Er.. how come no-one thinks to simply turn off the radio during the Mysteron attack on Cloudbase?

because

It's a puppet!!!!!!!

A puppet radio?

The Mysterons need to learn that it makes it a lot more difficult to succeed at your wicked intentions if you ANNOUNCE THEM TO THE WORLD FIRST!!! Telling Cloudbase that they were going to kill Colonel White was a really dumb thing to do!

Why did Captain Black tie up the radio controller rather than just kill him? Going soft in his old age?

I thought that the Mysteron circles only travelled over a person or body when they were dead/destroyed and about to be replaced, but this time they moved over the spaceship when it was already the replacement.

Re: the first comment on this board - Lt Green was trying to turn the radio off but couldn't. Why, I don't know.

Maybe my eyes went wonky but it looked like one of the other Angels than Symphony took off to attack the radio ship, then morphed into Symphony some time during the flight.

It looked to me like it was a convenient accident that the sailor got his foot tangled in the cable, or are the Mysterons just that good? Regardless, this was a touch of "everybody's dumb but our heroes" like they have in Thunderbirds - would a sub really dive without some proper visual check that everyone's safely inside?

I loved the quirky ending - "You're sentenced to death but seeing as you're indestructible, carry on!"

The Mysterons tell the world they are going to kill Colonel White, but when he makes his speech to Spectrum that he's gonna go hide in a cupboard somewhere because they're going to try to kill him. Symphony says 'NOT THE COLONEL' in shock as if she had no idea.

Lt. Green says the music can't be turned off, however after the Mysteron threat is delivered, the music has suddenly stopped (unless the mysteronised DJ changed the record to 'stock dramatic music #47' )

Well, this place seems bustling... all those visitors I've sent you - any chance of some shameless advertising for S.I.G.!

Oh, alright There'll be an advert for SIG up in a few minutes!

Aaaaaw thanks!

This episode ends with a cut to black rather than a gradual fade like all the others do.

I loved the dialogue on the sub, after Scarlet had gotten himself killed. (paraphrase) "Um, he's dead, sir." "That's no excuse!"
I expected to hear him sound like Yosemite Sam.

By the way, White is lucky that a stray bullet didn't go into that cabinet and kill him anyway.

There could have been a line in this episode similar to one in M*A*S*H. Scarlet went into a snit after White ordered the radio whatchamacallit destroyed. White ignored the ill feeling and left, whereupon Green told Scarlet that the real whatchamacallit had been destroyed 3 hours earlier, so Spectrum was not responsible for innocent deaths. I can imagine the dialogue: "Why didn't he tell me? Why didn't he say something?" "Because when they make you a Colonel, they take out the bone in your head that makes you explain orders."

The White as Snow theme is heard again in the Secret Service episodes 'School for Spies' and 'More Haste - Less Speed'

And Special Assignment.

Interestingly, when Colonel White leaves to go to the ship, he goes out of the side door he came in when he found every one relaxing - interestingly that door leads to the inspection tube (from which you can't actually leave Cloudbase! Of course, we don't see the scene afterwards when White comes out sheepishly and quickly runs for the proper way out

Colonel White certainly has strong arms! When he's lowered onto the sub, he's holding onto the line with his hands. Ordinary mortals would have had the line looped around their armpits. (Of course, in the first episode, Blue carries off the World President simply by gripping his upper arms. 800 feet in the air, I think I would have wanted a more secure grip.) Perhaps they had difficulty manuvering the line around the puppet.

Watched this again last night. I noticed that in the long shot of "Robert Snow" being lowered to the sub, his arms were sticking out, indicating that the harness was properly looped around his torso. This means that he started wiggling out of the harness before he reached the deck, which was a pretty unintelligent thing to do.

Col. White's trip to the sub is supposed to be a guarded secret. Why would he hire outside transportation with a pilot who is understandably curious about dropping a "deep-sea fisherman" onto a Navy sub out in the middle of the ocean? Why not borrow a helicopter and use a Naval pilot?

That business of the man being left outside to drown was appallingly incompetent. The captain ordered that the deck be cleared for submersion, and his (presumably) second-in-command promptly said, "Dive, dive, dive." How about "We are preparing to submerge; clear the deck!" There was absolutely nothing to indicate that they made any check to see that everyone had gotten inside.