Thunderbirds - To The Rescue

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A promising visit to Vancouver turns into a fight for survival, when the Science Minister and his crew become trapped within Metal City. The domed compound is under the control of Metal Head, an experimental 'living' computer forged from a portion of Dr. Budd's mind. The Thunderbird team must put their ingenuity to the test and find a way to bypass Metal Head's massive Droid army and rescue the hostages. Set between 2065 and 2067, [8] [9] [10] [11] [Note 1] Thunderbirds follows the exploits of the Tracy family, headed by American industrialist and ex-astronaut Jeff Tracy. Jeff is a widower with five adult sons: Scott, John, Virgil, Gordon and Alan. [Note 2] The Tracys make up International Rescue, a secret organisation founded to save human life. They are aided in this mission by technologically advanced land, sea, air and space vehicles that are called into service when conventional rescue methods prove ineffective. The most important of these vehicles are the five " Thunderbird machines", each assigned to one of the five Tracy brothers:

U.E. Plant #1, the world's first underwater commercial thermoelectric power plant, is built directly over the Maui fault line near Hawaii. Progress goes well, until Edward Frontosa heads down to illegally search for a mysterious substance. This results in the fault going unstable, and threatens to destroy the entire power plant. There are also three audio episodes recorded by the original cast and released in the Sixties. In 2015 these were used as the basis for three new episodes filmed in Supermarionation style. And in 2021, Big Finish acquired the rights to the series and released three full-cast audio adaptations of John Theydon's tie-in novels.Clown Car: Thunderbird 2's pods can contain any number of heavy vehicles needed for the rescue. This is most apparent in Trapped In The Sky when just one elevator car, barely fitting out the door, looks like it fills the whole pod alone; over the course of the rescue, another three will come out to join it. Are those things inflatable? Animal Theme Naming: International Rescue like to alternate between this and Exactly What It Says on the Tin. As a general rule, the machines we see in more than one episode get this treatment. Apart from the Thunderbirds themselves ( not all of which can fly), there is also the Mole, their drilling machine, and Firefly, their firefighting bulldozer. More than 50 years after it first appeared on our screens, Thunderbirds continues to thrill and delight audiences young and old around the world! Its unique blend of high action adventure and toys-to-life magic of the ever-appealing puppets and models, makes it an almost perfect family show. Although it only ran for 32 episodes, the series has become an enduring television phenomenon, and it will no doubt continue to inspire and entertain future generations for at least another 50 years. F.A.B.!

Similar to the original series, the International Rescue team had a number of vehicles, equipment and craft at their disposal. However, unlike the original series where the craft would be given names like " The Mole" and serve very specific purposes, the craft in the 2086 remake were numbered from Thunderbird 1 to 17 and most appeared to be usable in a more general way.

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Thunderbird 2, piloted by Virgil, is a giant less-hypersonic-but-still-fast lifting-body transport for moving the gear that Thunderbird 1 called for. (This one is unsurprisingly the most frequently seen of the lot, appearing in both (all right, all three) movies and all but one episode of the TV show.) By the time of its cancellation, Thunderbirds had become widely popular in the UK and was being distributed extensively overseas. [80] [81] Grade, however, believed that without the financial boost of an American network sale, a full second series would fail to recover its production costs. He therefore asked Anderson to devise a new concept that he hoped would stand a greater chance of winning over the profitable US market. [70] [77] This became Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. [76] Casting and characters [ edit ] Regular Puppet Cast [33] Name