Captain Scarlet (Puppet A)

The puppet of **Captain Scarlet** (also codenamed as Puppet A) was used for Century 21 Television Production of shows. This puppet was used as the title character of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. After the series was ended, Scarlet beside Captain Blue's puppet never appeared in Joe 90, until Scarlet's puppet was later portrayed as Agent Blake in The Secret Service.

## Changes

Captain Scarlet has modifications throughout the production of three shows. These include:

* Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
	+ In later production mid episodes, S1's eyebrows was change to shorter.
* Joe 90
	+ Captain Blue's puppet was left unused beside Captain Scarlet.
* The Secret Service
	+ Puppet rewigged with brown hair and grey streaks in production of episode.

## List of appearance

### Voice actor

* Francis Matthews
* Keith Alexander (Agent Blake)

## Gallery

**Note:** Not to be confused with season of show, it was stand for "Scarlet" with the episodes were filmed in different stage from Century 21 Studio.

### Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

#### S1 (First Hero Head)

Captain Scarlet (S1) in the first episode The MysteronsThe Scarlet 1 in Winged Assassin (only in Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle)In Operation TimeIn Renegade RocketScarlet 1 in Attack on Cloudbase (especially in Conference Room)
#### S2 (Second Hero Head)

The under-control of S2 in Attack on Cloudbase

#### Expressions

Captain Scarlet's rare grimacing head only seen in the first episode The MysteronsCaptain Scarlet's blinker head was seen in the episodes
## Present state

After The Secret Service was cancelled in 1969, the puppet were hand of puppet makers, puppeteers and private collectors. Captain Scarlet's original puppet were seen on the list of auction at Phillips in London by co-creator Sylvia Anderson. The duplicate heads of Scarlet was later auction, the other version of Captain Scarlet's head was in possession by it's sculptor and puppeteer Mary Turner. One of the different stage head of Scarlet with brown hair as Agent Blake and the original brass glasses.

Captain Scarlet's S3 head at Auction in 1990sCaptain Scarlet's puppet (S1) holding by Gerry Anderson Jr. with Sylvia Anderson and Dee with Joe McClaine's puppet
## Trivia

* The puppet heads were based on either Cary Grant, Roger Moore or his voice actor Francis Matthews. The head was sculpted by Mary Turner.
* Not only Mary Turner sculpted head for puppet, the others being Terry Curtis.
* Captain Scarlet's hair is mistaken as dark brown hair due to the lighting in the studio.
* Captain Scarlet's eyes are also moving a little up, it is seen in Flight to Atlantica.
* The face of Captain Scarlet have differently in each episodes, because the heads of them were filming in different stage at Century 21 Studio in Slough.
* Captain Scarlet had a grimacing head that was only seen in the first episode.
* Captain Scarlet's smiler head was built for series, but never used and it's currently owned by collectors. It was featured working lip-sync and eye mech.
	+ According to the collector, the smiler head is exactly used in The Trap with added the plasticine on the lip to making grimace of pain after being shot by Captain Holt. The lip of the head is now change back to the smiler version again.