Thunderbirds (TV series)
- Peter Dyneley ( Jeff Tracy)
- Shane Rimmer (Scott Tracy)
- David Holliday ( Virgil Tracy)
- Matt Zimmerman ( Alan Tracy)
- Ray Barrett ( John Tracy)
- David Graham ( Brains)
- Sylvia Anderson (Lady Penelope Creighton -Ward )
Thunderbirds is a British puppet sci-fi series of the animation company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. The series was produced in 1965 as the first color series of the company. Thunderbirds was the fourth series of Gerry Anderson's company " AP Films" (APF, later renamed " Century 21 Productions " ) Supermarionation was produced in the process. She was the most commercially successful and experienced a total of two seasons with 32 episodes. The first broadcast took place in September 1965. The voices of the characters came to the part of the Anderson himself wrote the music for the series of English composer Barry Gray, who had also been set to music the other series of Anderson.
Content
The series is about an internationally operating rescue group International Rescue, whose headquarters is located in a secret hideout on an island in the Pacific. Is headed this organization from former astronaut Jeff Tracy. He is assisted by his five sons, each of which a special spaceship / vehicle represents different rescue missions. The sons are all named after former U.S. astronauts from the Mercury program: Scott ( flying Thunderbird 1, named after Scott Carpenter), Virgil (Thunderbird 2, Virgil Grissom ), Alan (Thunderbird 3, Alan Shepard ), Gordon ( aquanaut Thunderbird 4, Gordon Cooper ) and John ( Astronaut of the space station Thunderbird 5, John Glenn ).
In addition, get the support of Tracy's genius Brains, which is responsible for many inventions, as well as the servant of the family, Kyrano, and his daughter TinTin.
In dangers great magnitude, in which the local auxiliary forces are not sufficient, the rescue group will be used. Thanks to their technologically advanced emergency vehicles they succeed each use. Often the accidents in which the International Rescue must intervene, caused by the brilliant villain The Hood, whose real name but will never be known. In its fight against the Tracy also get support from the British agent Lady Penelope Creighton -Ward, getting to their locations with a highly advanced technical gadgets Rolls- Royce with the name FAB1.
Background
For the basic structure of the stories, Anderson was inspired by reports of the German mine disaster in Dark Places, had to be brought in the heavy equipment transported to rescue the unfortunate miners. The "race against time " was the main problem with the recovery company and this is also one of the main themes in the various series episodes.
The name for the series chose Anderson, after he had read a letter from his elder brother, in which he mentioned an airbase called " Thunderbird Field".
The production staff of Anderson's company APF was extended compared with the earlier series "Commando Stingray " again and the shooting took place in a larger studio in the English town of Slough instead.
The pilot episode Trapped In The Sky took an hour and the boss of the transmitter ITC Entertainment, Lew Grade, was so impressed by the story that he gave Anderson the contract to expand all the episodes of the originally planned 25 minutes to one hour
After the experience of this puppet animation series Anderson was the science-fiction true. However, he turned not only puppet animation series such as " Captain Scarlet and the Revenge of the Mysterons ", but also live action series with real actors. These were the series "UFO " (1970), " Moonbase Alpha 1 " (1975) and "Space Cops -. Crime scene Demeter City (1994 ) In addition, in 2005 there were of" Captain Scarlet " a CGI reboot entitled" Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet ".
Others
- Different vehicles / spaceships were issued as models for the series.
- The dolls were also performers in the music video "Calling Elvis " of the Dire Straits.
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Other television series
In the U.S., " Thunderbirds " was in the " Power Rangers " - style as " Turbo Charged Thunderbirds " recycled. Furthermore, there was a Japanese animated version from 1982 with title Thunderbirds 2086th In Youtube also a trailer is to find " Thunderbirds IR" ( a demo short film on a proposed CGI series). On 11 January 2011 was 5 interviewed Gerry Anderson of BBC Radio, in which a new " Thunderbirds " TV series was announced. Gerry Anderson was not allowed to say much, because he had signed a confidentiality agreement, but he said that it would definitely produced. It is a CGI series are similar to Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet. There will be new scenes of action, but characters and vehicles are maintained in a modernized form. 15 January 2011 read the newspaper "The Sun", that Gerry Anderson had not yet written the plot for the first episode, but she was already in his head. However, Gerry Anderson was diagnosed with Alzheimer 's disease and eventually died on December 26th, 2012. The future of the new series thus initially seemed uncertain. A press release dated February 4, 2013 confirmed that ITV Studios and Pukeko Pictures will turn a new " Thunderbirds " TV series, namely 26 episodes with a length of 22 minutes. It is for a mix of CGI animation and real model stages used. The new television series will likely air in 2015 at CITV ( Children's ITV =, digital TV station ITV ) in England. Gerry Anderson's son Jamie has also recently been found in batches so far not been filmed screenplays of his late father. The oldest screenplays come from the 70s. If you would film everything, the material would be enough for many years.
In addition, under the direction of " William T. Riker " actor Jonathan Frakes appeared a live-action adaptation, which was released on DVD. The Hood is for example shown by Sir Ben Kingsley, who plays Brian is one of the doctors from the series " Emergency Room". The girl TinTin is played by Vanessa Hudgens.