Thunderbirds

It's a shame that they don't still make this show. It has heaps more charm than a lot of the current programmes which are aimed at kids on tv. Thunderbirds never really died, it continued to be repeated in the schedules and a boom in the nineties saw the show soar to great heights again, with a successful toy range and even a desirable Blue Peter Tracy Island! The show follows the exploits of the Tracy brothers, living at their secret hideway island and foiling the evil plans of criminal bald mastermind The Hood. The brothers all have different responsibilites and each brother looks after his own vehicle. Scott is in charge of Thunderbird One, a ...  Read the complete review

I am one of those oldies who grew up on this show, and I am glad to see it back on the screens. That it has been consistently repeated over the last couple of decades is proof enough that it still draws the viewers, and now it is coming to an all-new generation who will doubtless love it just as we did all those years ago - the FIRST time around. Today's world is full of "reality-based" shows and I think the fantasy of this is something that helps young children to open their minds and learn to use their imagination. Remember - when this show first came out, real space travel was in it's infancy. The puppets are classic, and it doesn't matter ...  Read the complete review

The Thunderbirds were perhaps the most famous of genius puppeteer Gerry Anderson's marionette creations. The show was immensely popular when it first aired nearly half a century ago, and is considered as the forerunner to a lot of kids TV shows nowadays. The show featured a number of puppets controlled by strings, with spaceships and other vehicles also controlled in a similar way. Ther characters and storylines were created by Gerry Anderson, and featured the Tracy family, headed by dad Jeff and run by his sons and London link Lady Penelope, as they travelled around the world, saving lives and thwarting bad guys and averting disasters with their multiple ...  Read the complete review

As a parent of a five year old boy, I was recently discussing DVDs I could get my son for Christmas with a friend. He loves Bob the Builder, but at five, I could see his interests branching out with a large interest in dinosaurs, space, and super heroes emerging, and I wanted to know if she thought he would love getting some Gerry Anderson. Ohhhhh yes, she said. It's still cool to love the Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet. Glad to hear it actually, as Mommy and Daddy quite like sitting there watching TV with the kids if they have something quality on, and in our book, Gerry Anderson is high quality indeed. I was still unconvinced however, pondering if the ...  Read the complete review

THUNDERBIRDS is, as many people know, the most famous of Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation puppet shows. It features the heroes of Internation Rescue as they go about combatting evil and saving the world from those who would wish to do it harm. I don't know why but THUNDERBIRDS has never grabbed me, neither when I was a child, nor now I am a more sophisticated adult (although the level of 'sophistication' I choose to show changes on a day-to-day level!). I'm not quite sure why it is, as the puppetry is probably the best amongst all of the Anderson shows. I think that it is probably because of the fact that each episode lasts for 50 minutes, instead of the ...  Read the complete review