I have often heard mention of 'Operation Sword' in relation to the Captain Scarlet 1968 episode SHADOW OF FEAR. Even more intriguingly an online video database actually refers to it is as 'Project Sword' in its synopsis of the episode:
Captains Scarlet and Blue travel to the Himalayas to supervise and administrate Spectrum's new phase to monitor signals from a space satellite that has been launched into the orbit surrounding Mars, and to snap-shot high resolution detailed pictures of the planet, which will be relayed and received by the large mountain satellite station that the probe was launched from. The second satellite, with the first acting as a decoy, successfully lands on Mars, and sets to have Spectrum successfully completing the code-named ""Project Sword"" operation, but the whole carefully-planned out arrangement is placed under threat when one of the participating technicians ostensibly falls dead and is brought back to life by the Mysterons, with one instruction: to sabotage the observatory and to interrupt the satellites' transmission, before Earth comes to learn every single detail about the force, and prevent them from continuing the war of nerves and retaliation against the planet.
Which is correct? Operation or Project? Can anyone point to footage of this actually being spoken online? I have searched You Tube but no joy. There is also mention of the episode being merged into the 1981 film 'Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars'. Is Operation/Project Sword mentioned here too? Does anyone actually think there might be a connection to the Project SWORD we know and love?
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