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The Man from MI.5 was the seventeenth episode of the first series of Thunderbirds.

It was of special note to the Doctor Who universe because of the licensed appearance by the Daleks in the form of a report from the Solturian News Agency, which made it the first ever televised crossover between Doctor Who and another franchise. Within the context of the ongoing storyline in TV Century 21, The Man From MI.5 was also significant for revealing that other security organisations in addition to the Universal Secret Service, such as the British Secret Service, were keeping updated of the Daleks' progression in space conquest in preperation for their impending invasion of Earth.

Synopsis

MI5 agent Jimmy Bondson asks for International Rescue's help to locate the stolen plans for a nuclear weapon which threatens the safety of the entire world. Lady Penelope assumes the identity of a leading fashion model investigating the crime to lure out the culprits but is kidnapped and restrained aboard a boat with a bomb set to detonate. Scott and Gordon have little time to find and rescue her, as well as to steal back the plans, before the boat explodes and the criminals escape.

Plot

to be added

Cast

Silent characters

Crew

Special effects 2nd unit

References

Story notes

A newspaper dated 10-11 January 1965.
  • A newspaper in the episode dates its events to January 1965. The setting of Thunderbirds is a matter of much contention and contradiction. Newspapers seen in other episodes of the programme date the activities of International Rescue to the 2000s and the 2060s whereas a calendar in Give or Take a Million offers up the 2020s as another possibilty. The magazine TV Century 21, the main source of Doctor Who universe Thunderbirds content, concurs with the 2060s date as each of its issues were set exactly one hundred years in the future from publication date. Action 21, a short-lived 1980s magazine consisting mainly of TV21 reprints, followed the same system which now meant its events were transposed to the 2080s. Finally, the Virgin New Adventures novel The Dying Days featured an appearance from a Lady Penelope living in the 1990s, "present day" at the time. It was not, however, a setting without narrative backing, with some theories dating the series to that decade based on the claim in Trapped in the Sky that Jeff Tracy, a man in his fifties, was one of the first to land on the Moon.
  • The Golden Emperor is clearly visible in one of the shots of Carl rifling through Captain Blacker's papers on the Solturis invasion; as well as the first televised appearance of the image of a Dalek outside of Doctor Who this technically constitutes the first televised appearance of the Dalek Emperor overall, predating its actual appearance on Doctor Who in The Evil of the Daleks some time later.
  • The model submarine which Brains uses for his experiment also appeared as the Hood's 3E submarine in the Thunderbirds episode Desperate Intruder.
  • The backdrop for the harbour scenes also appeared in the Thunderbirds episode The Duchess Assignment, the Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons episode Model Spy, and the Joe 90 episode The Race.

Continuity

A picture of a Silver Dalek on one of Blacker's documents.

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