so different to the rest of the series that Gerry Anderson had to pay for a completely musical score composed by Barry Gray out of his own pocket (none of the scores created for the series fitted with the types of scenarios for the episode that there was little choice). Side note, the flying saucers from Attack on Cloudbase, ultimately gave Derek Meddings food for thought when UFO was made a couple of years later
2:36 Even I will admit The Hood's temple and the entire opening scene from ‘Trapped in the Sky’ scared me when I was younger. I saw the opening scene once and then every other time I watched the episode I would skip it but not anymore, nowadays I can truly appreciate the creepy atmosphere as a great introduction for The Hood.
The empty Delta Tango 1-9er was terrifying as a youngster. Also the anticipation in Cry Wolf (not a favourite episode by a long way though) of the Hood burning his way into Willams' office and exclaiming "WILLIAMS!". Brains being buried in the sand upto his neck was disturbing too!
Those creepy paintings at 13:33 remind me of the nightmarish paintings in Balor's asteroid in Space: 1999's End of Eternity (which are pretty unsettling themselves not just for their content, but for the jump-scare way they are presented). The Thunderbirds alligators scared me as a child, as did the jump scare in Captain Scarlet's opening credits.
For some reason people keep going on about the BBC in the '90's but I can only remember Gerry Anderson programs which were on ITV in the 60's. So trying to think how I missed them the later time around. Hmmm!
The thing that most scared me in Captain Scarlet as a child was actually the cat screaming sound heard in the opening credits just before Scarlet gets shot at. The reason for this was because, the night after I had seen the first episode, I had a horrible dream involving people yelling in the weird cat scream from the show. So, thereafter, I had to head upstairs with my fingers in my ears, for the first minutes of every subsequent episode...
I completely agree with this list I’d like to add that the ending of the compilation film “Captain Scarlet vs. the Mysterons” was far better. The mysterons basically wiped them out then rewound time to show us the error of our ways and give us another chance 👌🏻 perfect ending
This was the first time I saw the attack on cloudbase, I was so disappointed when I saw the actual 'it was just a dream' ending, this one was so much better as it showed just how out matched we were and that the whole up until this point was just the mysterons playing with us
another FABTASTIC episode, Chris. a wise choice to avoid using the nightmare fuel of Thunderbird 6 (the laughing puppets), the pained expression on The Hood's face from Thunderbirds Are Go & most of Torchy. throughly enjoyed that.
Since I told my girlfriend how terrified I was of that shot from "Spectrum Strikes Back" when Captain Black appears at the door, I've become the victim of the most nightmarish form of Rick-rolling. I don't know how she even got hold of that clip! "Invisible Enemy" is such a fantastic Supermarionation episode. The lighting, the slow pans and fast zoom-ins and outs, the music, the shot of Thompson looking directly into the camera as he slowly rises from his bed and the moment that he sees Phones...what an episode!
The really scary thing was that, after the first episode of Thunderbirds revealed the problems with Fireflash they still put the thing into production, so these nuclear reactors are flying around this planet well above the jetstream, all over the world, just waiting to contaminate a large area. Not to mention all the other nuclear powered devices in the series.
At age seven, I was forced to miss the first episode of Captain Scarlet because my grandfather's visit ended that night, and we all had to go to see him off at the train station that night. Even though he gave me the half crown coin (12½p) which was customary at such moments, it didn't make up for the fact that I never really understood what was happening in all the later episodes, diminishing my enjoyment to a fraction of what it had been for Thunderbirds.
Captain Black scared the bejesus out of me as a child as did the Hoods eyebrows. And my introduction to Gerry Anderson was in the early 90s too. Friday nights as a kid then was simpler and a fun time.
Could you imagine the upset that would have come if Captain Scarlet ended with Attack on Cloudbase minus the it was a dream ending. Gerry would’ve never heard the end of it from upset parents, it would be like kids reacting to the death of Optimus Prime all over again.
Gerry Anderson was Genious at creating Children's TV . I think he knew that kids understand more than adults think they do. However I would love to see a adult version of Captain Scarlet. Go really sinister and full on for us kids that actually got the series when we were kids.
What makes number 3 even scarier is that it means an entire race has now been driven into extinction due to its last surviving member committing suicide
I remember reading the (very limited) episode guides of Captain Scarlet that were available online at the time and even though there was one episode after Attack On Cloudbase it did read to me as though Cloud Base could be destroyed and that only Captain Blue survived for the next episode. I always remember waking up in a cold sweat after having a nightmare about that Joe 90 episode where Joe pretends to be an angel.
That episode was a creepy one. I remember only really getting over it when we had a new PE teacher who looked exactly like Mason and he was a really nice guy.
That scene of Captain Black moving his head from side to side to indicate no to Captain Blue...that was chilling 😂😂😂❤loved the show, got original series and the cgi series, still watch them at sixty one 😂😂😂
The only things I remember being scared by from a Supermarionation show were the zombites (Or whatever they're called) that lived in the pyramid in The Uninvited. It was more the music, alongside the fact they spoke their own language, and therefore couldn't be reasoned with. The other ones were the rock snakes, but that makes sense, they actually were scary, and the episode Pink Ice, from Stingray, for reasons I fail to understand.
The scary thing about Scarlet is that in the crash the car explodes and yet the intact (if dead) bodies of Brown and Scarlet are intact on the ground. Chris how do you know that the Mysterons haven't already taken over and that we are their zombie puppets that just think we are normal humans?
You're no coward, Chris. You merely were introduced to these when you didn't have much conscious choice as to what to recall. But I'll readily concede that Captain Scarlet took us all somewhere we didn't expect...and that was "for the kids"? (Fast forward some decades when I first viewed Joe 90 Stateside and thought nearly aloud, "This was...fully thought through, was it?") And count your blessings. Imagine being introduced at your then-age to The (original) Twilight Zone at its Stateside premiere run.
I have the following Gerry Anderson series on DVD: Four Feather Falls, Supercar, Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, The Secret Service, the film Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, UFO, The Protectors, Space 1999, Terrahawks and Space Precinct.
It was pretty brave to use real flames in the miniature sets, even to the point of having puppets carry them. One wrong move and it could have been a disaster
Honestly the only part of Captain Scarlet that really scared me as a kid in the 90s was the episode Operation Time, where the scenes in the hospital and the human hand over the x-ray image always creeped me the hell out.
I remember that first time I watched Attack on Cloudbase tbh when I saw the Mysterons blow up Angel 1 my heart dropped. I was about 13 when I saw it though so about the time that we saw Captain Black I realised that 'this is a dream isn't it?!' then I was just thinking thank god that Rhapsody isn't really dead. Still for that 15 minutes when I thought it was real it was horrible to watch.
Probably as a kid the scariest moment for me was a scene in The Duchess Assignment. Where the old lady was trapped in the basement and tied to a chair while the building burned around her and that gave me so many nightmares as a kid.
I strongly disagree with the revised end of attack on Cloudbase. I watched it at the same time in the early 90s on a sunday morning BBC 2, and have vivid memories of it. I'm one of those whose suspension of disbelief is extremely powerful for shows like this, and believe the characters are real and don't even see them puppets.....and my mind airbrushes out the strings and everything to morph into a kind of live action version in my head. I love to step into the series myself to really enjoy it or there's no point in it for me. Perhaps I have an overactive empathy gland or imagination I dunno. I blame it on being an only child having to amuse myself all the time 😆 Anyway...after being enthralled at the previous many weeks st watching I WAS relieved it was all a dream. It was the first time I'd seen that particular cop out in any episode like they'd used in Space 1999 a few times for example. If it had been Chris's ending I know it would have made the entire series ruined for me as I by that time had come to care about the characters and wanted the good guys to win. If this ending had happened I woukd have been heartbroken...all the good guys dead...Mysterons win...Earth destroyed.. We'reall dead too....it was all for nothing... series ruined. I'd have never been able to watch or enjoy it again as the endgame would have been so depressing.😬😔😪😟 So...phew....what a relief...thank goodness for dream sequence cop outs! 😃
Completely agree. I can't stand any film or TV series which ends with the bad guys winning. You then learn that you have completely wasted your time getting emotionally attached to the characters because they're all going to die. Everything they have struggled to achieve through the series/film was absolutely pointless. Not forgetting this was a kids show and ending it like that would have devestated them. On a slight side note, the worst kind of bad guys winning story is the "found footage" film. You know from the start that every single character is going to fail and die so why bother caring about any of them?
@@ivaneames4354 absolutely...it turns into a wonder of how that ones gonna die....when that ones gonna get killed...Will that one make it to the third episode etc... I hate it. A bit like the end of Blakes 7 where they all got killed and Servalan won. Horrible, and I couldn't watch it since after such a downbeat ending, until some of it got retconned thanks to the audio plays where one or two of then actually lived (I think Avon at least.) Then I was able to enjoy it again knowing it was still not all for nothing. Line you say...after caring and being emotionally invested in the characters week after week, down beat endings render the series unenjoyable to me. If its looked at as "just a TV series" then that's also wasted how ever many 50 minute episodes there was being watched week after week to end on a down note. I want to watch telly to be thrilled and see how the heroes win beat the bad guys and not end up depressed lol. Imagine if right at the end of a spectacular James Bond film he got killed and SPECTRE won? Pretty horrible thought I feel. (I know... someone's bound to pop up and say they'd have preferred that too 🙄)
I'm with you on the Hood's temple, even a generation earlier in black & white. I always thought the voice of the Mysterons sounded like the General Confession in church: "We are deeply sorry for our sins". But the thing that terrified me most on TV from my childhood was the first Dr. Who series I watched: Dr. Who on the Demons. Coincidentally, it was filmed outside the house where my wife-to-be grew up and featured a split second of my future mother-in-law, but that had no effect on me at the time.
When I watched Trapped in the sky for the first time, I think I was around 3, it scared me so much that I didn't watch any other Thunderbird episodes with the hood in it 😂
The Stingray episode you mentioned sounds like it was planned by the writer to be a 2-parter, but the second part was scrapped and they were almost done filming part 1 when they were told. In the haste, they gave it a rushed ending
I just wish they could have ended the series with spectrum returning to Mars and destroying the Mysterons complex the same way they did it on the Moon, how's that for an ending
I can understand your no.5 Thunderbirds pick. As a kid atmospheres can be rather unnerving. Most of the things that scared me as a kid were due to tones and atmosphere rather than physical scares. I've just completed a full run-through of Captain Scarlet on BritBox - it was previously something that I watched the closing credits of whilst waiting for the next show on BBC2 (90's). I'd never appreciated what the show actually was before. I always loved that shot of Captain Black in the Graveyard and was disappointed that the show didn't go for that kind of stylised spooky visual for often. I get why there's a lot of death and destruction now. If Spectrum won every week - there would be no massive explosions.:D I can see why Attack on Cloudbase is regarded as a top episode.
I think an episode storyline like "Attack on Cloudbase" could only have fully worked as a two-parter rather than a self-contained episode; the ending just comes across as being an abrupt tag closing to an already-uneasy and telling unfolding of events. It could have had more effect if the vision felt at the end had strong implications that would lead into a more grounded yet equally intensifying attack by the Mysterons on the Cloudbase in the following finale, in an alternate context. I have a similar thought regarding the episode you bring up from "Stingray"; again we could have had a strong implication brought up by the characters that could have been carried over in the following episode rather than being quickly wrapped up in a single one. Also, Anderson shows do not have a particularly strong track record for effective ending set-pieces to their shows if the finale to Thunderbirds is to go by. Regards, Samuel Farris.
FWIW: I Never saw *CAPTAIN SCARLET* when it was originally broadcast. That said, seeing the clips of the Mysteron spacecraft surrounding Cloudbase reminded me of the episode _"Z'Ha'Dum"_ from *BABYLON 5,* when the space station is surrounded by Shadow vessels.
I was 8 when Capt Scarlet was first broadcast, and had been with the Anderson oeuvre from Four Feather Falls. Looking at it now it is rather 'adult' in feel but you have to see it in the context of what Doctor Who was like. The Daleks had been pretty good at 'exterminating' innocent people, and Cybermen and Yetis had been invading Earth, and walking our streets, so we kids were well primed for the Mysterons.
23:03 The weirdo commentary is wrong, 'Attack on Cloudbase' should be struck from the series - it was a cheap trick on the viewership, and would not have been a satisfactory ending - unless you were rooting for the Mysterons. I didn't run outside as a kid, but I did believe it was really happening and it was genuinely traumatic, and not 'perfect', then or now. How could he think it was a 'downbeat' series? It was loaded with futuristic technology and high production values. At that time Star Trek was still two years away from being seen in the UK so the nearest thing to it was the less interesting Lost in Space.
10:34.. apparently ech of the offices in that building were crafted with full interiors for effect.. explosion was a bit big .... there is a video about it on here.
I forgot which series it was . But the hero was in the hospital bed recovering from injuries and a dark drone was hovering and spying on him through the open window and it really freaked me out. Does someone out there know which episode it was? I think it was from Firebal XL5.
@Gerry Anderson >>> At about 02:09 in this video, you mention the date _"September 20th, 1991."_ Is _1991_ the correct _year?_ *EDIT: I initially missed the detail about you watching the shows during a rebroadcast. That answers my question.*
I was thrilled, scared and got completely caught up in the stories of these shows but......not to this extent. I must have been hard as nails as a kid or were kids generally tougher in the 60s/70s? Don't get me wrong, they were brilliant. Captain Scarlet, rightfully portrayed as the scariest of Gerry Anderson's puppet shows, is my fave all time puppet show. But if you want scary, see Chris's Space 1999 collection. Live action wins hands down. For me. Part of me almost wishes I could be terrified by these clips but...
Are you ready for a journey through the spookiest moments in Supermarionation history?
The thunderbirds scene with Kyrano was well picked. As a child that scene with the red glowing statue and the hood shouting to Kyrano scared me so much, that I immediately hit the fast forward button on the VHS player until I saw the Firefly and it was safe to look again.
When I was a kid I was not afraid of the hood my mouth was opened and I began to drool eww
Apologies if we lifted the, ‘Angel of Death’, monicker when were recording our podcast. Great video, as per!
I saw Captain Scarlet late in life,and,I enjoyed it,emmensely!I liked all the character’s,too!This was a nice documentary on Captain 👩✈️ Scarlet !The frightening episode’s!And,too,do you remember Paul Foster vomiting 🤮 green liquid?Yeah.this would be unexpected,too!The episode was called;Ordeal.
I went to see the Thunderbirds are Go movie at the cinema about the time of my 10th birthday and was totally freaked out when the rock snakes unwound. The image haunted me to the extent that a few years ago on a visit to Iceland, I saw the piles of black volcanic rock that cover the landscape around Reykjavik and was half wondering which of them would suddenly come to life.
Some will already know, but in the compilation film captain scarlet vs the mysterons. Attack on cloud bases ending was changed and re-edited to look as if it DID actually happen, then the Mysterons decide that maybe one day they can make peace with earth and use their powers to reverse time so the attack never happend. They also added some laser beams coming from the flying saucers
I for one was quite relieved that "Attack On Cloudbase" turned out to be a dream!
Not in Japan! In the weird Japanese Captain Scarlet continuity (two films), they imply it actually happened!
You and me both! I remember to this day how relieved i was.
Honestly, to people who were 'outraged' by the Gainex ending. I would point out that there were subtle clues (Black popping up on Cloudbase and no one commenting on it) sprinkled throughout the episode that hinted all wasn't as it seemed. And Gerry Anderson specifically made dream episodes so they could do outlandish things they normally couldn't.
I'm a serious SCARLET fan, so when it comes to truly creepy moments, I love the more extremely uncomfortable kills that Black got up to. I mean, other bad guys shot or exploded their targets, but who calmly and coldly takes advantage of a guy working under a car, operates the lift, and crushes him against the ceiling ?? That's in a show for kids?? I was in awe. As for ATTACK ON CLOUDBASE, I really wanted the next season to be about Scarlet WITHOUT Spectrum, working on an Earth overrun with Mysteron copies of everyone ( until half way through the season, when he finds a small group of survivors, only to lose them at season's end. ). That would have been truly in the spirit of the show.
The two other 'What? In a kids' show? kills I always think of, are the really graphic electrocution of the Mysteron agent in 'Noose Of Ice', and the throttling of the guard, by a set of Waldos, in 'Place Of The Angels'. Adult shows of the time very seldom showed blood on gunshot wounds, or even 'corpses'. Captain Scarlet was short of neither. I remember my dad being quite shocked whilst watching 'Fire At Rig 15', on VHS, when Jason Smith's corpse was shown half buried.
"And this was your childhood favourite show?", he asked me. "Bloody hell, that was a bit strong.", he continued. I didn't dare show him the Joe 90 episode 'Hijacked' after that...
I remember in a documentary about Gerry Anderson, Francis Matthews' (then) young son was watching the first episode of Captain Scarlet and was absolutely terrified by the sound of Donald Grey's slowed down and echoy voice as the Mysterons
Any scene that featured the Hood was scary (to an extent where I would take cover behind the couch) but the one episode that takes the cake for me is Desperate Intruder. The Hoods sadistic torturing of Brains and then leaving him to drown in a lake is so scary.
Absolutely no doubt a bout it When those rock snakes start firing at the Mars space ship MEV from Zero X freaks me out to this day and I'm 55 years old !!!
Captain Scarlet, both original and CGI, has all of my favourite dark moments from my childhood shows. Whether it's the horrifying voices of the mysterons, or knowing some innocent going about their day is about to meet a horrifying end, it always had me gripped. Especially Captain Black and all of the people he murdered. It's a shame the original never gave us an ending for him, or some more depth.
But even now, years later, I'm still afraid of the original show, all because you reminded me that the Captain Scarlet we know and love all through the show.. isn't even the original one.. But also is.. while also kind of not being him. It's really bugging me now. Like, do you think they held a funeral for his and Captain Brown's old bodies? I'm thinking too much now
The Scottish episode of Captain Scarlet with the green Mysteron eyes behind the portrait in the castle still freaks me out to this day the music was great too and definitely helped set the atmosphere
Wow! I'd forgotten about that! I remember my mum asking my much younger self: "Shall I put in your Captain Scarlet video, Ryan?"
"NOT GREEN EYES, PLEASE!!!"
Wish they made an episode involving International Rescue, WASP and Spectrum all unified. Would have even been hilarious how Titan with his Guards and X20 get on with Captain Black and The Hood
I always found the City of Fire episode of Thunderbirds quite scary, because it was a regular family trapped in a nightmarish situation in a confined space and the collapse of the Thompson Tower was always spectacular but scary within that episode and of course later it was to have parallels with 9/11.
Hell, if you think City of Fire has 9/11 parallels, look at Terror in New York City!
When I was younger whenever the Hood was his glowing eyes thing and was looking straight at the screen I would always cover my eyes as I was scared he was trying to use them on me.
Another discoverer of Thunderbirds in the early 90s, here. The Hood's glowing eyes still make me squirm, a bit.
Also, the opening to Captain Scarlet. You've got that long, slow pan around the graveyard to settle on Captain Black, then the rapid back-and-forth cuts to the next scene with booming drums. Each time it flashes back to Captain Black it closes in, until _he's looking right at you._ Then on with the show. Even cutting away leaves you with a lingering creeped-out feeling. He was aware of you, he's seen you, he knows where you are, and now you can't see him creeping up on you. He's coming to get you, Barbara!
11:32 - Even if International Rescue comes to the rescue, they would have been out of their depth against the Mysterons. They would've also been absolutely annihilated.
“It was all a dream” is the worst thing to expect in a supermarionation story!
Why?
Great content - and VERY cheekily executed!!! I’m still
😂ing over the whole Kudos segment and Zoonie’s getting roasted!!!
I do remember being afraid of the Hood's glowing eyes - especially, for some reason, in the episode 'Cry Wolf', where he threatens Mr Williams over the CCTV. He looks incredibly sinister in some shots. Also, as a kid, you just see him as a very persistent bad guy. As an adult, you realise that he's a classic psychopath. And that, in itself, is disturbing, in a childrens' show.
Is it me, or does Kudus, from 'Fireball XL5', look very much like Gene Simmons from the band Kiss?
Thompson, from 'Stingray', reminds me strongly of MOID from 'Terrahawks'. A blank wide-eyed face.
Rhapsody Angel was always my favourite, too. Always liked redheads. And I was four in 1967, when 'Captain Scarlet' was first broadcast - it was the first TV show I can remember being utterly obsessed by. I loved 'Thunderbirds', but 'Captain Scarlet' took over my young life.
The creepiest moment in any 'Supermarionation' show, has to be from 'Captain Scarlet': The episode 'Winged Assassin', when airliner DT-19, full of passengers and crew, is caused to crash into the sea by The Mysterons. A fragment of wreckage, bearing the marking 'DT-19' floats to the surface. The Mysteron Retrometabolisation rings scan across it, and in the sky above flies DT-19. Even writing this out, brought a chill down my spine. It never fails to creep me out.
For me, it will always be the first time Captain Black's face changes to being a Mysteron Agent "One of you will be under our control"..that face scared me so much....I mean, all credit to the sculptor for that creation and look. And the scene in 'Noose of Ice' where Captain Scarlet hides the power cable behind his back and then swings it at the Mysteron figure, who falls back onto the stairs and gets electrocuted....the actions of the figure and sound effects were just so scary.
It was also sad to learn Black was once a good guy.
That close-up came straight out of nowhere, too! There's a slow zoom-in to his original, heroic face and a few seconds later is an extreme close-up of a pale, horrifying zombie. Stone cold chilling!
What a beautifully curated video! Certainly agree with the list, thanks for brining back a lot of great childhood TV memories!
I really like this list. The idea of killing off basically the entirety of Spectrum (or the top members at least) would be an amazing way to end the series!
For what it's worth, the one thing I would add is I would end it with Cloudbase plummeting down and just as it's about to crash we cut to Symphony waking in the desert. We think it's all a dream and Scarlet and Blue rescue her. They all get into a Spectrum helicopter and she sees that the pilot is Captain Black (or perhaps there simply is no pilot). Everyone on Cloudbase really died and they are all now Mysterons and poor Symphony realises the awful truth. Roll credits.
(I know the Mysterons could leave her to die in the desert and retrometabolise her but I don't think it's as chilling, personally.)
Keep up the awesome work, guys! I love this channel!
When I was a child I had to switch channels or leave the room whenever the B.I.G. R.A.T. was used in Joe 90. I don't know if it was the noise, the size of the thing or the idea of Joe falling out and possibly being chopped to bits by it, but it scared the bejesus out of me. Since the machine being used was part of the show's opening titles, I tended to miss a lot of episodes of that show.
I loved the B.I.G.R.A.T. I think it was the music that offset the rather scary assumption of the whole show.
The hood.
I mean I quit watching the thunderbirds at the age of 6 because I found it too scary at that time. Even when I went back at it around the age of 17 I skipped every episode were the Hood was involved with it. His mask, his theme, his yellow eyes was already scary enough. **The Desperate Intruder, Cry Wolf, Martian Invasion, Edge of Impact** scenes with him was .. well.. scary/creepy. The Zoom ins is the most scary part for me especially The desperate Intruder and edge of impact. I had the Same feeling at Captain Scarlet and the mysterons Attack on cloudbase in cry wolf, and that mask hanging on the gun/camara was creepy too.
fantastic work!
I agree with Chris Dale that Attack on Cloudbase was a scary episode and see all of the characters killed off one by one and the base itself falling from the sky and I think the shot of the Hood's glowing eyes scared me I remember that one shot in the episode The Mighty Atom and it looks like he is staying right at you and making you to collapse under his powers and I think the Mysterons was always the scariest villain in Supermarionation and the shot of Captain Black standing in a graveyard at the start of every episode is scary.
The Hood having his foot crushed always really stuck with me for some reason. 😅
That face he pulls! You just don't see it coming as he rips the mask off so quickly!
Served him right! Trying to plant another bomb probably.
Attack on Cloudbase, an episode so different to the rest of the series that Gerry Anderson had to pay for a completely musical score composed by Barry Gray out of his own pocket (none of the scores created for the series fitted with the types of scenarios for the episode that there was little choice).
Side note, the flying saucers from Attack on Cloudbase, ultimately gave Derek Meddings food for thought when UFO was made a couple of years later
One TV show episode guaranteed to scare any kid (including some adults) was The Six Million Dollar Man - Day Of The Robot.
2:36 Even I will admit The Hood's temple and the entire opening scene from ‘Trapped in the Sky’ scared me when I was younger.
I saw the opening scene once and then every other time I watched the episode I would skip it but not anymore, nowadays I can truly appreciate the creepy atmosphere as a great introduction for The Hood.
The empty Delta Tango 1-9er was terrifying as a youngster. Also the anticipation in Cry Wolf (not a favourite episode by a long way though) of the Hood burning his way into Willams' office and exclaiming "WILLIAMS!". Brains being buried in the sand upto his neck was disturbing too!
Those creepy paintings at 13:33 remind me of the nightmarish paintings in Balor's asteroid in Space: 1999's End of Eternity (which are pretty unsettling themselves not just for their content, but for the jump-scare way they are presented).
The Thunderbirds alligators scared me as a child, as did the jump scare in Captain Scarlet's opening credits.
Great video, very well arranged. I love your choices of sound & video clips used in between your narration that highlight your points :).
For some reason people keep going on about the BBC in the '90's but I can only remember Gerry Anderson programs which were on ITV in the 60's. So trying to think how I missed them the later time around. Hmmm!
The thing that most scared me in Captain Scarlet as a child was actually the cat screaming sound heard in the opening credits just before Scarlet gets shot at. The reason for this was because, the night after I had seen the first episode, I had a horrible dream involving people yelling in the weird cat scream from the show. So, thereafter, I had to head upstairs with my fingers in my ears, for the first minutes of every subsequent episode...
When I was a child, I had a large doll/figure of Captain Black. My father's reaction to seeing it was to say "he looks like he has a liver disease".
I completely agree with this list
I’d like to add that the ending of the compilation film “Captain Scarlet vs. the Mysterons” was far better. The mysterons basically wiped them out then rewound time to show us the error of our ways and give us another chance
👌🏻 perfect ending
I just did a post disagreeing with the revised ending Chris suggested, but I didn't think know about this version of it....
THAT I could live with! 😁
This was the first time I saw the attack on cloudbase, I was so disappointed when I saw the actual 'it was just a dream' ending, this one was so much better as it showed just how out matched we were and that the whole up until this point was just the mysterons playing with us
another FABTASTIC episode, Chris. a wise choice to avoid using the nightmare fuel of Thunderbird 6 (the laughing puppets), the pained expression on The Hood's face from Thunderbirds Are Go & most of Torchy. throughly enjoyed that.
Since I told my girlfriend how terrified I was of that shot from "Spectrum Strikes Back" when Captain Black appears at the door, I've become the victim of the most nightmarish form of Rick-rolling. I don't know how she even got hold of that clip!
"Invisible Enemy" is such a fantastic Supermarionation episode. The lighting, the slow pans and fast zoom-ins and outs, the music, the shot of Thompson looking directly into the camera as he slowly rises from his bed and the moment that he sees Phones...what an episode!
The really scary thing was that, after the first episode of Thunderbirds revealed the problems with Fireflash they still put the thing into production, so these nuclear reactors are flying around this planet well above the jetstream, all over the world, just waiting to contaminate a large area. Not to mention all the other nuclear powered devices in the series.
One moment from Stingray that frightened me as a kid and still kind of shocking today is Commander Shore's nightmare from The Ghost of the Sea
Captain black in the cemetery. Shitted myself
At age seven, I was forced to miss the first episode of Captain Scarlet because my grandfather's visit ended that night, and we all had to go to see him off at the train station that night. Even though he gave me the half crown coin (12½p) which was customary at such moments, it didn't make up for the fact that I never really understood what was happening in all the later episodes, diminishing my enjoyment to a fraction of what it had been for Thunderbirds.
Captain Black scared the bejesus out of me as a child as did the Hoods eyebrows.
And my introduction to Gerry Anderson was in the early 90s too. Friday nights as a kid then was simpler and a fun time.
Could you imagine the upset that would have come if Captain Scarlet ended with Attack on Cloudbase minus the it was a dream ending. Gerry would’ve never heard the end of it from upset parents, it would be like kids reacting to the death of Optimus Prime all over again.
Well done Chris that was excellent !
Cheers 🍻
Captain Scarlet was a master piece
Gerry Anderson was Genious at creating
Children's TV . I think he knew that kids understand more than adults think they do.
However I would love to see a adult version of Captain Scarlet.
Go really sinister and full on for us kids that actually got the series when we were kids.
Side note... did you know ,lt. Green was trained by W.A.S.P before joining spectrum ? No? Well, you heard it here first!
Yes, the Hood's temple definitely creeped me out as a child and Attack of the Alligators as well.
What makes number 3 even scarier is that it means an entire race has now been driven into extinction due to its last surviving member committing suicide
I remember reading the (very limited) episode guides of Captain Scarlet that were available online at the time and even though there was one episode after Attack On Cloudbase it did read to me as though Cloud Base could be destroyed and that only Captain Blue survived for the next episode.
I always remember waking up in a cold sweat after having a nightmare about that Joe 90 episode where Joe pretends to be an angel.
That episode was a creepy one. I remember only really getting over it when we had a new PE teacher who looked exactly like Mason and he was a really nice guy.
I always found Operation Time pretty scary in Captain Scarlet, the idea that you could be killed by a doctor or dentist etc during a procedure.
Master Spy in Supercar always used to scare me to bits when I was four years old.
That scene of Captain Black moving his head from side to side to indicate no to Captain Blue...that was chilling 😂😂😂❤loved the show, got original series and the cgi series, still watch them at sixty one 😂😂😂
The only things I remember being scared by from a Supermarionation show were the zombites (Or whatever they're called) that lived in the pyramid in The Uninvited. It was more the music, alongside the fact they spoke their own language, and therefore couldn't be reasoned with.
The other ones were the rock snakes, but that makes sense, they actually were scary, and the episode Pink Ice, from Stingray, for reasons I fail to understand.
The scary thing about Scarlet is that in the crash the car explodes and yet the intact (if dead) bodies of Brown and Scarlet are intact on the ground.
Chris how do you know that the Mysterons haven't already taken over and that we are their zombie puppets that just think we are normal humans?
You're no coward, Chris. You merely were introduced to these when you didn't have much conscious choice as to what to recall. But I'll readily concede that Captain Scarlet took us all somewhere we didn't expect...and that was "for the kids"? (Fast forward some decades when I first viewed Joe 90 Stateside and thought nearly aloud, "This was...fully thought through, was it?") And count your blessings. Imagine being introduced at your then-age to The (original) Twilight Zone at its Stateside premiere run.
So Capatin Scarlet almost ended the same way as Blakes 7?
Rhapsody was always my favourite as well. Lovely hair and accent.
ThunderBirds, the crocks were real lizards I believe, with the set matched to size.
Yeah Real life aligators and even real life rabbits in the laboratory.
The simple fact that “our” captain scarlet is actually a mysteron agent that’s broken his conditioning is a fact that so many people miss.
I have the following Gerry Anderson series on DVD: Four Feather Falls, Supercar, Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, The Secret Service, the film Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, UFO, The Protectors, Space 1999, Terrahawks and Space Precinct.
It was pretty brave to use real flames in the miniature sets, even to the point of having puppets carry them. One wrong move and it could have been a disaster
Captain Scarlet opening used scare the crap outta me
Thank God these people had the vision to make these films.Indeed a lost art by today's standards. The quality of life was better than period !
Honestly the only part of Captain Scarlet that really scared me as a kid in the 90s was the episode Operation Time, where the scenes in the hospital and the human hand over the x-ray image always creeped me the hell out.
anyone notice the auto nurse above the bed looks a lot like the ones used in star trek I wonder who was watching stingray
I remember that first time I watched Attack on Cloudbase tbh when I saw the Mysterons blow up Angel 1 my heart dropped. I was about 13 when I saw it though so about the time that we saw Captain Black I realised that 'this is a dream isn't it?!' then I was just thinking thank god that Rhapsody isn't really dead. Still for that 15 minutes when I thought it was real it was horrible to watch.
Would love to hang out with the Angels on the cloud base, they were cool chicks
The bit about Captain Black has always confused me. Why is he there?!
@@jimbodimbo981 They brought the banta to Cloudbase.
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer Because it was a dream so it was meant to be a wtf moment.
Joe 90 dressed as an angel in the graveyard scene, strange and creepy.
Probably as a kid the scariest moment for me was a scene in The Duchess Assignment. Where the old lady was trapped in the basement and tied to a chair while the building burned around her and that gave me so many nightmares as a kid.
A lovely reminder of very different days and Captain Scarlet was my favourite followed by Fireball XL5. However.
Fun shows, best of luck 👍 on your channel.
Captain Black scared the living daylights out of a 7 year old me. Its look and voice and the way it watched everyone from behind trees/corners... 💀💀💀💀
Can you put that alternative ending on dvd please?
I strongly disagree with the revised end of attack on Cloudbase.
I watched it at the same time in the early 90s on a sunday morning BBC 2, and have vivid memories of it. I'm one of those whose suspension of disbelief is extremely powerful for shows like this, and believe the characters are real and don't even see them puppets.....and my mind airbrushes out the strings and everything to morph into a kind of live action version in my head. I love to step into the series myself to really enjoy it or there's no point in it for me. Perhaps I have an overactive empathy gland or imagination I dunno. I blame it on being an only child having to amuse myself all the time 😆
Anyway...after being enthralled at the previous many weeks st watching I WAS relieved it was all a dream. It was the first time I'd seen that particular cop out in any episode like they'd used in Space 1999 a few times for example. If it had been Chris's ending I know it would have made the entire series ruined for me as I by that time had come to care about the characters and wanted the good guys to win. If this ending had happened I woukd have been heartbroken...all the good guys dead...Mysterons win...Earth destroyed.. We'reall dead too....it was all for nothing... series ruined. I'd have never been able to watch or enjoy it again as the endgame would have been so depressing.😬😔😪😟
So...phew....what a relief...thank goodness for dream sequence cop outs! 😃
Completely agree. I can't stand any film or TV series which ends with the bad guys winning. You then learn that you have completely wasted your time getting emotionally attached to the characters because they're all going to die. Everything they have struggled to achieve through the series/film was absolutely pointless. Not forgetting this was a kids show and ending it like that would have devestated them.
On a slight side note, the worst kind of bad guys winning story is the "found footage" film. You know from the start that every single character is going to fail and die so why bother caring about any of them?
@@ivaneames4354 absolutely...it turns into a wonder of how that ones gonna die....when that ones gonna get killed...Will that one make it to the third episode etc... I hate it. A bit like the end of Blakes 7 where they all got killed and Servalan won. Horrible, and I couldn't watch it since after such a downbeat ending, until some of it got retconned thanks to the audio plays where one or two of then actually lived (I think Avon at least.) Then I was able to enjoy it again knowing it was still not all for nothing.
Line you say...after caring and being emotionally invested in the characters week after week, down beat endings render the series unenjoyable to me. If its looked at as "just a TV series" then that's also wasted how ever many 50 minute episodes there was being watched week after week to end on a down note. I want to watch telly to be thrilled and see how the heroes win beat the bad guys and not end up depressed lol. Imagine if right at the end of a spectacular James Bond film he got killed and SPECTRE won? Pretty horrible thought I feel.
(I know... someone's bound to pop up and say they'd have preferred that too 🙄)
I'm with you on the Hood's temple, even a generation earlier in black & white. I always thought the voice of the Mysterons sounded like the General Confession in church: "We are deeply sorry for our sins". But the thing that terrified me most on TV from my childhood was the first Dr. Who series I watched: Dr. Who on the Demons. Coincidentally, it was filmed outside the house where my wife-to-be grew up and featured a split second of my future mother-in-law, but that had no effect on me at the time.
the mummies in fireball are alarming even after the first time you watch the episode
When I watched Trapped in the sky for the first time, I think I was around 3, it scared me so much that I didn't watch any other Thunderbird episodes with the hood in it 😂
l liked the alternate ending in the Captain Scarlet Vs The Mysterons VHS tape way more than the "It was all a dream" cop out.
The Stingray episode you mentioned sounds like it was planned by the writer to be a 2-parter, but the second part was scrapped and they were almost done filming part 1 when they were told. In the haste, they gave it a rushed ending
Imagine a Part 2 where it turns out that Thompson was one of several sleeper agents, with people around the world falling into the trance...
My votes with the Giant crocs, though overall captain scarlet is my fave
I just wish they could have ended the series with spectrum returning to Mars and destroying the Mysterons complex the same way they did it on the Moon, how's that for an ending
I can understand your no.5 Thunderbirds pick. As a kid atmospheres can be rather unnerving. Most of the things that scared me as a kid were due to tones and atmosphere rather than physical scares.
I've just completed a full run-through of Captain Scarlet on BritBox - it was previously something that I watched the closing credits of whilst waiting for the next show on BBC2 (90's). I'd never appreciated what the show actually was before. I always loved that shot of Captain Black in the Graveyard and was disappointed that the show didn't go for that kind of stylised spooky visual for often. I get why there's a lot of death and destruction now. If Spectrum won every week - there would be no massive explosions.:D
I can see why Attack on Cloudbase is regarded as a top episode.
The Thompson character in Stingray looks like he might have been modelled after Victor Carune from "The Quatermass Xperiment"
Rocking Cloudbase, spinning Colonel White & the wobbly saucers always spoiled Attack on Cloudbase for me, even as a 5 year old.
Spinning Colonel White really takes me out of it as well.
I think that clues you in on the fact it wasn't real.
I think an episode storyline like "Attack on Cloudbase" could only have fully worked as a two-parter rather than a self-contained episode; the ending just comes across as being an abrupt tag closing to an already-uneasy and telling unfolding of events. It could have had more effect if the vision felt at the end had strong implications that would lead into a more grounded yet equally intensifying attack by the Mysterons on the Cloudbase in the following finale, in an alternate context.
I have a similar thought regarding the episode you bring up from "Stingray"; again we could have had a strong implication brought up by the characters that could have been carried over in the following episode rather than being quickly wrapped up in a single one. Also, Anderson shows do not have a particularly strong track record for effective ending set-pieces to their shows if the finale to Thunderbirds is to go by. Regards, Samuel Farris.
FWIW: I Never saw *CAPTAIN SCARLET* when it was originally broadcast.
That said, seeing the clips of the Mysteron spacecraft surrounding Cloudbase reminded me of the episode _"Z'Ha'Dum"_ from *BABYLON 5,* when the space station is surrounded by Shadow vessels.
wonderful, I enjoyed that :)
I was 8 when Capt Scarlet was first broadcast, and had been with the Anderson oeuvre from Four Feather Falls. Looking at it now it is rather 'adult' in feel but you have to see it in the context of what Doctor Who was like. The Daleks had been pretty good at 'exterminating' innocent people, and Cybermen and Yetis had been invading Earth, and walking our streets, so we kids were well primed for the Mysterons.
23:03 The weirdo commentary is wrong, 'Attack on Cloudbase' should be struck from the series - it was a cheap trick on the viewership, and would not have been a satisfactory ending - unless you were rooting for the Mysterons. I didn't run outside as a kid, but I did believe it was really happening and it was genuinely traumatic, and not 'perfect', then or now. How could he think it was a 'downbeat' series? It was loaded with futuristic technology and high production values. At that time Star Trek was still two years away from being seen in the UK so the nearest thing to it was the less interesting Lost in Space.
10:34.. apparently ech of the offices in that building were crafted with full interiors for effect.. explosion was a bit big .... there is a video about it on here.
30 years and I never noticed the Hoods masks under the Kyrano statue.
I forgot which series it was .
But the hero was in the hospital bed recovering from injuries and a dark drone was hovering and spying on him through the open window and it really freaked me out.
Does someone out there know which episode it was? I think it was from Firebal XL5.
Yep. "Wings of Danger" from Fireball XL5.
@@ryano7220 Really , man ! Thanks for the info.
This series was so incredibly ahead of its time.
@@manuelmontiel5418 It really was! They made really good use of the black and white aesthetic.
I wonder if Iron Maiden were inspired by the Fireball XL5 episode 🤔
The puppets in the early episode like Four Feather Fall and Supercar were very scary they al had big scary eyes
For me, it’s just the puppets that make me feel uneasy. whatever they’re doing… I’m uncomfortable lol.
I was always terrified of the Hood and the rock snakes from Thunderbirds
Yeah I was scared by the statue of Kyrano in red light. I think adults forget what scared them when they were little.
I love this 👍😃
30:53 And Captain Magenta…
Captain Magenta “I’m Still Trying To Count Them All Colonel!”
Reviewer Blessed
Colonel White “Too Eager Far Too Eager”
@Gerry Anderson >>> At about 02:09 in this video, you mention the date _"September 20th, 1991."_
Is _1991_ the correct _year?_
*EDIT: I initially missed the detail about you watching the shows during a rebroadcast. That answers my question.*
I was thrilled, scared and got completely caught up in the stories of these shows but......not to this extent. I must have been hard as nails as a kid or were kids generally tougher in the 60s/70s? Don't get me wrong, they were brilliant. Captain Scarlet, rightfully portrayed as the scariest of Gerry Anderson's puppet shows, is my fave all time puppet show. But if you want scary, see Chris's Space 1999 collection. Live action wins hands down. For me. Part of me almost wishes I could be terrified by these clips but...
Any moment that The Hood really lost his temper - those eyes...