Thunderbirds
The year is 2065. The location is a secret island base. The Tracy family run International Rescue - a top secret organization whose ongoing mission is to aid humanity. With the support of five incredible THUNDERBIRDS craft, the London agent Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, her butler and ex safe-cracker Parker and genius Brains, the Tracy family battle the forces of evil.
- 1965-1966
- 2 seasons
- A&E Home Video
- Action & Adventure, Family, Science Fiction
- TV-G
The year is 2065. The location is a secret island base. The Tracy family run International Rescue - a top secret organization whose ongoing mission is to aid humanity. With the support of five incredible THUNDERBIRDS craft, the London agent Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, her butler and ex safe-cracker Parker and genius Brains, the Tracy family battle the forces of evil.
Season 2 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 1966
Episode 1
Atlantic Inferno
50 mins
Lady Penelope invites Jeff Tracy for a vacation on her Australian ranch. Jeff reluctantly agrees and leaves Scott in command of International Rescue, after getting an update from John that a World Navy exercise is taking place in the Atlantic Ocean. This exercise involves warning a nearby mid-ocean drilling rig, the Seascape, whose crew chief, Frank Hooper, isn't pleased that the exercise involves firing nuclear warheads underwater. His concern proves justified when an errant nuclear torpedo detonates on the ocean floor and the resulting wave batters the rig. The swell settles and no damage is incurred, but that night a jet of fire erupts from the sea floor, the result of detonation of a gas pocket beneath of ocean floor. John hears radio calls about the fire jet, and Scott, after considerable agonizing over what to do, sends IR to plug the fire jet. The mission succeeds, but Jeff hears about it on the news and harangues Scott for getting involved. Penelope calms them both down, but the Seascape is further threatened when the gas pocket erupts in several areas; when Frank Hooper and his radioman man a diving sphere to examine damaged supports, they become trapped when the rig buckles and the sphere is buried on the sea floor. Now IR must work with the World Navy to evacuate the threatened rig and rescue Hooper and his radioman from the buried diving sphere.
Episode 2
Path of Destruction
49 mins
A monstrous tree-logging machine, known as the Crablogger, is cutting a route through a forest in South America, but the drivers faint due to eating bad food the night before, as the kitchen at the South American restaurant they ate it at is about as hygienic as an uncleaned bathroom. This has hilarious and dangerous consequences, as the Crablogger goes out of control, en route to a major dam construction site. Stopping the Crablogger turns out to be a major headache. International Rescue have to stop the Crablogger before it destroys the dam.
Episode 3
Alias Mr. Hackenbacker
49 mins
Brains' new airliner Skythrust hosts a fashion show aboard its maiden flight, but the plane is hijacked by crooks intent on stealing a revolutionary fabric to be modeled by Lady Penelope.
Episode 4
Lord Parker's 'Oliday
49 mins
A storm-damaged power station's haywire collector dish threatens to destroy the Mediterranean town Lady Penelope and Parker are holidaying in with a blast of solar energy.
Episode 5
Ricochet
49 mins
When a pirate radio station in orbit malfunctions and plummets towards Earth, International Rescue must save the DJ on board and prevent the craft from crashing into a populated area.
Episode 6
Give or Take a Million
50 mins
On Christmas Eve, two crooks break into the Second National Bank in New York. When the alarm is raised, they flee the crime scene and stow away inside a rocket which is delivering presents to a local children's hospital. One of those presents is an invitation to be a guest at Tracy Island for Christmas.
