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THE THUNDERBIRDS
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PROGRAM GUIDE
Voices:
Jeff Tracy ....................... Peter Dyneley
Scott Tracy ...................... Shane Rimmer
Virgil Tracy ..................... David Holliday
Alan Tracy ....................... Matt Zimmerman
Gordon Tracy ..................... David Graham
John Tracy ....................... Ray Barrett
Brains ........................... David Graham
Lady Penelope .................... Sylvia Anderson
Parker ........................... David Graham
Tin-Tin .......................... Christine Finn
Kyrano ........................... David Graham
Grandma .......................... Christine Finn
The Hood ......................... Ray Barrett
Production Staff:
Created by ....................... Gerry and Sylvia Anderson
Executive Producer ............... Gerry Anderson
Producer ......................... Reg Hill
Music and Electronic Effects ..... Barry Gray
Special Effects Supervisor ....... Derek Meddings
Character Visualisation .......... Sylvia Anderson
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INTERNATIONAL RESCUE
A secret organization with headquarters based somewhere
in the Pacific, always on the look-out for trouble, alert
to help the rest of humanity in the year 2063. Dynamically
overseen by intrepid astronaut, Jeff Tracy, and staffed
by his five sons, the main power of this fighting force
is its five super-secret craft... the THUNDERBIRDS!
CHARACTERS
JEFF TRACY - the resolute astronaut who founded the
International Rescue Organization and co-ordinates
it from his secret base, Tracy Island.
SCOTT TRACY - Jeff's eldest son, versatile pilot of
Thunderbird 1. Responsible for assessing trouble and
directing operations on the spot.
VIRGIL TRACY - the staunch, reliable pilot of Thunderbird 2.
ALAN TRACY - impetuous and ladykilling, he pilots Thunderbird 3.
GORDON TRACY - Virgil's jocular copilot, who also mans
Thunderbird 4 when needed.
JOHN TRACY - responsible for the essential duty of
manning space monitor Thunderbird 5.
BRAINS - the shy scientific wiz who invented the Thunderbirds
and is constantly coming up with new ideas for gadgets and
machines.
LADY PENELOPE - International Rescue's elegant, glamorous
London agent who is driven around in her shocking-pink
Rolls Royce, licence plate FAB 1, by...
PARKER - Lady Penelope's chauffeur, a Cockney ex-criminal
with plenty of useful (though occasionally illegal) skills.
THE HOOD - a tyrannical villain with mysterious hypnotic
powers and a determination to undermine International
Rescue and learn the secrets of the Thunderbirds craft.
KYRANO - Jeff Tracy's loyal servant, over whom the Hood
(his evil half brother) has a strange hypnotic power
and influence.
TIN-TIN - Kyrano's daughter, an electronics expert who
works closely with Brains with definite fondness for
Alan Tracy.
GRANDMA - Jeff Tracy's mother, who just loves cooking
and looking after her grandsons.
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THE THUNDERBIRDS
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Episode Titles:
1. TRAPPED IN THE SKY
2. PIT OF PERIL
3. CITY OF FIRE
4. SUN PROBE
5. THE UNINVITED
6. THE MIGHTY ATOM
7. VAULT OF DEATH
8. OPERATION CRASH DIVE
9. MOVE AND YOU'RE DEAD
10. MARTIAN INVASION
11. BRINK OF DISASTER
12. THE PERILS OF PENELOPE
13. TERROR IN NEW YORK
14. END OF THE ROAD
15. A DAY OF DISASTER
16. THE EDGE OF IMPACT
17. DESPERATE INTRUDER
18. 30 MINUTES BEFORE NOON
19. THE IMPOSTORS
20. THE MAN FROM M.I.5
21. CRY WOLF
22. DANGER AT OCEAN DEEP
23. THE DUCHESS ASSIGNMENT
24. ATTACK OF THE ALLIGATORS
25. THE CHAM CHAM
26. SECURITY HAZARD
27. ATLANTIC INFERNO
28. PATH OF DESTRUCTION
29. ALIAS MR. HACKENBACKER
30. LORD PARKER'S 'OLIDAY
31. RICOCHET
32. GIVE OR TAKE A MILLION
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1. TRAPPED IN THE SKY
Writer: Gerry and Sylvia Anderson / Director: Alan Pattillo
The Hood places a bomb aboard an airliner in order to be able to
photograph the Thunderbirds craft as they attempt to rescue it.
International Rescue must simultaneously save Tin-Tin, who is
aboard the airliner, and thwart the Hood's devious plans.
2. PIT OF PERIL
Alan Fennell / Desmond Saunders
When a revolutionary new Army transport vehicle 'The Sidewinder'
is tested, it runs into trouble and disappears beneath the ground.
International Rescue is called, and with mens' lives at stake, a
highly ingenious and dangerous operation devised by Brains must
be executed perfectly to succeed.
3. CITY OF FIRE
Alan Fennell / David Elliott
A terrifying fire breaks out in a vast shopping mart. Everyone is
evacuated except for a single family who are trapped in a sealed-off
corridor. Against overwhelming odds, Scott and Virgil save the
family before the whole area explodes.
4. SUN PROBE
Alan Fennell / Alan Pattillo
A research space ship loses its direction and is on a collision
course with the sun. Using some of Brains' latest equipment,
Alan and Scott in Thunderbird 3 save the probe ship and narrowly
avoid crashing into the sun themselves.
5. THE UNINVITED
Alan Fennell / Desmond Saunders
Scott is forced down in the desert by three mysterious jet fighters
with weird, unfamiliar markings. He and two archaeologists are
captured by his attackers, the Zombites, a lost race living in
a huge pyramid. Scott manages to create blind confusion in the
Zombites' headquarters, the three escape and the pyramid is destroyed.
6. THE MIGHTY ATOM
Dennis Spooner / David Lane
The Hood audaciously steals 'The mighty Atom', a Robot rat that
can be programmed to take photographs. He plans to photograph
the Thunderbirds, but fortunately for International Rescue,
during its mission the Mighty Atom stumbles on another subject.
When the Hood retrieves the film all he finds is shots of Lady
Penelope - screaming her head off at the life-like rat!
7. VAULT OF DEATH
Dennis Spooner / David Elliott
At the Bank of England, an employee has been trapped in a time-lock
vault that is set to remain closed for two years. The air is being
pumped out and the employee will soon die. Thunderbirds arrive to
save the man and begin to burn their way in. With time running out
the situation is desperate - until Penelope and Parker arrives and
he opens the vault with one of her hairpins!
8. OPERATION CRASH DRIVE
Martin Clump / Desmond Sounders
Two giant Fireflash airliners have crashed into the Atlantic under
mysterious circumstances. Although International Rescue manage to
save the pilot of the second crash, they can find no explanation
of it. On a third flight, Thunderbird 2 follows the Fireflash,
and the cause of the trouble is located - a saboteur hidden in
the wing. At the last moment, Gordon repairs the sabotage and the
Fireflash is saved.
9. MOVE AND YOU'RE DEAD
Alan Pattillo / Alan Pattillo
A jealous racing driver strands Alan Tracy and Grandma on a new
road bridge with an ultra-sonic device connected to a bomb so that
if they move, they die. But Brains ingeniously disables the bomb
for long-distance. The two are saved, and it is left up to Scott
to track down the driver who has stolen Alan's prize-winning car.
10. MARTIAN INVASION
Alan Fennell / David Elliott
Using his half-brother Kyrano, the Hood immobilizes the photodetector
in Thunderbird 1. Thus when Scott goes to the rescue of two actors
trapped during filming of a Martian invasion movie, the Hood is able
to photograph the craft. But he is discovered, and in his attempts
to deliver the film to his customer, General Strond, it is destroyed.
11. BRINK OF DISASTER
Alan Fennell / David Lane
When Jeff Tracy, Brains and Tin-Tin are taken on a monorail journey
by Warren Grafton, it almost ends in disaster. The track has been
negligently built by Grafton's crooked outfit and it takes the full
resources of Brains and Thunderbirds 1 and 2 to save the four passengers.
Then Grafton and the other crooks are made safe - behind bars.
12. THE PERILS OF PENELOPE
Alan Pattillo / Alan Pattillo and Desmond Saunders
Investigating the disappearance of an accomplished scientist, Lady
Penelope is similarly kidnaped. In an attempt to force the scientist
to reveal his secrets, Penelope is tied directly in the path of an
oncoming express train. Will he talk? But such questions are
irrelevant as Virgil and Gordon save Penelope - just as the express
train rushes into view.
13. TERROR IN NEW YORK
Alan Fennell / David Lane and David Elliott
Disaster strikes when the Empire State Building is moved to a new
site to allow development of the old one. A TV reporter and cameraman
are trapped in a cave-in. Brains surmises that they can be reached
from an underground network of streams, but as Gordon rushes to meet
the two men in Thunderbird 4, another building collapses. The two men
are saved, just before a gigantic tidal wave sweeps through behind them.
14. END OF THE ROAD
Dennis Spooner / David Lane
There is a double problem when a man who knows the Tracy family
is in extreme danger. After a dangerous demolition operation,
Eddie Houseman is helplessly stranded in his tractor on the brink
of a cliff. He must be saved - but without learning that International
Rescue comprises his friends, the Tracys, Scott and Virgil keep their
identities secure by staying within their vehicles and hauling Eddie
to safety.
15. A DAY OF DISASTER
Dennis Spooner / David Elliott
A Martian probe-rocket collapses with two engineers in its nose cone.
And then the countdown begins... International Rescue must save the
two men before the rocket is destructively launched - but it is buried
beneath tons of rubble. For hours they work until the nose cone is
finally detached and the engineers freed, just before the rocket fires
and disintegrates against a river bank.
16. THE EDGE OF IMPACT
Donald Robertson / Desmond Saunders
Two men are endangered when an aircraft sabotaged by the Hood crashes
into their Teleray Station. The Control Room at the top is swaying in
the wind and will soon collapse. They cannot be rescued directly, but
a capsule fired from Thunderbird 2 contains escape harnesses for the
men, and when the structure finally falls the two are saved.
17. DESPERATE INTRUDER
Donald Robertson / David Lane
Brains and Tin-Tin are on a search for golden treasure. They don
aquasuits to dive into a lake where the treasure may be... the Hood
lays in wait then uses his hypnotic powers on the hunters - but buried
to his neck in sand, Brain still refuses to reveal the lake's location.
The Hood attacks again... in the battle his craft is destroyed, the
treasure lost, and Brains trapped. Finally, Brains is saved and
order restored.
18. 30 MINUTES BEFORE NOON
Alan Fennell / David Elliott
When a mission to undermine a complex sabotage operation goes wrong
a British agent is left with a bomb in a bracelet clamped to his arm,
trapped under robot guard in a well-shielded plutonium storage room.
The world's biggest explosion will happen at 12:30. Unless...
International Rescue are forced to succeed at a highly delicate
operation that involves breaching the plutonium security zone and
disposing of the explosive bracelet.
19. THE IMPOSTORS
Dennis Spooner / Desmond Saunders
Two men posing as International Rescue agents save a man trapped in
a well and steal secret papers from an adjacent underground vault.
With their reputation sullied, International Rescue's freedom to
operate is curtailed and there is a man in dire trouble in space.
Suddenly, Penelope comes through with the impostors' identity,
and Alan and Scott can at last rescue the drifting spaceman.
20. THE MAN FROM M.I.5
Alan Fennell / David Lane
While investigating the disappearance of British secret agent Bondsson
and some terrible dangerous nuclear plans, Lady Penelope is kidnaped
and left with a remote-controlled bomb. But the kidnapers have not
reckoned with the radio built into Penelope's powder compact! The
Thunderbirds are alerted, the murderers are trapped, Lady Penelope
is saved.... and the plans are regained.
21. CRY WOLF
Dennis Spooner / David Elliott
After two Australian boys have raised a false alarm, their second
call for help is at first ignored. But when America satellite HQ
confirms that the boys' father (one of the operatives) is under
assault from the Hood, Thunderbirds rush to rescue. The pursued
Hood tumbles over a cliff, and the two small boys are saved.
22. DANGER AT THE OCEAN DEEP
Donald Robertson / Desmond Saunders
One ship, Ocean Pioneer I, has disappeared. And just after Ocean
Pioneer is launched, Brains discovers that its cargo of liquid
alsterene destines it for disaster too. Even with a mysterious
communications blackout hindering them, Thunderbirds locate the
ship. Amid growing radiation, the crew is finally saved, but the
vessel explodes.
23. THE DUCHESS ASSIGNMENT
Martin Crump / David Elliott
Lady Penelope's friend, the elderly Duchess of Royston, arranges
to loan a valuable painting to an American businessman. En route
to deliver the painting, she is kidnaped by two crooks - but notifies
International Rescue with a concealed homing device Penelope has
given her. The crooks are caught and the Duchess rescued from the
burning building she has imprisoned in.
24. ATTACK OF THE ALLIGATORS
Alan Patillo / David Lane
After accidentally pouring a quantity of enlarging drug into a
swamp river, four men are trapped in their house by giant alligators.
Alan, Virgil and Gordon manage to put the four beasts out of action,
but subsequently a whole vial full of enlarging liquid, drops in the
river. Gordon swims to search for it, and finally recovers the
vial - mercifully intact.
25. THE CHAM CHAM
Alan Pattillo / Alan Pattillo
Musical arranger Olsen has been using the live broadcasts of a
famous pop group to sabotage American rocket transporter flights
with a sensitive ultrasonic device, the Cham Cham. Posing as a
singer, Penelope interrupts the next broadcast, and using exactly
the right key and tempo, sings the transporter to safety. Olsen
is captured by Virgil and Alan in Thunderbird 2.
26. SECURITY HAZARD
Alan Pattillo / Desmond Saunders
Chip, a small boy, stows away and manages to reach Tracy Island.
When Jeff discovers him learning International Rescue secrets,
he decides the boy is a security hazard that must be neutralized.
When Chip falls asleep he is whisked home to his own bed, and is
left believing the whole escapade was a dream.
27. ATLANTIC INFERNO
Alan Fennell / Desmond Saunders
While Jeff is on holiday, Scott is left in charge on International
Rescue. He successfully masterminds an operation to save all the
occupants of a stricken oil rig that is slowly destroyed by fire.
But by the time Jeff returns, it has been too much for Scott - now
he needs a holiday!
28. PATH OF DESTRUCTION
Donald Robertson / David Elliott
The massive, atomic powered 'Crablogger' that cuts down and processes
trees into pulp goes out of control and razes a town to the ground.
Virgil and Scott risk death to shut down its reactor and empty its
fuel tanks before it destroys a local dam.
29. ALIAS MR. HACKENBACKER
Alan Pattillo / Desmond Saunders
Crooks try to hijack a plane on which Lady Penelope is hosting a
fashion show. She contacts Thunderbirds who force the plane to
make a crash landing. But all aboard are saved as the plane has
been fitted with a safety device invented by Brains - under his
alias 'Mr. Hackenbacker'. The frustrated crooks are captured
and led away.
30. LORD PARKER'S 'OLIDAY
Tony Barwick / Brian Burgess
Lady Penelope and Parker holiday at the first town to be lit by
solar power. But during their first night there a giant reflector
used to concentrate the sun's rays crashes. As the sun rises, the
Thunderbirds must race against time to prevent the town being
destroyed by the magnified heat.
31. RICOCHET
Tony Barwick / Brian Burgess
In space, a pirate TV station is damaged by the destruction of
a faulty rocket and is destined for burn-out on re-entry of the
atmosphere. Thunderbird 5 is malfunctioning and cannot help.
Tin-Tin picks up an SOS TV message from the pirates, and
Thunderbirds 2 and 3 save the crew - but their unauthorized
spacecraft blows up in the desert.
32. GIVE OR TAKE A MILLION
Alan Pattillo / Desmond Saunders
When two bank robbers trip an alarm, they try to hide but are
transported along with a consignment of hundreds of gifts to a
childrens' hospital. The crooks are captured and one lucky child
gets the Christmas of a lifetime at Tracy Island.
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