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"Attack on Cloudbase" is the 31st episode of the 1960s Supermarionation television series ''Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons''. The penultimate episode of the series, it first aired in the United Kingdom on ATV Midlands on 7 May 1968. In this episode, Symphony Angel ejects from her damaged interceptor into the Sahara Desert; before she is located, Mysteron spacecraft enter Earth's atmosphere and launch a devastating assault on Cloudbase. Executive producer Gerry Anderson selected Ken Turner to direct Tony Barwick's script on account of the episode's "bizarre" quality. Filmed in October 1967, "Attack on Cloudbase" underwent several scripting changes prior to shooting. Challenges facing the Century 21 production team's special effects department included a complex shot of an Angel aircraft scale model overflying the Symphony Angel puppet, and the extended sequence presenting the attack on Cloudbase itself. The department built only a limited number of saucer-shaped spacecraft models, opting to increase the apparent size of the Mysteron attack force at low cost by attaching flashing light bulbs to the backdrop of the model set. Composer Barry Gray devised a unique score at the request of Anderson, who judged the series' archived incidental music unsuited to the episode's tone. Voice actress Liz Morgan remembers the emotion of the script, while Anderson praises Barwick for his "humanised" writing of the series' regular characters, considering the nature of the plot to be mainly "dark humour". In 1980, the New York offices of Century 21's distributor, ITC Entertainment, re-edited "Attack on Cloudbase" into a segment of the ''Captain Scarlet'' compilation film ''Captain Scarlet vs the Mysterons''. ==Plot== While on regular patrol, Symphony Angel is forced to eject into the Sahara Desert following an explosion to the rear of her interceptor's cockpit. Suffering from sunstroke, she quickly falls unconscious. After the Mysterons warn of its imminent destruction, Spectrum's airborne headquarters, Cloudbase, is placed on red alert and sealed from all external contact. Destiny Angel is launched to search for her comrade, but in the light of the Mysterons' threat is recalled on the orders of Spectrum's commander-in-chief, Colonel White. This decision provokes a heated argument between White and Captain Blue, who confesses that he and Symphony are romantically involved. White refuses to allow Blue to join the ground forces that are being mobilised to locate Symphony. Night falls, and Captain Magenta detects an unusual signal in the Cloudbase Radar Room. Rhapsody Angel is launched to investigate and finds that the readings are emanating from a spinning Mysteron spacecraft, which obliterates her interceptor in mid-air. To prevent civilian casualties on the ground, Cloudbase is moved into Himalayan airspace on its horizontal thrusters, while its personnel prepare for the inevitable final confrontation. When more spacecraft appear on the radar, Captain Scarlet volunteers to challenge the Mysterons in Destiny's place, but crash-lands on the Cloudbase flight deck after his interceptor is damaged. As the Mysterons start to fire on Cloudbase, Dr Fawn is killed. Posing as his assistant, Mysteron intermediary Captain Black reports that Scarlet is dead with no possibility of recovery, his retro-metabolic ability being too weak to heal such extensive injuries. The Mysteron assault intensifies, resulting in the deaths of Magenta and the remaining Angels, until only White, Blue and Lieutenant Green are left alive in the Control Room. As the stricken Cloudbase loses altitude, Green is killed by another explosion, which also cripples Blue and leaves him unable to save himself. White resolves to go down with his command, and is seen standing to attention and saluting in a spiralling freeze frame shot, accompanied by the sounds of Cloudbase crashing to Earth. Immediately after Cloudbase's apparent destruction, Symphony wakes up in the desert; she is face-to-face with Scarlet and Blue, who are part of the ground forces that have been dispatched to rescue her. In the final scene, it is explained that Symphony dreamt the attack on Cloudbase in a nightmare brought on by the heat of the desert sun. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Attack on Cloudbase」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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