This article is about the episodes of the original Thunderbirds. For a list of Thunderbirds Are Go episodes, see List of Thunderbirds Are Go episodes. Full details regarding the release have yet to be given, but there will certainly be a flurry of activity to coincide with the release.

A gang of criminals masquerade as International Rescue to conceal their theft of top-secret military plans. The ensuing worldwide manhunt for International Rescue leaves the organisation powerless to operate in a rescue situation until its name is vindicated, just as a member of a manned reconnaissance satellite is suddenly trapped in space while trying to repair the station. The world's tallest tower catches fire following an explosion in the car park and International Rescue are called to rescue a family trapped in the basement, which they can accomplish only with an experimental cutting gas ("Oxyhydnite") that previously rendered Scott and Virgil Tracy unconscious during testing. Thunderbirds 2086 made greater use of science fiction concepts and space travel in general than the original Supermarionation series, although its vehicles were designed with more of a functional appearance than those seen there. By and large the English redub followed the stories of the original Japanese episodes but its tone was often very tongue-in-cheek, and it wasn’t afraid to make references to other television shows and films. This was a world where evil computers would claim to control “the horizontal and the vertical”, where a convicted man would yell “I am not a number, I am a free man!” upon being sentenced, where a cynical astronaut would announce “I’ve never seen anything to make me believe there’s some mystical energy controlling my destiny!” short before encountering said Force (and then crying “I do believe in ghosts, I do believe in ghosts!”), and where absolutely all engineers were Scottish. The humour threatens to finally break the fourth wall completely at the start of the final episode, UFO, where the captain of a sailing vessel gets excited about his first appearance on television;

Extras: Language(s): English, Interactive Menu, Documentaries: 'No Strings Attached', Making of Documentary

Re-released on International Rescues (Century 21 LP compilation, 1966, code LA 3) as well as Gerry Anderson Presents T.V. Favourites –Vol. 2 (Marble Arch LP, 1968, MAL 771), Thunderbirds & Captain Scarlet ( Hallmark/Marble Arch LP, 1969, HMA 227), [16] and Thunderbirds ( PolyGram cassette, 1992, code 514 385–4). [19]

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