Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (TV Series) Inferno (1968) User Reviews

The Mysteron won this round but not the fight

[Glen_Chapman · 6/10 · 7 February 2011]

Even by Captain Scarlet standards this story leaves a lot to be desired.

A desalination planet high in the Andes mountains....not much thought given to where the salt water will come from to justify the expense.

The Mysterons, who prove constantly they are awful at this insurgency stuff, again warn all of Earth of their evil plans. I am not sure if it is the viewer or the Mysterons who are more surprised when they actually pull it off and destroy the plant.

The evil Captain Black has the smallest of cameos, sneaking into shot, planting a transmitter before disappearing. But for the hard core fans, the Angels are the real stars, taking up over a quarter of the shows run time, trying to destroy an Aztec temple being used to guide the errant space craft to Earth

Talk about trigger happy

[Mr-Fusion · 5/10 · 14 October 2016]

There's not a whole lot to 'Inferno' and it's unusual for this show to leave me cold. For this one, it all centers on an old Aztec temple that overlooks a desalinization plant. The Mysterons want to blow the plant by flying a weapons satellite right into it.

That's classic Mysterons, but a lot of the running time is spent on POV angles and the sounds of footsteps inside the shrine. It's just never very exciting. And when the action starts, it's mostly due to Spectrum's incompetence.

Why are you guys attacking an 800 year-old temple? Just have the Angels blast the oncoming satellite out of the sky! To top it off, the crumbling temple causes an avalanche that destroys the plant anyway.

It's no wonder Earth loses this one.

5/10