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I am sure that if you got as far as Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, then you are already a Gerry Anderson fan. How would I rate Captain Scarlet against the other greats, and not so greats? Well, I think Gerry career is a typical bell curve. His first two projects The adventures of Twizzle and Supercar are very basic and are of little interest to me. Fireball XL5 starts to get good. Stingray is where he is great. Thunderbirds was the top of his career. Captain Scarlet is as good as Stingray. Joe90 and Secret Service are also very good and worth owning. From then on (in my opinion), things went from very good to bad very quickly. I am not sure if it was Gerry lending his name to other projects. But the whole Terrahawks thing just did not work for me at all. His UFO and Space 1999 projects were not very good. Good if you like that sort of thing, which I do not. But a far cry from the masterful days from Fireball XL5 thru Secret Service. Captain Scarlet is very dark. Quite scary for little ones. But awsome too. I love it. Especially the futuristic aircraft and thoes Angel fighter pilots.Read full review
A fascinating British sci Fi series from late 60s. Similar to the Japanese toho studios sets and design. The series takes place in the distance future where the earth and an alien race called the mysterons play a war of nerves. The reason for this is because of spectrums(earth base) personal on Mars mistakes mysterons good intentions for a threat. The mysterons revenge is causing certain humans related to spectrum to crash their vehicles and the mysterons to assume human form and create havoc. An excellent aeries all around!!!!!!
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I remember loving this show from childhood. Many times shows we remember from childhood cannot stand the test of time---we inevitably grow up and see through adult eyes instead of those of a child. We also tend to view them with a comparison to modern cinematic special effects. With that said, I think the "Super Marionation" of this and Gerry Anderson's other shows stands the test of time well. I most definitely will watch these again and again (whenever I feel a need to go back to the simple happy times of my childhood!)
My days were memorable great times of having to watch Captain Scarlett. Sitting on the floor in front of the TV with mom handing out the snacks fruits! Life couldn't be better!
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Great set of DVD’s takes me bad to my childhood. Had been slowly the entire series like Thunderbirds Are Go. Mark L.
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