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 Thunderbirds
- Rescue organization (a.k.a. "International Rescue") seen on
the puppet series THUNDERBIRDS/SYN/1964-66. The Thunderbirds is
a worldwide rescue team operated by the Jeff Tracy, a former
astronaut and his grown sons. With a fleet of sophisticated air
rescue vehicles and a space monitoring station, the Tracy family
based on a remote Pacific atoll, accepted a variety of difficult
and often dangerous rescue missions. The Thunderbird fleet
included Thunderbird I (piloted by Scott Tracy), a scout craft
that takes off vertically and travels to speeds of 7000 mph;
Thunderbird II (piloted by Virgil Tracy), a slow moving
air-cargo ship; Thunderbird III (piloted by Alan Tracy), an
aircraft with laser radio scanners that can fly into outer
space; Thunderbird IV (piloted by Gordon Tracy), a submersible
vehicle stored in Thunderbird II; and Thunderbird V (piloted by
John Tracy), an orbiting satellite station for global
communications. Assisting I.R. is the lovely London-based agent
Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward. Her 200 mph pink Rolls Royce is
filled with all sorts of gadgets (machine gun, bullet proof
glass, a la James Bond). The organization's nemesis is "The
Hood." THE THUNDERBIRDS was created by Gerry and Sylvia
Anderson.
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