That's a genuine Rolls Royce radiator grille at 1:06. Rolls Royce supplied it specially. It was used for close-up shots like when the retractable machine guns were used.
Using these moddels and puppets (or whatever they are called) is way better that the CGI shit used today! The thing i love about this show is that everything you see has been made for real in some way or another.
I don't know man, I loved this as a kid, but it still brings a tear to the eye today. Both because it's genius, and because kids today don't know with their missing, maybe they never understand it, it was from our generation.
they kinda ruined it when they tried to revive it a few years ago. Just let you kids watch the old version and see they find it a lot more exciting and daddy can watch as well.
How it used to end when I was 8, in those days black and white, in 1967 our very first colour tv and since then always in colour as intended back then. Greatest puppet show of them all.
i used to watch this as a kid sooo much xD.. i remember i liked thunderbird 2 xD... i always was sad when something bad happened with thunderbird 2 hahahahahaha so funny if i think about it now
Couldn't agree more chatham43 - a fantastic opening and end theme music score all round, but that extra "up tempo" part from 1min 2 secs with the Rolls grill gives me goosebumps still also! Nobody upon nobody has ever made an action series of it's type better. British and the best - so proud of Mr Anderson and his colleagues work.
I did too! And even then it didn't feel old. The best programmes for kids (especially lads) are ones which try to make things appear as realistic as possible. With real explosions, guns and what have you!
I think these are the credits from "Terror in New York City", one of only two episodes to have two directors in charge (the other being "The Perils of Penelope", directed by Alan Pattillo and Desmond Saunders)
Ah memories. Friday evenings after school - I used to sit through the whole of the godawful Peyton Place that preceded it, just so I didn't miss a second of Thunderbirds.
Did you live in the ATV area? If so do you remember how the second ad break was always the slot for Midlands Parade - the local trades ads? (Coventry, Kidderminster, Leamington Spa...)!
Ah! Midlands Parade, with that funny little fanfare that introduced it in the early days. "Hinckley!" "Stourbridge!" "Midway between Leek and Uttoxeter!" "DFS means a better deat yes. YES YES!" Those were the days!
I never missed this show when I was a kid! Didn't one of the movies end with a british military band playing the closing theme? I wish someone could post that!
@MidnightCarp Yes, that's the ending that you only get in the end credits -- it's not in most of the renditions of the tune. It's a "modal" progression -- it's exotic. Plus there are low brass playing, alternating with muted brass (1:07) and (my favorite) the flute part (1:11). But the whole song is edgy. Let's put it this way: someone good at playing by ear would have more trouble with this song than a lot of songs. SOmething like Fireball XL5 is more traditional.
Ah! Coincido con eso! la mejor serie de todos los tiempos, no importaba que a veces se notaran los hilos, para mi todo era real! ...Sigo enamorado de Lady Penélope (No se lo digan a nadie) Hace unos años, Eugenio Derbez hizo una parodia de la serie, estuvo GENIAL!
i didnt get to see the tv versoin but i did see the new movie. and i just watch the thunderbirds movie were zero-x launches it was good. there were strings i didnt even notice.
I can't understand why people diss things from way back when. I was 10 when this was out and kids were still kids then! You know short pants and worrying about sweets and comics like the Beano and the Dandy. The kids of today are so bereft of the simple things in life, like Larlio and Kick the can :-)
I think kids of my ageand generation back in the 60s/70s liked Thunderbirds or shows like that because back then you did not have CBBC or Citv like you do now for children.
I think I was 10 when this happened saturday morning 6:00 I think when I woke up I swithed the station to Ytv and Thunderbirds came on. so that meant that It still comes on. But u gotta wake up early to see it.
best puppet series ever. i loved it as a kid. certainly takes me back, love lady penelopes rolls royce, it's a shame they made the one in the film a ford. great
Totally FAB!
jambodoug 1 week ago
totallly cool ending to the show, with the rolls griil and the ITC logo in the diamond
totallly classy.
the timbre of the music as it ended was sooo impressive like a military march ending!!!!!!!
really cool.
kirkconway 4 months ago 2
I remember "guessing" the thunderbird even though they where always in the same order!!
moorepla 4 months ago
I LOVE THIS SHOW
mrdonkevin1 4 months ago
International Rescue it is what we need for real.
Skyzboob 8 months ago
its sad that they stopped making those shows!!!!!!!!... as a child i loved these shows... cuz i had no idea it wasn't real hahahaha
romthunder 8 months ago 3
That's a genuine Rolls Royce radiator grille at 1:06. Rolls Royce supplied it specially. It was used for close-up shots like when the retractable machine guns were used.
trashcanalive 9 months ago
Using these moddels and puppets (or whatever they are called) is way better that the CGI shit used today! The thing i love about this show is that everything you see has been made for real in some way or another.
SuperTennis3 10 months ago 5
they should broadcast this on state television! this is the best show ever made!
trooper1567 11 months ago
they should broadcast this on state television!
trooper1567 11 months ago
I don't know man, I loved this as a kid, but it still brings a tear to the eye today. Both because it's genius, and because kids today don't know with their missing, maybe they never understand it, it was from our generation.
barthoedemaker 11 months ago
This show is 45 year old but its stil good
xsf908 11 months ago 2
Thunderbird 3 has always had a kind of "Flying Buttress" appeal to me.
midmodgal 1 year ago
FREAKING GENIUS
QQQQQQKK 1 year ago
absolute genius was the person that wrote this with the jazz and the military marching to it, and the horn's all blended together,
absolutly Incredible,
I saw a piece of a movie in the past or a video, of this same tune being played in a courtyard with a marching band doing it,
I said,,, ohhh woooow the thunderbird's theme song on closing,
I could have listened to that for hrs on end,
kirkconway 1 year ago
memories....
they kinda ruined it when they tried to revive it a few years ago. Just let you kids watch the old version and see they find it a lot more exciting and daddy can watch as well.
FlippieX 1 year ago
Great, classic TV theme.
bmw3racer 1 year ago
this show was the best it was first aid on the day i was born
firefighteruk4 1 year ago
I am 13 and I grew up watching this... take my lead, kids :)
Joiner113 1 year ago
How it used to end when I was 8, in those days black and white, in 1967 our very first colour tv and since then always in colour as intended back then. Greatest puppet show of them all.
MrDayday58 1 year ago
i used to watch this as a kid sooo much xD.. i remember i liked thunderbird 2 xD... i always was sad when something bad happened with thunderbird 2 hahahahahaha so funny if i think about it now
romthunder 1 year ago
Super Serie..sollten Sie mal wiederholen. Greetings form Germany
12hockeyer 1 year ago
one of my favorite shows growing up! made us believe the future was going to be so cool!
does any show, kids or otherwise, convey that feeling these days?
vegasbychoice 2 years ago 4
1:04 to 1:11 would make a wicked sample!
GooseRain 2 years ago
Yes it would
Contrapunctus1 1 year ago
....great....particularly from 1.03 with the Rolls Royce grill.....still get goosebumps.................
chatham43 2 years ago 5
Couldn't agree more chatham43 - a fantastic opening and end theme music score all round, but that extra "up tempo" part from 1min 2 secs with the Rolls grill gives me goosebumps still also! Nobody upon nobody has ever made an action series of it's type better. British and the best - so proud of Mr Anderson and his colleagues work.
593OLYMPUS 2 years ago
I always feel good when hearing this. A powerful theme.
wally1139 2 years ago 6
Man, every time I hear this music it gives me goosebumps. Suddenly I'm 9 years old again.
Absolutely and completely without doubt THE best TV theme ever. Barry Gray's masterpiece.
jazza42uk 2 years ago 7
I have only one thing to say..Thunderbirds are go!
Thethridmusketer 2 years ago 13
This is and the video boludez che
CHELUISS 2 years ago
Holy shit, this was from the sixties? I grew up with this in the early 90's. Amazing.
barthoedemaker 2 years ago 9
I did too! And even then it didn't feel old. The best programmes for kids (especially lads) are ones which try to make things appear as realistic as possible. With real explosions, guns and what have you!
Kringlebeast 2 years ago 8
I think these are the credits from "Terror in New York City", one of only two episodes to have two directors in charge (the other being "The Perils of Penelope", directed by Alan Pattillo and Desmond Saunders)
quizmaster85 2 years ago 5
Ah memories. Friday evenings after school - I used to sit through the whole of the godawful Peyton Place that preceded it, just so I didn't miss a second of Thunderbirds.
leemcuk1 3 years ago 3
Did you live in the ATV area? If so do you remember how the second ad break was always the slot for Midlands Parade - the local trades ads? (Coventry, Kidderminster, Leamington Spa...)!
qpr60 3 years ago 4
Ah! Midlands Parade, with that funny little fanfare that introduced it in the early days. "Hinckley!" "Stourbridge!" "Midway between Leek and Uttoxeter!" "DFS means a better deat yes. YES YES!" Those were the days!
humphdimb 2 years ago 4
I never missed this show when I was a kid! Didn't one of the movies end with a british military band playing the closing theme? I wish someone could post that!
Bogframe 3 years ago 2
The Band of the Royal Marines.
SirBasildeBrush 3 years ago 2
Its on here. I found it tonight. See "Thunderbirds Theme Royal Marines" Happy hunting!
leethalmacca70 3 years ago 6
Something about the music from 1:03 to the end which I still find wonderfully 30 plus years on.
MidnightCarp 3 years ago 51
You are so right MidnightCarp about 1.03, I feel the same thing!
SurrealAspie 3 years ago 4
@MidnightCarp The Triumphant Return I think.
florgeysteve 1 year ago
@MidnightCarp Yes, that's the ending that you only get in the end credits -- it's not in most of the renditions of the tune. It's a "modal" progression -- it's exotic. Plus there are low brass playing, alternating with muted brass (1:07) and (my favorite) the flute part (1:11). But the whole song is edgy. Let's put it this way: someone good at playing by ear would have more trouble with this song than a lot of songs. SOmething like Fireball XL5 is more traditional.
doctorschoen 1 year ago
they still showed it in the 90s. They were good times
TheFourman 3 years ago 6
Ah! Coincido con eso! la mejor serie de todos los tiempos, no importaba que a veces se notaran los hilos, para mi todo era real! ...Sigo enamorado de Lady Penélope (No se lo digan a nadie) Hace unos años, Eugenio Derbez hizo una parodia de la serie, estuvo GENIAL!
muchomasq2 4 years ago 2
this was the best show ever
ghetoswift 4 years ago 43
i didnt get to see the tv versoin but i did see the new movie. and i just watch the thunderbirds movie were zero-x launches it was good. there were strings i didnt even notice.
whitewolfofwishes 4 years ago
Thunderbirds was without a doubt, the best part of growing up in the 60s. (I didn't notice the strings, either!! ;) )
GandSAfan 4 years ago 2
I can't understand why people diss things from way back when. I was 10 when this was out and kids were still kids then! You know short pants and worrying about sweets and comics like the Beano and the Dandy. The kids of today are so bereft of the simple things in life, like Larlio and Kick the can :-)
PS I didn't even notice the strings
filsgreen 4 years ago 4
I think kids of my ageand generation back in the 60s/70s liked Thunderbirds or shows like that because back then you did not have CBBC or Citv like you do now for children.
Amanda
amandacerasale 4 years ago
i have watched this show most of my life its stil my favorite if only they would still play it on tv
UnFoRgIvEn12345 5 years ago 2
I think I was 10 when this happened saturday morning 6:00 I think when I woke up I swithed the station to Ytv and Thunderbirds came on. so that meant that It still comes on. But u gotta wake up early to see it.
shanesclayland 4 years ago
best puppet series ever. i loved it as a kid. certainly takes me back, love lady penelopes rolls royce, it's a shame they made the one in the film a ford. great
supahoopsa001 5 years ago 3