Renegade Rocket
| "Renegade Rocket" | |
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| Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons episode | |
| Episode no. | Episode 16 |
| Directed by | Brian Burgess |
| Written by | Ralph Hart |
| Cinematography by | Paddy Seale |
| Editing by | Bob Dearberg |
| Production code | 07 |
| Original air date | 19 January 1968 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Voices of: |
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Voices of:
Gary Files as
Space Major Reeves
Martin King as
Sergeant
Airstrip Controller
Paul Maxwell as
Base Concord Commander
Charles Tingwell as
Launch Controller
Jeremy Wilkin as
Yacht Captain
Security Guard
"Renegade Rocket" is the 16th episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, a British 1960s Supermarionation television series co-created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. Written by Ralph Hart and directed by Brian Burgess, it was first broadcast on 19 January 1968 on ATV Midlands. In this episode, Spectrum fights to stop a hi-jacked incendiary rocket from destroying an unknown target.
Space Major Reeves, rocket expert and friend of Colonel White (voiced by Donald Gray), finishes a tour of Cloudbase. As the Major returns to the island military facility Base Concord by yacht, Captain Black uses the Mysterons' power to induce nausea from the shore; while on deck for fresh air, Reeves falls into the sea when part of the side railing collapses, and is drowned by the yacht's slipstream. A Mysteron reconstruction of Reeves arrives at Base Concord and hi-jacks the control room, shooting the officer on duty; it then arms an incendiary Variable Geometry Rocket and launches it under the security codeword "ZERO". The duplicate escapes in a J17 fighter carrying the Flight Program Unit, the result being that Base Concord's personnel have no way of knowing where the VGR will strike, or which of the 10,000 registered codewords will remote-activate the rocket's self-destruct system. Additionally, for reasons unknown, the VGR is not registering on radar. The base commander contacts Cloudbase and White dispatches Captains Scarlet (Francis Matthews) and Blue (Ed Bishop) to the island, while also launching the Angel squadron to find the J17. Reeves is quickly intercepted but refuses to surrender the unit, damaging Melody Angel's (Sylvia Anderson) aircraft with the J17's machine gun and forcing her to eject before she crashes into the sea.
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