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Thunderbirds: The Complete Collection [DVD] [2015]

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The ship's gravity drive is also damaged, and Skyship One crashes into the top of the central relay tower of a missile base near Dover. Article Captain Scarlet Events Feature Merch News News The Day After Tomorrow The Secret Service Here’s what’s coming up in November! Now - months and an unexpected international following later - we've made 7 episodes, 2 adverts and a spoof talk show. Thunderbird 6 was the organisation’s Earth-orbiting space station, but manned by a crew of hundreds as opposed to one.

The Duchess and her one asset – the painting Portrait of a Gazelle, by Braquasso – fall into criminal hands and it is up to International Rescue to save both. The original opening and closing titles were also changed, with the new opening titles featuring narration that explained the purpose of the International Rescue organisation. And - we hope - that a public release will help grow appreciation for Supermarionation and bring a new audience to the original shows whose appeal we seek to continue. The ensuing worldwide manhunt for International Rescue leaves the organisation powerless to operate in a rescue situation until its name is vindicated, just as a member of a manned reconnaissance satellite is suddenly trapped in space while trying to repair the station. Despite many requests to release the series on home video, we were very cautious about proceeding due to the enormous cost commitment.Instead, Thunderbirds 2086 was a Japanese animated series that had started life as a different show entirely, before being rebranded as a new incarnation of Thunderbirds and then disappearing for good in the space of just over a decade! This was to be a twenty-four episode animated series by the name of Kagaku Kyūjo Tai Tekunoboijā, or Scientific Rescue Team Technoboyager. The Duchess of Royston has fallen on hard times, leading her friend Lady Penelope to enlist Jeff's help. This makes the show our first original Supermarionation production to sell to television, our second Supermarionation show to sell to TV following Thunderbirds: The Anniversary Episodes, and, perhaps most notably, the first new Supermarionation show to sell to TV since 1969. But whatever happens, we hope we'll be able to adapt our projects to suit and keep the revived Supermarionation going for a new audience.

This is also important, as it finally paves the road for releases to happen in other territories, and for these new, old episodes to be seen across the globe. The adaptation of "The Stately Homes Robberies" was directed by David Elliott, making it his first new Thunderbirds episode in 49 years. The Star Crusher dialogue sequences (usually backed by Barry Gray music traditionally heard in association with the Mysterons) would often play out over the same electronic space footage created by Dolphin Productions for the two Captain Scarlet Super Space Theater compilations, as would sequences involving another 2086 addition; the IRO Datacube.On re-entering Earth's atmosphere, the crew encounter further problems when a lifting body (one of two remote controlled wings equipped with additional engines and undercarriage and used, one above the nose-end of the spacecraft and one under the engine cluster at the tail, for take-off and landing) suffers a mechanical fault and collides with the rear of the craft, damaging the escape unit circuit. To mark the event, we were also privileged to be able to welcome David Graham back into the studio to play "Dave the Director".

and The Stately Homes Robberies–were told from the point of view of Lady Penelope and Parker, and featured original music by Barry Gray. However, within 10 days of launching, we already had enquiries from broadcasters about acquiring the show. Although the series featured the adventures of the Thunderbirds machines of International Rescue, it did not make any mention of the Tracy family or any other familiar element of the Supermarionation original – beyond a very occasional cry of “Thunderbirds are Go! In addition to our Thunderbirds related-work, we've also been very busy on Nebula-75 which has continued to grow since its launch a year ago on YouTube.When International Rescue arrive the ensuing rescue is surreptitiously recorded by the Hood, and when the Tracys realize they've been set up a tense chase through the nearby desert ensues. While not exactly beloved by Thunderbirds fans generally it’s important to remember that 2086 was originally a different series in its own right before it got rebranded with the Thunderbirds name, and although that rebranding may always have been in the mind of the show’s creator the entire series was inspired by his love for the original Thunderbirds. Penelope and Parker track down the criminals in the Tower of London, but soon find themselves trapped inside with a bomb ready to go off. A staffed, pirate telecommunications satellite (which broadcasts a music programme of which Tin-Tin is a devoted fan) is disrupted by the detonation of a rogue unmanned space rocket and is set on collision course with a Middle Eastern oil refinery. What was intended to be a short one-off has taken us by surprise and the series is going from strength to strength.

Remarkably, it's five years ago this month since we wrapped on 'The Stately Homes Robberies' - the third, 50th anniversary episode of Thunderbirds. Two feature film sequels to the TV series were released in 1966 and 1968, followed by three made-for-TV compilation films in the early 1980s.By and large the English redub followed the stories of the original Japanese episodes but its tone was often very tongue-in-cheek, and it wasn’t afraid to make references to other television shows and films.

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