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- Two series, totalling 32 fifty-minute episodes, were made; production ended with the sixth episode of the second series after Lew Grade, APF's financial backer, failed in his efforts to sell the programme to US network television.
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Thunderbirds premiered in September 1965 on the ITV network and has since aired in at least 66 countries. Besides tie-in merchandise, it was followed by two feature films: Thunderbirds Are Go and Thunderbird 6.
Series 1 of Thunderbirds comprised 26 episodes, each approximately 50 minutes long. Episodes are listed in the official order published by distributor ITC Entertainment , which matches the order of production.
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- Thunderbirds Format
- The Failed Big screen Attempt
- A Cultural Phenomenon
- Thunderbirds Merchandise
Originally planned as a series of half-hour episodes the Thunderbirds format was expanded to a full hour on the orders of ITC head Lew Grade, who was extremely impressed by what he saw in the opening episode, Trapped in the Sky. Right from the start the series promised and delivered action and spectacle on the scale of a feature film, and continued...
The show’s format of disasters and rescues enabled the writers to come up with more exciting and action-packed scenarios than ever before, with the special effects and model department then realising those ideas on a scale that even today still stands as some of the best work ever produced for television. Along with dynamic vocal performances from ...
Thunderbirds was now an international phenomenon, and it only made sense to transfer that success to the big screen. 1966 saw the release of the movie Thunderbirds are Go, which was expected to be a box office sensation…but things didn’t turn out that way. Alongside the film a second season of the television series was being shot, but this was to b...
Thunderbirds had come to a sudden and unexpected end, but the exploits of International Rescue were not over yet. A second feature film, Thunderbird 6, was to follow in 1968, albeit to similar public indifference as the first, yet the television series continued to endure in the memories of fans. Over the next 20 years nostalgia continued to grow a...
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Thunderbirds: Created by Gerry Anderson, Sylvia Anderson. With Sylvia Anderson, Peter Dyneley, David Graham, Shane Rimmer. In 2065, the Tracy family, operating as International Rescue, use their advanced Thunderbirds machines to rescue people trapped in extraordinarily dangerous situations.
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Originally a mid-1960s British television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films using a form of puppetry dubbed "Supermarionation", Thunderbirds followed the adventures of International Rescue, an organisation created
Set in either 2026 or 2065 (Depending on who you believe), Thunderbirds tells the story of the top-secret lifesaving organization International Rescue, headed by millionaire and former astronaut Jeff Tracy and based at Tracy Island, located somewhere in the greater South Pacific.
In the year 2065, the Tracy family run International Rescue - a top-secret organization whose ongoing mission is to rescue people trapped in extraordinarily dangerous situations using their advanced Thunderbirds machines.
