I love this show, I’m 12 and live in Australia. They used to air it on the telly weekend mornings. And I was like that for 2 or 3 years. Then they stopped airing it. I did buy the 50th anniversary dvd box set. But I lost it. Now however, I found it on RUclips. Finally, I can watch thunderbirds.
I thank my Dad forever for introducing me to this show. Just to give some context, my Dad is not from the UK but had grown up with this show when it was shown for a time in the 1960s in the United States. I was born in '99 and have a very active imagination. At the age of four, he put on a random VHS tape and showed this to me. Three episodes were recorded on it, this one, City of Fire and Pit of Peril. I was blown away by how cool it was. And bear in mind, this was shown to me before Star Wars or any other science fiction show or film. I actually have that VHS in a display case in my room next to all my Thunderbirds toys which my parents bought me over the years. My mom also made me and my childhood friend sashes like the show and we'd re-enact episodes with the toys and create our own scenarios. And I have the entire episode collection, the two feature films and the 2004 remake, as well as the Tracy Island playset and figures. Still thanking my Dad everyday for introducing me to this show. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have known about Gerry Anderson, Sylvia Anderson and the creations they created. All before Star Wars! I think it's the best sci-fi show ever shown in the entire world.
Great story. I did manage to see most of series when it was first aired 55 years or so ago... However, after the separation of my parents and mother remarrying a thorough control freak, narcissist - MY (step) father was in the habit of using the TV as a punitive measure and subsequently banned me from watching Thunderbirds, Capt Scarlet, Dr Who and especially UFO.... Heartless bastard, with zero imagination... Hated that I understood technology and even at a young age showing talent in music. Traits he hated in me, because like you I have an equally active imagination... Still with me... I look back on these old episodes with mixed feelings, but renewed joy at how entertainment to us kids could be made so exciting with so little tech. Fun anecdotal - One day the step-patriarch was attempting to repair an old valve radio... I was around 11/12 at the time and keenly into electronics... Observing this with keen interest across the dining table, I warned him to be careful of the 'big silver can' near the transformer, because it (smoothing capacitor) often carries a big charge after the device is switched-off. He told me to mind my own business... I shrugged... A minute or so later, there was a mighty 'pop' as his screwdriver shorted the capacitor terminals... He jumped a foot in the air, knocking his chair over and went as white as a sheet... lol! I just shrugged (with a huge grin this time...). At the age of 18 - I ended-up evicting his front-upper incissor with my fist... One of only two occasions I've actually hit anyone in outright rage... Not proud of it, but given that he was always saying to me - '' ...Be kind to your brother, because one day he'll be big enough to hit you back...'' Kinda ironic that being such a narcissist, he never once thought he'd be on the receiving end of that specific course of karmah ...
Ya know guys, I'm TRULY sorry Deebz270 for having to grow up with a DICK-HEAD such as your Step-Dork was! I was BLESSED with 2 GREAT parents who, even tho I was ONLY 5 at the time, MADE DAMN SURE I was allowed to stay up just to see this AWESOME show. Like you guys, over the years I got the action toys including a CORGI Fab 1 that is still in really decent shape even after all these years! I was adopted at birth and I am about 98% British and LOVED this show, Dr. Who (4th doc being my Fav!) and many other things British - and yea, even the food! My parents were both German and never understood just why I loved all the things from the U.K. instead of the things & food that they did but they let me grow up loving the things that I loved, never once being pushed to like the things they did... I'll ALWAYS love them for that!
I was born in 2000, my Dad watched Thunderbirds when he was 5 or 6 in the 60s. In 2005 he bought me the trapped in the sky dvd. To this day I’ve loved Thunderbirds and rate this episode as the best. FAB
That is exactly the way it did go with me and my dad.. First Thunderbirds i saw was "To the Rescue" on VHS. I fell in love with TB2 the first time i saw her..
I saw the very first episode right now in 2022 and iam blown away.. I have never ever known about this beautiful series.. The masterful puppetry.. the background score .. the screenplay and the suspense they managed to conjure up back in the 60's .. SALUTE to the creators... Fan for life.. Thunderbirds.. FAB..!!! 👍🏻
Amazing how good this show looks 50 years later! Side note, I was in the air force and the comments and technical details are outstanding. For example, when they opened the inspection hack, the pilot said check trim. Today we have auto trim but back in the sixties you would have to make an manual adjust based on the change in aircraft configuration. Pretty cool for a kids' show.
This show was made in the 1960's. There was no CGI, green screen or digital editing 57 years ago. *Everything* you see in the show was a physical miniature model. Boat loads of work went into making this show, and as another commenter said, the attention to detail despite these limitations of the time is incredible. Occasionally you forget that this show was made generations ago.
When I was a kid in the 60’s, this was easily my favorite show. I’m glad that it has weathered the test of time. I’m 61 now, and can’t believe how much I still love The Thunderbirds, as I’m watching it with my grandkids!
hiya Robert hey another Star Trek fan and also the Thunderbirds...always wanted to see a re-imagined LIVE Action series or feature films...yes? LIVE LONG AND PROSPER btw...."thunderbirds are GO!" :) xoxoxo
This , 1964 Hanna-Barbara Jonny Quest and Saturday Morning Network T.V. in the 1960s was Great. When I Retire I'm Gonna Get All My Favorites on DVD and be a Kid Again.
When this first started on UK TV, I was about 7 or 8 years old back in the 1960s. As a child, it just blew me away. I remember the following day at school it was all we could talk about. Great stuff, especially for young boys. Technology, the space race and the possibility of man landing on the moon. What a wonderful time to grow up. Thunderbirds are Go...Yes! The go-go years, when the future seemed full of possibilities.
And me loved the show and every minute of my childhood playing on the bomb sites me and all my mates. Walking the streets after school. Allowed out late in the summer great days not like today’s kids on computers all nite Saturday morning pictures watching Batman and robin in black and white great times. I miss them
I used to try my hardest photograph the Thunderbird machines on TV, near impossible with a focal plane shutter. But the design was defiantly British Origin
First aired on ATV Midlands (and a couple of other regions) at 7pm on Thursday, 30 September 1965. I was only two months old, but my brother recalls all the kids at his school in Kenilworth talking about it. Sounds like it really captured the kids’ imagination that night.
For a 60’s production, the vivid colours, attention to detail on all facades is incredible & great story telling, I’ve loved thunderbirds since watching for the first time in 1972
Here in the Netherlands we could watch the Thunderbirds from September 1965, once a month. They were my heroes, together with (the real) Batman and Zorro.
I remember when you could smoke on planes, and there was an ashtray in every seatback or armrest. I gave up 18 years ago, but I remember smoking on planes.
The world-building and attention to detail of Thunderbirds is amazing. The 1960s futuristic design evokes a time of nuclear power, the cold war, the space race, spies and secret organizations. All thought influences coming together. Love it.
I love seeing a young Paul Shaffer at his prime! (seriously I loved this show so much it entertained, intrigued, thrilled and even frightened me a little!)
“There is a bomb in the landing gear... the vibrations from landing will set it off.” “London Tower, we’re going to try and shake the bomb out with acrobatics.” LOL
@@ReportsOnChina Wow, andy, you're such a clever guy. Lemme let you go; your mommy's coming down with warm milk and cookies. G'night, Andrew. And live a long life.
Interestingly enough it's actually somewhat controversial as to which one was accidental and which one wasn't, either way whichever one it was they did a pretty great job of covering for it and incorporating it
It's the little details, like when the exhaust deflection ramp rises up behind TB2 prior to take-off, you hear the little "click" of non-existent capture latches snapping into place.
Alastair Archibald This and the other episodes Sophie has uploaded are the ‘enhanced’ versions that ITV paid an L.A. post-production company to clean up and dub IN *new* sound-effects. It was to produce genuine 5.1 soundtracks for the DVD release in 2000 or 2001. Unlike the ‘dirty’, reverberating ones ITV did for “CAPTAIN SCARLET” themselves. Were those ‘clicks’ present on the original ‘65 transmission of “Trapped in the Sky”? Or were they added in by the Americans?
I recently watched Journey to the far side of the Sun. 1969 live action sci-fi, and an Anderson film. Thought the music sounded familiar, yes it was Barry Gray.
Stewardess: 'You're lucky, it's the maiden flight of the new Atomic-Powered Fireflash' TinTin: *Asks a technical question about it's speed capabilities, with no concern whatsoever* Also Stewardess: 'That's right, but don't worry, it's perfectly safe....' Worst -Stewardess-Ever lol XD
@@alangeorgebarstow if I had to guess, they calculated that they should never need a radiation shield that lasts longer than that at the speed the plane travels
totally: and it was a class act....not derivative nor affectatious....a spy film for kids with enough intelligence and elegance to be adult oriented in a subtle way also...no overstatement, artifice nor EVASION
Some interesting trivia: In the 50s the USA & USSR were locked in a multi-billion dollar race to develop the technology for a strategic bomber powered by an atomic engine, which would give it very long flight endurance and independence from vulnerable airstrips. The Atomic Energy Commission/USAF flew an experimental testbed NB36 (Nuclear Bomber) with a special heavily shielded cockpit to protect the aircrew from radiation. In the 60s USSR flew an atomic plane, but irradiated their crewmen, most of them died. The design for the USAF proposed plane WS-125 looks very similar to FireFlash.
I grew up with this when I was a little girl I will never forget to show her all the time yup in the morning when I was little and set the time to watch this till now to get back in the 60s and 70s it was an unforgettable shower now with the other shows the group with rock Heart and soul for all time to come I will not forget this Overall time to come and told me A lot of values of what’s right and what’s wrong and world today tell me even more for a time to come
I don't know if anyone's noticed but at 51:15 there's a mistake - you can still see the Thunderbirds outfits photo portraits on the walls behind Scott and Gordon; this is seconds after Geoff Tracy had pressed the button for 'Operation Coverup'. Nearly 50 years of watching Thunderbirds and I've only just noticed...
Ian Mansfield Don't be too hard on them, Ian: there were thousands of shots and cuts in an episode of Thunderbirds, and they were by far the most expensive TV series to make in the UK at the time, so when they could, they reused shots from other episodes. It's nothing short of remarkable what ground this series broke. I loved it from the age of 3 up to my current age of 57, and my grandchildren love it, too, even though there are much more technical special effects needed. They actually managed to make you care not only about the main characters, but also the people in danger. It was a phenomenon.
@@Dragonblaster1 I hope it doesn't come across that way Alastair; I'm just fascinated by bloopers like this and like you I have been a massive fan of Thunderbirds since childhood. What I found interesting was that this was in the first ever episode, so probably not a reused shot; they just didn't notice the continuity error, but in a 50 minute episode I can forgive them for that, the making of this series back in the 60s was genius.
I can actually remember my Dad saying to me that I was allowed to stay up and watch this new fantastic programme, and it was this episode. After this episode was broadcast Thunderbirds would go on to take the UK by storm! Great days the mid 60's.
I remember this episode when Thunderbirds 1st aired... Was it not the "pilot" episode... The tension was intense... I remember it still... These were puppets for gawds sake but it really rocked👉🇬🇧👈👉💎👈
The point is all the times you DON'T notice the strings. They really did work very hard on hiding them, e.g. airbrushing them with background colour. It's particularly effective in the feature films, _Thunderbirds Are Go_ and _Thunderbird Six._
@@Dragonblaster1 I never recall seeing strings on vehicles. Strings are more noticeable on certain episodes than others, presumably budget and schedules were the main reason. I'd have thought they could remaster certain episodes and scenes and correct things digitally both strings and continuity. I'd like that, the uniformed pictures at the end of this episode should be corrected whereas the G cramp falling down in City of Fire should stay.
Crikey this brings back great memories. It was so exciting then and it's still just as watchable now. Marvelous. Gotta laugh, when the specialist reports to Jeff about Kyrano at 51:00 on and wonders who international rescue is: the family pictures on the wall behind Jeff have them all in their IR uniforms; operation cover up seems to have a time limit...
I WAS BORN 1961. SO AT 5/6/7 YEARS OLD I LOVED THE ANIMATION, PUPPETS, CLAYMATION, SPECIAL EFFECTS. IT WAS GREAT JUST FOR THAT EVEN THOUGH AS A LITTLE KID I WISHED IT WASN'T ALL FAKE SAME FOR GODZILLA.
The fact that I care more about what happens to these "dolls" than what might happen to a flesh and blood character, say in Black Panther 2, shows how well this are they written.
Always thought Skyflash was the most asceticly beautifully designed aircraft I'd ever seen in my 10yr old life. Wish it could do the things it was designed to do
the fireflash take off scene always got me excited, you could feel the speed and power it brought. I use to think that;s how planes took off and sounded like. I love Thunderbirds and still watch it today.
Thank you so much for posting reminding me of better times, when I had grown up (a bit) I got the series on video for my Son I think from now defunct Woolworths we both still love Thunderbirds
This is the first episode I saw when I was 6 years old. In those days I didn't even understood English... but how fascinated I was by what I saw and heard! Supermarionation indeed! This show is over half a century old and can stand against most of what is made today, especially in originality and storytelling quality.
This show was extremely attentive to details.........so well done. You can't get that kind of dedication and detail on a t.v. show these days. The creators and all involved managed to bring to life characters and situations without being campy. And the sets! And the puppeteers gave those characters a real live feel. Hooray for SUPERMARIONATION !!!
Thunderbirds is a trip down memory lane as a kid way back in the late sixties when I used to come home for lunch. I remember when they used to have the toy version of the rockets at the stores they were so cool
I find myself thinking: "Bond; JAMES Bond license to THRILL" ...International Rescue...a bit of Star Trek, the UN and Dr Who perhaps...very MI5 and always British totally BRILL xx
The first Episode Of Thunderbirds on 30 september 1965 begon the first episode the name Trapped In de Sky on 30 september in 2015 50th Anniversary of Thunderbirds in English,Germans,Swedish,French,Spanish,Italian.
I love this episode and I had a super record of both Thunderbirds & Captain Scarlet's first episodes in the 1970's played the hell out of it until I gave it to my nephew in the early 1980's (big mistake perhaps?) but I think he enjoyed it as much as I did. Lost contact when he got older and moved away....But I won't ever stop enjoying the craft and skill behind the whole Anderson production team no matter what they produced. Just thought the 2000ish Thunderbirds movie was not able to capture the spirit of the old.... Good attempt but strings attached were better: oh I saw that stage show as well in the 1990's and I have never laughed so hard in a Theatre!!! Jamie Anderson will do a good job of going on with his parents work.
All that _edge of the seat_ action was great for a kid, when this was new. Shame we have nothing like it for today's kids, with their noses stuck in smart-alec phones
The climax of this episode never fails to give me goosebumps. Special effects legends Derek Meddings and Brian Johncock went on to win Oscars for Superman the Movie and The Empire Strikes Back. Also watch very carefully for a serious contiunity error in the last scene of the episode.
We can stay up here for six months, but our radiation shielding needs servicing in two hours: how ludicrous a premise for a story is that, although the rescue sequences were, none-the-less , excellent examples of 'supermarionation.'
Bob really is the biggest hero on this episode. Off course Virgil saved the day. But Bob risked life and limb for a one in a million chance. A deterimed, brave man. (Allthough Virgil's crash was nasty i must say, could've been worse as well lol)
The Thunderbirds were, and still are, one of the most unique and entertaining franchises ever. Have loved them since first seeing them in the 60's. The way they move around from the office to their ships, I wonder if this is where UPS, FedEx, Amazon, etc learned to move their packages?? Always looking for new episodes and hadn't seen this one before, so THANKS for posting! I have long wondered why there hasn't been a new film?
Thanks for posting l have all the puppet movies, l ordered Scott, Virgil, Alan talking dolls and the small action figures...l love and enjoy these movies then regular movies, time to go FAB...message received and understood!!!
Fun fact: the scene where they put a man on Fireflash using the target plane wasn't in the original script. Gerry Anderson originally intended for Thunderbirds episodes to be a half-hour instead of an hour, and when Lew Grade wanted them to be an hour, this episode had already been filmed, so Anderson quickly created this first rescue attempt to pad the episode.
My brother and I were glued to our set when this show came on. Those Andersons were visionaries.
I love this show, I’m 12 and live in Australia. They used to air it on the telly weekend mornings. And I was like that for 2 or 3 years. Then they stopped airing it. I did buy the 50th anniversary dvd box set. But I lost it. Now however, I found it on RUclips. Finally, I can watch thunderbirds.
im so glad i grew up in the 60s....Thunderbirds...captain Scarlet ...Joe 90...and UFO...the Andersons were the Perfect couple at the perfect time !
I thank my Dad forever for introducing me to this show. Just to give some context, my Dad is not from the UK but had grown up with this show when it was shown for a time in the 1960s in the United States. I was born in '99 and have a very active imagination. At the age of four, he put on a random VHS tape and showed this to me. Three episodes were recorded on it, this one, City of Fire and Pit of Peril. I was blown away by how cool it was. And bear in mind, this was shown to me before Star Wars or any other science fiction show or film.
I actually have that VHS in a display case in my room next to all my Thunderbirds toys which my parents bought me over the years. My mom also made me and my childhood friend sashes like the show and we'd re-enact episodes with the toys and create our own scenarios. And I have the entire episode collection, the two feature films and the 2004 remake, as well as the Tracy Island playset and figures.
Still thanking my Dad everyday for introducing me to this show. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have known about Gerry Anderson, Sylvia Anderson and the creations they created. All before Star Wars! I think it's the best sci-fi show ever shown in the entire world.
Great story. I did manage to see most of series when it was first aired 55 years or so ago... However, after the separation of my parents and mother remarrying a thorough control freak, narcissist - MY (step) father was in the habit of using the TV as a punitive measure and subsequently banned me from watching Thunderbirds, Capt Scarlet, Dr Who and especially UFO.... Heartless bastard, with zero imagination... Hated that I understood technology and even at a young age showing talent in music. Traits he hated in me, because like you I have an equally active imagination... Still with me... I look back on these old episodes with mixed feelings, but renewed joy at how entertainment to us kids could be made so exciting with so little tech.
Fun anecdotal - One day the step-patriarch was attempting to repair an old valve radio... I was around 11/12 at the time and keenly into electronics... Observing this with keen interest across the dining table, I warned him to be careful of the 'big silver can' near the transformer, because it (smoothing capacitor) often carries a big charge after the device is switched-off. He told me to mind my own business... I shrugged... A minute or so later, there was a mighty 'pop' as his screwdriver shorted the capacitor terminals... He jumped a foot in the air, knocking his chair over and went as white as a sheet... lol! I just shrugged (with a huge grin this time...).
At the age of 18 - I ended-up evicting his front-upper incissor with my fist... One of only two occasions I've actually hit anyone in outright rage... Not proud of it, but given that he was always saying to me - '' ...Be kind to your brother, because one day he'll be big enough to hit you back...'' Kinda ironic that being such a narcissist, he never once thought he'd be on the receiving end of that specific course of karmah ...
Ya know guys, I'm TRULY sorry Deebz270 for having to grow up with a DICK-HEAD such as your Step-Dork was! I was BLESSED with 2 GREAT parents who, even tho I was ONLY 5 at the time, MADE DAMN SURE I was allowed to stay up just to see this AWESOME show. Like you guys, over the years I got the action toys including a CORGI Fab 1 that is still in really decent shape even after all these years! I was adopted at birth and I am about 98% British and LOVED this show, Dr. Who (4th doc being my Fav!) and many other things British - and yea, even the food! My parents were both German and never understood just why I loved all the things from the U.K. instead of the things & food that they did but they let me grow up loving the things that I loved, never once being pushed to like the things they did... I'll ALWAYS love them for that!
I was born in 2000, my Dad watched Thunderbirds when he was 5 or 6 in the 60s. In 2005 he bought me the trapped in the sky dvd. To this day I’ve loved Thunderbirds and rate this episode as the best. FAB
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That is exactly the way it did go with me and my dad.. First Thunderbirds i saw was "To the Rescue" on VHS. I fell in love with TB2 the first time i saw her..
Like the way they used to write on the explosive......auto bomb
Geoffrey van vugt was quite an experience watching it for the first time
@@EW00AW04 It was..And still is
Used to get up early every Saturday early for cartoons and the thunderbirds. Funny, hated to get up to go to school but on Saturday up at 7:00 am.
If you could get up by 5:30 am you could watch Fireball XL5
@@asommer518 Kool!
Back when Saturday morning cartoons and reruns of old shows was still a thing!
Those were great times!
I saw the very first episode right now in 2022 and iam blown away.. I have never ever known about this beautiful series.. The masterful puppetry.. the background score .. the screenplay and the suspense they managed to conjure up back in the 60's .. SALUTE to the creators... Fan for life.. Thunderbirds.. FAB..!!! 👍🏻
Parker:"Home me lady?"
Lady P: "Home Parker"
Has become a classic line 😁
Amazing how good this show looks 50 years later! Side note, I was in the air force and the comments and technical details are outstanding. For example, when they opened the inspection hack, the pilot said check trim. Today we have auto trim but back in the sixties you would have to make an manual adjust based on the change in aircraft configuration. Pretty cool for a kids' show.
Gerry Anderson was ALWAYS out ahead of the curve...then Space 1999 and onwards with UFO: the tv series also....
This show was made in the 1960's. There was no CGI, green screen or digital editing 57 years ago. *Everything* you see in the show was a physical miniature model. Boat loads of work went into making this show, and as another commenter said, the attention to detail despite these limitations of the time is incredible. Occasionally you forget that this show was made generations ago.
When I was a kid in the 60’s, this was easily my favorite show. I’m glad that it has weathered the test of time. I’m 61 now, and can’t believe how much I still love The Thunderbirds, as I’m watching it with my grandkids!
hiya Robert hey another Star Trek fan and also the Thunderbirds...always wanted to see a re-imagined LIVE Action series or feature films...yes?
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER btw...."thunderbirds are GO!" :) xoxoxo
@@monicamattox72 Thank you so much for sharing 🖖🏼 =/\=
This , 1964 Hanna-Barbara Jonny Quest and Saturday Morning Network T.V. in the 1960s was Great. When I Retire I'm Gonna Get All My Favorites on DVD and be a Kid Again.
When this first started on UK TV, I was about 7 or 8 years old back in the 1960s. As a child, it just blew me away. I remember the following day at school it was all we could talk about. Great stuff, especially for young boys. Technology, the space race and the possibility of man landing on the moon. What a wonderful time to grow up. Thunderbirds are Go...Yes! The go-go years, when the future seemed full of possibilities.
Same here, i'm sure this led to my career in aviation, that of course and Airfix.
fly bobbie 😃👍
And me loved the show and every minute of my childhood playing on the bomb sites me and all my mates. Walking the streets after school. Allowed out late in the summer great days not like today’s kids on computers all nite Saturday morning pictures watching Batman and robin in black and white great times. I miss them
I used to try my hardest photograph the Thunderbird machines on TV, near impossible with a focal plane shutter. But the design was defiantly British Origin
First aired on ATV Midlands (and a couple of other regions) at 7pm on Thursday, 30 September 1965. I was only two months old, but my brother recalls all the kids at his school in Kenilworth talking about it. Sounds like it really captured the kids’ imagination that night.
For a 60’s production, the vivid colours, attention to detail on all facades is incredible & great story telling, I’ve loved thunderbirds since watching for the first time in 1972
That Fireflash plane design is the sexiest and hottest in the history of mankind. What a beauty !
Here in the Netherlands we could watch the Thunderbirds from September 1965, once a month. They were my heroes, together with (the real) Batman and Zorro.
The Netherlands was where Thunderbirds premiered, you saw it before anybody else.
I like how Scott talks as if he owns the airport and meanwhile Virgil destroying things 😅
I m 23 yo going on 24 but I never get tired of Thumderbirds, joe 90, captain scarlet or Stingray. Am I the only one? 😅
I remember when you could smoke on planes, and there was an ashtray in every seatback or armrest. I gave up 18 years ago, but I remember smoking on planes.
LOL, I can also remember this!
The world-building and attention to detail of Thunderbirds is amazing. The 1960s futuristic design evokes a time of nuclear power, the cold war, the space race, spies and secret organizations. All thought influences coming together. Love it.
yes what SHE said totally :)
As soon as I think how well Barry Gray handles his orchestra's string section, he impresses me with the brass, the percussion or the woodwind.
OMG!! MY CHILDHOOD IS BACK! I used to love this when I was growing up! YAY RUclips!!
I was born in 1957 this show was so amazing back then to me.great art Ty
I love seeing a young Paul Shaffer at his prime! (seriously I loved this show so much it entertained, intrigued, thrilled and even frightened me a little!)
“There is a bomb in the landing gear... the vibrations from landing will set it off.”
“London Tower, we’re going to try and shake the bomb out with acrobatics.”
LOL
What are you laughing out loud about?
If they dived steeply and pulled up sharply, the G force could dislodge it, sans the kind of vibration that happens upon landing.
@@rudolphguarnacci197 Woosh
@@ReportsOnChina
Wow, andy, you're such a clever guy. Lemme let you go; your mommy's coming down with warm milk and cookies. G'night, Andrew. And live a long life.
@@rudolphguarnacci197 I’ve been waiting five minutes already and she hasn’t come! I’m about to throw my toys out of the cot!!! ME WANT WARM MILKY!!!
Possibly the single most effective opening titles sequence in TV history, a masterpiece of priming the audience for the excitement to come.
At 46m when the music kicks in, that’s proper drama. Awesome.
Fun fact: Number 3 wasn't intended to crash, but the strings broke mid-filming so they kept it in for dramatic effect.
Interesting!!
Mark Richards That’s what TammoKorsai is talking about. 😝
Oooh, which part of this did that happen?? (Timestamp?)
Interestingly enough it's actually somewhat controversial as to which one was accidental and which one wasn't, either way whichever one it was they did a pretty great job of covering for it and incorporating it
I think it was actually no. 1
It's the little details, like when the exhaust deflection ramp rises up behind TB2 prior to take-off, you hear the little "click" of non-existent capture latches snapping into place.
Alastair Archibald This and the other episodes Sophie has uploaded are the ‘enhanced’ versions that ITV paid an L.A. post-production company to clean up and dub IN *new* sound-effects. It was to produce genuine 5.1 soundtracks for the DVD release in 2000 or 2001. Unlike the ‘dirty’, reverberating ones ITV did for “CAPTAIN SCARLET” themselves.
Were those ‘clicks’ present on the original ‘65 transmission of “Trapped in the Sky”? Or were they added in by the Americans?
@@AirwolfArchive They were there originally.
NGH 👍
@@AirwolfArchive Thank you. I loved these in 1960 when I was a little kid. They are a refreshing change to watch.
Watched this in the 60's when I was a kid, and I still love the music..
Me too. Barry Gray was a genius.
I recently watched Journey to the far side of the Sun. 1969 live action sci-fi, and an Anderson film. Thought the music sounded familiar, yes it was Barry Gray.
Yeah,I Sometimes I Think about Some of the Sound Tracks in Mind to This Day.
Barry Gray was a musical genius and ahead of his time. Like you, i grew up with this awesome show.
YES SIR ME ALSO !! 🤠🖖
Stewardess: 'You're lucky, it's the maiden flight of the new Atomic-Powered Fireflash'
TinTin: *Asks a technical question about it's speed capabilities, with no concern whatsoever*
Also Stewardess: 'That's right, but don't worry, it's perfectly safe....'
Worst -Stewardess-Ever lol XD
31:50... If they had closed the hatch on the ship, then the guy may not have fallen out..
More to the point: why was there a "deadly radiation danger" on a new, state-of-the-art airliner just two hours into a halfway-round-the-world flight?
@@alangeorgebarstow if I had to guess, they calculated that they should never need a radiation shield that lasts longer than that at the speed the plane travels
Man! I just turned 61 last week! I remember this show! On Saturday morning I was really young though.
My man NEVER takes off his shades. The coolest pilot ever.
50 years old and still better than 95% of the crap on TV today.
Still more exciting and believable than some of the stuff put out today.
seems a tad bit biased
totally: and it was a class act....not derivative nor affectatious....a spy film for kids with enough intelligence and elegance to be adult oriented in a subtle way also...no overstatement, artifice nor EVASION
Some interesting trivia: In the 50s the USA & USSR were locked in a multi-billion dollar race to develop the technology for a strategic bomber powered by an atomic engine, which would give it very long flight endurance and independence from vulnerable airstrips.
The Atomic Energy Commission/USAF flew an experimental testbed NB36 (Nuclear Bomber) with a special heavily shielded cockpit to protect the aircrew from radiation.
In the 60s USSR flew an atomic plane, but irradiated their crewmen, most of them died.
The design for the USAF proposed plane WS-125 looks very similar to FireFlash.
I grew up with this when I was a little girl I will never forget to show her all the time yup in the morning when I was little and set the time to watch this till now to get back in the 60s and 70s it was an unforgettable shower now with the other shows the group with rock Heart and soul for all time to come I will not forget this Overall time to come and told me A lot of values of what’s right and what’s wrong and world today tell me even more for a time to come
I don't know if anyone's noticed but at 51:15 there's a mistake - you can still see the Thunderbirds outfits photo portraits on the walls behind Scott and Gordon; this is seconds after Geoff Tracy had pressed the button for 'Operation Coverup'. Nearly 50 years of watching Thunderbirds and I've only just noticed...
Ian Mansfield Don't be too hard on them, Ian: there were thousands of shots and cuts in an episode of Thunderbirds, and they were by far the most expensive TV series to make in the UK at the time, so when they could, they reused shots from other episodes. It's nothing short of remarkable what ground this series broke. I loved it from the age of 3 up to my current age of 57, and my grandchildren love it, too, even though there are much more technical special effects needed.
They actually managed to make you care not only about the main characters, but also the people in danger. It was a phenomenon.
@@Dragonblaster1 I hope it doesn't come across that way Alastair; I'm just fascinated by bloopers like this and like you I have been a massive fan of Thunderbirds since childhood. What I found interesting was that this was in the first ever episode, so probably not a reused shot; they just didn't notice the continuity error, but in a 50 minute episode I can forgive them for that, the making of this series back in the 60s was genius.
Trivia: Failed rescue attmept pilot was called Bob Meddings. This is an acolade to Derek Meddings, the amazing model and set designer.
I can actually remember my Dad saying to me that I was allowed to stay up and watch this new fantastic programme, and it was this episode. After this episode was broadcast Thunderbirds would go on to take the UK by storm! Great days the mid 60's.
This is set in the year 2065 but in the new modern one it is set in 2060. Got there years a bit mixed up there
@Litshttam snowflkake
1965 I was 7 yrs. old the First Episode Blew My Mind. I Love This Series.
This was the best form of puppetry together with the muppet comedy show .Great action !👍😁🤔
I remember this episode when Thunderbirds 1st aired... Was it not the "pilot" episode... The tension was intense... I remember it still... These were puppets for gawds sake but it really rocked👉🇬🇧👈👉💎👈
I was born in 03 and my dad introduced me when I was very young, still holds a place in my heart to this day.
To this day, the best part of Thunderbirds is still the palm trees falling aside for Thunderbird 2's launch! 😆
better than animation and cgi, models made with precision, skill and caring about the end result.
Meddings deserves a medal. Bravest puppet I've ever seen.
Favorite show growing up thanks
I used to watch them back in the 70's and still enjoy every episode. FAB
Be safe and be 😎
you could see the strings but we didnt care
also love how the bomb is labeled as one
The point is all the times you DON'T notice the strings. They really did work very hard on hiding them, e.g. airbrushing them with background colour. It's particularly effective in the feature films, _Thunderbirds Are Go_ and _Thunderbird Six._
@@thepolishnz If he stole it from a military facility, it would have been clearly labelled as one.
@@Dragonblaster1 I never recall seeing strings on vehicles. Strings are more noticeable on certain episodes than others, presumably budget and schedules were the main reason.
I'd have thought they could remaster certain episodes and scenes and correct things digitally both strings and continuity. I'd like that, the uniformed pictures at the end of this episode should be corrected whereas the G cramp falling down in City of Fire should stay.
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Every Saturday morning I used to watch this. It was always on TV. Those were the days when Saturday morning cartoons were actually a thing. ☺️
Crikey this brings back great memories. It was so exciting then and it's still just as watchable now. Marvelous.
Gotta laugh, when the specialist reports to Jeff about Kyrano at 51:00 on and wonders who international rescue is: the family pictures on the wall behind Jeff have them all in their IR uniforms; operation cover up seems to have a time limit...
I WAS BORN 1961. SO AT 5/6/7 YEARS OLD I LOVED THE ANIMATION, PUPPETS, CLAYMATION, SPECIAL EFFECTS. IT WAS GREAT JUST FOR THAT EVEN THOUGH AS A LITTLE KID I WISHED IT WASN'T ALL FAKE SAME FOR GODZILLA.
Thunderbirds Was Regularly Screened At 6AM every day back in the 1980s on TV in Melbourne Australia!🙂🚀🚀🏝️📺
I have to say I'm always impressed with painstaking attention to detail for the dolls and the sets. The stories are good too.
Watching this in Rio de Janeiro during this everlasting quarentine...
The fact that I care more about what happens to these "dolls" than what might happen to a flesh and blood character, say in Black Panther 2, shows how well this are they written.
I think that was the best episode I have ever seen
Always thought Skyflash was the most asceticly beautifully designed aircraft I'd ever seen in my 10yr old life. Wish it could do the things it was designed to do
Its fireflash, not skyflash
the fireflash take off scene always got me excited, you could feel the speed and power it brought. I use to think that;s how planes took off and sounded like. I love Thunderbirds and still watch it today.
Penelopy turn's out to be quite a beautiful assassin!, nice shot Parker!
Thank you so much for posting reminding me of better times, when I had grown up (a bit) I got the series on video for my Son I think from now defunct Woolworths we both still love Thunderbirds
6am every Saturday morning, Channel 9 in Australia.
This is the first episode I saw when I was 6 years old. In those days I didn't even understood English... but how fascinated I was by what I saw and heard! Supermarionation indeed! This show is over half a century old and can stand against most of what is made today, especially in originality and storytelling quality.
Every kid should grow up with this, as I did, even in the 2000s!
This show was extremely attentive to details.........so well done. You can't get that kind of dedication and detail on a t.v. show these days. The creators and all involved managed to bring to life characters and situations without being campy. And the sets! And the puppeteers gave those characters a real live feel. Hooray for SUPERMARIONATION !!!
I watched this series as a Kid during the early 2000s. This series is STILL EPIC. 😎
God I feel I was watching this I watched it when I was a child in the 60s as well
This was genius.
Thunderbirds is a trip down memory lane as a kid way back in the late sixties when I used to come home for lunch. I remember when they used to have the toy version of the rockets at the stores they were so cool
This show is timeless and endless. 100 years from now it will still be considered futuristic ...:)
I find myself thinking: "Bond; JAMES Bond license to THRILL" ...International Rescue...a bit of Star Trek, the UN and Dr Who perhaps...very MI5 and always British totally BRILL xx
The first Episode Of Thunderbirds on 30 september 1965 begon the first episode the name Trapped In de Sky on 30 september in 2015 50th Anniversary of Thunderbirds in English,Germans,Swedish,French,Spanish,Italian.
I watched this as a child, at 66 I still watch it, best show ever
I love this episode and I had a super record of both Thunderbirds & Captain Scarlet's first episodes in the 1970's played the hell out of it until I gave it to my nephew in the early 1980's (big mistake perhaps?) but I think he enjoyed it as much as I did. Lost contact when he got older and moved away....But I won't ever stop enjoying the craft and skill behind the whole Anderson production team no matter what they produced. Just thought the 2000ish Thunderbirds movie was not able to capture the spirit of the old.... Good attempt but strings attached were better: oh I saw that stage show as well in the 1990's and I have never laughed so hard in a Theatre!!! Jamie Anderson will do a good job of going on with his parents work.
So cool to watch this again ! I adored it as a child and I still do now.
Such a good show even 40 years later!
Omg i remeber this episode i had it on VCR absolute golden
Great to watch thunderbirds again memory lane.
The Thunderbirds and The Beatles - the two best things to come out of England.
The steam engine, the jet engine, the sterling engine, the tank, the radar system also come to mind ;-)
@@samerm8657 Emma Watson and Keira Knightley also come to mind.
And the Rolling Stones pink floyd black sabbath
And The Who
And Dr Who (the original classic series anyway...)
And dont forget Fireflash is modelled after Concord!
All that _edge of the seat_ action was great for a kid, when this was new. Shame we have nothing like it for today's kids, with their noses stuck in smart-alec phones
The climax of this episode never fails to give me goosebumps. Special effects legends Derek Meddings and Brian Johncock went on to win Oscars for Superman the Movie and The Empire Strikes Back. Also watch very carefully for a serious contiunity error in the last scene of the episode.
Adam Payn the portraits are in the wrong position!
We can stay up here for six months, but our radiation shielding needs servicing in two hours: how ludicrous a premise for a story is that, although the rescue sequences were, none-the-less , excellent examples of 'supermarionation.'
The Aliens lander crash scene was directly inspired by an airliner crash scene in Thunderbirds. Nifty!
It’s impressive how much painstaking detail all the set shots have in them…it’d be a massive undertaking to do all this by hand.
This show should have millions of views and kids everywhere should be so happy they can watch this whenever they want. Spoiled I tell ya!
Thanks for posting.With two young children of my own we are all enjoying this.Cheers.
U reckon the fireflash pilots were referring to Tintin as the cute passenger? Hope not for Alan's sake lol
They were!
Bob really is the biggest hero on this episode. Off course Virgil saved the day.
But Bob risked life and limb for a one in a million chance. A deterimed, brave man. (Allthough Virgil's crash was nasty i must say, could've been worse as well lol)
46:25 - I like this line from the freeze dance:
5.1 inch Buster Bunny, lift your knees, lift your knees and freeze!
Love the Thunderbirds watch them when i was a kid love everything about the Thunderbirds ABF 👍👍🚀👽💚
The Thunderbirds were, and still are, one of the most unique and entertaining franchises ever. Have loved them since first seeing them in the 60's. The way they move around from the office to their ships, I wonder if this is where UPS, FedEx, Amazon, etc learned to move their packages?? Always looking for new episodes and hadn't seen this one before, so THANKS for posting! I have long wondered why there hasn't been a new film?
always LOVED the countdown 5 4 3 2 1 and "THUNDERBIRDS are...GO!" thrilling
As an adult I have to admit, these Thunderbird's episodes are enjoyable.
Never get tired of watching this great show since I was a child in the 60's until today in 2021.
Thanks for posting l have all the puppet movies, l ordered Scott, Virgil, Alan talking dolls and the small action figures...l love and enjoy these movies then regular movies, time to go FAB...message received and understood!!!
Servicing those engines wouldn't be for the faint-hearted!😂😂
I love the way Virgil managed to get changed between pods 1 and 3 (and I bet he also played sliding into T2 when off duty)
I bet out of all the Thunderbirds, Virgil had to watch his weight. It'd be embarrassing to get stuck in the chute leading into T2.
Setebos Yes apparently he was always hanging around the kitchen with Grandma - I hope it was just the food he was after.
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Oh, God! Talk about your Danger Zones :-)
Setebos I suppose if that happened he'd have to call international rescue
Fun fact: the scene where they put a man on Fireflash using the target plane wasn't in the original script. Gerry Anderson originally intended for Thunderbirds episodes to be a half-hour instead of an hour, and when Lew Grade wanted them to be an hour, this episode had already been filmed, so Anderson quickly created this first rescue attempt to pad the episode.
good old classic thunderbirds
This was the episode I remember watching a lot. Awesome