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Actual Captain Scarlet dialog:

  COL. WHITE:
     There goes a brave man.

  LT. GREEN:
     Easy to be brave when you're indestructible

  COL. WHITE:
     Now, now.  That's quite enough of that!

This would be the episode "Attack on Cloudbase" a.k.a. "Everybody Dies", or #30 out of 32. Methinks after 29 episodes, the writers were finally getting a bit frisky.

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And for today, just in case you were wondering what Gareth Thomas did prior to Blakes 7, we have

Star Maidens (1976)

which, as an added bonus, also contains the answer to the enduring mystery of what happened to all of the left-over sound effects from Space: 1999.
And also the left-over turtleneck-cleavage shirts.
( Just in case you were wondering... )

Yes, I watched them all. Shoot me now.

It's really quite weird what you notice when you see them back-to-back vaguely in production order, something I'd never actually done before -- I'm only old enough to have seen the 3rd season in first run, and that only because NBC decided that year that it was a "kids show" and moved it back to an early time slot, and even by then, what with Freddy Freiburger in charge, things were already quite random (though since I was only 8 years old, I didn't notice).

Sort of fun to see how Gene was completely winging it for those first several episodes. ( just in case you haven't had enough Trek geekery in your life... )

I now find it weird to see shows from an epoch (in this case, 1969 [Britain]) when it was acceptable in any kind of professional context to use the word "girl" in reference to a woman over the age of 20. And of course it doesn't matter if she's the moonbase commander, she's still the one who's expected to make the coffee/tea when Straker or whoever walks into the room. ( Read more... )

Moonbase babes with metallic outfits and purple hair? Still works for me.
I guess Sylvia just had an instinct for these things.
And they definitely got to do a lot more than Uhura ever did.

And "Mindbender" is still a classic episode.