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EPISODE 1: TRAPPED IN THE SKY
A bomb is planted on the super plane Fireflash and is unable to land in order to defuse it. A mysterious organisation who call themselves International Rescue, offer to help. Who are they? Are they friend or foe? Can they help?
EPISODE 2: PIT OF PERIL
An American army vehicle known as a Sidewinder crashes into an old landfill site, which has turned into an inferno by combustible gases. International Rescue is called in to try to save the day.
EPISODE 3: CITY OF FIRE
A family is trapped in the basement of an underground car park in a vast apartment complex, which is ablaze, and burning rubble prevents Scott and Virgil from rescuing them. The team are forced to use an experimental gas devised by Brains which proved far from successful during testing.
EPISODE 4: SUN PROBE
Thunderbird 3 is sent to the rescue of a spaceship on collision course and in danger of crashing into the Sun, elsewhere, Thunderbird 2 encounters a hazardous snowstorm.
EPISODE 5: THE UNINVITED
Scott Tracy is shot down in Thunderbird 1 by a tribe known as The Zombites. He gets rescued by 2 archaeologists who are then themselves captured by the same tribe. It is up to Scott to return the favour they did him by rescuing them.
EPISODE 6: THE MIGHTY ATOM
International Rescue’s arch enemy The Hood contrives a number of emergencies in order to draw them out into the open so he can film them in operation and sell their secrets to the highest bidder.
International Rescue’s London Agent, Lady Penelope Creighton – Ward and her trusted manservant, Parker, have other ideas however.
EPISODE 7: VAULT OF DEATH
A Bank of England employee is locked inside the bank’s vault. International Rescue has to tunnel through a disused railway line underneath the bank.
EPISODE 8: OPERATION CRASH DIVE
Once again International Rescue comes to the aid of a Fireflash plane as it crashes into the sea and is rescued by Thunderbird 4. Scott co – pilots the next test for the super plane and once again it plummets towards the sea.
EPISODE 9: MOVE and YOU’RE DEAD
Alan Tracy makes a comeback to motor racing but finds himself marooned on a booby-trapped mountain bridge with Grandma. It falls to Brains to try to find a solution to save them.
EPISODE 10: MARTIAN INVASION
The Hood films Thunderbirds 1 and 2 in action in order to sell the film on, International Rescue have to stop him from doing so.
EPISODE 11: BRINK OF DISASTER
Jeff Tracy, Brains and Tin Tin’s lives are put in danger when the monorail they are travelling on heads towards a faulty rail. Thunderbirds 1 and 2 are called into action to save them.
EPISODE 12: THE PERIL’S OF PENELOPE
Whilst searching for the inventor of a formula that can turn seawater into fuel, Lady Penelope is captured by a rival and is tied to the rails in the path of a speeding express train.
EPISODE 13: TERROR IN NEW YORK CITY
After an attempt to move the Empire State Building fails, it’s discovered a television reporter and his crew are trapped underground in a rapidly filling cavern.
Thunderbird 2 gets shot down by the Navy so it’s up to Thunderbird 4 to attempt a rescue.
EPISODE 14: END OF THE ROAD
A friend of the Tracy’s is constructing a road through a tropical forest and is constantly delayed by landslides; in a last gasp attempt to save the project he puts his life in danger. The Tracy’s have to rescue him whilst preserving their secret identities from him at the same time.
EPISODE 15: DAY OF DISASTER
A rocket on route to its launch site topples over a bridge and plummets into a river with 2 engineers on board and activates its own countdown mechanism. Thunderbird 4 is sent to mount a rescue bid.
EPISODE 16: THE EDGE OF IMPACT
The Hood causes a collision between a Red Arrow plane and a tele – relay tower causing 2 men to be trapped. International Rescue has to save them.
EPISODE 17: DESPERATE INTRUDER
Brains and Tin Tin travel to Lake Anasta in the Sahara desert to locate a submerged Temple and its buried treasure, and clash with The Hood who wants the treasure for himself.
EPISODE 18: 30 MINUTES AFTER NOON
Britain’s nuclear plutonium store is under threat from a vicious bunch of criminal’s it’s up to International Rescue to save it.
EPISODE 19: THE IMPOSTERS
A gang of criminals pose as International Rescue and steal papers from an underground vault whilst staging a fake rescue mission. An international hunt is launched to find International Rescue’s secret base. Meanwhile, the real International Rescue has to save an astronaut who is floating in outer space.
EPISODE 20: THE MAN FROM M.I.5
Lady Penelope sails to the French Riviera in FAB 2 to help the British secret service recover plans for a nuclear device.
EPISODE 21: CRY WOLF
Two young Australian brothers inadvertently call Thunderbird 1 out on a mission whilst fooling around with their 2-way radio’s. When they are genuinely in trouble later on, will their call be taken seriously?
EPISODE 22: DANGER AT OCEAN DEEP
The Ocean Pioneer 1 mysteriously disappears with a special cargo, which will explode if it mixes with a chemical found in the sea where the ship vanished.
Ocean Pioneer 2 then travels the same route with the same cargo. Will it share the same fate?
EPISODE 23: THE DUCHESS ASSIGNMENT
The Duchess of Royston, an old friend of Lady Penelope, hopes to raise income from renting out a valuable painting to pay off gambling debts. Crooks lock her in an old house, which catches fire.
EPISODE 24: ATTACK OF THE ALLIGATORS
A boatman steals a wonder drug, which causes animals to grow to 4 times their normal size. He drops some in the Amazon and giant alligators attack the lab.
EPISODE 25: THE CHAM CHAM
The top pop group The Cass Carnaby Five cause attacks on American space flights every time they perform their latest No 1 hit. Lady Penelope and Tin Tin are endangered by a sabotaged cable car after discovering the group’s manager isn’t all he seems to be.
EPISODE 26: SECURITY HAZARD
A young stowaway is found on board Thunderbird 2 and is treated to tales of Thunderbird missions, falls asleep and wakes up at home wondering if it was real or a dream.
EPISODE 27: ATLANTIC INFERNO
Jeff Tracy is on holiday on Lady Penelope’s Australian ranch, and Scott is in charge of International Rescue. A nuclear fire breaks out near an oilrig, which surrounds it as well as two men who are trapped in a bathysphere underneath the rig. Will Scott be able to cope?
EPISODE 28: PATH OF DESTRUCTION
An out of control crab loggerheads towards the town of San Martino and a nearby dam after the crew collapse from food poisoning. Lady Penelope attempts to track down the designer, while Brains and Virgil attempt to gain access to the out of control vehicle.
EPISODE 29: ALIAS MR HACKENBACKER
Brains, who is travelling under his real name of Hiram K Hackenbacker, joins Lady Penelope on the new Skythrust airliner which is showing Brains’ new safety device and hosting Lady Penelope’s fashion show and gets hi – jacked.
EPISODE 30: LORD PARKER’S ‘OLIDAY
A solar reflector malfunctions in Monte Bianco, the first place to be powered by solar energy and is in danger of being burnt to a crisp. Lady Penelope takes FAB 1 to send a distress call, while Parker and the hotel manager, Bruno, entertain the residents in an attempt to avert panic.
EPISODE 31: RICHOCHET
Thunderbird 5 suffers a malfunction and a pirate radio station in space is hit by a renegade rocket. Disc Jockey Rick O’Shea is afraid to be rescued and Virgil has to stop the plummeting radio station from colliding with a desert refinery.
EPISODE 32: GIVE OR TAKE A MILLION
Bank robbers fleeing the police become trapped in a rocket, which is ferrying Christmas presents to a children’s hospital. The reward for their capture is enough to build a new wing for the hospital, and one ecstatic child spends Christmas on Tracy Island.
32 episodes of 60 minute duration. AP Films: ATV: ITC. 1965-66.
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