Me hizo mucha ilusion volver a ver un trocito de esta serie que recuerdo con mucho cariño en mi infancia.Naci en 1961 asi que creci con estos estupendos programas infantiles.Ahora el hombre podia tener esa misma imaginacion para crear cosas asi.MUCHAS GRACIAS a quien envio los videos.SALUDOS
@Doominator99 This was made with the intention of selling to the USA as well as England. Gerry Anderson was smart enough to realise that American kids wouldn't watch a show if the heroes had British accents. Whereas the British kids would easily accept American accents, they had grown up watching American cop shows and westerns.
@650bigal Gerry Anderson underestimated this American kid. I not only watched the Thunderbirds but was a huge fan of other British icons like the Avengers, Secret Agent Man, the Champions, the Saint, and so forth. English accent only enhanced it for me. I always loved it.
@jewel1260 Yeah, I loved those shows too. I'm an Aussie and Thunderbirds went on to become a staple of early Saturday morning kid's TV here. My comment about Gerry Anderson was something that I read. He tried (and ultimately failed) to sell the show in America. Only afterwards did it get taken up in syndication. Pity really, imagine how good it would have been with a bigger budget. They're making a new series, but with CGI not models and puppets. I have a bad feeling about that.
@650bigal LOL! As if CGI could ever take the place of models and puppets. Why do people think they have to remake classic TV shows and movies? All they do is mutilate it in the process. Can't anybody come up with an original idea? I'm so glad I grew up in the generation of fantastic cartoons like the Thunderbirds, Bugs Bunny, the Flintstones, Tom & Jerry and so forth. No remakes could ever replace them!
@jewel1260 I agree totally. And cowboys, what happened to cowboys? There must have been a dozen westerns on TV in the 60's. Now it's all CSI and "reality" shows. As you say, even when they do a remake they screw around with the essential elements of the original and lose the magic.
I remember watching Stingray as a kid...barely because the station was really out of my broadcast area and was very snowy.
The details are amazing.
What's more Thunderbirds takes place in 2062...as I will be 100 years old I'll let you know what really happens. Alan is my favorite...too bad he's not human. In fact if the puppets were "human" they'd be toddlers in real time.
With lots of great TV shows being released on DVD and Blu-Ray, there's almost no reason to watch broadcast television anymore.
If I were to get "Thunderbirds," "Captain Scarlett," "Star Trek: The Original Series," "The A-Team," "Knight Rider" and a few other series on disc, I'd be happy to cancel my cable.
@Watcher3223 I am also still lokking for the compleet collection off Star Trek: the orrigenal series. But I am already happy that I do have the complete serie of Thunderbirds on dvd at my home.
I never lost a tv seria of thunderbirds. What a year i remember when they finised a tv serial then i take my toys and immitate the sirial. I want it back. Please make again the thunderbirds. Many people wants to be a children.
I'd forgotten about Thunderbirds. They were a favorite of mine when I was a kid. I remember my die-cast "Thunderbird 2" toy that carried "Thunderbird 4". Thunderbird 2 even fired little plastic missiles. I wish I still had that toy. How cool that was!
@PetePuma00 I had the same one! Although i do not think Thunderbird 2 fired a missile. I watched Thunderbirds on video in the mid 90s as a young child. I remember i took Thunderbirds 2 and 4 to the beach one day and lost Thunderbird 4 in the sand. I was so sad lol.
Grew up on this magnificent work. Thunderbird's, Sting ray, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90
. Jerry Anderson then went on to do live stuff like UFO and Space 1999 etc.. The ingenuity and vision of Thunderbird's as a Global rescue team was admirable and ahead of its time. Its a shame a more serious attempt was not made by the studios to bring it in full movie form than what was attempted in 2004.
Why is this stuff so great? Great Storytelling! Every episode were given great care and detail, and like the the bugs bunny cartoons of the 1940's they were directed towards an adult audience, As opposed to today, were anything that remotely looks like this has to be "kids stuff" (no respect, no care for the work) and also half the episode has to be dedicated to selling the mandatory toys.
Don't poo-poo it because it so old only grandpa saw it!
This is great; we have a new 3D Thunderbirds themed CGI TV commercial which is due to air in the north of the UK later in the year. There is no substitute for the real puppets though and the amount of manual work that went into these shows is awesome.
the long stick judith shutt(i think it is)uses at 1:44 to 1:57 was called "the prodder".it had an early name "murrayprodder"and was used in the early days of A.P.films/century 21 productions namely to poke early puppteer murray clark when he was asleep on the walkway above the set.
"and don't forget, it's all done with models!"...yes, we knew actually. i enjoyed spotting my model cars on the sets and the bits of kits used for research stations etc, which we just knew werew going to be blown up...great stuff!
SIN DUDA ALGUNA LOS THUNDEERBIRDS FUERON MIS CARICATURAS FAVORITAS, Y PARA AQUELLA EPOCA UN GRAN LOGRO FUTURISTICO. YOUTUBE ES UN TUNEL DEL TIEMPO, QUE BUEN ACIERTO EL HABERLO CREADO.
I dont reckon Thunderbirds is for adults who watched it when they were a kid, im 12 and I started watching thunderbirds when I was 2 and its always been my favourite series and than they ruined Gerry masterpiece with Jonathan Frakes film.Come on gerry!!!!!!!!!!!! please make movie !!!!!!!!!!!!! we need you!!!!!!!!
@jonoplaysdrums I think he died. Otherwise, I cannot understand how they managed the rights to make the recent movie. With humans ! What a travesty. I am an adult who loved it as a child and only found it again on cable a ew years ago and still loved it.Scott was my first crush but now that I'm older I prefer Virgil. Scott seems so angry ! I see that they have the movie here but I'm only going to watch iy out of curiosity. I expect to hate it.
@jonoplaysdrums Guess what ! I was mistaken. Gerry Anderson is in his eighties but is still with us. He and Sylvia divorced in 1975 and she is still alive as well. He was approached in 1996 about making a live-action Thunderbirds feature film but when they finally got around to it in 2004 they had the gall to not want him to have anything to do with it.Then they wanted to pay him to endorse it but he said no. Considering what a flop it was, he was probably glad he wasn't involved. FAB !
@thebackgroundartiste if u actually bothered to search google first you would have found the wikipedia page about him which states he is alive and well
@nvstewart Wich episode then? I've watched al 32 episodes 25.000 times and it is very rare when John and Virgil are in the same frame. So if you could tell me? :) Becouse then there is something I missed...
@nikedorchain I do not know sorry :( It was a very long time ago, 15 years or more. I am not a huge fan, but i used to watch it from time to time. BTW, i am talking about the scene where the aircraft had undercarriage malfunction and had to land on the 3 vehicles.
@nikedorchain However, i am a fan of "Terrahawks" made by the same person, loved watching this in the morning. I have the boxset. Shame they only made 1 series
@nvstewart I never really liked Terrahawks, but I am a big fan of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and the New Captain Scarlet. And with Thunderbirds I think those 3 are Gerry Andersons best. But then again, that's different for everyone ey ;)
It's been confirmed that Gerry & his crew were commissioned by NASA to film the Landing On The Moon footage. Sorry to burst anyone's bubble, but the moon landing was faked.
By the way, the Chinese discovered America long before Columbus did. Google it!
Me 50 YRS now got my granson only 3 yrs sat on mi knee singin da da da dar thunderbirds ar go say no more . will b doin same 2 is kids dont make them like that any more got kids brains workin
Without the genius of three men, my chidhood in the sixties and seventies would have been dull and dark. All thanks to Gerry Anderson, Irwin Allen, and Gene Roddenberry.
the way they walk is sorta silly but they still rock and all the shows themes my dad showed me for the first tme made me laugh the first time i saw the steves face in fireball xl5 i was laughing the next day turned out i pulled something in my stomach form laughing so hard
There was definitely toys made for these shows in the late 60's early 70's. I remember my brother had a die-cast metal Thunderbird 2 with Thunderbird 4 that came out of the bottom of it. I can still remember going down to the local corner shop with my mum to buy me a Captain Scarlet 12" action figure. The store owner had to take us in to his store room a few shops along and climb over all these cardboard boxes for around 20 mins until he found it. Good memories LOL
This stuff was great and way ahead of it's time. Anyone who knocks this as 'crappy,' in my opinion, has no appreciation of anything that came before them. I dare say that a lot of Gerry Anderson's stuff from the 60's will still hold up against most of the CGI stuff out today. And it definitely kicks the shit out of the crappy, Saturday morning animation cranked out these days.
Totally agree !!!!! Thunderbirds was part of my childhood. Along with Bugs Bunny, H.R. Puffin Stuff, Hong Kong Phoeey, Top Cat, the Muppets and don't ever forget Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids !!!!
I'm a little older than that-I go back to Soupy Sales (RIP) Chuck McCann and alike but I also fully agree on Bugs Bunny and add the original B&W Popeyes as well.
Hey Im 13 and Thunderbirds is the best thing that happened to me along with Stingray, Captain scarlet, Looney tunes, scooby doo and loads of the other shows
Hey today in Australia this is replayed on TV. Very popular with the next generation of kids, they love it - rockets, bad guys, rescues, explosions - everything a 6yo boy likes on TV... plus so many toys at the toy shops.
Thunderbirds was never that big here in New York when I was a kid in the 1960s. It was popular, but we never had the toys that i recall. I guess this could be explianed that media marketing is a gigantic industry now which we did not have then.
It was brilliant and way ahead of its time i watched it as a kid in the 70s and we all thought it was great ,the poms were way ahead in alot of their ideas ,compared to the amateur ,lazy ,trashy uninspiring tv shows ,movies, we have today made and acted by people with zero talent who think they are ''Something'' !
Actually the commentator was wrong about the airplane landing gear being faulty, there was a bomb strapped to the landing gear and they couldn't lower the gear because of that if I remember correctly. To add to the drama I think Lady Penelope was on the plane too or Tin Tin?
Tin Tin was on the plane, while Lady Penelope had had to go after The Hood, who had taken advantage of the situation to photograph Thunderbird 1... Very nice plot !
If I remember correctly the first shooting of Trapped in the Sky was only 25 minutes long, but the guy above Gerry Anderson decided that it should be more cinematic so he gave him a 50 minute timeslot so they had to padd the episode out. I think that's when they added the The Hood subplot and maybe even Penelope's and Tin Tin's parts too. In any case I'm 100% sure that the first car failing was added in later (or rather some failed footage was used, which is why it looks degraded at that point).
The 'guy' you refer to who was above Gerry Anderson was Lew Grade head of ATV who helped produce Thunderbirds for ITV in Britain and also sold the rights abroad too.
That's great! Is good to have this kind of videos available, so new generations can see that not all fun is (or was) in computers. Good series, and it shows that creativity can make wonders. I love this series!
1965. We used to watch THUNDERBIRDS in 1966, when we were in kindergarten. I remember seeing THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO, and THUNDERBIRD 6, and JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN fresh in the theatre. I watched the moon-landing in 1969 in Manchester, UK, on the telly. The 60's were a magical time, when mankind had no boundaries. Now, they keep giving us boundaries.
im guessing this was done before the first episode was released and the production didn't want to give the true story line or time away thus saying it was in 2000 AND saying the airliner's wheels won't come down when (as all diehard thunderbirds fans will know) that the evil hood attached a bomb to the undercarriage.
Legend, i got the dvd box set for my 18th birthday and no im not sad, its just 1 of them timeless pieces of television history, im just glad it came on tv again when I was a small child in the early 90's.
And yeh, FAB was just used because in the 60's when the show originally was made, people were using the word 'fab' on the streets.
Haha think, if it was made now, they would say 'SAFE' every time they spoke over the radio XD lol
John Tracey in Thuderbird 5: How did he not go mad stuck up in space by himself. He was always ridiculously well groomed and enthusiastic when he got his one brief radio call per week. Any normal young bloke would have been dishevelled and apathetic with a massive porn stash.
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so cool how they filmed thunderbirds and stingray
tibbington 1 day ago
This is a true historical treasure! Thanks very much for posting!
visor109 2 weeks ago
this is stingray not thunderbirds
tornadoe13 1 month ago
work as making ultraman ?
bilotin 1 month ago
I still can't figer it out how they do the explosions and stuff :p. Modern movies it is just some green screen activities..
EmielM94 2 months ago
nothing can replace the excitement of seeing all this as a child on the TV and cinema in the 60's,
captainumbnuts2 2 months ago
Oh, are there any seats left?
barrywilliamsmb 4 months ago
Such skill involved... models and puppets are awesome.
GavSalkeld 4 months ago
Lol, an atomic airliner from the year 2000 XD
CyclonicTuna023 4 months ago
I was born in the late 90s and this is one of my favourite TV shows. I still watch it on DVD to this day!
sam199681 4 months ago
Me hizo mucha ilusion volver a ver un trocito de esta serie que recuerdo con mucho cariño en mi infancia.Naci en 1961 asi que creci con estos estupendos programas infantiles.Ahora el hombre podia tener esa misma imaginacion para crear cosas asi.MUCHAS GRACIAS a quien envio los videos.SALUDOS
danuoscar 5 months ago
'its the year 2000' lmao
wildone106 5 months ago in playlist Thunderbirds Gerry Andrson Tv 60s
0:46, what episode of stingray was that from?
TheNw1218 6 months ago
Its strange that this was made by Britain yet the main characters are always american :(
Doominator99 6 months ago
@Doominator99 Though London, and British technology is the centre of the world.
Also, Lady Penelope and Parker. And Captain Scarlet had a hell of a lot more Britons in it.
SerenissimaRepublica 6 months ago
@Doominator99 No they were not..it's like saying the Beatles were American..
neukertification 4 months ago
@Doominator99 This was made with the intention of selling to the USA as well as England. Gerry Anderson was smart enough to realise that American kids wouldn't watch a show if the heroes had British accents. Whereas the British kids would easily accept American accents, they had grown up watching American cop shows and westerns.
650bigal 3 months ago
@650bigal Gerry Anderson underestimated this American kid. I not only watched the Thunderbirds but was a huge fan of other British icons like the Avengers, Secret Agent Man, the Champions, the Saint, and so forth. English accent only enhanced it for me. I always loved it.
jewel1260 3 months ago
@jewel1260 Yeah, I loved those shows too. I'm an Aussie and Thunderbirds went on to become a staple of early Saturday morning kid's TV here. My comment about Gerry Anderson was something that I read. He tried (and ultimately failed) to sell the show in America. Only afterwards did it get taken up in syndication. Pity really, imagine how good it would have been with a bigger budget. They're making a new series, but with CGI not models and puppets. I have a bad feeling about that.
650bigal 3 months ago
@650bigal LOL! As if CGI could ever take the place of models and puppets. Why do people think they have to remake classic TV shows and movies? All they do is mutilate it in the process. Can't anybody come up with an original idea? I'm so glad I grew up in the generation of fantastic cartoons like the Thunderbirds, Bugs Bunny, the Flintstones, Tom & Jerry and so forth. No remakes could ever replace them!
jewel1260 3 months ago
@jewel1260 I agree totally. And cowboys, what happened to cowboys? There must have been a dozen westerns on TV in the 60's. Now it's all CSI and "reality" shows. As you say, even when they do a remake they screw around with the essential elements of the original and lose the magic.
650bigal 3 months ago
Its year 2000 no globla warming then ???
It dosent mention world debt
and of course health and safety
The good old days
nylonTS 6 months ago
ST MICHAEL COLLEGE!!!!!!!!!!
LordSnook 7 months ago
I remember watching Stingray as a kid...barely because the station was really out of my broadcast area and was very snowy.
The details are amazing.
What's more Thunderbirds takes place in 2062...as I will be 100 years old I'll let you know what really happens. Alan is my favorite...too bad he's not human. In fact if the puppets were "human" they'd be toddlers in real time.
lajmh 8 months ago
Good Stuff
JG40061 8 months ago
loved thunderbirds, stingray, fireball xl5...I was too young for supercar
PeterMayer 8 months ago
I do have this complete serie on DVD at home. I watch the serie very often. this serie is tham good
heidi4147 8 months ago
@heidi4147
With lots of great TV shows being released on DVD and Blu-Ray, there's almost no reason to watch broadcast television anymore.
If I were to get "Thunderbirds," "Captain Scarlett," "Star Trek: The Original Series," "The A-Team," "Knight Rider" and a few other series on disc, I'd be happy to cancel my cable.
Watcher3223 6 months ago
@Watcher3223 I am also still lokking for the compleet collection off Star Trek: the orrigenal series. But I am already happy that I do have the complete serie of Thunderbirds on dvd at my home.
heidi4147 6 months ago
derka derka, muhammed jihad
EyEnOtgAy 9 months ago
I never lost a tv seria of thunderbirds. What a year i remember when they finised a tv serial then i take my toys and immitate the sirial. I want it back. Please make again the thunderbirds. Many people wants to be a children.
t21267 9 months ago
12 people haven't watch Thunderbirds
jvfass 9 months ago
These puppets freaked me out back in 1067. I kept thinking, why are their heads always SQUARE?????
2degucitas 9 months ago
@2degucitas Parce que ce sont des anglais...
1899lpv 9 months ago
@1899lpv Ouis, c'est vrai!!!
2degucitas 9 months ago
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CDaniloC1 9 months ago
my world collapsed and now what will become of me.,.,.,.
CDaniloC1 9 months ago
the opening credits of thunderbirds are the most exciting of all the series though.
stebuzz57 10 months ago
The appearance of Supermarionation puppets got much more lifelike by the time of "Thunderbirds".
Many "Supercar" puppets looked like cartoon characters.
In "Fireball XL-5", they began to look more human, and in "Stingray", they became more realistic than that.
But by "Thunderbirds", the puppets began to look real, and even more so in "Captain Scarlet".
altfactor 10 months ago
1.13 - short back and sides sir ?
carzmine9 11 months ago
I hate it when people try to tell me that Team America is the first of its kind. Please do your research, kids.
SK84ANGELDUST 11 months ago
The bring the age old art of puppetry... truly into the 20TH CENTURY!!
danmufcwwe 11 months ago
Lol once I was thinking about making a Thundersbirds Lego show but they were under water, about a week later I found out about Stingray! xD
RobloxAiy123 11 months ago
Prepare for excitement:D
csvictory12 1 year ago
why the f@$k is thunderbirds in color when my mom watched it on TV on the 60s?
jason123456789210 11 months ago
I'd forgotten about Thunderbirds. They were a favorite of mine when I was a kid. I remember my die-cast "Thunderbird 2" toy that carried "Thunderbird 4". Thunderbird 2 even fired little plastic missiles. I wish I still had that toy. How cool that was!
Thanks for the memories!
PetePuma00 1 year ago
@PetePuma00 I had the same one! Although i do not think Thunderbird 2 fired a missile. I watched Thunderbirds on video in the mid 90s as a young child. I remember i took Thunderbirds 2 and 4 to the beach one day and lost Thunderbird 4 in the sand. I was so sad lol.
watchingvids101 10 months ago
Fantastic TV Show!
I really miss it.
GRwarrior77 1 year ago
Grew up on this magnificent work. Thunderbird's, Sting ray, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90
. Jerry Anderson then went on to do live stuff like UFO and Space 1999 etc.. The ingenuity and vision of Thunderbird's as a Global rescue team was admirable and ahead of its time. Its a shame a more serious attempt was not made by the studios to bring it in full movie form than what was attempted in 2004.
Inatsikap 1 year ago
Me recuerda mi niñez, the Thunderbirds, fabulosa serie, yo lo veía en los 70s, en el canal 3 de Guatemala.
lu258369 1 year ago
I feel sorry for the kids today. They don't get to see great shows like Thunderbirds or Johnny Quest.
htc6600 1 year ago
i love this serie. all the people that made it possible were a genius!. in this days all is made with computers and green/blue screen.
MrAndres 1 year ago
The yr 2,000?? did we miss something in our own technology lol
peternoer 1 year ago
Hair club for Puppets
WID7 1 year ago
In the year 2000.. xD
hahah.. this is so cool!
HasseBeckett97 1 year ago
I have never seen the scene at 2:02 in a episode
noob1138 1 year ago
Why is this stuff so great? Great Storytelling! Every episode were given great care and detail, and like the the bugs bunny cartoons of the 1940's they were directed towards an adult audience, As opposed to today, were anything that remotely looks like this has to be "kids stuff" (no respect, no care for the work) and also half the episode has to be dedicated to selling the mandatory toys.
Don't poo-poo it because it so old only grandpa saw it!
Nobody bad mouths Rembrandt and his older!
Thunderdragon 1 year ago 6
This is great; we have a new 3D Thunderbirds themed CGI TV commercial which is due to air in the north of the UK later in the year. There is no substitute for the real puppets though and the amount of manual work that went into these shows is awesome.
0800Repair 1 year ago
"its the year 2000" We wish lol
windogmassey1 1 year ago
America FUCK YEAH
nightskull23 1 year ago
the long stick judith shutt(i think it is)uses at 1:44 to 1:57 was called "the prodder".it had an early name "murrayprodder"and was used in the early days of A.P.films/century 21 productions namely to poke early puppteer murray clark when he was asleep on the walkway above the set.
masterstarfox 1 year ago 3
es estupendo el trabajo de estos camaradas que realizaron una exelente serie espero verla nuevamente aca en mexico felicidades att. eduardo jp
elreydelvideoantoni 1 year ago
"and don't forget, it's all done with models!"...yes, we knew actually. i enjoyed spotting my model cars on the sets and the bits of kits used for research stations etc, which we just knew werew going to be blown up...great stuff!
cosycleaner 1 year ago
the future - year 2000 lol. This is amazing puppetry though!
muppetspuppets 1 year ago
I loved the thunderbirds they were so ahead of their time...
ChaCha157 1 year ago
This makes me cringe, i'm scared of puppets, there just awfull lmao haha
08albert94 1 year ago
SIN DUDA ALGUNA LOS THUNDEERBIRDS FUERON MIS CARICATURAS FAVORITAS, Y PARA AQUELLA EPOCA UN GRAN LOGRO FUTURISTICO. YOUTUBE ES UN TUNEL DEL TIEMPO, QUE BUEN ACIERTO EL HABERLO CREADO.
FCOHERTZ 1 year ago
'Technicians' - that is the key word. The many careful and loving hours spent to get one shot. 'Painstaking artistry' is a dying art.
portantwas 1 year ago
I dont reckon Thunderbirds is for adults who watched it when they were a kid, im 12 and I started watching thunderbirds when I was 2 and its always been my favourite series and than they ruined Gerry masterpiece with Jonathan Frakes film.Come on gerry!!!!!!!!!!!! please make movie !!!!!!!!!!!!! we need you!!!!!!!!
jonoplaysdrums 1 year ago
@jonoplaysdrums I think he died. Otherwise, I cannot understand how they managed the rights to make the recent movie. With humans ! What a travesty. I am an adult who loved it as a child and only found it again on cable a ew years ago and still loved it.Scott was my first crush but now that I'm older I prefer Virgil. Scott seems so angry ! I see that they have the movie here but I'm only going to watch iy out of curiosity. I expect to hate it.
thebackgroundartiste 1 year ago
@thebackgroundartiste bummer that he died, the show was as good as spongebob
jonoplaysdrums 1 year ago
@jonoplaysdrums Guess what ! I was mistaken. Gerry Anderson is in his eighties but is still with us. He and Sylvia divorced in 1975 and she is still alive as well. He was approached in 1996 about making a live-action Thunderbirds feature film but when they finally got around to it in 2004 they had the gall to not want him to have anything to do with it.Then they wanted to pay him to endorse it but he said no. Considering what a flop it was, he was probably glad he wasn't involved. FAB !
thebackgroundartiste 1 year ago
@thebackgroundartiste The 2004 "Thunderbirds" movie might not have flopped if Gerry Anderson had been at least a consultant, if not the producer.
Are you sure Gerry and Sylvia divorced in 1975?? I thought it was a couple of years later, after "Space 1999" ended.
altfactor 10 months ago
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pumapride2691 1 year ago
@thebackgroundartiste if u actually bothered to search google first you would have found the wikipedia page about him which states he is alive and well
pumapride2691 1 year ago
@pumapride2691 Not everyone bows to the "great " wikipedia.
thebackgroundartiste 1 year ago
@thebackgroundartiste wikipedia wasnt the only page i found, it was just the most well known one that stated the fact
pumapride2691 1 year ago
The production logo drummer at the end is the real payoff here.
Geritopia 1 year ago
2:20 what episode was this?
themermaidsecret 1 year ago
none, it was probably a test of some sort or a 'demo' made for this tv program (wich was included on the DVD series)
nikedorchain 1 year ago
@nikedorchain Its not a test, i remember seeing this episode when i was younger
nvstewart 1 year ago
@nvstewart Wich episode then? I've watched al 32 episodes 25.000 times and it is very rare when John and Virgil are in the same frame. So if you could tell me? :) Becouse then there is something I missed...
nikedorchain 1 year ago
@nikedorchain I do not know sorry :( It was a very long time ago, 15 years or more. I am not a huge fan, but i used to watch it from time to time. BTW, i am talking about the scene where the aircraft had undercarriage malfunction and had to land on the 3 vehicles.
nvstewart 1 year ago
@nikedorchain However, i am a fan of "Terrahawks" made by the same person, loved watching this in the morning. I have the boxset. Shame they only made 1 series
nvstewart 1 year ago
@nvstewart I never really liked Terrahawks, but I am a big fan of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and the New Captain Scarlet. And with Thunderbirds I think those 3 are Gerry Andersons best. But then again, that's different for everyone ey ;)
nikedorchain 1 year ago
America!! Fuck yeah!!!
hellodarkness84 1 year ago
Gotta love the World Parade show ending with the guy playing two drums on a horse...classic!
HunterMann 1 year ago
It's been confirmed that Gerry & his crew were commissioned by NASA to film the Landing On The Moon footage. Sorry to burst anyone's bubble, but the moon landing was faked.
By the way, the Chinese discovered America long before Columbus did. Google it!
HunterMann 1 year ago
",,,Stingray goes to many countries, including Kenya and Bermuda." Gosh, you rarely here of those two places mentioned in the same sentence!
HunterMann 1 year ago
Me 50 YRS now got my granson only 3 yrs sat on mi knee singin da da da dar thunderbirds ar go say no more . will b doin same 2 is kids dont make them like that any more got kids brains workin
01yorki 2 years ago
1:29 :-o
salmonico 2 years ago
kill it... Kill it! KIIILLLLL IIIIITT!!!!!!!!!!
RedIV 2 years ago
Without the genius of three men, my chidhood in the sixties and seventies would have been dull and dark. All thanks to Gerry Anderson, Irwin Allen, and Gene Roddenberry.
1959cwb 2 years ago 12
"IT'S THE YEAR 2000" - Yup, sure is.....just like that. BTW what is COITus?
LWall2000 2 years ago
I have a Brains-mask.
Rillzan 2 years ago
the way they walk is sorta silly but they still rock and all the shows themes my dad showed me for the first tme made me laugh the first time i saw the steves face in fireball xl5 i was laughing the next day turned out i pulled something in my stomach form laughing so hard
MutantKids 2 years ago
uh.. I hope you all know puppets are evil and they all come to life at night.
GomerDose 2 years ago
I knew that :D
ighforever 1 year ago
There was definitely toys made for these shows in the late 60's early 70's. I remember my brother had a die-cast metal Thunderbird 2 with Thunderbird 4 that came out of the bottom of it. I can still remember going down to the local corner shop with my mum to buy me a Captain Scarlet 12" action figure. The store owner had to take us in to his store room a few shops along and climb over all these cardboard boxes for around 20 mins until he found it. Good memories LOL
Sparta2310 2 years ago
There is a great selection of replica puppets for sale of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90 etc at televisionpuppets dot com
The Parker puppet is brilliant.
Thunderbirdfanman 2 years ago
OMG! I remember The ThunderBirds!! I loved it. I wanted the toys but they never came out with them or the models.
vexviper 2 years ago
this was on the original video's the one with the cham cham and security hazard
neilmc1990 2 years ago
Looks like a good way to get electrocuted to me!
babypix 2 years ago
@yukikomiyauchi its on the dvds as a feature!
the1spiker 2 years ago
amazing sculpting!!!!
i always prefered stingray over thunderbirds myself!
myconius 2 years ago
This stuff brings back the best memories of being a kid, watching Thunderbirds of a Saturday morning was how I grew up, timeless.
danieljewell 2 years ago
love this show^^
RobAmen 2 years ago
This stuff was great and way ahead of it's time. Anyone who knocks this as 'crappy,' in my opinion, has no appreciation of anything that came before them. I dare say that a lot of Gerry Anderson's stuff from the 60's will still hold up against most of the CGI stuff out today. And it definitely kicks the shit out of the crappy, Saturday morning animation cranked out these days.
wmdbassplayer 2 years ago
Ahhh, todays kids would neither understand it or appreciate it anyway-we'll keep it for us!
LFD254 2 years ago 9
Totally agree !!!!! Thunderbirds was part of my childhood. Along with Bugs Bunny, H.R. Puffin Stuff, Hong Kong Phoeey, Top Cat, the Muppets and don't ever forget Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids !!!!
ozzidan 2 years ago
I'm a little older than that-I go back to Soupy Sales (RIP) Chuck McCann and alike but I also fully agree on Bugs Bunny and add the original B&W Popeyes as well.
LFD254 2 years ago
Hey Im 13 and Thunderbirds is the best thing that happened to me along with Stingray, Captain scarlet, Looney tunes, scooby doo and loads of the other shows
OllieRockin 2 years ago
Hey today in Australia this is replayed on TV. Very popular with the next generation of kids, they love it - rockets, bad guys, rescues, explosions - everything a 6yo boy likes on TV... plus so many toys at the toy shops.
gss1967 2 years ago
Thunderbirds was never that big here in New York when I was a kid in the 1960s. It was popular, but we never had the toys that i recall. I guess this could be explianed that media marketing is a gigantic industry now which we did not have then.
LFD254 2 years ago
Wow the 20th century sees soooo long ago
level242 2 years ago
"...and nothing is what it seems to be."
You mean it's NOT crappy "Supermarionation"?
Damn...they had me fooled!
DaNoid1 2 years ago
pretty cool
rouncer81 2 years ago
'and don't forget! It's all done with models'. I always thought it was real! LOL!
gazfunk 2 years ago 11
@gazfunk Goto hell
ljungqvisten93 8 months ago
Does anyone know wich episode you see at the very beginning?
BlauweTim 2 years ago
It was brilliant and way ahead of its time i watched it as a kid in the 70s and we all thought it was great ,the poms were way ahead in alot of their ideas ,compared to the amateur ,lazy ,trashy uninspiring tv shows ,movies, we have today made and acted by people with zero talent who think they are ''Something'' !
eoshorse 2 years ago 2
same the thunderbirds always used to freak me out! parker most defo! his creepy face still lurks in my head at night lol x
xjustlikeux 2 years ago
lol 'it's the year 2000!'
radiohead322 2 years ago 2
Got my Stingray VHS Boxset on ebay today, for a fiver!
GhostofLenoir 2 years ago
Creepy
gazornim 2 years ago
It was so clever for it's time. Even now it makes modern kids programs look cheap. Happy memories.
pjaylett 2 years ago 34
great memories...........today i have 45 years old and still loved the thunder birds. thanks for upload video.
robsonangra 2 years ago 12
great memories...........
fjbutch 2 years ago
holy shit, this was from the 60''s!
barthoedemaker 2 years ago
muito bom cara relembrar thunder birds e de mais
esberefow old muvens good .
alemone2008 2 years ago
good stuff
ohjiozubon 2 years ago
GERRY and SYLVIA ANDERSON : )
wkpolezi 2 years ago
lmao, in the year 2000
Jeromy2 2 years ago 3
hahaha yeah thats funny
iRey360 2 years ago
Hoy en día esta serie pesa menos que una tórula y en consecuencia no impresiona en lo más absoluto.
barrabas600 2 years ago
Star Fleet is better ;)
coleopterbreed 2 years ago
I used to watch this on spanish TV in the '60s.
norjop 2 years ago
I AM STANDING BY FOR EXCITEMENT!
VAB0L0 2 years ago 3
Nice vid.
Methadone4Life 2 years ago 2
"Stand by for excitement".
Classic TV-show.
Edinovich 2 years ago 5
You mean they, they aren't REAL!!! OMG!!
Actually the commentator was wrong about the airplane landing gear being faulty, there was a bomb strapped to the landing gear and they couldn't lower the gear because of that if I remember correctly. To add to the drama I think Lady Penelope was on the plane too or Tin Tin?
cheapracer 2 years ago 4
Tin Tin was on the plane, while Lady Penelope had had to go after The Hood, who had taken advantage of the situation to photograph Thunderbird 1... Very nice plot !
AlexDraco 2 years ago
Cool, thanks for that!
I think Tin Tin is the reason I now have a fetish for Asian woman by the way :-)
cheapracer 2 years ago
If I remember correctly the first shooting of Trapped in the Sky was only 25 minutes long, but the guy above Gerry Anderson decided that it should be more cinematic so he gave him a 50 minute timeslot so they had to padd the episode out. I think that's when they added the The Hood subplot and maybe even Penelope's and Tin Tin's parts too. In any case I'm 100% sure that the first car failing was added in later (or rather some failed footage was used, which is why it looks degraded at that point).
Dougurasufilm 2 years ago 2
The 'guy' you refer to who was above Gerry Anderson was Lew Grade head of ATV who helped produce Thunderbirds for ITV in Britain and also sold the rights abroad too.
stuttsy83 2 years ago
you mean lew grade?
masterstarfox 2 years ago
I think so :)
Dougurasufilm 2 years ago
I remember watching a docu with Gerry Anderson and he said that Thunderbirds cost the equivalent of £1million today....PER EPISODE !!
britishleylandcrap 2 years ago
what TB episode where they filming @2:22-2:29?
ndingo 3 years ago
I've never seen that before. That scene might have been done especially for this. Or it could be for a TV advert.
j3pfilms 2 years ago
I think it's just a practice session the episode i suppose they were filming on the other hand it either End of the road or 30 Minutes after Noon
the1spiker 2 years ago
LMFAO, I used to have the sub as a kid, and they came in cereal box, I cant remember which one...old age setting in sorry...lol
CYRAPHYM 3 years ago
I Think Captain Scarlet doing live action
465895k4 3 years ago
Thanks for uploading. It's an eye opener. Finally get to see behind the scene techniques.
wolfangdigital 3 years ago
beautiful, thanks for saharing the video :))))))))))
gazellina59 3 years ago
great great show...they don't even have this kind of material now...thanks to teCH-nology
doctorsizzle 3 years ago
That's great! Is good to have this kind of videos available, so new generations can see that not all fun is (or was) in computers. Good series, and it shows that creativity can make wonders. I love this series!
GeorgeHarrisonLuver 3 years ago 4
cool thanks for posting this!
only257 3 years ago
Am I the only one who finds this really creepy? Especially the box of hands?
deeprose4 3 years ago
youtube is my time machine.
macandrewes 3 years ago 20
who copied who japan or usa ppupets or monster
bilotin 3 years ago
THANKS FOR POSTINGS THIS!!
only257 3 years ago
was it just me or is there anyone else who used to be scared shitless of this serie?
p1rha 3 years ago
like when the hell was this film? 80 years ago?
andrewlee916 3 years ago
only 45 years ago
spittingimage4005 3 years ago
1965. We used to watch THUNDERBIRDS in 1966, when we were in kindergarten. I remember seeing THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO, and THUNDERBIRD 6, and JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN fresh in the theatre. I watched the moon-landing in 1969 in Manchester, UK, on the telly. The 60's were a magical time, when mankind had no boundaries. Now, they keep giving us boundaries.
Beamshipcaptain 3 years ago
interesting i saw the moon landing on history channel i am around my 20's and i like the thunderbirds show i saw the first three episodes on video!
only257 3 years ago
It remind me of the puppet series
x-bommer from japan. The same they
did on Thunderbirds
hilarioph 3 years ago
im guessing this was done before the first episode was released and the production didn't want to give the true story line or time away thus saying it was in 2000 AND saying the airliner's wheels won't come down when (as all diehard thunderbirds fans will know) that the evil hood attached a bomb to the undercarriage.
LimeyG 3 years ago
I thought thunderbirds is set in 2069 not 2000 as the old school commentator suggests towards the end
chrisandbeck1976 3 years ago
Legend, i got the dvd box set for my 18th birthday and no im not sad, its just 1 of them timeless pieces of television history, im just glad it came on tv again when I was a small child in the early 90's.
And yeh, FAB was just used because in the 60's when the show originally was made, people were using the word 'fab' on the streets.
Haha think, if it was made now, they would say 'SAFE' every time they spoke over the radio XD lol
MJallen88 3 years ago
John Tracey in Thuderbird 5: How did he not go mad stuck up in space by himself. He was always ridiculously well groomed and enthusiastic when he got his one brief radio call per week. Any normal young bloke would have been dishevelled and apathetic with a massive porn stash.
Just as well he was a puppet really.
leemcuk1 3 years ago 2
Yes, just as well he was a puppet lmao.
Can you imagine puppet porn??
(As I write this, my Mum is downstairs watching Thunderbirds on the Sci-Fi Channel!!)
Emma =]
EC4LS 3 years ago
There already is, Team America.
sparks444 3 years ago
Oh Yeah.
I've Never Seen Team America!
Thats Why Lol.
Em =]
EC4LS 3 years ago
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ChrisWhittaker15 3 years ago
I always used to watch Thurnderbirs, still got my good ol' blue boxed VCRs...
but i never worked out what FAB ment ??
any answers ?
damstudios 3 years ago
Gerry Anderson stated it FAB simply stood for "fab" (short for "fabulous")
weenyone 3 years ago
Full Acknowledgement of Broadcast
Jelle564 3 years ago
my family and i thought that maybe it was "Fast As Birds" !?!?
ezfreckles 3 years ago