Captain Scarlet

Captain Scarlet was a fictional character who could not die. Rhys Williams (AUDIO: The Dead Line) and later Johnson (TV: Children of Earth) referred to Jack Harkness as Captain Scarlet.

Captain Scarlet featured a fictional aircraft carrier called Cloudbase, a fact which Colonel Ahmed reminded Osgood aboard Boat One, when she incorrectly stated that it came from Thunderbirds in response to the Twelfth Doctor, who refered to UNIT's aircraft carrier, Valiant, as 'Cloudbase'. The Twelfth Doctor noted to the two of them that he had met Sylvia Anderson. (TV: Death in Heaven)

Behind the scenes

• Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons was one of the shows developed by Century 21 Productions.
• The "About the Authors" section of Short Trips: Christmas Around the World refers to writer William Potter as "putting words into the mouths of", among others, Captain Scarlet. This is in reference to New Captain Scarlett, a magazine published by GE Fabbri between October 2005 and February 2006.
• The Indestructible Man has a number of pastiche versions of Gerry Anderson characters such as Scarlet. The title character, Captain Grant Matthews (Scarlet), was reconstructed by the Myloki (Mysterons) so that he couldn't die. As a member of the organisation PRISM (Spectrum), the colour-coded officer's uniform assigned to him was scarlet. The war with the Myloki is started by Captain Karl Taylor (Captain Black) who is recreated as a Myloki agent.