Shadow of Fear
| "Shadow of Fear" | |
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| Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons episode | |
| Episode no. | Episode 18 |
| Directed by | Robert Lynn |
| Written by | Tony Barwick |
| Cinematography by | Julien Lugrin |
| Editing by | John Beaton |
| Production code | 12 |
| Original air date | 2 February 1968 |
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Voices of: |
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Voices of:
Paul Maxwell as
Dr Breck
Charles Tingwell as
Dr Carter
Jeremy Wilkin as
Dr Angelini
"Shadow of Fear" is the 18th episode of the Supermarionation television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. It was first broadcast in the UK on 2 February 1968 on ATV Midlands, written by Tony Barwick and directed by Robert Lynn.
In this episode, a Spectrum operation to survey the planet Mars with a space probe is threatened when one of the scientists attached to the project is taken over by the Mysterons. The episode prominently features the Martian moon Phobos. Footage from "Shadow of Fear" was re-edited for an appearance in Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars, a Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons compilation film.
To learn more about the Mysterons and Mars, Spectrum has conceived "Operation Sword". The objective is to place a space probe in orbit around Mars to capture detailed images of the surface. Although the Mysterons destroy a first probe, a second — Mini-Sat 5 — successfully lands on the Martian moon Phobos to carry out surveillance. When Phobos has completed one orbit of Mars, the images will be transmitted to Earth for reception at K14 Observatory in the Himalayas at 3 a.m., local time. Since K14 is beyond the range of the Spectrum Angels, Cloudbase is moved into Himalayan airspace on its horizontal jets. Captains Scarlet and Blue have been dispatched to K14 to assist scientists Carter, Breck and Angelini. From the astronomers' perspective, Mini-Sat 5 was able to touch down on Phobos thanks to the "shadow of fear": "phobos", the name of an attendant of Mars in Greek mythology, means "fear" in Greek, and the probe avoided detection by the Mysterons by approaching the moon from behind.
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