On the day after tomorrow, indestructible Spectrum agent Captain Scarlet is Earth’s best defence in a war of nerves against the Mysterons from Mars and their instrument of destruction, former Spectrum agent Captain Black.
Anderson Entertainment/Gerry Anderson Productions/The Indestructible Production Company
Produced: 2003-05
First UK broadcast: 12th February 2005
26 episodes x 25 minutes
Series Created and Produced by Gerry Anderson
Supervising Director: David Lane
CGI Producer: Ron Thornton
Line Producer: Mark Sherwood
Production Designer: Mark Harris
Music by Crispin Merrell
Concept Art Director: Dominic Lavery
Editor: Andy Walter
Associate Producer: Gerry Donohoe
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Instrument Of Destruction - Part 1 (#101) Dateline: the day after tomorrow. Spectrum agents Captain Scarlet and Captain Black are assigned to investigate the source of unexplained extraterrestrial signals which have been detected emanating from Mars. They discover a strange and fantastic alien city but when their Bison Alien Terrain Vehicle is approached by a glowing green sphere, Black assumes that they are under attack and launches missiles which destroy the city. Miraculously, the city reforms and its alien occupants, the Mysterons, are disgusted by the violence of the Earthmen, pledging to crush their world. Black is apparently killed but Scarlet is returned to Earth as the Mysterons’ instrument of destruction… Written by Phil Ford Directed by David Lane Original UK Airdate: 12th February 2005 – 10.29am (ITV) Additional Voice Cast:
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Instrument Of Destruction - Part 2 (#102) When Captain Black is linked to a mysterious explosion at a military research centre, Scarlet and Blue are dispatched to New York to liaise with the FBI in their attempt to track down the former Spectrum agent. Black is spotted at the United Nations Building where Colonel White is addressing the UN delegates in an emergency meeting about the Mysteron threat. Believing that Black intends to assassinate the Colonel during his speech, Scarlet and Blue race to the UN to stop him, but Black’s real target is the Russian Army chief General Zamatev. Once under Mysteron control, Zamatev provides the firepower to launch an attack on Spectrum’s Skybase headquarters, while Black himself pursues an even more devastating agenda! Written by Phil Ford Directed by David Lane Original UK Airdate: 19th February 2005 – 10.57am (ITV) Additional Voice Cast:
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Rain Of Terror (#103) In the African desert, Spectrum is assisting Professor Susan Todd of Hydra Laboratories with a revolutionary irrigation scheme, seeding the atmosphere with a hygroscopic compound to generate rain. Scarlet joins Todd for the initial experiment, sharing her excitement as the project proves to a complete success and she is caught in a torrential downpour. Back on Skybase, they celebrate with Colonel White and Hydra director Vandamm but Todd suddenly become paranoid and irrational, pulling a gun on Vandamm and taking him hostage. As the situation spirals out of control, the Colonel begins to suspect that the Mysterons have done something to the rain… Written by John Brown Directed by Mark Woollard Original UK Airdate: 9th April 2005 – 10.52am (ITV) Additional Voice Cast:
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Mercury Falling (#104) Destiny and Blue pilot the space shuttle Mercury on a mission to deploy a new satellite in Earth orbit which will identify Mysteron energy on Mars and thereby provide early warning of imminent attack. As the shuttle achieves final orbit, Destiny suddenly loses control and the Mercury becomes locked into a new flight path. Then Spectrum receives a ransom demand from an extortionist who threatens to initiate the Mercury’s re-entry over North America and crash the shuttle on Washington. With a nuclear power cell on board, the consequences are unthinkable – more so if Captain Black locates the extortionist before Scarlet and obtains the shuttle’s access code! Written by Phil Ford Directed by Dominic Lavery Original UK Airdate: 19th March 2005 – 10.53am (ITV) Additional Voice Cast:
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The Homecoming (#108) An unidentified space capsule is tracked from deep space, entering the atmosphere to crash-land in the Arctic. Scarlet and Blue discover that the capsule is from the Endeavor II, a manned mission to Jupiter which disappeared fifteen years ago. Inside, two members of the three-man crew lie dead in their cryogenic tubes, but the third is miraculously still alive and revealed to be Commander Lewis – Lieutenant Green’s father! Revived on Skybase and cleared by Dr. Gold’s DNA test, Lewis is reunited with his daughter who offers to accompany him to the Space Agency in New Mexico. Then Scarlet learns that Dr. Gold had unwittingly performed the DNA test on himself, and the man being escorted to the Space Agency is a Mysteron replicant… Written by Phil Ford Directed by David Lane Original UK Airdate: 12th March 2005 – 10.53am (ITV) Additional Voice Cast:
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Chiller (#112) Investigating reports of a Mysteron cell operating in Phoenix, Arizona, Scarlet trails a pair of Mysteron agents to a remote desert diner. There he overhears the agents bribing Spectrum flight-engineer Xander Story to smuggle a bomb aboard Skybase, but when he attempts to apprehend them, Scarlet is shot down. Then the Mysterons drive a petro-chemical truck into the diner and Scarlet is incinerated in the explosion. Blue finds Scarlet’s body and returns it to Skybase, but Scarlet’s injuries are too severe even for the retrometabolisation process and he is pronounced dead. However, Scarlet recovers consciousness to find himself apparently alive and well – until he realises that he has become intangible and none of his colleagues can see or hear him. Written by Phil Ford Directed by Mark Woollard Original UK Airdate: 23rd April 2005 – 11.00am (ITV) Additional Voice Cast:
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Rat Trap (#110) Spectrum has lost contact with the Mars outpost Base Elysium, so Scarlet, Blue, Destiny, Harmony and Dr. Gold are assigned to investigate what has happened to the ten volunteer Spectrum personnel there. As the team approach the base in the Shuttle’s Excursion Vehicle, the ship comes under missile attack and crash-lands on the surface. The group’s only hope of survival now lies within Elysium but when they access the base, they find the personnel brutally murdered. The two Angels attempt to activate the base Shuttle but its systems have been sabotaged. The culprit is soon discovered to be a Remote Acquisition Technology probe, a robot designed for use in hostile environments that has become a Mysteron-controlled killing machine! Written by Phil Ford Directed by Dominic Lavery Original UK Airdate: 5th March 2005 – 10.54am (ITV) |
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Swarm (#105) After Destiny shoots down a transport plane on a collision course with Skybase, her Falcon is engulfed by a swarm of strange metal-eating insects which choke the aircraft’s engine intakes, forcing Destiny to eject. When the insects attack her escape pod too, she bails out without a parachute and Scarlet undertakes a daring freefall rescue. They return to Skybase, but Destiny unknowingly brings some of the bugs with her, secreted in her clothes. By the time the bugs are identified as experimental robot weapons under Mysteron control, they have already replicated themselves and penetrated every vital area of the base! Written by Phil Ford Directed by David Lane Original UK Airdate: 26th February 2005 – 10.54am (ITV) Additional Voice Cast:
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Circles Of Doom (#109) The Angels are practicing for an aerobatic display at an air base in Southern England when suddenly all electronic digital systems inexplicably shut down over the whole area for two minutes. Only the Angels’ consummate abilities prevent disaster but a recurrence of the breakdown could have insurmountable consequences for the entire planet. Oddly, a series of crop circles have appeared within the footprint of the anomaly so Scarlet and Blue take a Hummingbird to investigate one which lies at the mathematical centre of the effected area. When they get there, the circle has vanished, but then Scarlet begins to feel nauseous and he and Blue discover that the cornfield conceals a devastating secret. Written by Brian Finch Directed by Mark Woollard Original UK Airdate: 26th March 2005 – 10.54am (ITV) Additional Voice Cast:
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Trap For A Rhino (#107) Colonel White’s curiosity is piqued by a UFO report from the Scottish Highlands where an elderly lady, Mrs Mackenzie, claims to have seen green lights hovering over the Grampian Nuclear Power Station. Scarlet is dispatched in an Albatross to investigate the plant while Harmony takes a break from the nearby Spectrum Flight Training School to visit Mrs Mackenzie, accompanied by Spectrum Cadet Johnson. Arriving at the power station, Scarlet is assured by the Head of Security that not one of the plant’s 400 personnel has seen anything unusual, but at Mrs Mackenzie’s cottage, Harmony discovers that neither of her companions are what they appear to be… Written by John Brown Directed by Dominic Lavery Original UK Airdate: 30th April 2005 – 10.54am (ITV) Additional Voice Cast:
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The Achilles Messenger (#111) Scarlet and Destiny are undergoing interrogation resistance exercises at the Spectrum Training Base in Scotland when the base commander, Astrid Winters, is killed in a car crash engineered by the Mysterons. Resurrected as a Mysteron replicant, Winters returns to the base with the stunning revelation that she represents a faction of the Mysteron Consciousness which does not believe in the war of nerves. Offering to detail how Spectrum can defeat the Mysterons, Winters insists that she can only deliver the information to Colonel White in person, but as proof of good faith she exposes the Mysterons’ plans to wipe out Earth’s scientific elite in a single strike on the World Science Congress! Written by Phil Ford Directed by David Lane Original UK Airdate: 14th May 2005 – 10.55am (ITV) Additional Voice Cast:
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Skin Deep (#115) Destiny is selected to help test a new flight guidance system at the Aerospace Research Unit but en route to Falcon Air Base she is ambushed by Captain Black. Shortly after, Destiny is caught on security cameras breaking into an office at the International Defence Force Headquarters and stealing top secret missile launch codes, badly injuring a security guard as she makes her escape. Scarlet is devastated to learn that Destiny appears to have been replaced by a Mysteron replicant and sets out to locate and eliminate the imposter, but the real Destiny is being held prisoner in a clinic where German scientist Janus has developed a device which transforms any face into a perfect copy of another! Written by John Brown Directed by Mark Woollard Original UK Airdate: 16th April 2005 – 10.51am (ITV) Additional Voice Cast:
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Heist (#113) Colonel White is dining in London with his daughter Victoria when he receives a report from Lieutenant Green that a Vampire fighter jet has been stolen from the USAF base at Little Marwood and is targeting the Schleswig-Holstein nuclear plant in Germany. While Spectrum’s attention is distracted by this latest threat, Victoria is kidnapped and her abductors threaten to kill her unless the Colonel acquires a Spectrum Rhino to assist them in mounting a bullion robbery. White agrees to the demands while Scarlet and Blue attempt to trace Victoria’s whereabouts, but they are unaware that the operation is being controlled by Captain Black who plans to bring about the downfall of the Spectrum organisation! Written by Phil Ford Directed by Dominic Lavery Original UK Airdate: 7th May 2005 – 10.54am (ITV) Additional Voice Cast:
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Virus (#114) Escorted by the Angels, Captains Ochre and Magenta are flying the Secretary of the UN Special Security Council back to New York following a Skybase inspection. Suddenly, their Swift comes under attack from a trio of Vampire fighter jets. Destiny, Harmony and Rhapsody engage the enemy aircraft but Destiny is badly injured when her Falcon is shot down. While she is recovering in the Skybase Sickbay, Scarlet and Blue investigate the mysterious deaths of Miguel Fernandez and Joshua Kimote, two other members of the Security Council. At Fernandez’s Spanish Villa, Blue examines the late owner’s computer before up-loading the hard-drive to the Skybase Spectrum-Net, but when the two agents leave the residence, Blue appears to go into a trance and drives their Cheetah off the side of a narrow mountain road… Written by Phil Ford Directed by David Lane Original UK Airdate: 10th September 2005 – 10.52am (ITV1) Additional Voice Cast:
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Contact (#118) In the Arizona Desert, research scientist Dr Philip Bogart is spending some off-duty time indulging his passion for freestyle climbing when he is attacked by a Mysteron-controlled Eagle, loses his grip and falls to his death. Recreated by the Mysterons, Bogart steals a revolutionary Thunderpulse sonic displacement bomb from his laboratory at the Tyr Developments Arizona research facility and then detonates a second bomb which obliterates the base. Spectrum’s only hope of locating Bogart and the stolen bomb lies with his identical twin brother Frank with whom he has a proven psychic link, but whereas Phil turned his genius to physics, Frank turned to crime. Scarlet and Blue find themselves playing nursemaid to a convicted felon who sees the situation as an opportunity to evade justice… Written by Phil Ford Directed by Mark Woollard Original UK Airdate: 1st October 2005 – 10.59am (ITV1) Additional Voice Cast:
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Enigma (#116) An unidentified object enters Earth’s atmosphere and is revealed to be a massive Mysteron spacecraft. The Angels race to intercept but find their firepower hopelessly ineffective when they come under attack. Suddenly the alien vehicle changes course and bears down on Skybase, apparently heading for a collision. Colonel White orders a full scale evacuation of the Spectrum base but then the spacecraft alters course again and makes a landing in the Northern Territories of Australia. Scarlet, Blue, Ochre and Grey are dispatched to investigate and mysteriously face no opposition as they approach the ship. When Blue touches the hull, the four officers are instantly transported inside the ship and find themselves in a surreal environment where the fabric of space and time is controlled by the Mysterons. Written by Phil Ford Directed by Dominic Lavery Original UK Airdate: 7th September 2005 – 10.57am (ITV1) Additional Voice Cast:
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Best Of Enemies (#117) Scarlet is on the trail of Captain Black on the northern coast of Russia where he observes his nemesis taking delivery of equipment stolen from a Russian Naval laboratory by black marketeers. Pursuing Black’s truck in a Rhino, Scarlet destroys the bridge across a frozen bay ahead, forcing Black to take to the ice to reach the opposite headland. Following him onto the ice, Scarlet fires mortar bombs which smash through the frozen surface, bringing the truck to a sudden halt. The pair fight but Black gains the upper hand and attempts to escape in the Rhino, leaving Scarlet unconscious as the ice breaks up around him. However, the Rhino computer identifies its driver as an enemy agent and refuses to disengage the lock-down protocol. Scarlet comes to and quickly climbs aboard the Rhino but the ice crumbles beneath the vehicle and it plunges into the water with Scarlet and Black trapped inside… Written by John Brown Directed by David Lane Original UK Airdate: 24th September 2005 – 10.57am (ITV1) Additional Voice Cast:
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Proteus (#119) Colonel White, Scarlet and Lieutenant Green are on board the Navy’s new stealth warship Proteus to observe a demonstration of the vehicle’s revolutionary camouflage capability which renders the ship invisible. Manned by a crew of just three, the ship’s systems are controlled by the Mabra 740 Central Processor – the world’s most sophisticated multi-functioning cyber-system – and maintained by an army of robotic maintenance drones. As the Spectrum officers are being given a guided tour, the Mysterons infiltrate the Mabra 740 and take control of Proteus. The drones turn on the crew and their guests, killing the ship’s Captain Holzer who is then resurrected as a Mysteron replicant. Cut off from Skybase and with their Hummingbird helicopter destroyed, Scarlet, White and Green are trapped! Written by Phil Ford Directed by Mark Woollard Original UK Airdate: 8th October 2005 – 10.59am (ITV1) Additional Voice Cast:
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Syrtis Major (#120) Defying a United Nations directive which has declared Mars off-limits to civilian interests for the last eight months, Vulcan Industries has dispatched a maintenance crew to the company’s operational deep core dyrinium mine in the Syrtis Major region. When Spectrum learns that contact with the Vulcan crew was lost shortly after their arrival, Scarlet, Blue and Ochre travel to Mars with Dr Gold, Destiny and Vulcan’s chief engineer Griggs to recover the three technicians. At Syrtis Major, they enter the deserted mine complex and make their way to the control centre. There Griggs discovers that the mine’s monitoring systems have been taken off-line, forcing the team to split into smaller groups to search for the missing men on foot. Before long the Spectrum officers discover that a hostile force has penetrated every inch of the complex. Written by Phil Ford Directed by Dominic Lavery Original UK Airdate: 5th October 2005 – 10.59am (ITV1) Additional Voice Cast:
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Fallen Angels (#121) The Angels are escorting Colonel White to an important world summit when their flight comes under attack from a squadron of Mysteron-controlled Vampire jet fighters. Aerial combat ensues and the four Vampires are destroyed but Harmony and Melody are shot down during the battle and Destiny’s plane collides with a piece of debris. Fortunately, all three pilots escape injury but are marooned on a small tropical island. In temporary command at Skybase, Scarlet is unable to spare a recovery aircraft until the summit is completed so he advises the three Angels to take an unscheduled furlough. But the Angels’ tropical paradise soon turns into a nightmare when they are targeted by the modem-day pirate Vane and her cut-throat crew, all Mysteron replicants who are under orders to discover the top secret location of the world summit at any cost. Written by Phil Ford Directed by David Lane Original UK Airdate: 22nd October 2005 – 10.59am (ITV1) Additional Voice Cast:
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Storm At The End Of The World (#122) The remote single-street Alaskan mining town of Ragnarok is wiped out by a Mysteron controlled Druzynik tank but the town and its entire population are resurrected in the service of the Mysterons. On the trail of the rogue Druzynik, Scarlet and Blue find the tank abandoned in the frozen Alaskan wastes not far from Ragnarok. Mystified by the absence of the tank crew, they decide to search the nearby town whose name, Scarlet recalls from Norse mythology, refers to the end of the world. They find Ragnarok a ghost town, apparently deserted, but they are drawn to the local diner, Katie’s Kitchen, as a storm descends over the area. Helping themselves to coffee, Scarlet and Blue realise too late that their arrival has been anticipated. Dragged and captured, they are set to work in the mine alongside the Mysteronised townsfolk, digging for the remains of an ancient meteor filled with deadly alien spores, Written by Phil Ford Directed by Mark Woollard Original UK Airdate: 29th October 2005 – 10.59am (ITV1) Additional Voice Cast:
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Duel (#123) Following a tip-off from an informant, Scarlet, Blue and Ochre are in New York on the trail of a pair of Mysteron agents who have acquired a canister of deadly nerve gas. Following a high-speed chase through the city, the agents are captured and the canister is recovered, but neither man turns out to be a Mysteron replicant and the canister contain nothing more than nitrous oxide – laughing gas. Suspecting a set-up. Scarlet flies to Egypt to track down his informant, a man named Zuka, and learns that the New York operation was a decoy. Zuka reveals that the nerve gas is already in Mysteron hands and their target is Tranquillity, a new luxury leisure complex on the lunar surface where Destiny and Lieutenant Green are currently enjoying their annual vacation! Scarlet races to the Moon, unaware that he has become a pawn in a deadly game… Written by Phil Ford Directed by Dominic Lavery Original UK Airdate: 5th November 2005 – 10.59am (ITV1) Additional Voice Cast:
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Shape Shifter (#124) At the Laroux Research Foundation in Louisiana, Scarlet intercepts a pair of Mysteron agents who are attempting to sabotage the Foundation’s particle collider. Pursuing one of the agents through the building’s subterranean tunnels, Scarlet accidentally comes into contact with an apparently harmless yellow gas. But the gas contains experimental inert atoms, waiting for the day when scientific advances enable them to be imprinted with atomic codes to form synthetic matter. Under Mysteron influence, the gas manifests an identical clone of Scarlet who shoots down the real Scarlet and dumps his body in an alligator-infested swamp. The impostor then makes his way to Skybase in Scarlet’s place, on a mission to assassinate Colonel White… Written by Phil Ford Directed by David Lane Original UK Airdate: 12th November – 10.56am (ITV1) Additional Voice Cast:
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Touch Of The Reaper (#106) At the Centre for Organism Research in Nevada, the Mysterons engineer the deaths and retrometabolism of scientists Dr Michael King and his assistant Dana Parish. Dr Gold discovers that in replicating the scientists, the Mysterons have incorporated Rhazes’ Disease, a lethal filovirus, into their genetic make-up – giving them the ability to infect everyone they touch, killing them in seconds. Scarlet and Blue trace King to a cabin in the woods and manage to detain him without becoming infected, but Parish escapes. Taken to Skybase, King announces that the Mysterons intend to exact revenge for the unprovoked attack on their Martian city, and Scarlet realities that Dana Parish has become the perfect assassin for someone too well protected to be killed in any other way: the President of the United States! Written by Phil Ford Directed by Mark Woollard Original UK Airdate: 3rd September 2005 – 10.56am (ITV1) Additional Voice Cast:
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Dominion (#125) In the Siberian wastelands, Captain Black has acquired a Druzynik tank to make an assault on the Tereshkova nuclear power plant. Scarlet is in hot pursuit in a second Druzynik and launches a volley of missiles which destroy Black’s vehicle just in time. Black is thrown clear and his badly injured body is taken to Skybase where he makes a full recovery. Amazingly, he appears to be no longer under Mysteron control and Dr Gold confirms that Black has become like Scarlet, with human-alien hybrid DNA and normal brain patterns. Although uncertain at first, Scarlet becomes convinced that his old friend is back. Against Colonel White’s orders, he agrees to take up Black’s challenge to return to the Mysteron city on Mars and put an end to the war of nerves once and for all. Written by Phil Ford Directed by Dominic Lavery Original UK Airdate: 19th November 2005 – 10.58am (ITV1) |
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Grey Skulls (#126) After three weeks on the trail of a cache of stolen alien spores, Scarlet, Blue and Ochre corner Rimmer, a Mysteron agent, in a derelict Biocorp chemical works near Phoenix, Arizona. A pair of rival biker gang members, Colt and Brock, become inadvertently involved when Brock is murdered by Rimmer and resurrected as a Mysteron replicant. Taking charge of the spore canister, Brock makes good his escape as Rimmer vanishes. To add insult to injury, Ochre discovers that her Stallion Raid Bike has been stolen by Colt and she is dispatched by a furious Colonel White to recover it. Her only clue is the biker’s motif, the insignia of a gang called The Grey Skulls, which leads her to Roswell, New Mexico – the site of an apocryphal spaceship crash 120 years before… Written by Phil Ford Directed by David Lane Original UK Airdate: 26th November 2005 – 10.58am (ITV1) Additional Voice Cast:
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| Cast List | |
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| Captain Scarlet | Wayne Forester |
| Captain Blue | Robbie Stevens |
| Destiny Angel | Emma Tate |
| Colonel White | Mike Hayley |
| Lieutenant Green | Jules de Jongh |
| Captain Black | Nigel Plaskitt |
| Dr. Gold | Nigel Plaskitt |
| Harmony Angel | Jules de Jongh |
| Captain Ochre | Julia Brahms |
| Captain Grey | Robbie Stevens |
| Melody Angel | Heather Tobias |
| Symphony Angel | Jules de Jongh |
| Rhapsody Angel | Julia Brahms |
| Captain Magenta | Jeremy Hitchen |
| Lieutenant Silver | Emma Tate |
| Voice of The Mysterons | Mike Hayley |