Barry Gray's music is absolutely phenomenal. Every series was even more inventive than its predecessor. More than half a century has passed, and I still get tingles down my spine.
I remember being a kid in early 70’s when this came on tv here in US. I was absolutely blown away by how cool it was compared to cartoons. The music and art lithos, the scale models, the vehicles, explosions, the somewhat life like puppets, you name it. It’s probably why I got into scale modeling to which I still do to this very day. 🤘🏻
Captain Scarlet is my favourite Supermarionation production. During my first time watching it practically made my jaw drop, especially with how dark it can get. Watched mostly every episode with my Mum earlier this year! The special effects (and especially the explosions) have to be one of the best parts of the series for me
Nothing was black and white in that series. The Mysterons saw themselves (with good cause) as the victims of an unprovoked attack, and in some episodes they actually won. I also loved Spectrum's multinational makeup. I owned the Dinky toys of the SPV and saloon car back in the day!
I think the London Car Vu sequence in the first episode is incredibly well filmed and edited. Detail is everything, and as the structure begins to collapse I swear the wheels on the car drop slightly. Guns and explosions galore - what more did a 1960's kid need?
Captain Scarlett is simply my favorite Supermarionation show of ALL time. It was adult,it was scary as fuck, It's a bloody MASTERPIECE. THANK YOU SENSEIS for such a gem,from your greatest fan.
This is the show that made me dive into all things Gerry Anderson. Watched it in the mornings on Comedy Central back in the 90s when I was going to college and became hooked!
this show was my childhood!!! as an adult I showed this to my boyfriend who’d never seen any of the Supermarionation shows as I thought he’d appreciate Captain Scarlet the most, and he loved it! He was really impressed with the puppetry and the special effects and considering that it was made in the 60s, it’s aged so well 😍
Captain Scarlet and associated merch was a major part of my childhood. The remake in the early 2000s was also great but itv kept showing it at daft times so it never took off like it should have.
Captain Scarlett is a classic show. Puppets, effects, vehicles, sets, voices, stories, great! Although I still haven't gotten used to the switching images during the drum beat switch.
As a child of the '60s, Captain Scarlet was always "my" Supermarionation show. Throw in the fact that the show had evil aliens and LOTS of death and destruction, and I found it irresistible. =^[.]^=
Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant! ... I'm so glad I grew up in the 60's and 70's! ... I feel sorry for kids nowadays! ... Everything Gerry Anderson and Co. touched, turned to gold! "This is the voice of The Mysterons!" ... "UA-cam, we know you can hear us!" ... "The puppets are little bar stewards!" 🤣
Captain Scarlet was my favourite too. I think it may have been because I was a big Bond and U.N.C.L.E fan and this was like an agency set in the future
Me as an 8yo when Captain Scarlet premiered: THEY'VE GOT PROPER HEADS! lol Never really thought of it as being dark, it was just ripping good adventures!
Ahh but, let's be honest here, there was no 'strange twist of fate' that made Captain Scarlet indestructible ( 2:35 ) After all, the original Captain Scarlet was dead, killed outright and thus never became indestructible. (Those red boots of his corpse next to the red boots of his copy, gruesome!) What we actually had throughout the series was a retrometabolised recreation that became independent of it's Mysteron puppet masters. Did Spectrum ever find his body I wonder ?
What I liked about this show was how the bad guy was still Capt. Black. Presumably, he was still drawing captain's pay, still drank with all the good guys in the officers mess between episodes, paid his mess bills, even though he took his orders from The Mysterons.
During my childhood I grew up thinking I was a cross between Captain Scarlet, Joe 90 and Evil Knievel lol, let's just say it led to more than a few 'accidents' with broken bones and/or stiches, an few near death experiences as well ha ha. Pretty sure my Gardian Angel was forced into early retirement for mental health reasons by the time I was an early teenager. Loved this series at least as much as Thunderbirds and I LOVED ALL of Gerry Andersons series, still do!
I love how there's this misconception in casual circles that Captain Scarlet was a kids show, but when you look at it, every week ordinary people are getting bumped off left, right and centre. if you pitch a series like this today chances are it would likely get 12-15 rating in the UK, PG13 in the US and M (15 years and over) in Australia and New Zealand.
1:09 I've Wondered If Parker From Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds The Original Series In 1965 In Action In Gerry Anderson's Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons. X❤😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂
I remember watcing the very first episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons but I do have one big question which was never explain in the series like I know after first episode that the original Captain Scarlet have been restored in his Mysteronised likeness while still have his memories but what happen to his original body after Spectrum discover the scene in the car crash?
some great directors Des Saunders (episode ) Alan Perry, Leo Eaton, Ken turner (all went on to UFO) and Brian Burgess very accurate for the Cold War (67) editors were also great Bob Dearberg and others enhanced by Barry Gray''s atmospheric music great documentary.
Loved captain scarlet as a little boy & still do. Very dark for young kids....probably why little boys who grew up in the 60's and 70's ended up becoming football hooligans etc!🤷🏼😂😂
My fave show ever by gerry anderson tb,xl5,sr,joe90,were ok but nothing like this so dark and gripping captain black was scary was on a sunday afternoon for me
Thunderbirds was the pinnacle of supermarionation. Once Gerry tried to make the puppets more 'human' in proportion the charm was gone, indeed they became like statues and barely moved. As caricatures, the Stingray & Thunderbirds era puppets could convey all sorts of emotion, physical gestures and nuances that simply would not work with the later type of puppet. It was a big mistake, but kind of understandable given the situation he was in.
These series elevated women, there were female pilots and high ranking women in their fields for these supermarionated TV shows. Keep in mind that these TV shows were ahead of their time as far as women's rights too.
If you can access ITV, its worth watching Endeavour Series 6, Episode 2; titled "Apollo". It includes a nice homage to the supermarionation series. PS - Endeavour is about Inspector Morse at the start of his career as a baby detective developing (Endeavour is his Cristian name). I like the series, with lots of reminders of the 60s (cars, shops and so on) if you grew up in that era.
Ironically America did try to make their own version of Thunderbirds and even the presence of a top notch English villain couldn’t stop it from being complete garbage.
I think Captain Scarlet was one of the best show premises and it’s slight shame about a few of the continuity errors that stopped it from being a first rate drama and a massive shame it didn’t get a second series to tie up the loose ends. That doesn’t ruin it for me at all, and in my view it’s head and shoulders above the rest of the Anderson shows and maybe even a life action version of the same premise is the show that UFO should have been.
I think I was (and still am) too logical. It was a key feature of Captain Scarlett that he was indestructible, so there was never any threat to the title star of the show. Once that fact took root in my head, where was the jeopardy, the excitement? Thunderbirds was the best.
these shows were peak entertainment for kids in the 60s (and in my case the 90's on rerelease) and everyone loved them. im left pitying my kids because they dont have the patience anymore to actualy sit and watch shows like these..... doesnt stop me from watching it again. but i blame all these social media things, youtube shorts, tik toks, vines and whatever else. (oldest one gets it and wife feels sorry for the younger ones and lets them have it aswell and before you know it all the kids are glued to watching rubbish instead of proper shows made on actual budgets by real crews because sniperwolf or some other channel just made another reaction video)
3:394:04 Captain Scarlet And Gordon Tracy From Gerry Anderson's Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons The Original Series And Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds The Original Series Thinks Are A Bit Like James Bond And Marty McFly From Ian Fleming's Goldfinger And Steven Spielberg's Groundbreaking Masterpiece Back To The Future The Movie. My Name Is Bond. JAMES BOND. You Tell Me You Build A Time Machine Out Of A DeLorean. Thanks Century 21 Films Buddy Amigo Dude Mate. X❤😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂
When they canned Thunderbirds were they under the impression marionettes were the problem and then came this. I don't think this ever aired in Australia.
Barry Gray's music is absolutely phenomenal.
Every series was even more inventive than its predecessor.
More than half a century has passed, and I still get tingles down my spine.
I loved Captain Scarlet it was darker and scarier any other Gerry Anderson series before and so it's always been my favourite...
This was my favourite TV programme at the time.
The Angel Interceptors remain the best science fiction aircraft.
They were F16s but Fireflash was Concorde ;)
I remember being a kid in early 70’s when this came on tv here in US.
I was absolutely blown away by how cool it was compared to cartoons.
The music and art lithos, the scale models, the vehicles, explosions, the somewhat life like puppets, you name it.
It’s probably why I got into scale modeling to which I still do to this very day. 🤘🏻
Same with me after seeing all the series Gerry made I got into model making.
Captain Scarlet is my favourite Supermarionation production. During my first time watching it practically made my jaw drop, especially with how dark it can get. Watched mostly every episode with my Mum earlier this year! The special effects (and especially the explosions) have to be one of the best parts of the series for me
Nothing was black and white in that series. The Mysterons saw themselves (with good cause) as the victims of an unprovoked attack, and in some episodes they actually won. I also loved Spectrum's multinational makeup. I owned the Dinky toys of the SPV and saloon car back in the day!
As kids we loved Captain Scarlet. The dark ambiguity was really interesting.
I think the London Car Vu sequence in the first episode is incredibly well filmed and edited. Detail is everything, and as the structure begins to collapse I swear the wheels on the car drop slightly. Guns and explosions galore - what more did a 1960's kid need?
Captain Scarlett is simply my favorite Supermarionation show of ALL time.
It was adult,it was scary as fuck,
It's a bloody MASTERPIECE.
THANK YOU SENSEIS for such a gem,from your greatest fan.
I never thought that it was so scary. Nevertheless, for me, it is superior to 'Thunderbirds' too. 😯🙊🙉
All of the Gerry Anderson shows that used supermarionation were simply 1 word: E-P-I-C!!! As a 27 yo these were my childhood and it never gets old
I always wanted fireball XL5 to go on a mission with Thunderbird 3 or Stingray to go on a rescue with Thunderbird 4.
I loved everything about Thunderbirds, except for the puppets. As for Captain Scarlet, I loved everything about the show, especially the puppets.
This is the show that made me dive into all things Gerry Anderson. Watched it in the mornings on Comedy Central back in the 90s when I was going to college and became hooked!
Watched it in the 60’s in B&W when it came out. It was riveting for the time…
this show was my childhood!!!
as an adult I showed this to my boyfriend who’d never seen any of the Supermarionation shows as I thought he’d appreciate Captain Scarlet the most, and he loved it! He was really impressed with the puppetry and the special effects and considering that it was made in the 60s, it’s aged so well 😍
Captain Scarlet and associated merch was a major part of my childhood. The remake in the early 2000s was also great but itv kept showing it at daft times so it never took off like it should have.
Captain Scarlett is a classic show. Puppets, effects, vehicles, sets, voices, stories, great! Although I still haven't gotten used to the switching images during the drum beat switch.
Catain scarlet theme song is top of my playlist on spotify ,great show & great music ,from a 60 year old fan
really fine documentaries guys - thanks a lot
As a child of the '60s, Captain Scarlet was always "my" Supermarionation show. Throw in the fact that the show had evil aliens and LOTS of death and destruction, and I found it irresistible. =^[.]^=
Captain Scarlet and joe 90 are my favourites, and I never got into the thunder birds. Oh, the secret service was quite cool too!
Thanks for posting.
They all criticise Lou Grade for cancelling Thunderbirds at the start. But no cancelling no Captain Scarlet, Gerry greatest creation, in my opinion.
My wifes grandad, Gary Miller, sang the theme tune to Stingray. Also sang the end credits song, Aqua Maria😁
Every piece of Barry Gray music was different from that in the previous series.
I wish I was a spaceman, the fastest guy alive.
The Anderson series were my childhood 👍
Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant! ... I'm so glad I grew up in the 60's and 70's! ... I feel sorry for kids nowadays! ... Everything Gerry Anderson and Co. touched, turned to gold!
"This is the voice of The Mysterons!" ... "UA-cam, we know you can hear us!" ... "The puppets are little bar stewards!" 🤣
Captain Scarlet was my favourite too. I think it may have been because I was a big Bond and U.N.C.L.E fan and this was like an agency set in the future
Captain Scarlet is my fave of them all
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I loved Captain Scarlet,it was (to me)more adult in it's plot,stories,tone,the outcomes more graphic...a damn good show 💎
Great video...👍
I adored Captain Scarlet. My puppet pin-up...🥰
Captain black went on to manage arsenal of course!
No, he played centre back for Liverpool, before becoming a football pundit on the BBC.
@@jon780249 now you’re getting ridiculous! Captain black was never a sweaty sock
Me as an 8yo when Captain Scarlet premiered: THEY'VE GOT PROPER HEADS! lol
Never really thought of it as being dark, it was just ripping good adventures!
Captain Scarlet is now suing SPECTRUM for failing in its 'duty of care'.
Wonderful stuff.
Ahh but, let's be honest here, there was no 'strange twist of fate' that made Captain Scarlet indestructible ( 2:35 ) After all, the original Captain Scarlet was dead, killed outright and thus never became indestructible. (Those red boots of his corpse next to the red boots of his copy, gruesome!) What we actually had throughout the series was a retrometabolised recreation that became independent of it's Mysteron puppet masters. Did Spectrum ever find his body I wonder ?
I loved SC and still think it would make a brilliant movie but as a kid didn’t appreciate how dark and brutal it is…..love it!
Awesome 😊
What I liked about this show was how the bad guy was still Capt. Black. Presumably, he was still drawing captain's pay, still drank with all the good guys in the officers mess between episodes, paid his mess bills, even though he took his orders from The Mysterons.
I loved Capt Scarlet,😂😂, every boys super hero back then, indestructible
During my childhood I grew up thinking I was a cross between Captain Scarlet, Joe 90 and Evil Knievel lol, let's just say it led to more than a few 'accidents' with broken bones and/or stiches, an few near death experiences as well ha ha. Pretty sure my Gardian Angel was forced into early retirement for mental health reasons by the time I was an early teenager.
Loved this series at least as much as Thunderbirds and I LOVED ALL of Gerry Andersons series, still do!
Captain scarlet is the greatest show ever
As a child I always thought Captain Scarlet AND Captain Black were very good looking specially with his 5 0'Clock shadow. 😊
I love how there's this misconception in casual circles that Captain Scarlet was a kids show, but when you look at it, every week ordinary people are getting bumped off left, right and centre. if you pitch a series like this today chances are it would likely get 12-15 rating in the UK, PG13 in the US and M (15 years and over) in Australia and New Zealand.
キャプテン・スカーレットはミステロン星人との戦いを描いている作品です。不死身の身体キャプテン・スカーレットが何となく可哀想な気もしますが、どんな事があっても無事なんです。スタイリッシュなメカデザインは日本のSF作品に影響を与えました。😊
1:09 I've Wondered If Parker From Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds The Original Series In 1965 In Action In Gerry Anderson's Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons. X❤😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂
I remember watcing the very first episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons but I do have one big question which was never explain in the series like I know after first episode that the original Captain Scarlet have been restored in his Mysteronised likeness while still have his memories but what happen to his original body after Spectrum discover the scene in the car crash?
some great directors Des Saunders (episode ) Alan Perry, Leo Eaton, Ken turner (all went on to UFO) and Brian Burgess very accurate for the Cold War (67) editors were also great Bob Dearberg and others enhanced by Barry Gray''s atmospheric music great documentary.
I was devastated when I found out that the angel puppets didn't have legs 😅
I grew up with Gerry Anderson and love all his Tv series but they should have been more Thunderbirds 😢
That shot at 5:04 looks very good, is this upscaled footage?
No. An HD scan.
Loved captain scarlet as a little boy & still do. Very dark for young kids....probably why little boys who grew up in the 60's and 70's ended up becoming football hooligans etc!🤷🏼😂😂
The puppets are bigger than I thought they'd be. I always imagined they'd be more Action Man sized.
My fave show ever by gerry anderson tb,xl5,sr,joe90,were ok but nothing like this so dark and gripping captain black was scary was on a sunday afternoon for me
5:39 - 5:54 I'm crying-laughing at this (out of the story's context)
The magic of my childhood
Thunderbirds was the pinnacle of supermarionation. Once Gerry tried to make the puppets more 'human' in proportion the charm was gone, indeed they became like statues and barely moved. As caricatures, the Stingray & Thunderbirds era puppets could convey all sorts of emotion, physical gestures and nuances that simply would not work with the later type of puppet. It was a big mistake, but kind of understandable given the situation he was in.
These series elevated women, there were female pilots and high ranking women in their fields for these supermarionated TV shows. Keep in mind that these TV shows were ahead of their time as far as women's rights too.
If you can access ITV, its worth watching Endeavour Series 6, Episode 2; titled "Apollo". It includes a nice homage to the supermarionation series.
PS - Endeavour is about Inspector Morse at the start of his career as a baby detective developing (Endeavour is his Cristian name). I like the series, with lots of reminders of the 60s (cars, shops and so on) if you grew up in that era.
Ironically America did try to make their own version of Thunderbirds and even the presence of a top notch English villain couldn’t stop it from being complete garbage.
I was and always will be in team Captain, even the remake was good, despite cocking it up with caps American accent.
I think Captain Scarlet was one of the best show premises and it’s slight shame about a few of the continuity errors that stopped it from being a first rate drama and a massive shame it didn’t get a second series to tie up the loose ends. That doesn’t ruin it for me at all, and in my view it’s head and shoulders above the rest of the Anderson shows and maybe even a life action version of the same premise is the show that UFO should have been.
I think I was (and still am) too logical. It was a key feature of Captain Scarlett that he was indestructible, so there was never any threat to the title star of the show. Once that fact took root in my head, where was the jeopardy, the excitement? Thunderbirds was the best.
these shows were peak entertainment for kids in the 60s (and in my case the 90's on rerelease) and everyone loved them. im left pitying my kids because they dont have the patience anymore to actualy sit and watch shows like these..... doesnt stop me from watching it again. but i blame all these social media things, youtube shorts, tik toks, vines and whatever else. (oldest one gets it and wife feels sorry for the younger ones and lets them have it aswell and before you know it all the kids are glued to watching rubbish instead of proper shows made on actual budgets by real crews because sniperwolf or some other channel just made another reaction video)
3:39 4:04 Captain Scarlet And Gordon Tracy From Gerry Anderson's Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons The Original Series And Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds The Original Series Thinks Are A Bit Like James Bond And Marty McFly From Ian Fleming's Goldfinger And Steven Spielberg's Groundbreaking Masterpiece Back To The Future The Movie. My Name Is Bond. JAMES BOND. You Tell Me You Build A Time Machine Out Of A DeLorean. Thanks Century 21 Films Buddy Amigo Dude Mate. X❤😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂
When they canned Thunderbirds were they under the impression marionettes were the problem and then came this. I don't think this ever aired in Australia.
42nd.
Very informative content.
All made in Europe’s Hollywood…….SLOUGH!
Given the Tarantino-level bidy count I'm surprised it got past thr censor!
Captain Brown: thr first suicide bomber on tv!
Captain Black was a zombie. 😮