Captain Scarlet was a program for children

Children who enjoyed puppets being murdered

[@sneakyskunk1]

One thing I always admired about the Anderson shows is that they did not shy away from depictions of violence in any of their shows. As to Captain Scarlet, Spectrum was at war with the Mystrons. Sadly, war has casualties and the show made no attempt to sugar coat this truth. The Andersons treated their audience as intelligent enough to understand the intent of their various shows. They never talked down to the kids who might be watching, and it made(and makes) for very compelling television. Having said all that, we all have to acknowledge that one Mystron plot required that they get the various agents of Spectrum very very drunk.

[@kerryendacotte4146]

Unlike New Dr Who

[@ThomasBusby]

My step-dad watched it as a kid in the 60s, I watched it as a kid in the 90s, my son is watching it as a kid in the 2020s.

[@APAMVs]

​​@@ThomasBusby nice. I had 1 VHS tape of Thunderbirds and 1 of captain scarlet as a small boy. Early 2000s keep in mind. If I ever have kids I'll show it to them as well. Also it's rare to have a show with such good music too. And no, I don't just mean the ending credits of captain scarlet. The composing of Barry Grey.

[@GRAVERINTH]

I eat my skin

[@roberthaworth8991]

And Spectrum didn’t always win. The Mysterons racked up a couple of outright wins and a few arguable draws in addition.

[@broissey]

They used to show this on the Sci Fi channel in the late nineties when I was really young. Everyone was into stuff like Pokemon but I was into weird old obscure shit like this. Captain Scarlett fuckin rules.

[@insaiyan634]

If it was 100% accurate to the original plot this truly would an awesome series live action. The story is really for adults lets be honest. It has potential for a series.

[@SB-tp3yw]

my dad was a 60’s child and so he showed me capt scarlet, thunderbirds and all the gerry anderson greats. im 35 with kids of my own now and i’ll pass it on to them. these programmes will always hold a place close to my heart and I hope my children will love them too!

[@snorri788]

I could not have said it better I’m also a 90s kid that picked up these amazing shows from my dad and I hope that my young kids will one day enjoy them too

[@lyrimetacurl0]

Same here

[@josephshulman6666]

I'm sure thet will

[@thelightisahead]

I’m also in this club!

[@turbomario]

My aunt was the one that introduced me to Captain Scarlet - a few years ago she gave me a box of old video tapes, and one of them just so happened to be Captain Scarlet. It’s an awesome programme, i like how surprisingly dark it gets. I’ll try to pass Gerry Anderson’s incredible work down to my nieces and nephews, and see what they think.

[@larrypoulton6401]

I am 60 now. This is my childhood. I count myself lucky.

[@CarlB_1962]

Me too. From the point of view of children’s tv, the 60s were an amazing time.

[@Pintheshadows]

I am 37 and it was my childhood too! A masterpiece.

[@muffinman6048]

The most terrifying death in the show was when that sailor was chained to the outside of a submarine while it dived down.

[@alastairward2774]

They had a few where the people the Mysterons want to resurrect as agents don't die quickly.

[@laurenjeffery340]

From the 6th episode of the series titled white as snow

[@Vandervecken]

@@laurenjeffery340 So?

[@jeremydas723]

The ones I found most shocking were someone being crushed by a car lifter and a Mysteron being electrocuted.

[@pierresavoie]

I remember this scene very vividly. It scares the hell out of me. I am always afraid to die drowning.

[@rickimaru915]

Also the Mysterons actually succeed in several episodes

[@richardgregory3684]

Indeed, actually, it was usually considered a win if Spectrum forced a draw. The Mysterons were bascially unbeatable.

[@50zcarsman]

The Mysterons always had the initiative -- it was they who decided where, when, and how to attack. Also, Spectrum had the burden of defense -- they had to defend everywhere, whereas one successful Mysteron attack could mean doom for the entire Spectrum effort. @@richardgregory3684

[@JCridford]

Captain Scarlet is my favourite Anderson series. They fully embraced cold war fears and wrote a series that reflected the xenophobia of the time. To great effect, too: The kit was awesome; the Angels were badass; the cast was diverse; and the set pieces were incredible. There was a real sense of doom throughout. I agree that some scenes look a little stilted - they never did figure out the walking issue - and that they'd have benefited from the 50 minute runtime of Thunderbirds, but I love this series. I wish they could have resolved it properly. As a kid, I wrote my own ending where they went to Mars and removed the pulsator from the home complex; destroying it made Scarlet mortal again, and he stayed behind to let Captain Blue, Lieutenant Green and Symphony escape. Captains Grey and Ocre, and the rest of the Angels, hunt for Captain Black, who is freed from Mysteron control. The end!

[@ThomasBusby]

Great ending

[@richardgregory3684]

The most graphically violent one is the Mysteron agent getting electrocuted in _Noose of Ice_ , the point was to highlight the fact that Scarlet himself was at risk of permanent death (as a Mysteron replica he too was vulnerable to electricity), but it's pretty gruesome.

[@johnallen8680]

That scene was an absolute gem !

[@mistergeneration]

I thought the mysteron agent getting electrocuted in Operation Time gives that scene a run for its money... first time I’ve ever seen a scene fade to red

[@lyrimetacurl0]

When he was replicated the other replica died in the same episode too (was it Captain Brown? Think he was a bomb though). So I felt like it was kind of implied, despite the main plot element being about how he's "indestructible"

[@kylethedalek]

Does it really matter? We all knew it was fake, the news plays worse things. What about Indiana Jones? There is quite a few kids rated shows and movies out there that push it.

[@richardgregory3684]

@@kylethedalek Who said it mattered? But Captain Scarlet IS surprisingly gruesome and dark, considering that it was explicitly a children's show and the likely audience was the same one as for Thunderbirds. In fact the whole show is very downbeat and bleak, the plot is a war of nerves being imposed by a greatly superior enemy - it was always obvious that Spectrum could not really win, espescially if the Mysterions switched to an overt attack; they were far too powerful. It has some very dark moments, including (for example) a car mechanic being graphically crushed to death in one episode.

[@jakeburns4805]

My favourite program as a kid, and I still love it.

[@richardgregory3684]

You know what always gave me the creeps th emost? The bit in the closing titles where we see Captain Scarlet getting sucked down into quicksand. Think about it - he could not actually die permanently, but he could suffer pain. And in this case, he'd drown, come back to life, and then drown again...over and over again....

[@cheritripp9470]

It been a long time since I seen the series, but I don't think he went through half of the violent deaths in the actual series that he does in the closing credits.

[@trevormillar1576]

The scenes in the end titles never occurred in the programme but they did appear in a series of bubble gum cards.

[@roberthaworth8991]

The resurrections (“retrometabolism”) don’t work that way. After his death in quicksand he’d have been resurrected nearby, out of immediate danger.

[@richardgregory3684]

@@roberthaworth8991 No, that is incporrect. There are several instances in the episodes where Scarlet "dies" or is injured very badly, and it is directly stated that he undergoes a recovery process from his injuries. In the very first episode after the Mysteron Scarlet falls from London Car View, the shock returns his human personality and Doctor Fawn states that Scarlet can be injured and feels pain, he recovers from it: a sort of accelerated healing. You are thinking of the process by which the Mysterons kill a person/destroy and object in order to create a duplicate.

[@raypurchase801]

More than 50 years later, the theme tune still sends shivers down my spine. Same with Stingray's opening titles. "Anything can happen in the next half hour..."

[@56postoffice]

The darkest of all of Gerry Anderson's puppet TV shows. Brilliant stuff.👍😎

[@alisilcox6036]

Second episode the mysterons destroy an airliner by crashing it into the sea. We see the pilots panic as the engines shut down, then theres this really long shot where after everything else dies they just sort of... look at each other, knowing they are about to die. Good lord

[@mohamad-ms2pb]

Yeah that scene got to me. The captain saying "..it can't have". They knew the complete shut down of all systems including the radio was impossible.

[@Armorhunterash]

more violent than Jonny quest, Batman the animated series, Dragon ball Z and Samurai Jack combined

[@squishynoodley]

Dragon ball is more violent because it made more episodes with violence , Captain scarlet only made a total of 35 episodes.

[@whysa4]

As a child of the 60's Captain Scarlet was must viewing, not quite as good as Thunderbirds but otherwise one of the best kids TV shows of that time

[@gabrielcooper1248]

I always thought captain scarlet was better and I still do

[@minicle426]

Stingray is still my favourite Anderson show.

[@philgee6728]

I always liked Scarlet and Stingray more. I even liked Secret Service more. I liked Thudnerbirds more than Joe 90 though

[@Gyarados360]

As a child of the 90s (with an upbringing of world class kids programmes) Thunderbirds had the edge because of how the episodes were structured. They were longer, had a bigger build up, so although I prefer Captain Scarlet, the length and depth of the episodes I think Thunderbirds just pip it.

[@rtc9063]

@@philgee6728 If they didn’t let Stanley Unwin do that utter gibberish, The Secret Service may have worked

[@minicle426]

And people think Batman TAS/Gargoyles was as dark as Kids tv could get.

[@HaosGriffon]

Maybe not for American kids... British kids, OTOH, are hardcore. Have you SEEN those PSAs they made them watch over there?? 😨

[@MrAndyPee]

HaosGriffon im from uk and this was my childhood lol

[@robonaught]

We call them PIFs or Public Information Films BTW. I had to watch that god awful electricity one in school with the kid going into a substation to get a frisbee seeing him getting fried and the girl screaming. It was horrible.....

[@mistergeneration]

@@robonaught 😂😂😂 The one that got me was the mat on the polished floor... being apparently equivalent to a mantrap being placed at the bottom of the stairs... a flipping’ MANTRAP?? 😂😂😂

[@smallredcow918]

@@robonaught I saw that one on my birthday

[@jamesmiller113]

"AIDS! Don't die of ignorance!"

[@Comfortzone99]

As kids, we were only waiting for the explosions we didn't appreciate what a great show it was.

[@perrin6]

Now I know why I have chronic anxiety as an adult.

[@MrAndyPee]

perrin6 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

[@mistergeneration]

It’s good to have a healthy distrust for civilisation ... if you didn’t learn that from Thunderbirds, you were definitely gonna learn it for captain scarlet 💀💀

[@colonisedtartan9539]

Perrin6 ... you are anxiety as a adult and as a child you breathe anxiety just glad your baron and have no children to talk the rubbish you do.. spectrum is green.. and Scotland is a colony. L

[@josephshulman6666]

My beloved Late Mom always said how much I enjoyed this show when I was little !!!!

[@wingmasterjimmy6724]

Brilliant!I loved watching it as a kid in the 70s,never did me any harm and why should it!!

[@JavertRA]

I used to find the car lift crushing one pretty nasty, it's not as graphic as some of the below, but it was to an ordinary innocent guy. Mysteronised Captain Black was certainly a mean little puppet.

[@roberthaworth8991]

IIRC the garage man’s death wasn’t even necessary to the Mysterons’ plot of the week; Captain Black killed him just for kicks.

[@grahamspragg7494]

It was done so that Captain Black could steal the SPV. When Captains Scarlet and Blue arrived to collect the SPV, the garage technician didn’t follow the procedure, Scarlet caught on, and then when they tried to get the SPV they found it had gone.

[@seattlebeard]

We weren't so coddled as children. And thanks to the internet, kids can now watch actual violence, not to mention enjoy violent video games. And that's so much better, right?

[@kktallman6257]

Am I the only one who giggled when the army guy spontaneously exploded for no obvious reason.

[@nicolaslopez2662]

Capt. Scarlet Is one of the best shows. Poor millennials, raised with Lazy Town...

[@linkieloos]

Captain Scarlet: The worst case of PTSD ever. The credits theme lyrics crack me up the most.

[@guyparham575]

I did not mind it was ok the oney I did not was the beginning the alleyway

[@pcarrierorange]

They say PTSD makes you relive traumatic experiences. For one man fate has made that literal.

[@christopherjudge1138]

Captain Scarlet started airing in First-Run Syndication, here in the U.S. in the fall of '68, months after the series wrapped up on British Television!

[@jackmonaghan8477]

Anderson truly had balls.

[@kerrygligorovic9758]

I wished they have used the second theme of Captain Scarlet for the opening intro instead of the original opening because it sound creepy and scary.

[@cheritripp9470]

I have to laughed at that 'violence on Kids TV is harmful for children' nonsense. I was 8/9 when I originally watched Captain Scarlett. Does one remembered that for an Mysterion to take on an human identity, the original human must be killed? I have a clear memory of a dead body floating in the water as the flashlight circle representing the alien went over the body about to take his identity. Watching the series (and other Anderson series) during my childhood left me completely unscathed. 😄

[@synaesthesia2010]

i was about the same age when they started to show them on BBC2 in the 90s, they didn't affect me in any way. now i must go and strap someone to the hull of a submarine and watch as it dives...

[@jtlampsu2]

Yes I was about the same age, they also banned Tom & Jerry (original episodes), because they were too violent?! FFS no-one then went round stabbing each other, or the likes. What a society we live in now! Now we can't say oh look at her/him, in case they get offended!

[@tearthemhindpartsup]

@@jtlampsu2 Wow... I thought I was the only one who remembered when they pull the old Tom & Jerry toons back in the mid '70s and replaced them with some new, made-for-tv, super non violent replicants who got along famously. These include Tom, Jerry and Spike the bulldog.

[@DarthPeppy]

I saw this first in Tasmania in the mining town of Rossarden (a severe backwater place if any) when I was probably around 3 or 4 years old. -Don't believe people when they say you can't remember stuff from your very early years. I was obsessed with it as a "cherub", and even put on a mostly carbonized black t-shirt I retrieved from a burnt-out fire to pretend I was captain Black. (my parents would have institutionalized me if they had found out). -But happily I turned out to be the happy-go-lucky-MUST KILL EARTHMEN! YOU KNOW WHAT YOU MUST DO!

[@willrobinson4089]

Loved all the Gerry Anderson shows, but this one and UFO were the best. Probably because they were dark.

[@davidthomas3826]

Captain Scarlet was the bad boy of puppet shows

[@ewaf88]

Captain Scarlet was far in advance of Thunderbirds both technically and story wise. I used to love it

[@RobertKincaid-vq3hn]

For a childrens programme it was very dark invasion of the body snatchers i was of that age and watched it

[@robinceuleers]

This looks like vintage Sci-Fi animatronic Disneyland ride though!!! 🏰🎠

[@GeorgeyTheApe]

I can't see this passing on kids TV today. In fact I'm amazed they made a remake of it only 20 or so years ago.

[@TheFlatCapFromWN5]

And the animated remake was tame in comparison to the original.

[@GeorgeyTheApe]

@@TheFlatCapFromWN5 True. Yet it was still more dark than a lot of stuff kids are given now

[@thomsboys77]

I’m 22 and remember this show being repeated on TV when I was around 4 or 5. Can’t remember what channel, but I remember being creeped out, and also my mum singing along to the theme song

[@modeljetjuggernaut4864]

the coolest death scene is when Scarlet threw the broken power lines at the Mysteron and electrocuted him against the metal stairway..

[@JohnHoganN8]

We could handle it back then, some kids today would be in therapy. Loved these growing up……at least the ones with parentsl controls on their Internet. 😂

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

Captain Scarlet: the Wile E. Coyote of puppets!

[@marksinthehouse1968]

We had programmes like this and grew up less violent than the youth now stabbing and shooting each other sad thing is they are our children’s children 😢,so sad

[@ketamu5946]

...and i loved it!

[@miyagiFTNS]

I had the video of this and basically in the end the Mysterons wiped Spectrum out, then to prove how powerful they were reversed time so it never happened.

[@ckelly5141]

Fun fact: What was Gerry Anderson’s favourite Supermarionation series among his creations! Ans. The Secret Service(1969).

[@davenlogi]

i love captin scarlet

[@lazchurchyard1229]

Imagine being Scarlet's therapist. It's established early on that CS can feel all the pain of every death he goes through. The PTSD!

[@richardgregory3684]

Yes, it's stated by Doctor Fawn that Scarlet is essentially indestructable only in the sense that he recovers - but that he can most definitely be hurt and feels pain. They had to do that, otherwise the character would be totally fearless. As it is, Scarlet might know he can;t actually die, but he would still hesitate about (say) walking through a fire.

[@henshinplex]

Has meeting, boss spontaneously combust....how it feels to chew five gum

[@parazatico9030]

Illustrations by the late, great. Ron Embleton.

[@reynard61]

Then again so were Speed Racer, Ultraman, Jonny Quest, Kimba the White Lion, Space Ghost, Aquaman, and a lot of other Saturday morning and weekday afternoon fare. Not all '60s kids grew up to be violent psychopaths specifically because of children's TV shows.

[@CarlB_1962]

You can imagine the tv censors of today having apoplexy watching Gerry Anderson’s shows. They need to toughen up!

[@Bondek1996]

0:47 that is a top 3 monent far as the violence goes. Not just one shot but three. Thunderbirds' Man from MI5 ditto

[@colinmoore7460]

If you think this is bad, for gods sake DON'T WATCH JOE-90!

[@richardgregory3684]

Hell yes, they have this nine year old kid doing the most horrendous stuff. He gained the expertise and so on from the brain patterns, but it was still Joe the nine year old underneath it all. You get the idea when the present him with his special attache case, with a handy child-sized pistol and silencer! And dad goes along with it! Losy count of th enumbe rof people he killed in various ways, I seem to recall he even assassinated someone.

[@cheritripp9470]

One of the few 60s Anderson series I 'didn't' see. Probably because it was syndicated and I was watching action/superheroes HB series on prime time channels at the time.

[@trevormillar1576]

The series was a total rip-off of "Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD": It featured a heli-carrier, a hero with the ability to "return from the dead " ("Awwwww, you just killed my LMD!") and an agency with its own airforce.

[@shauneden4229]

Can't argue with that but they did it with panache.

[@ACtheLegend]

SHIELD wasn't released until CS had entered production, it was simply a case of coincidental parallel development.

[@paulhayes5724]

Children's programmes are always better with death in them. It's one of the (many) reasons why Doctor Who has always been so successful, I think.

[@itsconnorstime]

I never really got this show as a kid, but in retrospect it’s definitely Anderson’s best.

[@grahamspragg7494]

The mysterons have the power of retrometabolism and foresight to the viewer’s hindsight, otherwise known as retrospect. Can never go wrong with retro and definitely not with Gerry Anderson.

[@buffplums]

The publishers comment “children watching puppets being murdered”… well unless you were around at the time … that wouldn’t even cross your mind… we watched it because it was scarier than Thunderbirds but we saw that the goodies overcame the baddies… it was as simple as that. Hasn’t affected me or many of my generation

[@glenchapman3899]

And sometimes, the goodies did not always win

[@mistergeneration]

It was family entertainment made for prime time originally... but this woulda been quite a departure from Thunderbirds 👀👀💀💀💀

[@Tob1Kadach1]

I used to watch reruns of this at 8pm on ITV in the 90s

[@synaesthesia2010]

you mean BBC2, and it was on at 6pm

[@motog6436]

That's where I saw them too, never saw the whole series in order

[@speakfreeley4473]

The newer 2004 version is even darker & scarier than this.

[@marga8732]

I agree, especially since they were able to do certain things that puppets just couldn’t achieve!

[@roberthaworth8991]

It’s excellent. Check out the episode, “Fallen Angels”.

[@thesmithersy]

This is what kids nowadays are missing out on.

[@johcafra]

Spooky premise in today's context, isn't it?

[@mistergeneration]

It got real after 9/11... planes flying into buildings, suicide bombers, radical terrorists... yeah, we’d seen it all before ... in Captain Scarlet .. 👀👀👀

[@smallredcow918]

@@mistergeneration I remember when it was 9/11 they were meant to be showing captain scarlet on BBC 2 but yeah it would've been a bit insensitive considering the subject matter so it didn't air that week

[@mistergeneration]

@@smallredcow918 because on the Tuesday before, they had just screen The Mysterons .. and the one to air on tues 11th September was, surprise surprise, called Winged Assassin, in which the Mysterons crash and reconstruct a passenger jet … Then they didn’t air the next one, Big Ben Strikes Again, where London is threatened with being destroyed by an atomic device .. I remember it well… this is also documented on Wikipedia… 👀👀

[@smallredcow918]

@@mistergeneration talk about bad timing

[@mistergeneration]

@@smallredcow918 suspicious timing 👀👀👀😂😂

[@millsyinnz]

I loved this show. Another one was Jonny Quest. That had people getting killed as well.

[@akend4426]

Other notable moments not included in this video: Captain Black running down a gas station employee with a car. The Mysterons crashing an airliner, which is then used in the successful assassination of an important government official. A security guard getting strangled by some lab testing arms. Captain Brown being used as a suicide bomb in an attempt to kill the president. Personnel of an early warning defense system in the arctic circle being killed by 100% liquid oxygen. And Captain Black crushing an innocent auto shop worker with a hydraulic lift, while turning up a nearby radio to drown out his screams!

[@jacksugden8190]

I was around 11 at the time in 1967, but was I a child?. I loved the series, and intend to but the tv series on iTunes.

[@user-uj9zi6fn1v]

I remember that thank you because VA

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

Yep, just like Jonny Quest was later shown on Saturday mornings, from its original Friday night primetime slot.

[@50zcarsman]

How about the mechanic whom (Mysteronized) Capt. Black crushes between a car and the roof of the garage when he deliberately raises the hydraulic car lift too high?

[@litten2133]

I see no problem here

[@aster_nova]

You missed out the video of the guy being crushed by a car

[@mistergeneration]

Or being run over by a car.. 👀👀

[@itsconnorstime]

Me and my brother laughed our asses off at that one as kids, why was it designed to go that far?

[@roberthaworth8991]

The Mysterons control the Earth technology with which their agents interact.

[@pussypostlethwaitsaeronaut8503]

Programme, not program.

[@mistergeneration]

I think it’s program in America? Can’t remember

[@mistergeneration]

@darvinion I feel the same about BLM 😂😂😂 but don’t get me started

[@mistergeneration]

@S.V. Saul Vazquez Jr. no,... I know that lol,. i mean I think in America they spell the word Program and in UK it's Programme.. I'm a Captain Scarlet fanatic,. and a former member of Fanderson 🙂

[@JONNOG88]

Gerry Anderson was a *based gigachad* 😊

[@ThatOneToucan]

What was Steve Irwin's favourite Gerry Anderson program?

[@redengine4433]

yeah kinds wild

[@Terminique]

and..? :D brilliant, hillarious , All the best

[@richardbarton2709]

Sure was what is your problem.

[@drifter402]

Very sick of this 'Oh my god kids media has death in it' meme. Yes they all do and have basically up until a few years ago.

[@lawrencedavis5459]

We watched it as kids...grew up ok..your point?

[@robonaught]

Because this show has loads of violence and deaths which is pretty dark stuff to show kids and this is the kind of stuff kid shows nowadays wouldn't be able to get away with like they used to.

[@mistergeneration]

@darvinion scarlet was extremely violent for a kids show ... extremely entertaining.. but violent none the less ..

[@mistergeneration]

@darvinion yeah, if you were comparing it to non kids shows 🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️ but I’d say it beat out Andy Pandy in violence by a long country mile 👀👀

[@mistergeneration]

@darvinion I hear your point.. I know the basic history of Gerry Anderson shows.. Captain Scarlet was slotted for a family audience apparently, ie a show for prime time that both parents and kids could watch together. But it had never been done before that a puppet show should have such a adult theme to be giving live action shows a run for their money. It was quite a departure from Thunderbirds and Stingray which had themselves dabbled in those themes infrequently and not as a regular plot point.... Captain Scarlet got pulled from some TV schedules because of its violence... when I first watched it on ITV in the late 80’s when I was 13, they ran the episodes up to The Trap and the moved the show to an through the night slot on a programme called Night Network.. which I had to sneak downstairs to watch it... A better example that even that is when it was being screened on BBC 2 in 2001, they pulled two episodes from transmission to not clash with 9/11 twin towers terror attack, because of the ‘similarity’ of the content ... which is understandable coz the show is essentially the How to... for terrorism

[@mistergeneration]

@darvinion that being said, the lens of childhood trauma is more of a thing to retrospect on in 2021 than say, a decade ago... up until this generation, if you watched something scary, you just soldiered the impression it had on you as part of growing up... I still don’t know how Captain Scarlet is classified as Universal on DVD tho... that never made sense to me 😂😂

[@synaesthesia2010]

Britbox puts a warning on the show now about guns being used. kids aren't allowed to be kids anymore these days

[@thomsboys77]

Because of recent cases of gun violence, like in American schools, and also back when the Doctor Who movie with Paul McGann aired the BBC cut most of the gun fighting because of the then-recent Dunblane school shooting

[@Signerdragon123]

And yet, the DVD releases recently I believe are still a U rating.

[@RichArd-vc5jp]

Children werent snowflakes then

[@guileniam]

Probably coz it looked so dumb so kids knew it was fake

[@colonisedtartan9539]

Could all mysterouns die and get off here because spectrum is green. KAH

[@contessa.adella]

This is why boomers aren’t snowflakes….even the kids shows indoctrinated a tough outlook.👍

[@darkprotector9562]

Love all the snow flake armchair psychologists here, dismantling an old fashioned sci-fi show with their politically correct s**t. I suppose you think that Tom & Jerry, Bugs Bunny or Pop Eye would turn kids into irredeemable serial killers, yet you'd have no problem letting your kids sit in front of Alien, Twilight or Game of Thrones...

[@thomsboys77]

What children do you know are watching 18+ rated shows and films like Game of Thrones? 🤣 piss off!

[@outerrealm]

"Compared to Thunderbirds, Stingray, and earlier Anderson productions, Captain Scarlet is generally considered "darker" in tone and less suited to child audiences due to its violent content and themes of alien aggression and interplanetary war."

[@bassstuffidk19]

yeha and it was fucking awesome

[@outerrealm]

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