David Healy (uncredited) as Major Brooks & General Cope
Martin King (uncredited) as MCA Tanker Driver's Mate & Desert Merchant
Paul Maxwell as Supreme Commander
Charles Tingwell as Captain Hassel & Pete (MCA Tanker Driver)
Jeremy Wilkin as Colonel Storm & 1st Security Machine
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"Point 783" is the fifth episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company Century 21 Productions. Written by Peter Curran and David Williams and directed by Robert Lynn, it was first broadcast on 22 December 1967 on ATV Midlands.
Set in 2068, the series depicts a "war of nerves" between Earth and the Mysterons: a hostile race of Martians with the power to create functioning copies of destroyed people or objects and use them to carry out acts of aggression against humanity. Earth is defended by a military organisation called Spectrum, whose top agent, Captain Scarlet, was murdered by the Mysterons and replaced by a reconstruction that later broke free of their control. Scarlet's double has a self-healing power that enables him to recover from injuries that would be fatal to anyone else, making him Spectrum's best asset in its fight against the Mysterons.
In "Point 783", the Mysterons take control of an experimental super-tank in an attempt to assassinate the Supreme Commander of Earth Forces.
"Point783" is the fifth episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson...
composition as significant from a point of view of women's emancipation. O'Brien is less complimentary on this latter point, arguing that while it was progressive...
The following highways are numbered 783: LA 783 MD 783 PR-783 This article includes a list of roads, streets, highways, or other routes that are associated...
Spectrum mobilises its forces to apprehend the Mysterons' primary agent. 5 "Point783" Robert Lynn Peter Curran and David Williams 22 December 1967 (1967-12-22)...
Hut Point Peninsula (77°47′S 166°51′E / 77.783°S 166.850°E / -77.783; 166.850) is a long, narrow peninsula from 2 to 3 nautical miles (3.7 to 5.6 km;...
State Route 783 (SR 783) in the U.S. state of Virginia is a secondary route designation applied to multiple discontinuous road segments among the many...
then crashed in a tracking station after the DT-19 is thus grounded. In "Point783," an SPV hidden in a shop in a small bazaar in the desert is requisitioned...
Lehaie Point (64°30′S 62°47′W / 64.500°S 62.783°W / -64.500; -62.783) is the southwestern point of Hulot Peninsula, Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago...
IEN 133. In June 1981 The TFTP Protocol (Revision 2) was published as RFC 783 and later updated in July 1992 by RFC 1350 which fixed among other things...
63.900°S 60.783°W / -63.900; -60.783) is a small bay indenting the south side of Trinity Island between Skottsberg Point and Borge Point, in the Palmer...
Lockley Point (64°47′S 63°23′W / 64.783°S 63.383°W / -64.783; -63.383) is a low, ice-covered point lying 1 nautical mile (2 km) northeast of Noble...
Cliff. Named after the Thracian god Balis. 64°47′S 62°15′W / 64.783°S 62.250°W / -64.783; -62.250. Glacier flowing to Piccard Cove between Rozier and Woodbury...
Institute locates this pole at 85°50′S 65°47′E / 85.833°S 65.783°E / -85.833; 65.783 (South Pole of Inaccessibility (SPRI)). Using recent datasets...
start of a sentence, indicates that the sentence is a question. From around 783, in Godescalc Evangelistary, a mark described as "a lightning flash, striking...
Mohaupt Point (66°4′S 100°47′E / 66.067°S 100.783°E / -66.067; 100.783) is the eastern point of Currituck Island, in the Highjump Archipelago, Antarctica...
other location. Northernmost Point — Punta de Estaca de Bares, Mañón, Corunna at 43°47′N 7°41′W / 43.783°N 7.683°W / 43.783; -7.683 (Punta de Estaca...
the outer entrance. 70°43′S 166°47′E / 70.717°S 166.783°E / -70.717; 166.783. Ice-covered point forming the north side of the entrance to Yule Bay. Mapped...
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