Operation Time
| "Operation Time" | |
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| Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons episode | |
| Episode no. | Episode 08 |
| Directed by | Ken Turner |
| Written by | Richard Conway Stephen J. Mattick |
| Cinematography by | Julien Lugrin |
| Editing by | John Beaton |
| Production code | 06 |
| Original air date | 17 November 1967 |
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Voices of: |
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Voices of:
Martin King as
Dr Theodore Magnus
Paul Maxwell as
General J. F. Tiempo
Gary Files as
Dr Turner
1st Medical Student
Charles Tingwell as
Nurse Morgan
Jeremy Wilkin as
Radiographer
2nd Medical Student
Porter Benson
Liz Morgan as
Westbourne Clinic Nurse
"Operation Time" is the eighth episode of the British Supermarionation television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. First broadcast in the United Kingdom on 17 November 1967 on ATV Midlands, it was written by Richard Conway and Stephen J. Mattick and directed by Ken Turner.
In this episode, a Mysteron vow to "kill time" confuses Spectrum until the target is discovered to be a military general who is due to receive revolutionary neurosurgery. The Mysteron weaknesses discovered in "Operation Time" are developed in "Spectrum Strikes Back", its sequel episode.
When Spectrum receives a puzzling Mysteron threat to "kill time", Colonel White dispatches his senior officers to major cities to watch for targets. No promising intelligence surfaces until Captain Magenta learns that General Tiempo, the Commander of Western Region World Defence—whose surname is also the Spanish word for "time"—is soon to undergo a brain operation that will be given by leading neurosurgeon Dr Theodore Magnus, of the London Hospital. After Magnus is flown to Cloudbase along with Tiempo and a surgical team, he insists that the procedure—to be carried out with the aid of the pioneering technology of the "Cerebral Pulsator"—be performed immediately as scheduled, despite security concerns. Spectrum is unaware that the real Magnus is dead—killed in a car accident engineered by Captain Black — and that a Mysteron reconstruction has taken his place.
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