There have been very few things in my life that have brought the excitement I felt when watching Thunderbirds back in the 70's. What a gift it was, and still is! Thanks so much.
Watched every episode when I was a kid in the early 60s loved them and still a Thunderbirds fan I’m 70 years old now but god this takes me back brilliant stuff brilliant minds Gerry and Sylvia I salute you.
I find this stuff absolutely fascinating. Watching the finished eps on TV, we have no idea how much hard work and how many trials and changes were made in pursuit of perfection.
Looking forward to seeing the unseen footage! The Fireflash Landing sequence has to be my favourite scene, Barry Gray's music highlights the tension superbly!
Wow - fascinating stuff! This is like watching cinematic archaeology! PS I was one of the viewers when Thunderbirds was broadcast for the first time - and all these years later it's still exciting to watch
*_LOVED_* this !!! - LOVED, LOVED, LOVED! I still get goosebumps when I see anything related to this episode, and remember the 4 (almost5) year-old that was glued to the screen when it was first shown in the Midlands. An absolute classic, with a mysterious history that your painstaking research has made clearer. Thank-you *_SO_* much for this wonderful piece of work.
The Thunderbirds story is just so interesting, and when you see the quality of the animation, storyline and design of everything makes it all the more impressive. Thanks
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson were an exceptional and enjoyable part of my childhood and now all these years later watching this documentary I am enjoying it again💎 Auckland New Zealand 2024
Wow! That was fantastic! I'm still smiling as I write this. During the video, I felt like I was 63 going on 6! 😊 Thank you _so_ much for making my Saturday morning feel like I was a kid again! 😢 😃 Thank you, thank you, _thank_ you!
Fascinating. One of the many reasons I love Thunderbirds so much is that for a 60 year old series with only 32 episodes, there is somehow still always something else to discover about it and/or its legacy. And now we discover that one of the most commonly toted bits of trivia might actually be incorrect. You're doing a phenomenal job on the archival front in finding and analysing these unseen test reels. Please keep it up!
Anymore footage of Thunderbirds, I'm so looking forward to learning about! I watch it before bedtime. That's for putting this together for all the fans!!!!!🧡
I’m absolutely LOVING these videos about the cans of film and the unaired footage from the original series. I have to admit that the cut out faces on the portraits freaked me out when I saw it. I’m glad they went with the character in full vision instead. Huge kudos as always Stephen and the team! 👏👏👏
This just keeps getting better and better! Thank you for pursuing your passions and unearthing these rare gems. I can't wait to see what else you have discovered! :)
Interesting never-before-seen Thunderbirds footage... Gerry Anderson's legacy lives on. Superb posting, many thanks! There'll be more unseen clips to follow. . . 😁👌🏻❤️🇬🇧📺
John and Jean Taylor recorded many of the sound effects for the Andersons. They also recorded two of my LP records at their Grosvenor studios in Handsworth. John told me many stories about working with Gerry and Sylvia. Alas, a long time ago - back in the 1980s - and I can't recall them. :(
Brilliant! In this age of computer animation, I would love to see someone reintroduce the craftsmanship that excelled in the Gerry and Sylvia Anderson series!
This is FAB! Incredible that there is still footage being discovered and restored. Thankyou to all involved in the restoration and for bringing us these classics!
That was just fantastic to watch! It really makes you wonder if it was an hour but then! If you think about it? You can quite imagine having to make more so it could be cut out if they felt it was not needed and then put it back in LOL
Well, that was truly amazing! Well done on your painstaking hard work in putting this together. I would love to see more of the unseen footage, particularly anything related to the Fireflash landing sequence . Superb! Also, a shot of the Elevator Car, with the forced perspective smaller cars was in a 1968 Thunderbirds annual.
I was always confused about the score for Trapped and how that didn’t match up with the rest of the timeline. Glad someone else picked that up. One hill I will die on though is the audio adventure parts. I still firmly believe they were added later to clear up stuff that was visually explained to the listener. Both scenes are really oddly descriptive. But if you guys find them in one of these reels, I’ll gladly swallow my pride on this one. Terrific finds! Now excuse me while I adjust my life to this evidence o.o
You may have to die on that hill. There is no way they got David Holliday in to do a couple of extra lines. And if they needed to clarify, they had a narrator.
@@century21films28was not the whole broadcast order different to the shooting order? And was it really that difficult to extend a 25 min episode to 50mins - there is clear padding in some often in the launch sequences which I think are generally ( but not always ) the same , and can be shown in long length detail, the orchestration keeps it from being boring
Fabulous memories of seeing this episode, the very first time around - as we visited my Aunt in Barrow in 1965. THANK YOU for finding this archive. At 3:05, we see the TX205 advertising SAF on the sides. Sustainable Aircraft Fuel?? Surely not in 1965!! Such foresight! At the end I appreciated your dedication to this documentary even more. F.A.B...
Interesting perspective. Maybe as suggested the first episode was filmed as an hour (or a two parter) story and then Lew Grade said they all need to be an hour.
To see stuff like this blows my mind. Incredible that such material has survived at all! Wonder if it took a lot of work to get the old prints in presentable order?
I just love watching these videos of behind the scenes of thunderbirds and other classic Gerry Anderson productions for they are very interesting for it is interesting seeing what went into producing these shows for I found how Barry Grey had laid out the music score intriguing and it would be great if the footage that has been discovered that was never used in this episode of Thunderbirds could be added to the episode in the future as a special addition but I do love watching these videos of behind the scenes for they do fascinate me.
Us boomer kids owe a debt of gratitude to all of the people who made these shows and shone a light on our technological future, we were royally entertained and inspired, some of us to be aircraft designers, others to electronics like me, it's only a shame our real future hasn't lived up to the sixties version but that's by the by, thank-you Gerry and Sylvia Anderson for a great childhood.
Great show, and Gerry Anderson used to lend models top the International Rescue Corps (a UK based urban search and rescue team) for fundraising. Ironically, back in the 1990's, the IRC was better known internationally (recognised by the UNHCR and mobilised to numerous natural disasters across the globe) than in the UK; when offers of help were placed within the UK they were often dismissed as crank calls as first thoughts were of the TV series. Jamie Anderson has been a vice-president of the charity for several years.
I still have my 7", 33RPM double-sided EP of the audio version of this episode. Probably won't play well now though. It never occurred to me until quite recently that Gerry and Sylvia used American voice actors because of the American audience.
It wasn't zoomed in to hide stuff the technicians wanted to hide. Televisions at the time were 'over scanned'. When shooting film for TV there was an area called 'TV safe' which meant that on any TV, the TV safe area was definitely able to be seen. There was an area of the edges of anything transmitted designed to be off the edge of the viewing area. This is why the BBC were able to later use the out of 'TV safe' at the top of the image for Teletext.
Yes, we know. But clearly they knew that the area would be masked off so they were free to leave it there. So it did hide the things they didn’t want people to see.
@@century21films28sorry I just asked this and saw your answer. More appears on the master film than fits in 4:3 ? I’d this the same as the film sent to broadcasters? What happens when they transfer the film to dvd? Can these bits be seen? 7:38
Yes, film cameras could generally be fitted with an optional replacement ground glass screen in the viewfinder. For TV film shooting it would have etched frames for not just a "TV Safe" area but an inner Title Safe area, as titles being cropped would be especially noticeable for viewers. Personally whenever I operated I always wanted wherever possible to keep essential material inside the title safe area and avoid nasty intrusions even outside the TV safe area because, well you could never entirely depend on stuff beyond your control, like telecine of prints, to be done properly. Obviously on an effects-heavy series like Thunderbirds that extra insurance was often a luxury they couldn't afford. You had a far worse problem when a film was going to be non-scope but cropped top and bottom in cinemas for widescreen. Often the producer wanted the film to still be shot "open gate" so that it didn't need to be panned and scanned for TV screenings in the days when TV was Academy ratio. There was a ground glass screen etched with the lines for cinema cropping. Most films were shot with the cropped version as a priority and that's why you often see acres of ugly excess headroom on full prints or even worse mic booms and the tops of sets. It was far more of a compromise than shooting for TV and the best way to see those feature films (mostly made after 1950) which were shot Academy Ratio but with cropping in mind is in the cinema ratio, not open-gate.
@@johnnhoj6749 I think with Thunderbirds a big issue that they had so little space which meant backings etc had a limited height. But thank you for your response - that’s a really interesting reply.! What did you work on?
" Thunderbirds " est une série fantastique pour les enfants que nous étions. Les musiques, les différentes histoires, des sauveurs dans une iles secrète qui cachent des engins de sauvetage futuristiques et une aristocrate britannique agent secret dans une Rolls-ROYCE à 6 roues. Personne n'avait inventé çà.
Great documentary. Noticed something I've never noticed before at 12:08. Bottom view of TB1 with the "T" on the nose cone not the body of the craft. I have other pictures where the "T" is on the body. Obviously a change of design somewhere along the line
@@explorer806yeah I always like to spot differences in the title cards images, indeed wrre so TB2 pods and shown equipment never used ? Were there more in TV21 and similar weekly or annual strips that were never shown at all in series 15:33
If you are in a radio station don't you have station ids on the wall or desk etc, admittedly it's for promo stills but still a common thing indeed it is odd in star trek there is no internal large signage saying USS Enterprise
Oh those old portrait shots are horrible! Just the heads moving is very creepy (and im not one that finds the puppets creepy at all, I adore them) as it looked like their head was about to come off a few times. No, the way they did it in the end is so much smoother and nicer. Also, I'm really hoping for some lovely extra shots of my Space Hubby John. Come on, spoil me, please!
I was saying “What?l” at the moment it was said it was broadcasted on Dutch television first😅 I’m Dutch myself and got introduced with it in the early 90’s. I’m also a Kickstarter backer and that’s how I ended up here. But again…on Dutch television first….but with a strange voice saying “Thunderbirds start”. Was there more Dutch language in the episode or even episodes?
Yes Dutch TV got to see Thunderbirds before anyone else in the world in 1965.It probably was dubbed too. The French version of Stingray.ua-cam.com/video/xfPu5nZ7xcg/v-deo.htmlsi=9JV_X16eV1Udhhh2
It has always been a mystery if episodes were originally 30 mins before Lew ordered them to be an hour - maybe they were an hour all along, but reduced down? Hopefully this will shed some light. Where were these film cans found?
Everyone takes for granted that Lew Grade was shown ‘trapped’ but what if he wasn’t. What if Trapped was the first episode filmed in 1 hour format after he had seen a 25 minute film of Pit of Peril? We know the production was all over the place, so its a possibility at least.
@@dansmodelrailways7886 No it isn’t. Pit of Peril had no music recorded for it until the following year. Production was perfectly normal until the following year. So no chance at all he saw Peril. Not least because they were still shooting the effects in November.
What a wonderful posting, brought tears to my 64 year old eyes, such memories!
Amazing finds! 50+ years on and still learning new things about these shows
There have been very few things in my life that have brought the excitement I felt when watching Thunderbirds back in the 70's. What a gift it was, and still is! Thanks so much.
Watched every episode when I was a kid in the early 60s loved them and still a Thunderbirds fan I’m 70 years old now but god this takes me back brilliant stuff brilliant minds Gerry and Sylvia I salute you.
Its like those lost medias getting discovered, it's great to have these unseen cut being shown ✨
This is fantastic. As a long time Thunderbirds fan this is a solid gold. Thank you for all your research in finding and putting this all together.
60 years later, and unseen and new things are still being discovered. Such a wonderful legacy.
I find this stuff absolutely fascinating. Watching the finished eps on TV, we have no idea how much hard work and how many trials and changes were made in pursuit of perfection.
I was seven when this first hit the TV, loved it , and had all the toys and a uniform . Brilliant stuff , no cgi .
Looking forward to seeing the unseen footage! The Fireflash Landing sequence has to be my favourite scene, Barry Gray's music highlights the tension superbly!
Wow - fascinating stuff! This is like watching cinematic archaeology! PS I was one of the viewers when Thunderbirds was broadcast for the first time - and all these years later it's still exciting to watch
They better find me some new John footage lol, I deserve it.
Same here. I was 12 years old when Thunderbirds started and I was hooked straight away. 71 years old now and remember it like yesterday.
These fantastic insights should be shown on national television!
*_LOVED_* this !!! - LOVED, LOVED, LOVED! I still get goosebumps when I see anything related to this episode, and remember the 4 (almost5) year-old that was glued to the screen when it was first shown in the Midlands. An absolute classic, with a mysterious history that your painstaking research has made clearer. Thank-you *_SO_* much for this wonderful piece of work.
The Thunderbirds story is just so interesting, and when you see the quality of the animation, storyline and design of everything makes it all the more impressive. Thanks
This is such a fantastic watch and well made documentary.
I became a fan of Thunderbirds during its 2000-2001 re-run on BBC2.
Showed my grandson the opening sequence and music to thunderbirds plus the fire flash emergency landing I think we’ve got a new fan
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson were an exceptional and enjoyable part of my childhood and now all these years later watching this documentary I am enjoying it again💎 Auckland New Zealand 2024
Wow! That was fantastic! I'm still smiling as I write this. During the video, I felt like I was 63 going on 6! 😊 Thank you _so_ much for making my Saturday morning feel like I was a kid again! 😢 😃 Thank you, thank you, _thank_ you!
Fascinating. One of the many reasons I love Thunderbirds so much is that for a 60 year old series with only 32 episodes, there is somehow still always something else to discover about it and/or its legacy. And now we discover that one of the most commonly toted bits of trivia might actually be incorrect.
You're doing a phenomenal job on the archival front in finding and analysing these unseen test reels. Please keep it up!
53 years on this was one of my happiest tv moments.. everything about it is amazing
Great documentary! They should make an editorial cut or a director's cut of the first episode of Thunderbirds!
21st I was 5 when Thunderbirds started .... Loved that show growing up
Anymore footage of Thunderbirds, I'm so looking forward to learning about! I watch it before bedtime. That's for putting this together for all the fans!!!!!🧡
I’m absolutely LOVING these videos about the cans of film and the unaired footage from the original series. I have to admit that the cut out faces on the portraits freaked me out when I saw it. I’m glad they went with the character in full vision instead. Huge kudos as always Stephen and the team! 👏👏👏
They are very disturbing! We wondered if they had tried cutting out the body in the past - but the head is the stuff of nightmares!
This just keeps getting better and better! Thank you for pursuing your passions and unearthing these rare gems. I can't wait to see what else you have discovered! :)
Finally - something worth watching.
I'm excited :) Looking forward to watching, only 33 minutes to go, Thunderbirds are Go, FAB :)
Was before my time, l first saw it in 1968 and i loved it. ❤️ 🏴
Awesome! Finding new things after such a long time! Congrats and thank you!
THAT was brilliant! Thank you so much to you all for this amazing insite!!
Interesting never-before-seen Thunderbirds footage... Gerry Anderson's legacy lives on. Superb posting, many thanks! There'll be more unseen clips to follow. . .
😁👌🏻❤️🇬🇧📺
Only 2 words to say ! Bloody Amazing.
John and Jean Taylor recorded many of the sound effects for the Andersons. They also recorded two of my LP records at their Grosvenor studios in Handsworth. John told me many stories about working with Gerry and Sylvia. Alas, a long time ago - back in the 1980s - and I can't recall them. :(
Rescued my childhood. Thank you.
Brilliant! In this age of computer animation, I would love to see someone reintroduce the craftsmanship that excelled in the Gerry and Sylvia Anderson series!
Nice. Thank you. Hope you uncover some more unseen original material.
Esoteric is what we want and esoteric is what we got! FAB!
Excellent! Looking forward to seeing More!
Beautiful works of art
This is a brilliant Insight into the Thunderbirds. shame all the original stuff is no longer about
This is FAB! Incredible that there is still footage being discovered and restored. Thankyou to all involved in the restoration and for bringing us these classics!
Brilliant detective work
Despite being born in the late 70's, Thunderbirds is still one of my favourite shows of all time.
That was just fantastic to watch! It really makes you wonder if it was an hour but then! If you think about it? You can quite imagine having to make more so it could be cut out if they felt it was not needed and then put it back in LOL
Fascinating.
Sixty years on and there are still things to learn and discover about the series.
Further thought: a “directors cut” of Trapped in the Sky expanded with the unseen footage released on 30/09/2025…
I never get tired of hearing that Lew Grade story.
Fantastic!
thanks for uploading this pure gold
This is Boss. Thanks for all the hard work and all the genius detail put into this. I hope you get funded to make all episodes into 4K
Well, that was truly amazing! Well done on your painstaking hard work in putting this together. I would love to see more of the unseen footage, particularly anything related to the Fireflash landing sequence . Superb! Also, a shot of the Elevator Car, with the forced perspective smaller cars was in a 1968 Thunderbirds annual.
Absolutely 💯 brilliant and fascinating .
Just wonderful analysis, done with real joy for the final print. Century21 knocks it out of the park, once again.
Thoroughly enjoying your work - thank you.
Fabulous research. Some fascinating new facts about the Thunderbirds early days. I remember watching the first episode as a 7-year-old!
great documentary informative materials.
I cannot wait for this, thanks for posting!
Woah, now THAT is really fantastic in my opinion 😁😉👍
This is absolutely brilliant.
I was always confused about the score for Trapped and how that didn’t match up with the rest of the timeline. Glad someone else picked that up.
One hill I will die on though is the audio adventure parts. I still firmly believe they were added later to clear up stuff that was visually explained to the listener. Both scenes are really oddly descriptive. But if you guys find them in one of these reels, I’ll gladly swallow my pride on this one.
Terrific finds! Now excuse me while I adjust my life to this evidence o.o
You may have to die on that hill. There is no way they got David Holliday in to do a couple of extra lines. And if they needed to clarify, they had a narrator.
@@century21films28 Well, that is deffo a point in favor. These must’ve been released long after the switch in Virgil’s voice actor then?
@@century21films28was not the whole broadcast order different to the shooting order? And was it really that difficult to extend a 25 min episode to 50mins - there is clear padding in some often in the launch sequences which I think are generally ( but not always ) the same , and can be shown in long length detail, the orchestration keeps it from being boring
100% fascinating 🤯 Thanks again.
Fabulous memories of seeing this episode, the very first time around - as we visited my Aunt in Barrow in 1965. THANK YOU for finding this archive. At 3:05, we see the TX205 advertising SAF on the sides. Sustainable Aircraft Fuel?? Surely not in 1965!! Such foresight! At the end I appreciated your dedication to this documentary even more. F.A.B...
" Thunderbirds " était des films de cinéma. Personne n'a pu faire mieux. Incroyable que ce soit fait dans les années 60 et sans ordinateurs.
This is brilliant
Great work team, it’s certainly fascinating cinematography archeology
What a fantastic mind Gerry Anderson had. Some of these gadgets were really mind blowing.
Interesting perspective. Maybe as suggested the first episode was filmed as an hour (or a two parter) story and then Lew Grade said they all need to be an hour.
BRILIANT
To see stuff like this blows my mind. Incredible that such material has survived at all! Wonder if it took a lot of work to get the old prints in presentable order?
Magnificent!
I just love watching these videos of behind the scenes of thunderbirds and other classic Gerry Anderson productions for they are very interesting for it is interesting seeing what went into producing these shows for I found how Barry Grey had laid out the music score intriguing and it would be great if the footage that has been discovered that was never used in this episode of Thunderbirds could be added to the episode in the future as a special addition but I do love watching these videos of behind the scenes for they do fascinate me.
The cut-out faces really didn't work. Glad they changed that to full frame clips.
I agree, it is a bit creepy. I can see the thinking behind it, but it just doesn't work.
It’s like the opposite of how the Microsoft Teams overlay works.
Fascinating and I’ve shared the link.
Us boomer kids owe a debt of gratitude to all of the people who made these shows and shone a light on our technological future, we were royally entertained and inspired, some of us to be aircraft designers, others to electronics like me, it's only a shame our real future hasn't lived up to the sixties version but that's by the by, thank-you Gerry and Sylvia Anderson for a great childhood.
Brilliant is the only way to describe this show. You cannot beat the 1960s for entertainment.
Great show, and Gerry Anderson used to lend models top the International Rescue Corps (a UK based urban search and rescue team) for fundraising. Ironically, back in the 1990's, the IRC was better known internationally (recognised by the UNHCR and mobilised to numerous natural disasters across the globe) than in the UK; when offers of help were placed within the UK they were often dismissed as crank calls as first thoughts were of the TV series. Jamie Anderson has been a vice-president of the charity for several years.
Still is a lot of love for Thunderbirds
Excellent if overly analytical - subscribed and looking forward to more!
@@jeffholt9437 It’s supposed to be analytical. There are lots of laymen’s books on the subject. This is unashamedly for those who want detail.
I still have my 7", 33RPM double-sided EP of the audio version of this episode. Probably won't play well now though. It never occurred to me until quite recently that Gerry and Sylvia used American voice actors because of the American audience.
It wasn't zoomed in to hide stuff the technicians wanted to hide. Televisions at the time were 'over scanned'. When shooting film for TV there was an area called 'TV safe' which meant that on any TV, the TV safe area was definitely able to be seen. There was an area of the edges of anything transmitted designed to be off the edge of the viewing area. This is why the BBC were able to later use the out of 'TV safe' at the top of the image for Teletext.
Yes, we know. But clearly they knew that the area would be masked off so they were free to leave it there. So it did hide the things they didn’t want people to see.
@@century21films28sorry I just asked this and saw your answer. More appears on the master film than fits in 4:3 ? I’d this the same as the film sent to broadcasters? What happens when they transfer the film to dvd? Can these bits be seen? 7:38
I think the same thing happened when they re-mastered ST:TNG
Yes, film cameras could generally be fitted with an optional replacement ground glass screen in the viewfinder. For TV film shooting it would have etched frames for not just a "TV Safe" area but an inner Title Safe area, as titles being cropped would be especially noticeable for viewers. Personally whenever I operated I always wanted wherever possible to keep essential material inside the title safe area and avoid nasty intrusions even outside the TV safe area because, well you could never entirely depend on stuff beyond your control, like telecine of prints, to be done properly. Obviously on an effects-heavy series like Thunderbirds that extra insurance was often a luxury they couldn't afford.
You had a far worse problem when a film was going to be non-scope but cropped top and bottom in cinemas for widescreen. Often the producer wanted the film to still be shot "open gate" so that it didn't need to be panned and scanned for TV screenings in the days when TV was Academy ratio.
There was a ground glass screen etched with the lines for cinema cropping. Most films were shot with the cropped version as a priority and that's why you often see acres of ugly excess headroom on full prints or even worse mic booms and the tops of sets. It was far more of a compromise than shooting for TV and the best way to see those feature films (mostly made after 1950) which were shot Academy Ratio but with cropping in mind is in the cinema ratio, not open-gate.
@@johnnhoj6749 I think with Thunderbirds a big issue that they had so little space which meant backings etc had a limited height. But thank you for your response - that’s a really interesting reply.! What did you work on?
FAB ❤🚀
8:08 Wow, runway 29 is very short, and there's a couple of buildings right in line with it!
" Thunderbirds " est une série fantastique pour les enfants que nous étions. Les musiques, les différentes histoires, des sauveurs dans une iles secrète qui cachent des engins de sauvetage futuristiques et une aristocrate britannique agent secret dans une Rolls-ROYCE à 6 roues. Personne n'avait inventé çà.
Happy childhood memories! What 7 year-old boy didn’t have a crush on Lady Penelope?
Great documentary. Noticed something I've never noticed before at 12:08. Bottom view of TB1 with the "T" on the nose cone not the body of the craft. I have other pictures where the "T" is on the body. Obviously a change of design somewhere along the line
As seen in the title card of every episode.
@@explorer806yeah I always like to spot differences in the title cards images, indeed wrre so TB2 pods and shown equipment never used ? Were there more in TV21 and similar weekly or annual strips that were never shown at all in series 15:33
7:06 - From _Terror in New York City_ if i remember correctly.
This is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay beyond esoteric.
Thunderbirds are go FAB no more too say.
…Thunderbirdstastic…!!!
IT REALLY. SO INTERESTING to see how it was made
BUT ITS THUNDERBIRDS ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
If the International Rescue sign faced outwards on Thunderbird five, who would see it?
If you are in a radio station don't you have station ids on the wall or desk etc, admittedly it's for promo stills but still a common thing indeed it is odd in star trek there is no internal large signage saying USS Enterprise
It was a secret organisation - c'mon guys?!?!? 😊
Oh those old portrait shots are horrible! Just the heads moving is very creepy (and im not one that finds the puppets creepy at all, I adore them) as it looked like their head was about to come off a few times. No, the way they did it in the end is so much smoother and nicer.
Also, I'm really hoping for some lovely extra shots of my Space Hubby John. Come on, spoil me, please!
I was saying “What?l” at the moment it was said it was broadcasted on Dutch television first😅
I’m Dutch myself and got introduced with it in the early 90’s.
I’m also a Kickstarter backer and that’s how I ended up here.
But again…on Dutch television first….but with a strange voice saying “Thunderbirds start”.
Was there more Dutch language in the episode or even episodes?
Yes Dutch TV got to see Thunderbirds before anyone else in the world in 1965.It probably was dubbed too. The French version of Stingray.ua-cam.com/video/xfPu5nZ7xcg/v-deo.htmlsi=9JV_X16eV1Udhhh2
"AUTO-BOMB EXPLOSIVE UNIT" Yes, of course the Hood would stick a label on his bomb. 😆
No, that's how it came when he bought it from WalMart.
@@notreallydavidreminds me of ACME products for Wile Cotye
@@notreallydavid Acme
@@chrisst8922 Yesssss!
It has always been a mystery if episodes were originally 30 mins before Lew ordered them to be an hour - maybe they were an hour all along, but reduced down? Hopefully this will shed some light. Where were these film cans found?
The following installments were definitely half hours. As we’ll be showing soon!
age 63 now..wonderful
I wonder if Virgil lost the seat of his pants, sliding down that carpeted ramp.
Cool❤
Everyone takes for granted that Lew Grade was shown ‘trapped’ but what if he wasn’t. What if Trapped was the first episode filmed in 1 hour format after he had seen a 25 minute film of Pit of Peril? We know the production was all over the place, so its a possibility at least.
@@dansmodelrailways7886 No it isn’t. Pit of Peril had no music recorded for it until the following year. Production was perfectly normal until the following year. So no chance at all he saw Peril. Not least because they were still shooting the effects in November.
Fireflash or the fancy plane was certainly my idea of how the Concorde felt when people travelled on it
FAB