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On the heels of his hit show Stingray, filmed in dazzling "super-marionation," producer Gerry Anderson's puppetronomy pièce de résistance remains the 1965 adventure series Thunderbirds. The show follows the patently odd adventures of eccentric (for a marionette) millionaire Jeff Tracy, who leads his globe-spanning International Rescue team, fighting super-villains and cleaning up various technology-wrought messes. Thunderbirds Set 1 launches with "Trapped in the Sky," the first episode that introduces the I.R. team -- just in time for them to save an atomic jetliner. In "Pit of Peril," the team digs down under after a top-secret military vehicle disappears beneath the ground. Thunderbirds Scott and Virgil must then race against a towering inferno to save a family trapped in a "City of Fire." In "Sunprobe," Thunderbird 3 must save a spaceship on a crash course with the mighty sun; while in "The Uninvited," Scott stumbles onto the lair of the mysterious Zombites. Rounding out the set with a bang, "The Mighty Atom" features the eternally creepy villain Hood destroying a nuclear reactor -- a sure demise for mankind, until the Thunderbirds step in. Uncut and restored to its full campy glory, Thunderbirds remains a Howdy Doody-meets-Buck Rogers cult television classic. Chas Turner

Product Details

• UPC: 733961701593
• Source: A&E HOME VIDEO
• Region Code: 1
• Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
• Language: English
• Time: 5:12:00
• Sales Rank: 23,546

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