I am 65 this year and talking my mum who has Alzheimer disease we I needed to show her the things I watched as a child... When I showed this her face lot up... She remembered Thunderbirds! We laughed as I conducted the theme tune! Memories of a long ago childhood! Wonder-full!
As a model railroader, I have to say the construction of the sets and planes has an amazing level of detail and creativity. He sure built a world to go play - excuse me, FLY in!
Very much like Thomas the tank engine. It may be known as a kid's show, but the level of detail that went into modelling the sets is impressive, even now.
The original Thomas the Tank Engine was done using (I think?) HO scale model trains with Ringo Starr narrating. I used to get a kick out of visualising Ringo in a studio doing the narration! Unfortunately, Thomas these days is all CGI, and lacking in depth and warmth. 😢 It's just not the same. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
@@markfryer9880 The original TTTE series was shot with Gauge 1 (roughly G scale) models, built using parts from Marklin models. It had to be done that way so that they could fit the rather complex eye mechanism in & still have room for a motor. Still quite impressive for the time all things considered, and far superior to the CGI of modern day.
I`ll be 65 years old Japanese man this month. Thunderbirds was broadcast in Japan in 1960`s when I was an elementary school boy. A lot of Japanese boys including myself were hooked on Thunderbirds at that time. This footage reminds me of my beautiful childhood. Oh, yes! I was also crazy for Captain Scarlet, Stingray and UFO too!
Same here, I was totally fascinated! I even once found a tiny Thunderbird 2 at a flea market, my favourite as well! I also just realised I sometimes whistle that tune, only just now I remember again where it comes from 🙂
@@CanyonWanderer I had the whole set. Did yours come with the the cargo pod and the little #4 inside? They were SOLID, mostly metal interestingly #1 had a red rubber tip... probably a safety thing.
@@KMCA779 Oh wow!, I just had the 2 with a removable pod, but that had no door. Actually the model itself was a regular matchbox sized car (the smallest size). Later I saw a scaled up version, but never had that one
In my 50's as well, watched the old Stingray show first with my dad, then this show came out, along with Captain Scarlet. Who knew that a couple of years later the same people would create one of the best aliens vs live action humans show...UFO. They used models in that one. A few more years later Space 1999 landed...or broke orbit if you will. Same prod. crew and more cool models. I'll have to check into these new versions I'm reading about. Wasn't the late great Bill Paxton in one?
This is just wonderful. I watched this as a boy and loved it all, but now I'm 69 and happened across this video. I realise just how much artistry and sheer hard work went into making these series. Having a model is one thing, but making it behave as though it has real mass, hitting the water and behaving as a heavy craft ... the very realistic jets on the engines (how did they do that) and the logistical problems of stringed marionettes walking through doors etc was sheer genius. And all of the series were so inventive. The music, too. Jerry and Sylvia Anderson were geniuses.
If you look close, they never actually walked through the door,it either skips to another character and then when the camera swings back there on the other side of the door,looking like they have just walk through,it,s just clever filming , brilliant but clever
@@robdykes3659 True, and in one sequence near the end of the video, you can see Thunderbird 4 descending and a wire is attached to the top. Still brings back old memories where anything was possible. I suppose SpaceX is the true manifestation of T4 !
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Another TB2 fan here. Used to watch this prog back in the 60's as a kid, completely absorbed by it all. Still get shivers down my spine watching the intro', launches etc. Brilliant.
TB2が運ぶポッドには、TB4以外にも記憶に残る装備があって、ジェット・モグラ・タンクが子供の頃好きでした。 当時、幼稚園児だった私には、プラモデルのギミックは難しくて作れず、隣に住む中学生の兄ちゃんの作ったモデルをワクワクしながら観ていたものです…。 The pods carried by the TB2 had other memorable equipment besides the TB4, and I liked the jet mogura tank (The mole)as a kid. At that time, as a kindergarten child, I couldn't make a plastic model gimmick because it was difficult, so I was excited to see the model made by my neighbor older brother, a junior high school student .
_ cameroncarey _ It was originally on ITV (it was first shown in the ATV Midlands region before it was aired in other ITV regions) and I believe it was repeated on some ITV regions in the 70’s and 80’s before it was shown on BBC2 in 1991.
@@_cameroncarey_ All the original; Gerry Anderson series, including Thunderbirds, were made for the independent TV production company, ITC. The Chairman of ITC was Lew Grade. ITC made programmes for broadcast by the various ITV franchise companies.
I'm six years of age, it's 6:00am and the Thunderbirds are just about to begin. My dad is about to bring me blackcurrant juice to start my day. "Come in The Darka Juice Man", I bellow, as he knocks on my door. We just got colour TV in Australia. Now 44 years on, it still means a lot to me when I see anything Thunderbirds-related and always makes me smile.
The construction of this secret base is quite large-scale, and it requires construction vehicles and a large number of workers. I'm sure they also need a desalinator for the water in the fake pool. Now, where did they get that from?
I'm 19 and my parents introduced me to Thunderbirds when I was little. That song you hear during the launches is etched into my brain to the point where I could play it on my trumpet by hearing and memory alone. Gosh I love Thunderbirds :D
When I was a child in the late 90s and early 2000s, I used to watch some rerun episodes my parents had recorded. I've been a fan of this show as long as I can remember.
Like a lot of Gerry and Sylvia stuff, the insanely long, intricate and convoluted launch sequences on the Thunderbirds made no damn sense, but they were so much fun to watch, you didn't care.
Especially since there were some ladders and stairwells they _could_ have used instead. But NASA level couch transport on a Triang-Hornby well wagon is more fun.
The chutes, slides, and moving couches were used because it's nearly impossible to make marionettes walk believably. Just ask anyone who's worked with puppets!
I always wondered about the chutes and slides. If they were meant to keep visitors from discovering the Thunderbirds, then what did they do to keep those visitors from noticing the rocket coming out of the swimming pool?
One of the reasons is that the show was originally made for a half-hour slot, but after watching the pilot episode Lew Grade asked them to make each episode twice as long. Which they did, but it meant that every episode has a lot of padding - launch sequences, people pressing buttons, "side quests".
Watching Thunderbirds as a child, I just loved the stories. As an adult, I can see that it's among the most imaginative and technically accomplished children's TV series ever made.
i may not have the HD boxset but i can still see the amazing detail and craftsman ship even in the standard dvd version and it just goes to show that they dont make tv shows like they used to sadly these days
I saw a HD episode recently and on one of the road vehicles used I could clearly see WOOD GRAIN. The HD showed me too much detail that time. I agree though that for the most part the HD is better.
I can't remember when or where, but many years ago I saw some sort of documentary footage about the making of the show. Two interesting tidbits I remember are that the realistic road dust wafting up from the tires of a big truck in more than one episode was diatomaceous earth, and that the majority of the vertical tanks appearing in models of industrial sites were made from empty cans of aerosol shaving soap, standing upside-down (you could see the concave bases of the cans at the tops of those tanks). Oh, and I remember one more thing: In the scuba-diving scenes, the puppets were filmed behind aquariums, with the camera looking through the glass. That way they could produce perfectly real bubbles and swaying vegetation in the foreground, but as a kid I never noticed that the characters' hair remained dry as they swam!!
The music is simply phenomenal...the ideas and thinking light years ahead of its time...we wereso lucky to grow up with Thunderbirds, Stingray, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90 and Fireball XL5...Watching them all again as an adult and realising just how good these programmes were...genius
@@darthdmc He certainly was. And in between working on Century 21 projects, he also lent his experience in that field to the James Bond films of that time, and that looks good on anyone's C.V.
Just got to look at how many went from Gerry's series' to work for James Bond franchise. Derek Meddings in particular after designing Fireball XL5, Stingray, All the Thunderbirds, the SPV, SPC and MPV, all the great models in UFO and Space 1999. He then goes and turns the Lotus Esprit S1 (type 79) into a submarine. God knows what he'd of done with the JPS Mk4 F1 car (also given the type number of 79). Mario Andretti would probably been the first human on Mars, and still been back for dinner.
Wow you’re the guys with the jet engines channel cool! I bet you could do a quick tribute to thunderbirds by filming yourself turning a knob, stirring a drink or flipping a switch with your “real hand” like the shows do!
I'm 71 years old. I remember all these series. Never lost anyone. Thanks for the opportunity to see them again. Amazing creation. Super advanced on that time.
0:01 TB1 Launch 2:14 TB2 Launch 5:30 Elevator Car Out of Pod No. 3 6:08 TB3 Launch 8:46 TB3 Dock to TB5 9:29 TB4 Launch (Pod No. 4) 10:10 TB4 Launch (Tracy Island)
Esse desenho animado era fora de série, mexia com nossa imaginação com toda essa tecnologia, estrutura operacional era muito além da nossa realidade verdadeira, e nos fazia sonhar com coisas do tipo, sem dúvida marcou minha vida, saudades dessa inocência.
What's cool about the TB3 landing back in the roundhouse vertically was that would be completely unthinkable in reality when this was all designed. But now in 2015 that has pretty much now been achieved by SpaceX for the first time. So maybe it wasn't so sci-fi after all.
+DrPepper22222 Gerry's creations aren't too far from reality :D I actually think the container pod system for TB2, it would be practical in real life in a similar sense to a shipping container for planes.
Yes but technically nonsense. TB1 however is interesting I've never thought of combining a rocket with a plane like that, it could be worth looking at for a real space launch vehicle.
I think this series was a tremendous inspiration for the Harrier and i think that even defined the Jump-jet denomination, Thunderbird 2 even uses a vertical thruster configuration similar to the Pegasus engine.
50 years later, it still looks impressive, the amount of imagination that went into these sequences makes them memorable and iconic, that new CG version is a poor imitation by comparison
These are the things that we're doing now I was excited about the Thunderbirds because we knew that if we progressed in our space program and I also research we sort since WWII we know that after a while we'll be doing this and we are doing
@@Dra741 You ought to go back to primary school and get proper tuition in english syntax and grammar. Your typewriting is absolutely appalling!!! Don't you ever read your own e-mails before posting them??..
TheHumbleFellow That is certainly missing from the new version of Thunderbirds. The camera angles and puppetry really added to the weight and dimensions of the craft. The new ones merely glide far too smoothly as cgi is known to do.
TheHumbleFellow Hi I remember seeing a stock photo of a Thunderbird 2 large scale model used in some of the episodes. In order to get proper depth & perspective and it was at least 6 - 8 feet long. It had one of the film crew standing next to it !
+TheHumbleFellow As much as I like the new series, the craft move to fast on the ground. Thunderbird 2 lowers on to the pod and rises to quickly to give the feel of a large size. Maybe because they are now a half hour programme?
+spacecadet35 They aren't even half an hour long. Both shows seem to have suffered from their time, with the original being needlessly slow at times, and the reboot not calming it's tits. Episodes are often as long as they need to be, but just over 30 minutes long would be perfect for both shows.
I remember as a kid, watching the sequence each week in the loading bay where you used to wonder which machine TB2 would pick up and take on the mission.........my favourite was the Mole!
Absolutely! A great little tease for boyish minds- what's inside the oddly numbered cargo pod (because we knew what #4 meant)? Almost invariably, you'd get some comically little vehicle come rolling out of that huge container, except for the Mole which, with its huge head, actually filled it.
Exilerating moves! 5:15 That belly vector thrusters, as mini rocket. I've tried to explain missing in the early Starship concept of SpaceX. Like NASA Space Shuttle, all the landing fuel would be saved after a dive & glide run. No vertical beuracarcy stand & task obsticals.
It is fascinating to watch how impeccable those designs and execution were. So ahead of its time! It reminds me of what Space X is doing today! Soundtrack is world class.
I love the music Barry Gray has created for this series. Without the music and all the other rich sound effects, the visual experience would not be the same.
Barry Gray's music score for this series made it what it is. Absolutely perfect. And the new CGI version has missed the vital points of what made this series so endearing. And enduring. Gerry Anderson's original looks realistic, even with strings. The vehicles move and fly in a natural realtime sense. It was made with love by modelmaking craftsmen and women.
What the new CGI is missing is that when we watched it growing up (50 years ago?), the models were the same time of models that we had at home. It was visually exactly like how we played with our models, be they Thunderbirds, or WWII aircraft models, or toy trucks. When we played with them they were real enough to us, that's all that mattered. The CGI is too perfect. They are trying to be too real. We loved them BECAUSE they were models, not in spite of them being models.
@@You_are_not_normal He might also be wrong. In the 60's I wonder how many women were into wood working and carving. The women would be doing costumes and hair.
You make a very good point. The CGI version gives no impression of size and weight. I remember one scene in the new series where TB2 landed, she went up on her legs and the vehicle was out of the pod in less than 15 seconds. Gerry Anderson and his crew went to great lengths to make the ships look real.
