It Should've Been on a Saturday: Thunderbirds (1965)

 I was but a wee lad when Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds hit the airwaves in the mid-60's. We've previously reviewed the movie spin-off, "Thunderbirds Are Go!", released in 1966, but now it's time to take a look at the show itself. As it turns out, American audiences would have to wait a few years before the series reached our shores. I seem to recall reruns airing sometimes in the 90's on cable.

Set some 100 years into the future, the Thunderbirds are 5 brothers whose father is a retired astronaut. In a way, the show was the British equivalent of Hanna-Barbera's Jonny Quest, in that the protagonists have a remote base of operations, and a persistent enemy coveting their valuable equipment.

Let's take a look at the series opener, courtesy of Shout! Factory.

Footage of Lady Penelope, her butler, and others were used in Wax's 1986 video for "Right Between The Eyes".

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