BACKGROUND DETAILS:

Captain Ochre is the only female 'colour-coded' Captain forming the Spectrum team of field agent. Her background lists her as a former undercover agent from the European Police Agency.

Elaine McGee is a highly trained operative, expert in handling heavy, computerized artillery (as seen in the episode 'Enigma', an expert biker, and fierce hand-to-hand combatant ('Grey Skulls').

ADDITIONAL DETAILS AND INTERESTING FACTS:

Captain Ochre is one of the two characters from the original 'Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons' series whose gender was changed from male to female in the new series (the other being Lieutenant Green). Captain Ochre / Elaine McGee is a totally different character from her male counterpart from the original series.

Julia Brahms

Although a male Captain Ochre, resembling the character from the original series, appeared in the first episode of 'New Captain Scarlet' ('Instrument of Destruction, Part 1'), this female character was later created and took his place. No explanation is given in the series of what exactly happened to this male Captain Ochre. The new female character appeared in the last episode of the first series, 'The Achilles Messenger'. For this episode, she was given lines previously written for Captain Grey.

The female Captain Ochre (affectionately nicknamed 'Lady Ochre' by some members of the fandom) became a popular character, which made quite a few prominent appearances in the following episodes, even out-staging Destiny Angel's presence.

In the final episode of the series, 'Grey Skulls', which came in late as a replacement for the originally scheduled episode 'House of Dolls', deemed too scary for kids, Captain Ochre was given the spotlight when she went after a biker who had stolen her Stallion Raid Bike.

The voice of Ochre was performed by Julia Brahms, who also voiced Rhapsody Angel. Julia Brahms also specializes in dubs of Japanese anime.

In 2006, Julia Brahms was a guest of the Fanderson convention. Along with fellow voice artists Mike Hayley, Wayne Forester, Jules de Jongh, Chris Finney and Shane Rimmer, she performed the voice-over and sound effects for an on-stage performance based on the script of 'House of Dolls'. She played, of course, Captain Ochre, along with Captain Scarlet's nephew, Mikey.