CAPTAIN SCARLET 'White as Snow' - Barry Gray
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- Indestructible - Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as simply 'Captain Scarlet', is a science fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions Television company of Gerry Anderson, John Read, Reg Hill and Sylvia Anderson. It was first shown in the United Kingdom (originally on ATV Midlands, but later the whole of the UK) between September 1967 and May 1968. It used puppetry (Supermarionation) and scale model special effects.
The series is one of several of popular science-fiction TV adventure series the Andersons produced in the 1960s, beginning with Supercar and followed by Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Joe 90, and the little-seen The Secret Service. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons was the first series made after the international success of Thunderbirds in 1964-66.
Spectrum personnel have military ranks and colour based code names (hence Captain Scarlet), and they are headed by Colonel White. Other characters include Captains Blue, Ochre, Grey, and Magenta, Lieutenant Green and the five female fighter pilots, who have a different collective codename - the Angels - and are individually Destiny, Symphony, Melody, Rhapsody, and Harmony.
Trivia: According to Gerry Anderson's DVD audio commentary for the episode "Attack on Cloudbase," he conceived the idea of the Mysteron rings after seeing a television advert in which a logo traced the figure of a woman. Reg Hill suggested that the rings could be made into a transparency and then panned across the puppet sets using a slide projector.
"Captain Scarlet is indestructible. You are NOT. Remember this. DO NOT TRY TO IMITATE HIM!"
I love this tune. It's on one of the menus on the DVDs and sometimes I just leave it on there for a while to listen to this.
RIP Barry Gray, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. Thanks for all of the great shows and music you gave us
HE WILL BE FOREVER MISSED BY ME-RIP MR.GERRY ANDERSON-THIS IS WHY I AM A GREAT BIG FAN OF BRITISH TELEVISION AND I AM A AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALE WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH BRITISH TELEVISION BECAUSE OF HIS WORK AND THE AVENGERS(PATRICK MACNEE).
fred galloway god bless sir!
The work of Gerry Anderson and Barry Gray never gets old...
got this track on in my van,gets me places quicker when im at work..Spectrum is defo green..
all tv has to be about freindship and stuffs like that. Back in the 60's they werent afraid to show a bit of PROPER violence.Run over by cars, struck down by lightning, MANY crashing planes and the odd car crash. In short, LONG LIVE CAPTAIN SCARLET!!
He may be a sacrificial puppet, but he's a good role model, made of wood and fibreglass.
I love Barry Gray's compositions... Brings me back to my childhood...
When the Spectrum Theme kicks in is one of ther hardest switches i've ever heard. The song baits you with a base drop before hand, so it comes back around as this fucking excellent surprise.
This is a very nice job. I got the Scarlet soundtrack CD this past summer and was very happy that this track is on it.
On a personal note, heres a display of just how geeky and into Gerry Anderson I am: My wife and I had as our first dance at our wedding reception, the XL-5 closing song. Hey, it fit the theme...
brilliant track of Barry's and a great video, its actually Barry playing the Hammond organ on this
If I could only listen to one composer for the rest of my life, it'd be Barry. Either that or Monty Python.
Class takes me right back to a superb time as a kid with all this Supermarionation on TV..
Thanks Karl.
This video, and this song, are just awesome.
Brilliant. I love this version from "White as Snow" which I first downloaded along with the more commercial version of this track from the old EarthStationOne website. Many thanks indeed for posting.
Thanks for posting this - been looking for it for ages. Loved the music in this episode - Cloudbase crew lounging around listening to this on the radio and it getting louder and louder :-)
rip gerry and thanks for making my childhood magic
I was a boy way back when this was first transmitted.
The way the music just kept getting louder, until the Spectrum boys and Angels were all holding their ears and beginning to panic was actually terrifying.
Highly unexpected, but familiar, as there questions in parliament at the time about pirate radio stations on ships outside the control of the dead hand of government.
I recall one of the Angels managed to intercept a satellite from within the atmosphere.
Give that girl a promotion and a medal, at the very least.
Legendary TV show all Time!
Outstanding!
I watched this one last night. It reminded me of the Thunderbirds episode with Rick O'shea. Colonel white didn't mind the radio as much as jeff tracy...
Anderson shows tended to adapt old scripts; UFO's 'Reflections in the Water' works as a Stingray episode, down to some of the music.
I love this tune, and the visuals are great. Wonderful episode! Thanks for posting this. SIG!
The painful look on Scarlets face at 1:33 is just great lol
😂😂😂😂
my favourite episode!
FBXL5 electronic incidental music - Gray intergrated his Ondes Martenot other electronic instruments, tape machines, various multi-track recorders, electric steel
guitars, a Hammond Organ and an English-made Miller Spinetta (a dual keyboard instrument
with a built-in piano).
There is a Captain Scarlet soundtrack CD out, best deal is from the firm that puts it out, Silva Screen records. I have a copy, it's great. SS also has CDs of music from the other Gerry Anderson shows that used Barry Grey's wonderful music.
My favourite episode for the music.
"The Mysterons. Sworn enemies of Earth...possessing the ability to recreate an exact likeness of an object or person. But first--they must destroy."
Knocked bottle, cat's wail, powerful searchlights flash on.
The assassin opens fire with machine gun but none of his bullets apparently manages to penetrate.
Spectrum officer fires his own gun and the attacker grunts as he falls to the ground dead.
Drum roll, "Leading the fight--one man fate has made indestructible. His name: Captain Scarlet."
The first time this theme was played was, ironically in a darkly humorous way, when Black was sabotaging that satellite.
used for the 1981 Captain Scarlet vs the Mysterons movie ending credit sequence
I doubt if Mike Terry is on ths one.
Gray also became interested in the Ondes Martenot, an early electronic instrument that had been developed by Frenchman Maurice Martenot, and used it to produce unconventional musical sounds as well as electronic sound effects in several of his scores, particularly Captain Scarlet.
Thanks for your excellent comment.
deadbeatdynamo@ I'd get so pissed sweating super glue every time i got into a situation with the mysterons!
Brilliant editing. Brought back so many happy memories. Thanks a lot..
Hah! A Man of Knowledge! Excellent. Cheers.
Great story ...glad you enjoyed it!
RIP Gerry Anderson.... :(
Glad it took back to those viewing days,
(originally on ATV Midlands, but later the whole of the UK).
Thanks for your comment.
This is the "Video" of the mysterons !! Crackin Vid 5*
Thanks.
'Spectrum is Green!'
Brill. Great. Really love the sound of those baritone saxes. Wonder why nobody uses them anymore? Not sure what sort of organ they're using on this but it's sounds like something that was probably pretty old-fashioned for the time. The guitar is tuned slightly sharp of everything else.
Probably a Farfisa
Great montage!
No problem ...thanks and for letting me respond.
wow this is a great altenate version they should have used it in some of the episodes
ME TOO..!!
SIG Barry you absolute rocket ye
Gracias por su comentario.
Grande ver este programa fue exportado en todo el mundo.
' El espectro es Green!'
No dislikes! Spectrum is green
I was thinking the organ sound was highly reminiscent of that on the old Lord Rockingham XI record. Might put some research in on this.
"Hoots Mon"('58) with organist Cherry Wainer
Gray had an Hammond in his studio.
@langley2205 thanks ...I'm glad you enjoyed the vid.
Ah Destiny Angel.
I just wish this show had had some sort of coherent ending. But as an allegory of the Cold War which was ongoing at the time, I guess they couldn't do that.
The one idiot how dislikes Captain Scarlet is Captain Black
Is that Keir Starmer ?
Anderson rules..Nasa copied this guy..lol Legend..Goose bumps with Fireball,Stingray etc..
...I'm a deep sea fisherman....
Yeah, except he was a she. I think it's probably a 50's Hammond. Sounds like the one on Blue Train (B of Hoots Mon). I love those Barry Gray things, esp. Fireball XL5 opening theme which has a bit of that baritone sax action on it too. I've always assumed there was a clavioline on that, as per Joe Meek, but I don't have the data. The FXL5 incidental music is pretty far out, also.
...you don't understand sir this man is dead. ..that's no excuse..
F.A.B.
He was faking it!!!!!