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  • Acting for Two:
    • Donald Gray voiced Colonel White and Captain Black.
    • Liz Morgan voiced Destiny, Rhapsody and Harmony Angel.
  • Billing Displacement: We'll let Chris Bentley explain this one (from The Complete Gerry Anderson: The Authorised Episode Guide):
    Although voice artist Lian Shin is credited on 20 episodes of the series, ("The Launching") features her only vocal appearance as Harmony Angel and she does not portray any other characters. For all of Harmony's previous speaking roles, her voice was provided by Liz Morgan...Harmony is seen in a number of later episodes, but this is the last time that she speaks.
  • The Danza: Colonel White's real name is Charles Gray, and he is voiced by Donald Gray. The actor Charles Gray was actually born Donald Gray but changed his name to Charles for his Equity membership, to avoid confusion with Donald Gray. Ironically, Donald Gray's name was also a Stage Name - his real name was Eldred Tidbury.
  • Defictionalization: Both catchphrases of the show have been borrowed by American private spaceflight firm SpaceX to describe its readiness for rocket launches, modified to "SpaceX Is Green" or "SpaceX Is Red".
  • The Other Darrin: Harmony Angel is voiced by Liz Morgan except for "The Launching", where she's voiced by Lian-Shin.
  • Referenced by...:
    • The show's Smash Cut style was amusingly played with by Chris Evans in TFI Friday, where he would try to flip his head between two cameras in time with the Captain Scarlet riff.
    • The Criminal Tugboat duo in the TUGS episode "Pirate" have the same ominous green eyes as the Mysterons. This is a nice Actor Allusion to the series director David Mitton who started his career working as an assistant sfx modeler in Captain Scarlet
    • The Smash Cut style was used in episode 28 of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series.
    • Episode 6 of Unfinished London would reference the Smash Cut style.
    • Apollo 440 referenced the series in their song "High On Your Own Supply", with the line "You're no Captain Scarlet, you're not indestructible".
  • The Shelf of Movie Languishment: During the 1990s, when many Supermarionation series were introduced to a new generation by repeats on the BBC, eight episodes of Captain Scarlet were adapted for audio, with new linking narration by Ed Bishop. The company responsible delivered them... and they were never released. They have since been made available, most notably by Big Finish in a boxset collecting together all the show's audio material.
  • What Could Have Been: When the show started production, Gerry Anderson hoped to have an idea for a guest star to appear in each episode. For the pilot episode, for example, Patrick McGoohan was asked to guest star as the voice of the World President. McGoohan wasn't able to work it into his schedule, so he bowed out. Eventually Anderson scrapped the guest star idea entirely, as it was too expensive.
  • Working Title: The Mysterons.
  • You Look Familiar: With this series, Century 21 created a stable of "repertory puppets" to be the series' "actors" (complete with a casting directory booklet for the directors to pick from). As a result, many of the puppets made repeat appearances throughout the series as different characters, often with minimally different styling.

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