Thunderbird 2 and Thunderbird 4

[MontyVeda]

that's so not fair Colin... your sister should have been permitted to watch TOTP in the comfort of her own home EVERY week.... if I was her I'd have put my foot down and said "You can watch Thunderbirds on DVD when you're a grown up!"

 

[MontyVeda]

So much for Google then!

never mind.... there's plenty more awesome imaginary aircraft where that came from

 

[classic33]

http://www.fab1.co.nz/
TB5 is serviced by Thunderbird 3 and Alan Tracy provides relief for John once every month. Docking with TB3 is fully computerised and the station carries fuel and supplies for TB3. Accommodation for several people is provided for when it is required.

 

[ufkacbln]

http://www.fab1.co.nz/
TB5 is serviced by Thunderbird 3 and Alan Tracy provides relief for John once every month. Docking with TB3 is fully computerised and the station carries fuel and supplies for TB3. Accommodation for several people is provided for when it is required.

That quote is soooooooo open to innuendo!

 

[classic33]

Have you followed the link?

 

[ufkacbln]

Have you followed the link?

Yep - brought back memories.... they mention Zero-X

Zero-X had its own strip in TV21 the comic

 

[classic33]

What happened to Walter Tracy?

 

[ufkacbln]

I remember a few years ago on the Antiques Roadshow, there was a chap who came along with a Portfolio that he had found in his late father's house.

He then pulled out a coloured drawing of "Rescue 1" and explained that his father had been a designer with the Andersons

In the portfolio were developmental drawings and sketches showing the development of the Thunderbirds to their final form along with the Mole as well.

The presenter was gob-smacked. and unable to put any value on them.

One pencil drawing of Thunderbird 2 sold through Bonhams for over £5,000!


The chap then pulled out a second portfolio where his father had done the same for the James Bond Franchise... Scaramanga's Gun, and some of teh cars.

 

[ColinJ]

that's so not fair Colin... your sister should have been permitted to watch TOTP in the comfort of her own home EVERY week.... if I was her I'd have put my foot down and said "You can watch Thunderbirds on DVD when you're a grown up!"

I'm sure that she would have done, but it was 30 years before they invented DVDs!

 

[Hill Wimp]

Which one was Aqua Marina on ? I always wanted her glossy red hair.

Edit - i have just checked it was blond and she was in Stingray. I know one of the girls had red hair.

 

[ufkacbln]

The female interest in Thunderbirds was Tintin:

.. and of course Lady Penelope

Stingray had Marina and Atlanta Shore

But it was Marina that got the dedicated song!

Allegedly Troy Tempest was modelled on James Garner and Marina on Brigitte Bardot!

 

[classic33]

The female interest in Thunderbirds was Tintin:

.. and of course Lady Penelope

Stingray had Marina and Atlanta Shore

But it was Marina that got the dedicated song!

Allegedly Troy Tempest was modelled on James Garner and Marina on Brigitte Bardot!

You forgot Grandma!!

 

[GaryA]

Great Thread but no-one has mentioned a big factor in ther success/nostalgia of these puppet series.
The superb musical scores by professionally trained composer-arranger Barry Gray.

http://www.barrygray.co.uk/BG/Home.html

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E06cNv55jTs


Close your eyes and listen to those awesome drum rolls!

 

[ColinJ]

Great Thread but no-one has mentioned a big factor in ther success/nostalgia of these puppet series.
The superb musical scores by professionally trained composer-arranger Barry Gray.

http://www.barrygray.co.uk/BG/Home.html

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E06cNv55jTs


Close your eyes and listen to those awesome drum rolls!

I agree - I posted that clip myself a year or two back. I thought it was really exciting as an 8 year old boy.

 

[Over The Hill]

Sad that today something like that would never get off the ground. An hour-long puppet adventure !

I had the Thunderbird two toy as a kid. I seem to remember it with T4, the Mole and a little jeep being able to go in it. Perhaps I am getting confused - our Cludo still has my action man's dagger and gun in it.