This series was one of many created in the wake of the James Bond movies; suddenly everybody wanted their own James Bond, usually a member of an acronymic intelligence agency; this series did not parody Bond as much as one of Bond's parodies; specifically "Nick Fury", produced by Marvel Comics. Both "Fury" and "Scarlet" featured acronymic agencies (SPECTRUM/SHIELD), mobile HQs aboard flying aircraft-carriers (Cloudbase/the Heli-Carrier) and heroes with the ability to apparently return from the dead; Scarlet through the power of "retro-metabolism", Fury by sending his android (or LMD) double into lethal situations ahead of himself to draw the enemy's fire.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
(1967–1968)
Totally ripped off "Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD"
27 July 2019