Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

This weekend our ‘outlaws’ were invited to attend the fiftieth birthday party of a work colleague. Our neice and nephew (Louise and ‘the boy’ Robert) stayed with us on the Saturday night.
We watched a film with Louise and Robert (Mr Beans holiday, I wanted Gladiator) and gratefully ate the Heroes that they kindly brought with them.
The children had homework to complete over the weekend so we sat at the dinner table on Sunday morning to get the job done. For her science homework Louise had to find out about the spectrum. Naturally the conversation turned to the cult television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.
Robert realised that the writers of the story had been very clever. He pointed out that the characters names of course reflected the colours which make up the spectrum. But, he profoundly stated  that the colour black is not part of the spectrum and that by cleverly calling the villain Captain Black the writers had shown that he was not a member of the Spectrum organisation. I had watched Captain Scarlet as a child and this had never occurred to me until Robert opened my eyes.
It shows that it is never to late to learn. We went on to look at www.captainscarlet.com and rediscovered things about the series which were  long forgotten.