Thunderbirds are 60

[Sharky]

I was a fan or the predecessor, Four Feather Falls and as a teenager, Thunderbirds and all the other puppet shows were often the main topic in the school playground.

The Peter Cook and Dudley Moore copy cat sketch was hilarious.

FAB

 

[Oldhippy]

The cgi remake was awful. Much preferred the original.

 

[Drago]

I've wired up my eleftric recliner armchair to play the Thunderbirds theme as I goes up and down.

 

[wiggydiggy]

My mum and dad made me me one of these, the actually island toy was rarer than hens teeth at the time. I remember BBC did VHS copies of it and they had to stop sending them out as they were so oversubscribed.


View: https://youtu.be/ZM_iV7R8rTM?si=kQ740sIO0KVEH7GD

 

[Punkawallah]

Fun fact. In the second movie of Thunderbirds they brought in a deHavilland biplane as ‘Thunderbird 6’.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Fun fact. In the second movie of Thunderbirds they brought in a deHavilland biplane as ‘Thunderbird 6’.

In the live action film Anthony Edwards, of ER game, played Brains. He is one of the only good things about that film.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Thunderbird one could reach anywhere on the Earths surface within 30 mins.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Aloysius Parker, quite simply the coolest TV character of all time, "Yes M'Lady"

 

[Drago]

Thunderbird one could reach anywhere on the Earths surface within 30 mins.

A bit like my farts.

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

 

[Dorset Boy]

Was my favourite show growing up!

 

[PeteXXX]

I saw a vid of the people who did the voices of all of the characters.. None of them looked like their voices!
Shame, I can't find it now 😔

 

[Accy cyclist]

I think Thunderbirds was an hour long, which as a child affected my concentration span. I preferred the half hour long Stingray and Fireball XL Five. I did see the Thunderbirds film at Accrington Odeon on a Saturday afternoon in 1966, which was quite entertaining, if I remember rightly.🤔

 

[Ming the Merciless]

A bit like my farts.

There is a famous out take where Virgil Tracy farts, and replies to the others FA…..RT.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Yes, Happy Birthday to Jeff and the boys. I once went along to a Gerry Anderson sci fi convention held here in Bristol as it was within walking distance of where I was living at the time. Got to meet Matt Zimmerman (Alan Tracy), Shane Rimmer (Scott) & David Graham (Parker/Brains) in one go along with artist Mike Trim, who designed for Anderson and also painted the cover of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds album (1978)...being geeky, I took my CD set along for him to sign. Also got up close to the (then) newly restored original 44-inch long filming miniature of Eagle 1 from Space 1999. Detail was amazing but you'd not see it all on old TV sets back in the day. 44 inch 3D printed kits are available, I built the MPC 22 inch version: