Remembering Ron Embleton's classic Captain Scarlet paintings. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons was a British science fiction television series that aired from 1967 to 1968, created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson using their "Supermarionation" puppet technique. Set in 2068, the series followed the war of nerves between Earth's Spectrum organisation and the invisible Martian Mysterons, who possessed the terrifying ability to kill and perfectly recreate humans as their agents. Captain Scarlet, havin