Thunderbirds - To The Rescue

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Quintessential British Gentleman: Just about every male English character in the show is portrayed with an aristocratic, nasal, Received Pronunciation accent, and would never dream of raising their voice even in their current life-or-death situation. The family live on Tracy Island, International Rescue's base of operations in the South Pacific Ocean, in a luxurious villa that they share with four others: Jeff's mother, Grandma Tracy; the bespectacled scientist and engineer Brains, who designed the Thunderbirds machines; Brains' assistant Tin-Tin, who is also Alan's girlfriend; and Tin-Tin's father Kyrano, the Tracys' retainer. [19] [20] [Note 3] In this remote location, International Rescue is safe from criminals and spies who envy its technology and aim to acquire the secrets of the Thunderbird machines. [21]

The Alleged Computer: To the modern viewer, most computers in the series are built after the manner of this trope, complete with mechanical winding and grinding sounds as the computers take minutes to perform the most simple tasks. With all their vision of how technology would advance in the 100 years after the show was filmed, the production team seem to have assumed that computing technology was as good in the 60s as it would ever be. Adaptation Expansion: This occurred with the audio dramas adapted into tv episodes as part of the Thunderbirds 1965 project. 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? As for our boys in blue — who take their anonymity seriously enough to attempt murder to preserve it — they merrily parade around the danger zones calling each other by their real names. Are they taking refuge in the fact that a first name alone is not very useful in identifying someone? Well:

Producer Robert Mandell also worked on In Outer Space, To The Rescue, and Countdown To Disaster. Editor Gunter Glinka and Technical Supervisor David Gregg also worked on In Outer Space and Countdown To Disaster.

The Tag: Almost all the episodes have short and usually funny scene at the very end, after the rescue has taken place, often involving the secrecy of International Rescue. (See the Recaps for individual examples.) Thunderbirds debuted in September 1965 on the ITV network. The series was exported to around 30 countries during the 1960s. Periodically repeated, it was adapted for radio in the 1990s and has influenced many TV programmes and other media. Besides tie-in merchandise, the series has been followed by two feature film sequels – Thunderbirds Are Go and Thunderbird 6 – as well as an anime adaptation, a mime theatre show and a live-action film. A remake series premiered in 2015; the same year, three new episodes, based on tie-in audio plays and made using the same techniques as the original series, were created to mark its 50th anniversary.Thunderbird 4, piloted by Gordon, is a submarine for underwater rescues. Often transported in Thunderbird 2's pod 4. 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.