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THUNDERBIRDS EPISODE GUIDE

Episode 1; Trapped In The Sky

Writer; Gerry & Sylvia Anderson
Director; Alan Patillo

After  the crashes of several Fireflash aircraft, International Rescue is
called in to help when the undercarriage of  a  Fireflash  carrying  Lady
Penelope & Parker fails.

Episode 2; Pit Of Peril

Writer: Alan Fennell
Director: Desmond Saunders

The  Sidewinder,  an  almost impregnable tank with leglike appendages for
walking falls into a pit that contains dumped ammunition from the  Second
World War.

Episode 3; Perils Of Penelope

Lady Penelope, an eccentric scientist & the agent assigned to protect him
are captured by a group of thieves. Penelope is bound & lowered into  the
path  of  the  Anderbad  Express  in  order  to  make the man give up his
invention.

Episode 4; End Of The Road

After Eddie Housman ( an old friend of Tintin's) leaves Tracy Island,  he
is  stranded  on a cliff edge with a truckload of nitroglycerine. But how
can IR save him, while still protecting its anonimity?

Episode 5; The Uninvited

Writer: Alan Fennell
Director: Desmond Saunders

Wilson & Carey, two explorers looking for the lost pyramid of Kamantides,
save  Scott  after  he  is  shot  down  in Thunderbird 1 by a squadron of
unknown fighter planes. Later they discover  a  secret  underground  base
hidden beneath the pyramid.

Episode 6; Day Of Disaster

Writer: Dennis Spooner
Director: David Elliott

When the weight of the Marsprobe rocket causes  a  suspension  bridge  to
collapse, the rocket falls into the lake, but the launch timer is already
primed  &  ticking.   Thunderbird  4  must save the astronauts before the
rocket explodes.

Episode 7; The Mighty Atom

The Hood sets out to steal "The Mighty Atom", a  rodent  robot  that  can
photograph anything its owner wants it to. To attract IR's attention, he
destroys  a  nuclear  power  station  in  the Australian desert so he can
photograph the IR craft.

Episode 8; Thirty Minutes After Noon

An MI5 agent infiltrates a gang that  plans to enter a research base that
is  guarded  by robots, but the "bracelet" he is told to wear will ensure
his compliance with their plan; it is composed of high  explosive  &  the
only key is inside the base.

Episode 9; The Vault Of Death

Parker is asked to test the new safe of the Bank of  England,  but  later
that  evening,  as  the  bank  closes,  an absent-minded teller is locked
in...& he'll soon die because the air is being pumped out of the vault!

Episode 10; Edge Of Impact

Writer: Donald Robertson
Director: Des Saunders

IR must investigate the crashes of several aircraft after they rescue two
men in a weather tower that is collapsing after being struck by a falling
plane. They also discover a plot by the Hood.

Episode 11; Desperate Intruder

Writer: Dennis Spooner
Director: Des Saunders

After Brains & Tintin join a scientist associate at Lake Anasta to search
for a sunken temple, they are ambushed by the Hood who is also after  the
sunken treasure.

Episode 12; Sunprobe

Writer: Alan Fennell
Director: David Lake

When  the  retrorockets  on the Sunprobe fail to fire, IR attempts a twin
effort to save the astronauts. Thunderbird 3 attempts to reach them  from
space, while Thunderbird 2 tries from Mt Everest.

Episode 13; The Cham-Cham

Lady  Penelope  masquerades  as  a singer to gain entry to a mountain ski
resort where the Cats Carnaby 5 are performing. Brains suspects that  the
band  are  transmitting  secret  information  in  the tonalities of their
songs.

Episode 14; Attack Of The Alligators

Writer: Alan Patillo
Director: Des Saunders

When s thief releases an unknown mixture into  the  water  surrounding  a
small  island up the Amazon, it makes the alligators in the river grow to
giant size. IR must rescue the occupants of the isolated house.

Episode 15; Cry Wolf

The Hood traps 2 Australian boys in a disused mineshaft, while he  steals
valuable  pictures  from a nearby satellite relay station, but he doesn't
take IR into account!

Episode 16; Atlantic Inferno

Writer: Alan Fennell
Director: David Lake

Jeff Tracy goes on holiday with Penelope & leaves Scott in command of IR,
when  they  get  a call to aid an oil rig that has a leak near it that is
endangering the lives of all on the rig.

Episode 17; Danger At Ocean Deep

Writer: Donald Robertson
Director: Des Saunders

After the explosion of a cargo liner, IR investigate, only to  find  that
the  cargo  of OD-60 has a highly volatile reaction with a nearby area of
sea kelp, so they must stop the next ship heading in that direction.

Episode 18; The Imposters

Two criminals masquerade as members of IR in order  to  steal  top-secret
airplane  plans... & now the whole world is searching for the location of
the IR base. Now IR must clear themselves before they're  discovered,  or
any lives are lost.

Episode 19; The Duchess Assignment

Writer: Dennis Spooner
Director: Gerry Anderson

Jeff & Penelope arrange for a compulsive gambler friend of thiers to sell
the painting "Portrait of  a  Gazelle"  to  an  industrialist  friend  of
Jeff's. But the plans go awry when the painting is stolen.

Episode 20; Security Hazard

Writer: Alan Patillo
Director: Des Saunders

After a small boy hides in the pod of Thunderbird 2 & is  taken  back  to
Tracy  Island,  the  men of IR don't know what to do with him...& to make
matters worse,  Alan,  Scott  &  Virgil  tell  him  details  of  previous
adventures!

Episode 21; Operation; Crashdive

Writer: Martin Crump
Director: Des Saunders

When  more  Fireflash  aircraft  begin  to  crash  into  the ocean, Scott
investigates, but he  finds  himself  plummetting  to  the  ground  in  a
disabled aircraft, unable to save himself.

Episode 22; Brink Of Disaster

Writer: Alan Fennell
Director: David Lane

Jeff is asked to invest in a monorail venture but he demands  to  see  it
first,  so he, with Brains & Tintin, go on a test run. But the train goes
out of control, & he must call International Rescue for help.

Episode 23; The Man From MI5

Writer: Alan Fennell
Director: David Elliot

Lady Penelope & International Rescue aid an MI5 agent in his attempts  to
regain stolen jet plans from a gang of thieves.

Episode 24; Lord Parker's 'Oliday

Writer: Brian Burgess
Director: Tony Barwick

A  giant  solar reflector is brought down from its supporting tower by a
bolt of lightning, & now  it  threatens  to  amplify  the  sun's  rays  &
incinerate a nearby town where Lady Penelope & Parker are holidaying.

Episode 25; City Of Fire

After  an  automobile  accident in one of the many carparks in a new city
building, a small family are trapped by fire in  one  of  the  corridors.
The  IR  team  must  use  a new, untested gas in their cutting torches to
free the people in time.

Episode 26; Martian Invasion

The Hood sabotages the set of a science fiction film, trapping two actors
in  a  cave  slowly  filling  with  water,  so that he can photograph the
Thunderbird craft... & he has forced his half-brother Kirano  to  disable
to photo-alert alarm!

Episode 27; Terror In New York City

Writer: Alan Fennell
Director: David Elliot/Daavaid Lane

During  an attempt to move the Empire State Building (rather than tear it
down) to make way for new construction, there is a  ground  subsidence  &
the  building  collapses,  trapping a reporter & his cameraman in a small
cave.

Episode 28; Path Of Destruction

Writer: Dennis Spooner
Director: David Lane

When the Crablogger, an enormous machine that is used  to  harvest  whole
forests,  goes out of control it must be stopped before it crashes into a
nearby dam, flooding a heavily populated valley.

Episode 29; Ricochet

A pirate radio satellite in orbit around  the  Earth  is  struck  by  the
concussion from an aborted rocket  launch  explosion.   When  its  orbit
begins   to   deteriorate,   the  two  men  inside  are  forced  to  call
International Rescue.

Episode 30; Move & You're Dead

Writer: Alan Patillo
Director: Desmond Saunders

After Alan wins an international race in a car that Brains has  designed,
two  of  his  competitors  steal  the car & put Alan & Grandma Tracy on a
bridge with a bomb with a motion detector in it, so  IR  must  reach  him
before he faints & detonates the bomb.

Episode 31; Give Or Take A Million

Writer: Alan Patillo
Director: Des Saunders

Two crooks hide in a department store until closing, & then break through
into  the  bank  next door. They are nearly discovered, so they hide in a
cannister that is really a rocket to send toys to a nearby orphanage.

Episode 32; Alias Mr Hackenbacker

Writer: Alan Patillo
Director: Desmond Saunders

While holding the premiere of a new paper  fabric  on  board  the  maiden
flight  of  Skythrust  One (to avoid the prying eyes of competitors), the
designer, Lady Penelope, Tintin & Brains are kidnapped by hijackers.

Thunderbirds Are Go! (movie)

Writer: Gerry & Sylvia Anderson
Director: David Lane

The first manned expedition to Mars is sabotaged by the Hood & after  two
attempts the probe reaches Mars, but it is attacked by the rock snakes, a
unique  silicon  lifeform  that  spits  flame.  However,  when the Zero X
returns, its lifting bodies suffer engine failure, & it's up  to  IR  to
prevent a crash that could wipe out the Eastern seaboard.

Additional Voices; Bob Monkhouse, Niel McCallum, Charles Tingwell

Thunderbird 6 (movie not released in Australia)

Writer: Gerry & Sylvia Anderson
Director: David Lane

Brains designs an automated aircraft called  Skybird  One,  &  somehow  a
(new)  villain  called  the  Black  Phantom  finds out that Brains is now
designing Thunderbird 6. To foil his attempts to steal  it,  the  Tracy's
replace it with a WW1 wood & cloth biplane.

Additional Voices; Keith Alexander, John Carson, Gary Files.

Thunderbirds Voices;

Sylvia Anderson; Lady Penelope & others
Ray Barrett; Jeff Tracy, the Hood, & others
Peter Dyneley; John, Brains, & others
Christine Finn; Tintin & others
David Graham; Gordon, Parker, & others
David Halliday; Alan, & children
Shane Rimmer; Scott & others
Matt Zimmerman; Virgil & others

Thunderbirds Equipment;

Thunderbird 1; Scott Tracy

Thunderbird 2; Virgil Tracy, Brains, Tintin & Alan Tracy

        Pod 1; Variable Equipment
        Pod 2; Mole & the Domo
        Pod 3; Ground Landing Gear
        Pod 4; Thunderbird 4
        Pod 5; Magnetic Grabs & Winch
        Pod 6; The Firefly

Thunderbird 3; Alan, Scott, John, Tintin

Thunderbird 4; Gordon Tracy

Thunderbird 5; John, Alan Tracy

FAB 1; Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward & Parker







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