Chilling coincidence.
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
chrismartonuk-1 — 13 years ago(December 12, 2012 10:31 AM)
The BBC reran the series starting on the day before 9/11. The opening episode had a skyscraper building levelled by a suicide bomber in New York. The second episode, featuring a passenger jet used as a suicide weapon, had to be put off for transmission by several weeks. Eerie?
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clewis100 — 13 years ago(January 28, 2013 02:06 PM)
Yes, I remember. The following week's repeat of 'Winged Assasin' had to be postponed until much later on, along with 'Big Ben Strikes Again' the week after. The former deals with the Mysteron hi-jacking of a jumbo jet, the latter an atomic bomb. Whilst one cannot fault the BBC's sensitive approach, showing 'Winged Assasin' later on would have been very confusing for a first time viewer as this follows on directly from the pilot episode.
Earlier that year, the BBC had postponed their repeats of the Thunderbird episodes 'The Perils of Penelope' and 'Brink of Disaster' in the wake of the Hatfield derailment.
Not sure about the whole eerie coincidence thing. Having seen all the Anderson puppet series, you'd probably be hard pushed to find any episode that doesn't contain a rail/plane hi-jack/crash/atomic explosion. That is perhaps a slight exaggeration, but the late Mr Anderson certainly packed his shows with plenty of explosions etc.