Thunderbirds
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Thunderbirds was a television series that, according to the Eighth Doctor, aired in the 1980s. (PROSE: Trading Futures [+]Loading...["Trading Futures (novel)"]) According to Agent Twenty One of the Universal Secret Service, it was first broadcast in 2065 and featured Penelope Creighton-Ward with the Tracy brothers. (PROSE: J. Gray [+]Loading...["J. Gray (short story)"]) It was created by Gerry Anderson. (PROSE: Trading Futures [+]Loading...["Trading Futures (novel)"])
Megali Scoblow once described a swimming pool sliding away to reveal something, prompting Jason Kane to shout out, "Thunderbirds Are Go!" (PROSE: Beige Planet Mars [+]Loading...["Beige Planet Mars (novel)"]) Sam Jones once said the same thing to Amy Saraband to prompt them into action, (PROSE: Kursaal [+]Loading...["Kursaal (novel)"]) as did Rose Tyler to the Ninth Doctor when Mickey Smith was kidnapped by the Quevvils. (PROSE: Winner Takes All [+]Loading...["Winner Takes All (novel)"])
Anji Kapoor once saw a red spaceship that she thought looked exactly like Thunderbird Three, right down to the white "3" on its side. (PROSE: Trading Futures [+]Loading...["Trading Futures (novel)"])
Having studied Thunderbirds, Bernice Summerfield could tell that the flashing red light on Irving Braxiatel's pen meant something important. Braxiatel recalled that, in the show, it was a teapot that did this. (PROSE: The Doomsday Manuscript [+]Loading...["The Doomsday Manuscript (novel)"])
Christine Summerfield stuck with the name 'control room' because she had seen too much Thunderbirds. (PROSE: Dead Romance [+]Loading...["Dead Romance (novel)"])
Trix once described the person who kidnapped Fitz Kreiner as "a bit like a skinny version of the baddie out of Thunderbirds. Only with worse dress sense." (PROSE: To the Slaughter [+]Loading...["To the Slaughter (novel)"])
The Zygon Osgood mistook the Twelfth Doctor's reference to "Cloudbase" as being from Thunderbirds, but was corrected by Colonel Ahmed, who told her that Cloudbase was from Captain Scarlet. (TV: Death in Heaven [+]Loading...["Death in Heaven (TV story)"])
The Fourteenth Doctor and Donna Noble quoted the characters Parker and Lady Penelope when they stepped inside a hovercraft on a spaceship at the edge of the universe. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | edit source]
- Though the link isn't directly made in Death in Heaven, in the real world, Sylvia Anderson co-created both Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet, which were produced by Century 21 Productions.
- This series crossed over with the DWU many times in the pages of TV Century 21.
- While Trading Futures stated that Thunderbirds aired in the 80s, it originally ran between 1965 and 1966, but was repeated various times throughout subsequent decades, and was remade in 2015.
- Many actors have voiced characters in the 2015 Thunderbirds Are Go! reboot, including David Tennant, Sylvester McCoy and Thomas Sangster (who had a starring role as John Tracy, the astronaut of Thunderbird 5).
