Continued from part 2… 1998 On July 27th, the UFO episode The Cat With Ten Lives was among the programmes broadcast at very...
By Chris DaleJanuary 22, 2022Across the thirty-two episodes of the original Thunderbirds television series and its two feature films, the Thunderbird machines of International Rescue were employed...
By Chris DaleJanuary 18, 2022Continued from Part 1… 1995 Continuing with weekday morning broadcasts, Joe 90 concluded its first run on BBC 1 with The Birthday on...
By Chris DaleJanuary 15, 2022Alert signals rang out across the control room of Space Tracking Station Galileo. Within moments a pair of operators had trained powerful scanner...
By Andrew ClementsJanuary 14, 2022Several episodes of Thunderbirds were famously inspired by real life events, including the penultimate episode of the series Ricochet – which based its...
By Chris DaleJanuary 12, 2022Although Thunderbirds had premiered on British television back in 1965 and would be repeated several times over the next two decades, the fragmented...
By Chris DaleJanuary 7, 20222021 has come and gone, and a new year is upon us – but what surprises does it have in store for Anderson...
By Chris DaleJanuary 1, 2022Preparations to ring in the new year were well on the way on Tracy Island. Alan, Gordon and Tin-Tin had just returned from...
By Andrew ClementsDecember 31, 2021The origins of the rockets used in Thunderbirds and various Century 21 Productions are themselves steeped in a history of rescue. Find out...
By Chris DaleDecember 29, 2021In this Christmas related FAB Fact, we learn that the extension of the length of Thunderbirds episodes ordered by Lew Grade was in...
By Chris DaleDecember 23, 2021