The Protectors - The Numbers Game
The Protectors investigate a runaway and discover she is involved with an international drug smuggling operation.
Nov 05, 2023•24 min•Ep. 198
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New Captain Scarlet - Rat Trap
Three weeks after losing contact with Elysium Base on Mars, a team consisting of Captains Scarlet and Blue, Destiny and Harmony Angels, and Doctor Gold are sent to find out what happened to the crew. On arrival, they realise it is a Mysteron trap and that they are under attack from an titanium armour-plated research robot named Remote Acquisition Technology (RAT) which carries lasers and a diamond-tipped saw. Under Mysteron control, the RAT has become the ultimate killing machine.
Oct 29, 2023•20 min•Ep. 197
Joe 90 - Test Flight
Joe tries to find out whether the crash of a prototype spaceplane was an accident or sabotage.
Oct 22, 2023•24 min•Ep. 196
Space:1999 - The Bringers of Wonder (2 of 2)
Koenig convinces Helena to doubt the credibility of the visitors and treat Maya the same way he was treated. Maya can confirm Koenig's perception of aliens and after treating nearly everyone, Koenig, Maya and Tony work to stop the aliens, whose real intent is to detonate nuclear fuel to provide their sustenance.
Oct 15, 2023•42 min•Ep. 195
Space:1999 - The Bringers of Wonder (1 of 2)
Koenig seems to go berserk while flying an Eagle; as he is in Medical Center unconscious, a Superswift appears, lands and its crew is revealed as a team of people from Earth come to take the Alphans home. When Koenig seems to recover after some wave therapy applied to his brain, he does not see the old friends and acquaintances everyone else sees, nor a Superswift; Koenig sees hideous telepathic aliens and an alien spacecraft.
Oct 08, 2023•45 min•Ep. 194
Fireball XL5 - 1875
Matic builds a time machine that whisks Zodiac, Venus and Commander Zero back to the Wild West of 1875, where Zodiac becomes a sheriff and Venus and Zero execute a bank robbery.
Oct 01, 2023•25 min•Ep. 193
Supercar - Crash Landing
Mitch gets a girlfriend when engine trouble forces Supercar down in the jungle.
Sep 24, 2023•25 min•Ep. 192
The Protectors - Border Line
An actress who is the daughter of a Hungarian exile hires the Protectors to help arrange a secret funeral for her father so that he can be buried on home soil.
Sep 17, 2023•23 min•Ep. 191
Stingray - The Big Gun
An undersea civilisation creates a weapon capable of obliterating the West Coast of America.
Sep 10, 2023•25 min•Ep. 190
Captain Scarlet - Place of Angels
Threatening to destroy the "Place of the Angels", the Mysterons engineer the theft of a lethal virus from a research centre.
Sep 03, 2023•25 min•Ep. 189
Thunderbirds - Alias Mr. Hackenbacker
The passenger aircraft Skythrust , conceived by Brains using the alias Hiram K. Hackenbacker, falls into the hands of fashion criminals who hi-jack the plane to steal a new French design from the renowned François Lemaire.
Aug 27, 2023•41 min•Ep. 188
Terrahawks - Happy Madeday
Zelda unleashes MOID, Master of Infinite Disguise, who kidnaps Hiro and impersonates him.
Aug 20, 2023•22 min•Ep. 187
Fireball XL5 - The Robot Freighter Mystery
Zodiac resorts to subterfuge to prove that an unscrupulous pair of space salvage contractors, the Briggs Brothers, are sabotaging robot supply freighters so that they can pick up the pieces.
Aug 13, 2023•25 min•Ep. 186
Space Precinct - Divided We Stand
Jane and Took investigate the theft of a tarn egg-sac from Demeter Memorial Hospital while Brogan and Haldane are assigned to the protection of underworld crime boss Vinny Artak, who is running for city council. When Artak is gunned down in front of them, Brogan and Haldane find themselves under investigation and learn that Vinny Artak just won't stay dead.
Aug 06, 2023•38 min•Ep. 185
Doppelgänger AKA Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (2 of 2)
The mission to the new planet ends in disaster and the death of one of the astronauts, following which his colleague realises that the planet is a mirror image of Earth in every detail, with a parallel and duplicate timeline.
Jul 30, 2023•43 min•Ep. 184
Doppelgänger AKA Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1 of 2)
Jason Webb, head of the European Space Exploration Council sends two astronauts, Glenn Ross and John Kane, to explore a newly discovered planet similar to the Earth but located directly on the opposite side of the sun.
Jul 23, 2023•39 min•Ep. 183
Four Feather Falls - Safe as Houses
Missouri Mike arrives in town claiming to be able to sell things to people they didn't even know they wanted including selling safes $5 each with a free bottle of brandy. But the brandy is drugged and Mike is actually a criminal planning to rob the town blind with a master key to the safes.
Jul 16, 2023•14 min•Ep. 182
The Protectors - One and One Makes One
A spy goes missing with crucial information. The Protectors are tasked with finding him—but is he still alive?
Jul 09, 2023•24 min•Ep. 181
Stingray - Raptures of the Deep
Injured during a rescue mission, Troy passes out and imagines that he is the lord of an undersea palace.
Jul 02, 2023•25 min•Ep. 180
New Captain Scarlet - The Achilles Messenger
Captain Scarlet and Destiny Angel are at a Spectrum training Base in Castle Balmeath, Scotland. The base commander, Astrid Winters, is turned into a Mysteron, but tells Scarlet she only wants to help humanity end the war and that she was sent by represents of a faction of the Mysteron consciousness which believes the war with Earth is a mistake. Winters is willing to pass the secret of defeating the Mysterons to Colonel White alone, but all the forces that the Mysterons can bring to bear will be...
Jun 25, 2023•22 min•Ep. 179
Supercar - False Alarm
A plan devised by Masterspy and friend Zarin to steal Supercar fails when Mitch uses the remote control to take the thieves on a chaotic ride through the skies.
Jun 18, 2023•24 min•Ep. 178
The Day After Tomorrow - Into Infinity
Set in a future where environmental damage on Earth threatens the survival of humanity, The Day After Tomorrow follows the interstellar mission of Altares , a science vessel that uses photon energy to travel at the speed of light. After leaving the Solar System and reaching Alpha Centauri, their primary destination, the crew of Altares push deeper into space; there, they encounter phenomena including a meteor shower, a red giant and, finally, a black hole.
Jun 11, 2023•40 min•Ep. 177
Four Feather Falls - The Ma Jones Story
Ma Jones falls for a scam by two con men and is almost swindled out of her shop.
Jun 04, 2023•23 min•Ep. 176
Captain Scarlet - Spectrum Strikes Back
Following the events of "Operation Time", Spectrum has created two anti-Mysteron devices, both of which are given an early field test when the secret conference hosting the unveiling is sabotaged.
May 28, 2023•27 min•Ep. 175
Joe 90 - Attack of the Tiger
Joe pilots a new fighter-bomber to destroy a nuclear weapons base before a device is placed in orbit to hold the world to ransom.
May 21, 2023•24 min•Ep. 174
The Protectors - Ceremony for the Dead
The Protectors are hired to stop the kidnapping of a president.
May 14, 2023•23 min•Ep. 173
Terrahawks - First Strike
An overzealous general seizes control of the Terrahawks to mount a direct assault on Zelda's Mars base. Ninestein makes futile attempts to warn him that Zelda and her gang of monsters are too powerful to engage in direct combat. Zelda readies a counter-strike team of Sram, Yuri, Lord Tempo and Yung-star.
May 07, 2023•23 min•Ep. 172
Space:1999 - The Seance Spectre
A surface survey team leader Sanderson, suffering from a mental disorder brought on from the monotonous lunar terrain, suspects Koenig of concealing discovery of a habitable planet. He incites his team to help him take over the Command Center from Koenig, intent on inhabiting the new planet named Tora that is on a collision course with the moon.
Apr 30, 2023•44 min•Ep. 171
Torchy the Battery Boy - Torchy's Birthday
Torchy feels isolated as all of the toys secretively make plans for his birthday. Whirly overhears his wish for a little brother, so Pom-Pom visits Mr. Bumbledrop and makes him build one.
Apr 23, 2023•17 min•Ep. 170
Thunderbirds - Edge of Impact
The Hood sabotages the Red Arrow aircraft programme. One of the planes crashes into the TV Tower in England during a brutal rain storm, and International Rescue is summoned to save the engineers inside the tower before it collapses; making their job trickier apart from the driving rain and winds at the site is that the Red Arrow's director, a long time friend of Jeff, is fired from the project and stays at Tracy Island, forcing the Tracys to draw him away and thus remain oblivious to Internation...
Apr 16, 2023•41 min•Ep. 169
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