About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 104. Chapters: Independence Day, Childhood's End, The Puppet Masters, Alien invasion, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, UFO, Worldwar, Battle: Los Angeles, Terrahawks, UFO: Enemy Unknown, Secret Invasion, The Simpsons Hit & Run, Skyline, El Eternauta, Worldwar: In the Balance, Destroy All Humans!, The Race, Cowboys & Aliens, Invasion!, The Wild Boy, War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave, Worldwar: Striking the Balance, Kree-Skrull War, The Faculty, Invasion America, Worldwar: Tilting the Balance, Footfall, X-COM: Apocalypse, Transmorphers: Fall of Man, X-COM: Interceptor, Homeward Bound, Impostor, Our Worlds at War, Auton trilogy, The Killing Star, X-COM: Terror from the Deep, Out of the Dark, Millennium, Asterix and the Falling Sky, UFO: Alien Invasion, The Second Invasion from Mars, Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance, UFO: Aftermath, Falling Skies, Ninja Crusaders, Colonization, The Dreamland Chronicles: Freedom Ridge, Xenonauts, Battle of Los Angeles, Colonization: Aftershocks, Colonization: Second Contact, Worldwar series, The Alien Factor, The True Meaning of Smekday, Nightwings, Pattern for Conquest, Colonization: Down to Earth, Inkvaders. Excerpt: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as Captain Scarlet, is a 1960s British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, John Read and Reg Hill. First broadcast on ATV Midlands between September 1967 and May 1968, it has since been transmitted in more than 40 other countries, including the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Combined with scale model special effects, characters are presented as marionette puppets in a filming technique that the Andersons dubbed "Supermarionation," a technology that incorporated internal solenoid motors as a means of producing mouth movements synchronised wit...