Treble Cross
| "Treble Cross" | |
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| Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons episode | |
| Episode no. | Episode 21 |
| Directed by | Alan Perry |
| Written by | Tony Barwick |
| Cinematography by | Ted Catford |
| Editing by | John Beaton |
| Production code | 29 |
| Original air date | 23 February 1968 |
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Voices of: |
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Voices of:
Jeremy Wilkin as
Major Buchanan 'Buck' Gravener
David Healy as
Dr Edward Mitchell
Martin King as
Dr Paul Baxter
Liz Morgan as
Slaton Hospital Nurse
Gary Files as
Slaton Air Base Sergeant
"Treble Cross" is the 21st episode of the British Supermarionation television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. Written by Tony Barwick and directed by Alan Perry, it was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on 23 February 1968 on ATV Midlands.
In this episode, Captain Black engineers the death of a test pilot as part of a plot to obliterate the world capital, Futura City, only for his victim to be revived in hospital.
World Air Force test pilot Major Buchanan Gravener is en route to Slaton Airbase when Captain Black, at the wheel of a truck, extends a beam with false headlamps in front of the oncoming vehicle to dazzle Gravener's driver, Harris. Fearing a collision, Harris is forced to swerve into a lake and it is apparent that both men drown. Doctors Edward Mitchell and Paul Baxter pass the accident scene in their vehicle and discover the clinically dead Gravener in the water, transporting him to Slaton Hospital and eventually reviving him with the assistance of a stasis and recovery unit. Meanwhile, a Mysteron reconstruction of Gravener commandeers an XK-107 bomber, armed with a nuclear warhead, out of Slaton Airbase. When it is reported that this version of the Major is an impostor of the man at Slaton Hospital, the runway is blocked and the reconstruction killed when the XK-107 crashes and explodes. On Cloudbase, a connection is made between the attempted lift-off of the XK-107 and the latest Mysteron threat to destroy Earth's capital, Futura City.
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