It's unmistakably a Gerry Anderson show. But what works in Captain Scarlet (half-hour format, colourful props, outlandish action scenarios) utterly fails when you attempt it in live action. The stories are all terrible--I would even venture to say that they are below the level of quality found in Captain Scarlet. I watched as much of the series as I could handle, but couldn't get all the way through. Maybe it improves after season 1. I wasn't willing to stay with it that long. When you compare it to other shows in the same genre from the same era, such as Mission: Impossible or The Man From Uncle, it just doesn't hold up.

I couldn't agree with you more Observer 2. There was no television in our home and we had to go watch TV in the window of our neighbor. I must have been about 4 or 5 years old and all I could remember was that theme music the dum-dum-de-dum-dum part. And the lyrics were so vague in my memory until a couple years ago I download the theme song and wow!!! It all came back to me. I remember Harry Rule and the pretty contessa with her long hair and the fast cars and guns and hair raising adventure! I am desperately searching somewhere where I can see an episode! Great show! Does anyone know where I can watch online? I would greatly appreciate a link! Thanks

What opulence! The cars, the clothes, the interior designs, the DOG! Could a seventies show BE any more seventies? From the sublime Jensen Interceptor, to Anholt's neck scarves and Nyree's exquisite trouser suits, from Vaughan's eyebrow acting to the fantastic multi-Euro locales (did an episode ever NOT feature a European airport?)... pure snazz! Who cared that 30 minutes weren't enough? Who gave a damn about the back projections, Nyree's dodgy accents (Italian? British? KIWI??)...? This is a deluxe show, where EVERYONE has a drinks bar inside a big globe, and no matter what is going on, there's always time for a scotch - "drink?" And the yellow car in the opening credits? A FIAT 850 Coupe... so now you know.Altogether now, "All the low are living high!" Groovy!

Don't ask why some things stick in one's head 30 years later, but the opening theme of "The Protectors" went like this:In the avenues and alley-ways Where the soul of man is easy to buy, Everybody's wheelin', everybody's dealin' All the lower living are high.Every city's got 'em, Can we ever stop 'em? Some of us are gonna try...Dum-dumm-DE-Dum-dum..For the cosmic two cents that it's worth.