ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>The Launching</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR=#000000"> <TABLE ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="580" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="3" BORDER="0"> <TR> <TD ROWSPAN="2" WIDTH="175" VALIGN=MIDDLE ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="Capt Scarlet Pictures/Capt Scarlet Logo.jpg" WIDTH="175" HEIGHT="136" BORDER="0" ALT="Captain Scarlet Logo"></TD> <TD WIDTH="230" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="4" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"><B>'The Launching'</B><BR><FONT SIZE="3">by Peter Curran<BR>and David Williams</TD> <TD ROWSPAN="2" WIDTH="175" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="Capt Scarlet Pictures/Capt Scarlet cast.jpg" WIDTH="175" HEIGHT="118" ALT="Captain Scarlet Cast"></TD></TR> </TABLE> <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"> <I>"We will destroy President Roberts within the next twelve hours."</I> <BR><BR>Mervin Brand, a reporter for 'The Tribune', is killed when his plane is hit by lightning, giving the Mysterons an opportunity to retrometabolise themselves a new agent. Captain Scarlet, Captain Blue and Captain Ochre are assigned to guard President Roberts, but the man is sceptical of the Mysterons' threat, and refuses to take the danger seriously. Indeed, when eleven hours pass uneventfully, Captain Scarlet suspects that he and his associates are guarding the wrong target& <BR><BR> Francis Matthews (<B>Captain Scarlet</B>), Ed Bishop (<B>Captain Blue</B>), Donald Gray (<B>Colonel White</B>), Janna Hill (<B>Symphony Angel</B>), Cy Grant (<B>Lieutenant Green</B>), Donald Gray (<B>Voice of the Mysterons</B>), Liz Morgan (<B>Destiny Angel</B>), Lian Shin (<B>Harmony Angel</B>), David Healy (<B>President Roberts</B>), Gary Files (<B>Mervin Brand</B>), Martin King (<B>Vice President</B>), Sylvia Anderson (<B>Vice President's Wife</B>), Jeremy Wilkin (<B>Operator, Tribune Control</B>) <BR><BR><B>Directed by Brian Burgess <BR>Produced by Reg Hill <BR>Executive Producer Gerry Anderson</B> <BR><BR><B>TX:</B> <FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"> <BR>UK (ATV Midlands):<BR> April 2nd, 1968 @ 5.00 pm - 5.25 pm <BR><BR><B>Notes:</B> <BR>*Featuring Captain Scarlet, Captain Blue, Colonel White, Symphony Angel, Lieutenant Green, Destiny Angel and Harmony Angel <BR><BR><BR> </BODY> </HTML>