Official recom-mended broadcast order	Airing order	Production order	Episode titles	Airing Date	COMMENTS	Suggested logical order	Suggested timeline
1	1.	(1)	The Mysterons	29 Sept. 67	Set in February 2068, in the official Chronology. However stated as happening in September in the first audio-adventure. That would put it in 2067, while the opening of the episode reads, “Mars, 2068”. Discarding audio-adventure completely for this chart would be an appropriate move.	1	FEB. 2068
2	2.	(2)	Winged Assassin	6 Oct. 67	A few weeks to a month after the event in first episode, so that logically, tests would be performed on Scarlet to prove he’s no longer under Mysteron control. That would also give time for the Mysterons to analyse their new enemies a little more carefully.	2
3	3.	(3)	Big Ben Strikes Again	13 Oct. 67		3
4	4.	(5)	Manhunt	20 Oct. 67	Where it is discovered that Captain Black is still under Mysteron control. The landscape used in the episodes seemed to indicate that the events are happening in Spring (2068).	4	EARLY SPRING 2068
5	13.	(4)	Point 783	22 Dec. 67	Logical to set this episode before Spectrum Strikes back – as there is no Mysteron detector invented yet. Or Spectrum would have discovered that Major Brooks is a Mysteron.	5
6	8.	(6)	Operation Time	17 Nov. 67	Where it is discovered that the Mysterons are impervious to X-rays AND vulnerable to high voltage electricity.	7
7	17.	(7)	Renegade Rocket	19 Jan. 68		8
8	6.	(8)	White as Snow	3 Nov. 67		9
9	15.	(9)	Seek and Destroy	5 Jan. 68		10
10	9.	(10)	Spectrum Strikes Back	24 Nov. 67	Where the Mysteron gun and Mysteron detector are presented and put to the test.	11
11	5.	(11)	Avalanche	27 Oct. 67		12
12	19.	(12)	Shadow of Fear	2 Feb. 68	We see the Mysteron gun in this episode. Logical to put it after Spectrum Strikes Back. That this episode should be before Crater 101 is of no consequence.	13
13	7.	(17)	The Trap	10 Nov. 67	I’m in disagreement here. It shouldn’t be placed after Spectrum Strikes back. Logically, Commodore Goddard, after his Mysteronisation, would NEVER had been able to board Cloudbase without being spotted by a Mysteron detector – and considering Melody’s report, it’s unlikely that Spectrum would not have tested him. This should be placed before Spectrum Strikes Back. Perhaps at its regular airing order. (Just before Operation Time).	6	SPRING 2068
14	10.	(20)	Special Assignment	1 Dec. 67		14
15	12.	(16)	Lunarville 7	15 Dec. 67	First part of the Lunar Trilogy, where the Mysteron complex on the Moon is discovered.	15
16	11.	(13)	The Heart of New York	8 Dec. 67		16
17	16.	(24)	Traitor	12 Jan. 68		17
18	14.	(18)	Model Spy	29 Dec. 67	I also have trouble with that one. It is placed after the Spectrum Strikes Back episode, either in the recommended order, or the airing order. But there is obvious evidence that there are Mysteron agents amongst the models, so Spectrum might have been wise to check them out. Logically, shouldn’t that episode be placed before Spectrum Strikes Back?	18	SUMMER 2068
19	21.	(14)	Fire at Rig 15	16 Feb. 68	The Mysteron detector problem isn’t so much as an issue here. To the contrary: the switch from human to Mysteron agent in the case of Jason Smith was done swiftly and cleverly during the action – so that Spectrum could never guess that he had became a Mysteron when he came back from the fire.	19
20	30.	(28)	Flight to Atlantica	30 April 68	The only episode where we could use an actual date. 10 of July, 2067 marks the day Spectrum’s chart has been officially signed. This episode presents us with the first anniversary date of Spectrum: 10 of July, 2068.	21	JULY 10, 2068
21	18.	(22)	Crater 101	26 Jan. 68	Second part of the Lunar Trilogy. There might be a little trouble with the recommended order for that one. I know Spectrum needs time to prepare the second lunar expedition, but doesn’t it look like they wait a little too long here? Time IS of the issue, as the Mysterons surely are pursuing construction on their lunar complex. It needs to be dealt swiftly. Unless the people at Lunarville 6 are keeping a close eyes on things, to make sure everything is still under control so far.	20
22	20.	(19)	Dangerous Rendezvous	9 Feb. 68	Third part of the Lunar Trilogy. On the recommended broadcast order, it would seem that Dangerous Rendezvous is TOO CLOSE to Crater 101. After all, the scientists would need time to properly examine and test the diamond pulsator that Scarlet took from the Mysteron complex on the moon. I would say that the airing order would be better for that one – keeping a couple of episodes in between the two last parts of the Trilogy.	22
23	25.	(26)	Noose of Ice	12 March 68		23
24	22.	(29)	Treble Cross	23 Feb. 68	Still again the date 10 July 2068 is presented – in this view, the action of this episode should be moved up right after Flight to Atlantica, and consider that it happened on another continent, under another time zone… (which means the celebration for Spectrum anniversary will have to be quick). However, even taking into account that the doctors use a ‘resurrection machine’ on him, Major Gravener’s experienced something similar to Mammalian Diving Reflex – and it takes cold water for that. Unless the action takes place in the Southern hemisphere (example, Australia, but there’s no indication of that), there isn’t that much water cold enough for that effect to happen. So it might be wise to ignore the date - as we know now, it’s a fetish date for writer Tony Barwick, as it is his birthday date. If we follow the rest of this chart, the action of this episode should take place in the Fall.	24	FALL 2068
25	29.	(32)	Inferno	16 April 68		25
26	23.	(25)	Flight 104	1 March 68		26
27	24.	(21)	Place of Angels	8 March 68		27
28	26.	(23)	Expo 2068	26 March 68	Comfortable but not too hot weather in the northern hemisphere, as shown by the coat or heavy vest worn by the lumberjack. So either early during the fall or during the spring.	28
29	27.	(15)	The Launching	2 April 68	My only problem with this one is that Scarlet seemed a little too quick to count Mervin Brand dead, when he should be very aware that Mysteron agents often seem to ‘come back from the dead’. Is it me, or it is one of the only times it actually happens here? Maybe this episode should come well before	29
30	28.	(27)	Codename Europa	9 April 68		30
31	31.	(30)	Attack on Cloudbase	7 May 68		31
32	32.	(31)	The Inquisition	14 May 68	Cool enough weather at least during the night suggested by Scarlet going to take their coats. There’s no snow, so either it’s fall or spring.	32