Captain Brown

Captain Brown is a character in the 1960s Supermarionation television series "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons". A Spectrum officer, he is killed by the Mysteron aliens in the first episode of the series. He is voiced by Charles Tingwell.

Brown's real name is never specified. He appears to be a junior officer of the Spectrum organisation due to the fact that in the episode "The Mysterons" he is heading his first major assignment.

Death and reconstruction

In "The Mysterons", Captain Brown, partnering Captain Scarlet, is appointed the leader of an operation to protect the World President from assassination at the hands of the extraterrestrials. However, while the captains drive to New York City, the Mysteron influence punctures one of the tyres on the their Spectrum Saloon, causing the vehicle to crash. The Mysterons duplicate the dead men's bodies and task the reconstructions to kill the President.

In New York, the Mysteronised Brown escorts the President to a Maximum Security Building. However, the reconstruction is actually a walking bomb and, once inside the President's office, exudes smoke and explodes. However, the President survives by activating an emergency escape hatch just before the detonation. Later, Scarlet kidnaps the President, but he is killed before inexplicably returning to life with his human consciousness restored.

Following "The Mysterons"

In "Winged Assassin", Brown appears in a flashback of the fateful car crash when Scarlet recalls the events leading up to his death.

External links

* [http://www.spectrum-headquarters.com/captain_brown.html Spectrum Headquarters: Captain Brown Profile]