Big Ben Strikes Again

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Supermarionation: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: Big Ben Strikes Again
By Kinggodzillak on Friday, September 28, 2001 - 2:16 pm:

Why is Captain Ochre in the third police car?


By DJU on Monday, October 01, 2001 - 12:20 pm:

maybye he does some extra policing in his spare time as since he left the chicago police he might get of got job sick and had to do any extra work he could get


By Kinggodzillak on Thursday, October 04, 2001 - 1:00 pm:

Actually I don't think its him, but there's a resemblance.


By Callie Sullivan on Tuesday, November 06, 2001 - 2:50 am:

It's probably happened in other episodes but this was the first time I noticed this: apparently Britain is going to go continental in the future and vehicles will drive on the right.

Time is of the essence but they wait to get the guy up to Cloudbase before starting his interrogation?

Only TWO car parks in that big a circle around Big Ben?! Cripes, London's been cleaned up a lot in the future! Looks like Mayor Livingstone's plan to charge vehicles to come into the city worked!

Was blasting down the door to the car park a good idea? I was telling Captain Blue out loud, "Hello?! Explosives inside!"

I thought that the roads had been cleared between the carpark and the final destination of the bomb, so where did the stalled car come from?


By Kinggodzillak on Wednesday, November 07, 2001 - 1:04 pm:

And does Melody have embedded in her HAIR?!?!?!


By neil baird on Wednesday, November 07, 2001 - 5:54 pm:

the timing in this episode was all wrong. it was 11:45 when
the truck was taken over by the mysterons. it at least took
another 5 to get to the car park, then col. white says it has
been missing for 2 and a half hours but after that macey
hears big ben strike midnight, crazy! but to give credit to this
episode the sequince with with the truck twisting and turning
through the streets was brill.


By Kinggodzillak on Thursday, November 08, 2001 - 2:44 pm:

I like the shot of Macey sort returning to his chair just after he sort of smashes into a shop window. It seems very fluid and very realistic.


By Adam on Monday, November 19, 2001 - 2:40 pm:

You're wrong Kinggodzillak about Ochre in the third police car, that character was an extra used so many times in Scarlet, for example he was Joe in Traitor and the truck driver in Expo 2068 and the Mechanic at the start of Special Assignment as well as more and more.


By Kinggodzillak on Wednesday, November 21, 2001 - 1:03 pm:

Yes thats gotta be him! I hadn't seen it but now you point it out it absolutely fits! Thanks!


By DJU on Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 3:00 pm:

Well Adam, both Me and KZ have been working on a CONCISE C21 Puppet Catalogue, which should appear on SIG in the future.

Well when i say concise i mean as concise as you can posibly get as there are some scenes when it is impossible to jusdge which puppet is which.


By Kinggodzillak on Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 3:09 pm:

At which point, we have gone beyong the call of conciseness and lied about it. :)


By Kinggodzillak on Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 3:10 pm:

At which point, we have gone beyond the call of conciseness and lied about it. :)


By Paul Joyce on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 12:12 pm:

1st policeman: 'Some job that driver's got, shipping atomic bombs around.'
2nd policeman: 'It's not a bomb, it's a nuclear device for civil use.'

Yes, but it has a timer and detonator, so it IS a bomb!


By D.K. Henderson on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 5:50 am:

I wonder if that time nit was simply a mistake in editing?

Try it this way.

Macey's truck is taken over, he loses conciousness as it slews around, and it drives into a car park. Macey, who didn't hit himself that hard, wakes up, looks around, counts thirteen chimes, sees the atomic device being set, and is knocked out again. Cut to Col. White, stating that they have been searching two and a half hours. Cut back to Macey, lying in the street and staring up at the streetlights. Captain Scarlet drives along and finds him. Makes more sense, doesn't it?

Captain Scarlet is not too swift in this episode, is he? Everyone catches what Captain Blue means before Scarlet does! (And why didn't Captain Blue explain it to him in the time it took them to get from Cloudbase to London?)

If you watch the speed at which the elevator comes back up, and how close it was to the top the last time we see it, Captain Scarlet should have been up and safe by the time the explosion took place.

Did they decide after this episode that Symphony would be Captain Blue's main squeeze, or was she on duty that night and he just took what he could get?

Can't say much for Melody's taste. Was that headgear what is called a cloche? It looked like one of those revolting flowered bathing caps.


By Kinggodzillak on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 3:27 pm:

>>Was that headgear what is called a cloche?

I call it a satellite dish. :)


By Richard Davies on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - 1:28 pm:

I think a cloche is the sort of hat that was popular in the 1920s & 30s, & was a favourite with flappers.


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