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Nostalgia Overload! | Thunderbirds | S1E1 | 60th Anniversary
🕑 Added 2025-09-09 16:00:18 +0000 UTCIn honour of the upcoming 60th Anniversary of one of the biggest pop culture phenomenon's in British history originally airing, today I am checking out the very first episode of Thunderbirds where some people may argue I could be drunk, but in reality I am just giddy with excitement like a puppy on Christmas morning... oh and stick around to the end for a second bonus reaction...
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Angel
Just got to the end. I never heard that song before, but the way they incorporated the original music reminded me of one of my favourite songs, 'Turbo Boost' by Grailknights (which builds on the Knight Rider theme in a similar way).
Angel
I ended up watching a load of Thunderbirds stuff earlier this year, found out some interesting stuff. Like they said it was originally planned to be half-hour episodes, then maybe an extra-long first episode to properly introduce the world, and then after seeing it the guy from ITV said he'd give them an hour slot… so they had to add extra subplots to the episodes they'd already filmed (the first 8, I think?). There's someone on YT who's gone through analysing the early episodes, trying to deduce from minimal clues which bits were in the original half-hour version. I think you'd probably be interested to see the expanded launch sequences for the craft; I never realised how many different versions there were.
