See the previous Panorama (Doctor Dolittle) for details about these three reduced-size Character Panoramas from 1968.
Being PR19, this Panorama is technically earlier than the PR21 Doctor Dolittle Panorama, but we didn't know that until recently & I'm sure they were printed at the same time!
The first three Character Panoramas seem to have been treated by Waddington's as one-offs, not being listed in later Waddington's trade catalogues, as all the full-size Panoramas & the Busy Bees were.
Captain Scarlet was first broadcast on 29th September 1967; the 1968 copyright date on this Panorama refers to the programme, not the Panorama, but even so we believe it's also the year this was published.
Unfortunately, we don't have an unused version yet; if you have an unused Captain Scarlet Panorama, please get in touch via the Facebook Action Transfers Page. It would be nice to be able to display the transfer sheet!
The SPLAT Reclamation Initiative has been hard at work on this set, so don't miss the update below.
Here's another, even more used — & graffitied, copy of this background:
I'll remove the next image one day, but for the benefit of those who have cheekily asked how these updates are at all different from the previous versions, here's the same background as immediately above, as it was originally:
UPDATE:
After a huge effort, the SPLAT Reclamation Initiative has completed work on restoring the background for the Captain Scarlet Panorama:
Hopefully the transfer sheet won't be too far behind, because we have a couple of hot leads which may save us having to piece together a recreation from all the broken & rubbed-down transfer figures we've been able to find.
For now, Sarah Jones has sent us this photo of the complete unused sheet, which of course is very helpful for reference if we do need to cobble our own together! And it gave us the serial number for the first time. Thanks, Sarah!
