List of Thompson Colton Episodes
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This is a list of episodes of the series Thompson Colton: Agent of MI3. The 80 episodes are divided into four seasons of 20 episodes each. Included with this lot are the three animated features The Vindicators, Thompson Colton In Destination Piz Gloria, and His Last Bow: Destination Singapore.
Contents |
Season One
| Episode title | Synopsis | Episode no. |
|---|---|---|
| "On Steel Wings" (Pilot) | Thompson Colton is airlifted deep into Soviet Russia to steal a certain "Ma Ek Guvyin" device from a Russian base. However, the aircraft is shot down, and Thompson Colton is forced to enter with more direct means. After a great deal of fistfights and infiltration, he makes off with the device. | 001 |
| "The Dogs of War" | Unusual amounts of small and large arms are being transported from the USSR to the poverty-struck colony of Nambutu. Thompson Colton is sent to investigate, and quickly discovers that revolutionaries are planning to sell a mountain-worth of electrum to the Russians. Alerting the authorities, he defeats their leader, Dingaan Ngadla during the failed attack. | 002 & 003 |
| "The Langley Deception" | United States efforts are being countered eerily conveniently and consistently. The answer is that a member of the CIA is selling military secrets. 0011 is sent to root out the traitor, whoever he is. Spending several days in Langley, his visit seems to be coming to naught. Nonetheless, Agent John André, through a feint, is revealed as the backstabber. Colton stops André in his tracks. | 004 & 005 |
| "A Murder in the Middle of Summer" | From 21 to 24 June, seven people have died from knife attacks in the isolated village of Knaptoft. Thompson Colton arrives to find two more murdered. Researching into the matter, he unveils the unstable council member Jacob Stapleton as a prime suspect. Two decoys fail, and it is only 0011 masquerading as the final intended victim that proves Stapleton's guilt, and Colton subsequently arrests Jacob. | 006, 007 & 008 |
| "You Too" | U-2 planes flying high over Poland are mysteriously disappearing, without any signs of attack or anti-aircraft fire. Days later, the same U-2s are landing in Canada, their pilots wholly intact...physically. Suspicion of brainwashing soon arises, and Thompson Colton is sent to interrogate them. He soon unearths a large conspiracy, and must hunt down the culprits. 0011 manages to track and destroy their local base, but knows he can't touch the real commanders... | 009 & 010 |
| "One Missile: Missing" | There is a serious concern among some of the top British Army brass: one of their UB-109 "Steel Rapier" cruise missiles has been stolen. Thompson Colton attempts to track the missile, and the path takes him thorough many a country and through three continents, leading him - to all places - Nambutu again, where he learns that it will be used in another attempt at revolution. Despite symphatizing with the rebels, he stops a second Nambutan rebellion. | 011 & 012 |
| "The Man in the Steel mask" | Sinister threat messages with chillingly realistic basis are sent to government agencies all over the world, written in the language of another country and signed "Steel mask". Agent 0011 embarks on a mission to uncover this conspiracy to turn nations against one another, and beneath it a motive more dangerous than ever. Attacking the Mask, Colton discovers that the agent of terror is more than what he seems... | 013 & 014 |
| "The Wall" | Thompson Colton is sent to help an East German radiology scientist cross the Iron Curtain into West Germany, where he will find escape from the Soviet Union and its Stalinist regieme. However, all hell breaks loose when the car backfires mysteriously near a Soviet patrol, alerting them. Chases through the countryside and city ensue, but 0011 eventually crashes violently through the Iron Curtain to safety. Even at the end, the scientist is not all that he seems to be... | 015 |
| "Ten to Go" | A mysterious figure declares war on the United Kingdom, hoping to foil plans for a nationwide anti-missile sytem. Dressing in a Pickelhaube, armour and packs of ammunition dressing his craven uniform, he kills three before Colton is sent to stop him. The two meet thrice, with 0011 only managing to save two out of six targets. The attacker plans to make an attempt on Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's life. Colton stops him, but the killer escapes into the night. | 016 & 017 |
| "Destination Crab Key" | See plot synopsis below | 018, 019, 020 |
Season Two
| Episode title | Synopsis | Episode no. |
|---|---|---|
| "Destination Istanbul" | See synposis below | 021 - 023 |
| "Enter the Trenchcoat" | A mysterious figure, called the Trenchcoat is picking up machine components from around Eastern Europe, killing MI3 agents who attempt to stop such transactions. Thompson Colton is sent to trace the components, and prevent the Trenchcoat from assembling a weapon. Following him, 0011 unearths an enormous organization that goes by the name S.P.E.C.T.E.R, and a sinster plot to overrun Europe. Colton manages to destroy the machine, but the Trenchcoat is gone. | 024 & 025 |
| "Run!" | A successful marathoner and politician drops dead during his tenth race. The official autopsy cites a heart attack, the most likely cause of death. MI3 isn't so sure, and the late politician's friend, agent Thompson Colton, is called in to investigate, assisted by Marianne Suzette. Arriving at the morgue, the agents are greeted with a fierce firefight and a lone clue that just may lead them to what they wish to find. | 026 & 027 |
| "On Steel Wings, part II" | The follow-up to the pilot episode, "On Steel Wings". The "Ma Ek Guvyin" device has been stolen, more likely than not by the reserchers who are developing it. Thompson Colton must give chase. However, eventually loses the trail. Soon, though, a massive new weapon - the device - ravages the streets of Prague. Colton attempts to take it - but cannot retrieve the weapon. Things still remain - unresolved. | 028 |
| "Blast From the Past" OR "Who Framed Thompson Colton" | Thompson Colton arrives at work to be sorely reprimanded by his boss, "C" for accusations of "police brutality" and "recklessness on the job", and his License to Kill is revoked. Colton attempts to trace who is framing him, and traces it down to Colonel Hendrik Metzger, a East German officer who he bested during the War of Serendipigal. Colton tracks Metzger down, and savagely defeats the German, bringing up another charge of brutality. Escaping, Colton reflects on his job and the violence it brings. | 029, 030, 031 |
| "Colton in the Underworld" | Dr. Eubuleus Aides, top Macedonian metaphysics researcher, is acting a bit...eccentricly. The doctor, apparently has been reading a large number of books relating to the Greek gods and beliefs associated with them, and fire and brimstone suddenly smoke from his lab. When Thompson Colton arrives to invesigate, he is sent by the mad doctor to Hades, land of the dead. Fighting his way out, he eventually battles back to the lab, and arrests Aides. | 032 & 033 |
| "Thompson Colton in Gotham" (Batman crossover) | The Joker, Two-face and the Scarecrow have formed a trimurvate of evil and are ravaging Gotham. As Thompson Colton prepares to leave the U.S. through Gotham International Airport, he finds both planes to England bombed. Realizing he'll be stranded, he coordinates efforts with the Gotham Police and Batman to take the terrible trio down. Eventually triumphing, Colton forges new alliances over the Atlantic. | 034 & 035 |
| "Floating Fortress" | Thompson Colton is shot down on a routine flight over the Atlantic, and must make a forced emergency landing on the nearest Allied aircraft carrier, the USS Celeste. Thankfully, Colton arrives onboard one soon enough, and practically unscathed. However, all is not as it seems on board the ship: communication is adbruptly cut off, and the crew members act...strangely. The agent finds that he may be on board a ghost ship - or something worse. | 036 & 037 |
| "Destination Fort Knox" | See synopsis below | 038, 039 and 040 |
Season Three
| Episode title | Synopsis | Episode no. |
|---|---|---|
| "Destination Disco Volante" | See synopsis below | 041, 042 and 043 |
| "Wadrobe" | Thompson Colton and Marianne Suzzette investigate a rogue military group known puzzlingly as "The Jackits", and track them down to their base. The unassuming wood hut in the middle of a desolated forest reveals treacherous secrets, connected to "The Wadrobe", a high-security complex beneath it. There, the duo must find out its significance in the Jackits' plans, before it becomes too late for the organization's high-profile targets. | 044 |
| "Free Radical Strikes" | Universities and airports throughout Greater London are being bombed. The attacks are traced to an anarchist, and Colton is sent to stop the attacks. Confronting the attacker, he recognises the foe as the perpetrator of the "Ten to Go" attacks of a season past. The enemy soundly beats 0011 on a tall rooftop, but Colton escapes via helicopter. Researching, he discovers of a failed British super-soldier project that created the anarchist "Free Radical". Colton meets Free Radical once more. The conclusion of the fight is interrupted by yet another bomb attack, and 0011 swears justice. | 045 & 046 |
| "The Ill-Remembered" | Thompson Colton is sent into Tunguska, posing as a political prisoner in order to assassinate a leading commissar of the Soviet Union. However, the visit is postponed, and over the period of a month in the prison gulag, Colton quickly forgets who he is and his goal. Nonetheless, the visit quickly stirs memories, and the assassination/prison break is carried out successfully. Colton escapes, but tells "C" never to send him on such a mission ever again. | 047 & 048 |
| "On Steel Wings, Part III" | The "Ma Ek Guvyin" device is employed once more, and Colton sees fit to retrieve it. However, the sheer power of the device is too much for 0011, and he is captured, and told of the sinister plot involving its destructive capability spearheading a concentrated attack on the Berlin Wall. Thompson Colton escapes and steals the device, sending it on a freight plane. However, a ray of energy penetrates the hull, and the plane crashes and explodes. This may be the end - or not. | 049 |
| "Holiday Returns" | Leading members of Batman's rogues gallery are being attacked by a mysterious "Holiday" copycat - two shots, with .22 revolvers left at the scene. Thompson Colton investigates, and meets Batman once more. Lead after lead is followed, without any clue as to who is the assailant. After comparing notes, it is deduced that Two-face has the answer to this thickening mystery. However, they are just in time - "Holiday" attacks once more. The attacker is revealed to be Willis Todd, trying to get revenge on Two-face. The three defeat Todd, and Colton leaves Gotham, having strengthed pan-Atlantic relations once more. | 050, 051 and 052 |
| " 'tis a Consummation " | Shakespearean actors are being attacked. The only known link is that all of them participated in a 1959 production of 'Hamlet. Soon, demands that a certain planed production not be staged come in. Thompson Colton tracks down the other players, and discovers a vindictive actor, who was the only one of the original cast not invited for the new production due to mental illness. Colton takes him down, and watching the play later, commenting that the new actor really wasn't all that good. | 053, 054 |
| "A New Opponent" | Thompson Colton engages in a furious argument with his fiance, Marianne Suzzette, and she dumps him. Some months later, a bookshop owner, Marga Zelle, comes into his life, and soon the two are dating. However, mysterious attacks on MI3 are happening with strange frequency, and Colton must annul a date to prevent one more. Defeating the attacker, he reveals her to be none other than Zelle, who had merely been using him. Unsurprisingly, the two break up, and Colton goes to apologize to Suzette. | 055, 056 |
| "A Night on the Town/Thompson Colton in London" | It's a surprisingly quiet season, with few attacks recently. With that, 0011 takes a few days of leave to appreciate London. However, while terror is on a break, crime is still active. Defeating all forms of robbers, muggers, murderers, rooks, trepanners, famblers and crosbyter as he tries to enjoy the city, Thompson Colton sadly comments that when one protects the nation, "There's no such thing as leave!" | 057 |
| "Destination Kobe" | Plot synopsis below | 058, 059 & 060 |
Season Four
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