Captain Blue (Captain Scarlet)

Captain Blue
Captain Scarlet character
Captain Blue in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
First appearance	"The Mysterons" (Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons) Instrument of Destruction, Part 1 (Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet)
Last appearance	"The Inquisition" (Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons) "Grey Skulls" (Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet)
Created by	Gerry and Sylvia Anderson
Voiced by	Ed Bishop (Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Captain Scarlet and the Return of the Mysterons) Robbie Stevens (Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet)
Information
Full name	Adam Svenson (birth name)
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Occupation	Spectrum officer
Significant other(s)	Symphony Angel (Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons) Lieutenant Green (Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet)
Nationality	American

Captain Blue (born Adam Svenson) is a character in the British Supermarionation television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967–68) and its computer-animated remake, Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet (2005). He is a senior officer in the Spectrum Organisation, which is committed to defending Earth against the Mysterons, and is the best friend of Captain Scarlet.

Captain Blue was among the first characters to be conceived by series creator Gerry Anderson who, having determined that "Scarlet" would make for an unusual codename for the series' protagonist, resolved that his mission partner could be codenamed "Blue". Script editor Tony Barwick, who commented on what he perceived as the series' "quite formalised writing", wrote Blue as "the foil, the nice guy" of Captain Scarlet.

In a 1982 interview for Starlog magazine, Captain Blue voice actor Ed Bishop described his casting by the Andersons: "There was an actor in the series named Cy Grant [voice of the Lieutenant Green character]. We happened to have the same agent and Sylvia Anderson had called to ask about him. The girl at the agency said, 'You people use a lot of Americans on your shows and we have this American actor.' Sylvia told her to send me along. It's just as simple as that." Gerry approved of what Bishop termed his "wall-to-wall corporate voice", judging it suitable for the role of a "smooth-talking co-star".

Although Bishop believed that he was the template for Blue's likeness, the puppet sculptor, Terry Curtis, had in fact already made a rough modelling in his own image, and simply changed the hair colour from brown to blond at the direction of Sylvia Anderson (Bishop himself, like Curtis, was darker-haired). The puppet's total cost was 500 guineas, or £525. It has been suggested that Blue's blue-eyed and blond-haired appearance influenced that of Commander Ed Straker, Bishop's live-action role in the later Anderson series UFO.