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532:, partly because of the violent demises of the original Storm and Brooks: while driving their car through a tunnel, they collide with a methane tanker travelling in the opposite direction. He regards this particular aspect of the Mysterons' plan as confusing, noting that the tanker's only purpose in the story is to bring about these two deaths: "... it appears that reconstructed the tanker driver, whom they use to kill the two officers in a crash, both of whom are then re-created to do the assassinating. Just a
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Colonel Storm and Major Brooks. However, as the first cut was too short, the episode was extended by adding a new opening scene which introduces the Unitron. This scene's effects shots were a re‑use of footage
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Commander. Elsewhere, two Earth Forces officers, Colonel Storm and Major Brooks, are killed in a car crash and reconstructed by the Mysterons to carry out the threat. At the Supreme Headquarters Earth Forces (SHEF) building in New York, the Commander, joined by Scarlet, Blue and the
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was recorded on 30 April 1967 in a four-hour studio session attended by 14 instrumentalists. It includes a piece titled "The SHEF March", which accompanies the scenes of the
Supreme Commander arriving at SHEF Headquarters. The march can also be heard several later Supermarionation productions,
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Unitron as "what Century 21 is, in a nutshell – fast editing, great music, big explosions and unrelenting action." He sums up "Point 783" as "a snapshot of what
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with the power to create functioning copies of destroyed people or objects and use them to carry out acts of aggression against humanity. Earth is defended by a military organisation called
Spectrum, whose top agent,
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long-winded." He also states that the explosion of the reconstructed Brooks reinforces the "very alien" nature of the
Mysterons, likening this self-destruct ability to the tactics used by World War II
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Unitron. Brooks is turned into a living bomb and explodes; however, the attempt on the Commander's life is foiled by Scarlet, who has a "
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609:"Complete Studio-Recording List of Barry Gray"
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241:and filmed by their production company
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607:de Klerk, Theo (25 December 2003).
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264:Set in 2068, the series depicts a "
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138:as Major Brooks & General Cope
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1324:Television episodes about weapons
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911:Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
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679:Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
638:Marsh, Peter (17 November 2003).
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226:Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
35:Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
1319:Television episodes about robots
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307:In a transmission to Earth, the
842:. Cambridge, UK: Signum Books.
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644:Original Soundtrack Review"
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153:as the Supreme Commander
342:After requisitioning a
243:Century 21 Productions
125:Guest character voices
1108:The Heart of New York
1066:Spectrum Strikes Back
1017:Big Ben Strikes Again
519:The Ultimate Computer
1150:Dangerous Rendezvous
478:James Stansfield of
272:: a hostile race of
1309:Fiction about tanks
1257:New Captain Scarlet
1213:Attack on Cloudbase
1136:Flight to Atlantica
972:Spectrum Patrol Car
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508:The Secret Service
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359:Regular voice cast
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480:Den of Geek
450:Robert Lynn
383:Donald Gray
326:sixth sense
255:Robert Lynn
142:Martin King
133:David Healy
58:Robert Lynn
54:Directed by
1293:Categories
1178:Flight 104
1143:Crater 101
919:Characters
743:Andersonic
697:24 October
649:BBC Online
558:References
525:Enterprise
499:automation
495:Andersonic
432:Production
409:Liz Morgan
333:blockhouse
117:1967-12-22
94:Editing by
64:Written by
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1122:Model Spy
1073:Avalanche
1031:Point 783
967:Cloudbase
951:Mysterons
813:0955-114X
800:Starburst
681:Episodes"
551:Starburst
517:episode "
514:Star Trek
474:Reception
440:director
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374:Ed Bishop
309:Mysterons
270:Mysterons
221:Point 783
49:Episode 5
26:Point 783
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994:Episodes
960:Vehicles
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691:Archived
677:"Top 10
660:20 March
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617:Archived
538:Kamikaze
400:Cy Grant
393:and the
274:Martians
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