I recently read this online summary of the episode Shadow of Fear from the 1960's Captain Scarlet TV series. I was intrigued by the reference to Project SWORD in paragraph 2. Whar are your views on this readers? is it project SWORD?
Shadow Of Fear: Captains Scarlet and Blue travel to the Himalayas to oversee Spectrum's new project to monitor signals from a space satellite that has been launched into the orbit surrounding Mars, and to take high resolution detailed pictures of the planet, which will be relayed to the large mountain satellite station that the probe was launched from.
A second satellite, with the first acting as a decoy, successfully lands on Mars, and so Spectrum seems to have successfully completed "Project Sword", but the whole carefully planned 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.
This is to sabotage the observatory and to interrupt the satellite's 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.
The Controller of Lunarville 7 on the Moon, announces that he has made direct contact with the Mysterons, and agreed to a undisturbed, and peaceful settlement, and to finally end the war of nerves as far as the Moon is cocerned.
However this is a trick by the Mysterons, as the Controller and his personal aide are reconstructed agents, and have Captain Scarlet, Captain Blue and Lieutenant Green trapped in the compound when they are sent to investigate how the Controller managed to make a deal with the Mysterons.
When suspecting that the Controller and his right hand man could be Mysteron agents, the Spectrum team leave Lunarville 7, and travel to the Humboldt Sea on the far side of the Moon, where an enormous and potentially powerful Mysteron complex is being developed and built in Crater 101.
Their trip confirms its existence. The Lunarville 7 episode concludes with Captain Scarlet, Captain Blue and Lieutenant Green leaving the remains of the Lunarville 7 compound.
On their return to Cloudbase, all three men volunteer to carry out a full-scale expedition to the Mysteron complex with the aim of infiltrating it, removing its power source and then destroying it. Without its power source the complex will become harmless and the Mysterons will not be able to to reconstruct it after it's destruction.
However, the bomb which the team are transporting to destroy the entire complex is set for 10:00 S.E.T. instead of the agreed midnight deadline, by a Mysteron agent, disguising himself as a technician officer of Lunarville 4,where the three Spectrum officers commenced their mission.
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