Thunderbirds Launches and Landings HD

[@vanessaboman8143]

I am 65 this year and talking my mum who has Alzheimer disease we I needed to show her the things I watched as a child... When I showed this her face lot up... She remembered Thunderbirds! We laughed as I conducted the theme tune! Memories of a long ago childhood! Wonder-full!

[@laurent214]

Best wishes to you and your mom

[@CyberpunkV2077]

How beautiful, thanks for taking your time to write about your memories with your mum

[@davemills5877]

happy memories and sorry re your mum she might to watch the show again

[@portlyoldman]

Same story here 😀 memories of simpler times

[@markyboyno1114]

Outstanding !!! Still have a tear in my eye watching this and i'm 58 yrs old !!!

[@reghudson5444]

You have to recognize the sheer genius of modeling, and miniaturizing that happened in Thunderbirds. Every scene is so imaginative. Really good stuff.

[@NissanN12Dude]

@spaceace1006agreed! I still hear the music in my mind and come back to re-watch episodes of Thunderbirds 🙂

[@gregorydahl]

The thunderbird 3 when underground is 100 feet accross but the ring in the house is only 20 feet accross .

[@rezzer7918]

Exactly 👍

[@MrEjidorie]

I`ll be 65 years old Japanese man this month. Thunderbirds was broadcast in Japan in 1960`s when I was an elementary school boy. A lot of Japanese boys including myself were hooked on Thunderbirds at that time. This footage reminds me of my beautiful childhood. Oh, yes! I was also crazy for Captain Scarlet, Stingray and UFO too!

[@FischeX]

Are you still alive just asking?

[@MrEjidorie]

@@FischeX Three years later since my first comment, I`m still alive and 68 years old now. Thank you!

[@englishincontext4025]

This is just wonderful. I watched this as a boy and loved it all, but now I'm 69 and happened across this video. I realise just how much artistry and sheer hard work went into making these series. Having a model is one thing, but making it behave as though it has real mass, hitting the water and behaving as a heavy craft ... the very realistic jets on the engines (how did they do that) and the logistical problems of stringed marionettes walking through doors etc was sheer genius. And all of the series were so inventive. The music, too. Jerry and Sylvia Anderson were geniuses.

[@robdykes3659]

If you look close, they never actually walked through the door,it either skips to another character and then when the camera swings back there on the other side of the door,looking like they have just walk through,it,s just clever filming , brilliant but clever

[@nigeljames6017]

@@robdykes3659 True, and in one sequence near the end of the video, you can see Thunderbird 4 descending and a wire is attached to the top. Still brings back old memories where anything was possible. I suppose SpaceX is the true manifestation of T4 !

[@stopmotionharry8989]

Nice

[@Scottyy788]

69? Nice

[@sheep3866]

Don't ever age another year please

[@claudiomartins5768]

I'm 71 years old. I remember all these series. Never lost anyone. Thanks for the opportunity to see them again. Amazing creation. Super advanced on that time.

[@Cash_McCoy]

My favorite show as a kid back in the late 60's. Never missed it! Thunderbird 2 was always my favorite.

[@EduardoMateusKlein]

I watched Thunderbird in 90s when I was a little child here on Brazil. Is my favorite ever.

[@CanyonWanderer]

Same here, I was totally fascinated! I even once found a tiny Thunderbird 2 at a flea market, my favourite as well! I also just realised I sometimes whistle that tune, only just now I remember again where it comes from 🙂

[@KMCA779]

@@CanyonWanderer I had the whole set. Did yours come with the the cargo pod and the little #4 inside? They were SOLID, mostly metal interestingly #1 had a red rubber tip... probably a safety thing.

[@VegetaLF7]

As a kid born in 86 and who watched the show on reruns in the late 90's and early 2000's, I agree that Thunderbird 2 is the best.

[@CanyonWanderer]

@@KMCA779 Oh wow!, I just had the 2 with a removable pod, but that had no door. Actually the model itself was a regular matchbox sized car (the smallest size). Later I saw a scaled up version, but never had that one

[@BOBXFILES2374a]

As a model railroader, I have to say the construction of the sets and planes has an amazing level of detail and creativity. He sure built a world to go play - excuse me, FLY in!

[@Moloko_Synthemesc]

Very much like Thomas the tank engine. It may be known as a kid's show, but the level of detail that went into modelling the sets is impressive, even now.

[@markfryer9880]

The original Thomas the Tank Engine was done using (I think?) HO scale model trains with Ringo Starr narrating. I used to get a kick out of visualising Ringo in a studio doing the narration! Unfortunately, Thomas these days is all CGI, and lacking in depth and warmth. 😢 It's just not the same. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

[@TitanicKid]

@@markfryer9880 The original TTTE series was shot with Gauge 1 (roughly G scale) models, built using parts from Marklin models. It had to be done that way so that they could fit the rather complex eye mechanism in & still have room for a motor. Still quite impressive for the time all things considered, and far superior to the CGI of modern day.

[@rideyourbikent]

I'm 55 yrs old and I still want to be the pilot of Thunderbird 2 , best job in the world .

[@markyboyno1114]

LOL !!! I'm the same age as you, and still get sentimental about this !!!

[@pilaragrelo9565]

rideyourbikent great!

[@Northampton1960]

Back in the early 1990s I owned a green Triumph 1500 which I called Thunderbird 2 and imagined myself as Virgil Tracy piloting it. BTW, I'm 58.

[@jay0kew]

I guess everbody wants to be the pilot of TB 2. The real draught horse of International Rescue.

[@buzbom1]

In my 50's as well, watched the old Stingray show first with my dad, then this show came out, along with Captain Scarlet. Who knew that a couple of years later the same people would create one of the best aliens vs live action humans show...UFO. They used models in that one. A few more years later Space 1999 landed...or broke orbit if you will. Same prod. crew and more cool models. I'll have to check into these new versions I'm reading about. Wasn't the late great Bill Paxton in one?

[@BlitzedNostradamus]

Man, the sheer brilliance these puppeteers and modelers had back then. It's awesome to see.

[@markdziadulewicz6160]

The music is simply phenomenal...the ideas and thinking light years ahead of its time...we wereso lucky to grow up with Thunderbirds, Stingray, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90 and Fireball XL5...Watching them all again as an adult and realising just how good these programmes were...genius

[@7775Kevin]

One of my favorite shows when I was a kid. The sixties were such a cool time. Thanks for this.

[@peter-paulburns2551]

I nearly fell into tears watching this video. I loved Thunderbirds as a kid back in the 60s and the music was also a masterpiece.

[@soludierebi]

これだけ時代が経っているのに、いまだに発進シークエンスのかっこ良さでサンダーバードを超える作品が無いという恐るべき事実。パームツリーが左右に分かれるギミックを誰が思いつけるだろう。

[@rorlang]

それについては同意ですが円谷スタッフがサンダーバードに追いつけ追い越せで制作したウルトラセブンのホーク1号の発進シークエンスの格好良さも素晴らしいと思います 冬木透さんの音楽がとてもマッチしている良作

[@soludierebi]

@@rorlang Force gate open.Force gate open. Quickly! Quickly!

[@Kマサヒロ-w6l]

@@rorlang さんへ、 B,G,Mは、M,A,Tの｢ワンダバ｣も、好き(悲壮感と、闘いの序曲,的な高揚感が、入り交じっている)から。

[@user-te777ZWTup2e]

サンダーバード2号と 潜水艦の 黄色いヤツが好きです✨

[@ロボちび-d8v]

発進シークエンスのカッコイイのは別にサンダーバードだけじゃ無いけど、コレを人形劇でヤレるスゴさは後にも先にもサンダーバードだけ

[@jmfa57]

This was one of the coolest shows ever back when I was a kid. Great memories!

[@lunabeekhuizen8858]

I'm 19 and my parents introduced me to Thunderbirds when I was little. That song you hear during the launches is etched into my brain to the point where I could play it on my trumpet by hearing and memory alone. Gosh I love Thunderbirds :D

[@wikiuser92]

When I was a child in the late 90s and early 2000s, I used to watch some rerun episodes my parents had recorded. I've been a fan of this show as long as I can remember.

[@vitamc1213]

Ha, yes same!

[@Yosemite-George-61]

The play the theme while your buddies are getting into position on stage... 🙂

[@ushoys]

Play it Luna!

[@Johnno9989]

No matter how many times I've seen the vehicles launch, it never gets boring.

[@thunderbirdsharrypotterfan]

u r right Johnno9989

[@keithrobinson398]

Johnno9989 Thunderbird 2 , my favorite

[@alphayun7401]

they forgot Thunderbird 5 in the video

[@dandysquirrel]

Another TB2 fan here. Used to watch this prog back in the 60's as a kid, completely absorbed by it all. Still get shivers down my spine watching the intro', launches etc. Brilliant.

[@darthdmc]

Absolutely, never gets old, despite all the continuity errors.

[@bigdmac33]

What HD REALLY shows is the fantastic detail in the sets that Meddings and the crew painstakingly achieved. Pure craftsmanship!

[@eliottjeary1492]

Aussie Arcade its a lemon squeezer :)

[@eliottjeary1492]

i may not have the HD boxset but i can still see the amazing detail and craftsman ship even in the standard dvd version and it just goes to show that they dont make tv shows like they used to sadly these days

[@johnjames4834]

I saw a HD episode recently and on one of the road vehicles used I could clearly see WOOD GRAIN. The HD showed me too much detail that time. I agree though that for the most part the HD is better.

[@ericl2969]

I can't remember when or where, but many years ago I saw some sort of documentary footage about the making of the show. Two interesting tidbits I remember are that the realistic road dust wafting up from the tires of a big truck in more than one episode was diatomaceous earth, and that the majority of the vertical tanks appearing in models of industrial sites were made from empty cans of aerosol shaving soap, standing upside-down (you could see the concave bases of the cans at the tops of those tanks). Oh, and I remember one more thing: In the scuba-diving scenes, the puppets were filmed behind aquariums, with the camera looking through the glass. That way they could produce perfectly real bubbles and swaying vegetation in the foreground, but as a kid I never noticed that the characters' hair remained dry as they swam!!

[@danielcalbo2365]

When I was a child, I always watched this series in Argentina. I am 65 years old; thanks for taking me back there...

[@actarusfleed6607]

Nothing beats the original series. It's all heart & soul. Supermarionation is a lost art. The people behind them were the absolute masters.

[@Firemarioflower]

😆😁 Puppet masters!

[@aritzurzelai4450]

Today this people's jop in NASA! MASTERS😆💥👀

[@nitrokid]

I always find these puppets creepy XD

[@verstappa]

Never going to be moral like that ever again.

[@CarlB_1962]

Watching Thunderbirds as a child, I just loved the stories. As an adult, I can see that it's among the most imaginative and technically accomplished children's TV series ever made.

[@jawarakf]

What year was this stop motion made? I watched the Japanese animated 80's cartoon taken from this.

[@harrylinde1121]

1966?

[@glamonails7666]

@@jawarakf you mean puppets. This was not a stop motion. You can see the threads and cords on the dolls.

[@jawarakf]

@@glamonails7666 thought it's partial stop motion coz some of the action can't be done real time

[@EndlessLaymon]

@@jawarakf it's not stop motion. The term is supermarionation. Look it up,you will be amazed.

[@義和酒井-o5p]

私は現在67歳ですが、初めてこの番組を見たのは極めて幼い年代でしたが、この作品は忘れる事の出来ない番組でした。毎週楽しみでしたが、意外に早く終わってしまったかの様にも感じてます。しかし、素晴らしい作品の番組でした💞🎉

[@義和酒井-o5p]

そうですね、確かにもっと長いシリーズを期待してましたが、残念でした😢💦

[@義和酒井-o5p]

あのマリオネットだから良かったですし、一時ですがCDでのサンダーバードの放映もありましたが、やはり手作りのモノラルが最高です。

[@Danioabyss]

It still amazes me how superb this was filmed back in the 60's, no CGI at all..

[@1701spacecadet]

Nobody did practical explosions like Gerry Anderson!

[@darthdmc]

You mean Derek Meddings? He was the model builder and pyro expert.

[@kimjongoof5000]

1701spacecadet I prefer Tsuburaya’s explosions

[@alexrogan6563]

@@darthdmc He certainly was. And in between working on Century 21 projects, he also lent his experience in that field to the James Bond films of that time, and that looks good on anyone's C.V.

[@vicsaul5459]

the model making is fantastic, !!

[@英旭纏]

この時代では精密に作ってあり、演出、構成、最高の出来です。

[@Tubingenstr]

なんたって1960年代。この頃までのイギリスは最高でしたね。

[@KOTETSU12345678]

スペースXドラゴンの帰還方法はサンダーバード3号が先駆けw

[@novy121]

TB2が運ぶポッドには、TB4以外にも記憶に残る装備があって、ジェット・モグラ・タンクが子供の頃好きでした。 当時、幼稚園児だった私には、プラモデルのギミックは難しくて作れず、隣に住む中学生の兄ちゃんの作ったモデルをワクワクしながら観ていたものです…。 The pods carried by the TB2 had other memorable equipment besides the TB4, and I liked the jet mogura tank (The mole)as a kid. At that time, as a kindergarten child, I couldn't make a plastic model gimmick because it was difficult, so I was excited to see the model made by my neighbor older brother, a junior high school student .

[@arthursoaresrodrigues4766]

0:01 TB1 Launch 2:14 TB2 Launch 5:30 Elevator Car Out of Pod No. 3 6:08 TB3 Launch 8:46 TB3 Dock to TB5 9:29 TB4 Launch (Pod No. 4) 10:10 TB4 Launch (Tracy Island)

[@arthursoaresrodrigues4766]

@@gregjones3660 you're welcome

[@DLR013]

I'm six years of age, it's 6:00am and the Thunderbirds are just about to begin. My dad is about to bring me blackcurrant juice to start my day. "Come in The Darka Juice Man", I bellow, as he knocks on my door. We just got colour TV in Australia. Now 44 years on, it still means a lot to me when I see anything Thunderbirds-related and always makes me smile.

[@Lucinda666]

Same as SpaceX

[@Musicsoul551]

Back in late 90s early 2000s My dad used to get up at 6 to record these to the VHS so we could watch them around 9 when I got up, good memories

[@cpac555]

You never outgrow your childhood things...we just stopped playing with them...you can always go back

[@Miblive]

@@yehahauuyyyehehahaa Thank God. Not that I´m happy you had nightmares but to know that I wasn´t the only one. I hated that guy.

[@Tom_YouTube_stole_my_handle]

@@Musicsoul551 No one ever did work out how to programme the timer.

[@majkus]

These were recently rerun on Sunday mornings on MeTV, one of the 'nostalgia channels'. Watching them, I realized that the unsung heroes of this production were the sound mixers. The thing that really 'sells' these miniatures to the audience is the sound effects. From explosions and roaring rocket engines down to little mechanical whirs, the sound always seems 'right' for what we see on the screen.

[@bstei]

どんなにCGが発達しようがサンダーバードはこのスタイルが最高なんだ！

[@synaesthesia2010]

物理モデルには常にCGにはない特定の美学があり、60年代に撮影されたこれらのシーケンスは、新しいショーの現代のCGバージョンをあらゆる点で上回っています

[@dobonful]

ウルトラホークのシーケンスもこれを参考にしたらしい。

[@俺は俗物]

ＣＧは否定しませんが、やはり 実写ですね。

[@doudemotyan]

動きがゆっくりなのがまた堪んないんですよね。 よくプラモの２号をゆっくり動かして遊びましたよ。

[@rezzer7918]

Exactly! 👍

[@ichiichi3094]

誰が何と言おうと究極の実写です。未だにこれを超える作品は無い。

[@西村哲雄-w8j]

今、米のロケット垂直に着陸しようと失敗ばかり笑パラシュートとか何か他に再利用できる方法が笑

[@naugosan]

@@西村哲雄-w8j 上から糸で釣らないのが原因かと

[@易梅墨]

今ならデジタルでいくらでも誤魔化しますけど、マジさ、ピアノ線があっちこっちで引っ張ってるアナログ作品 こんなパペット操作して良くもまあこれだけの作品を創ったと思います

[@易梅墨]

ピアノ線が出ますわ よくもまあ～、こんな変てこりん製作しやすた 当時の技術水準の最高峰をプレゼンしてるｗ

[@ms.annthrope415]

Had wa4ched tis as a kid. Now I'm 62. What a wholesome, creative, wonderful show. No CGI, No cartoons selling cereal commerical masquerading as a kids show. Just an engrossing program.

[@kelvinmulder]

I watched this as a kid and had the toys. Such an epic and genius show. Sad they do not make them like this anymore. cheers from the Netherlands.

[@cadetkirk762]

Kelvin Mulder dude same here did you have tb1 soundtech super-size

[@kelvinmulder]

Cadet Kirk No I did not, I had a friend who had it though.

[@bulman07]

They kind of do still make it like this, just with CG characters, and some vehicles, and pyro (although they've started using more real explosions)

[@rosefalardeau1358]

absolutely genius indeed

[@ThatAwesomeUsername]

Tieten

[@EMT930ST]

やっぱりサンダーバードはこのオリジナルシリーズに限る！オリジナル版の素晴らしさを知っている者としては、CG版は観ててどうしても興ざめしてしまう。

[@Philippedamato]

こんにちは！オリジナルシリーズがあなたの国で最初に放映されたのはいつですか？当時の視聴者からは喜ばれましたか？ （日本語が正しくない場合はご容赦ください。Googleの自動翻訳を使用して回答しました）

[@EMT930ST]

Mr.Robert Wagner コメントありがとうございます。日本語バッチリOKでした。日本での放映はイギリスより1年後の1966年からでした。当時私は小学生で夢中になって見たものでした。これだけのクォリティのあるドラマを作る自体大変だったと思いますし、ストーリーも素晴らしく大変感度しました。皆喜んで試聴していましたよ。

[@川村充昌]

自分も、再放送のオリジナル版知る今年還暦迎える元自衛官 自衛隊を、サンダーバードと勘違いしている元防衛大臣 あんな奴は、総理等以ての外 (怒) 英国のサンダーバードは、素晴らしい 実は、車輌を、災害時の避難場所と同じクオリティ確保為ています サンダーバード2号の様に、必要に合わせて、荷物を、変える コンテナ式 基本スタイル プラスアルファ 暖房器具、防寒対策、水害対策 此は、サンダーバードの影響 爆笑 以上

[@Philippedamato]

@@川村充昌 Fête des Mères 2021 Tous Actualités Images Shopping Vidéos Plus Paramètres Outils Environ 46 800 000 résultats (0,54 secondes) Français Japonais こんにちは！メッセージありがとうございます。ジェリー・アンダーソンは未来を夢見ていましたが、日本でそれを構築しているのはあなたです。私はあなたの国、あなたの文化にとても感心しています（自動翻訳者が間違った言葉を使わないことを願っています。フランス語では、私が使う言葉は「知的および芸術的活動」と「農業」の両方を意味するからです。 :-D

[@yam40ayt]

@@Philippedamato おれは生まれた年だけど時間になるとテレビの前にいたらしいよ 記憶にはないけどw 気が付いたらディスク買ってたわ これを名作といわなければ何をもって名作というのか？

[@Miguel_1957]

I am 63 years old. I loved This series. I had the scale models of all the thunderbirds. My parents gave it to me for my birthday, for Christmas, etc. They were the gifts that I liked the most.

[@egamez1]

For me, this is way better than the CG we see in movies and TV shows today. This show was made by real artists.

[@pixelwash9707]

I’m 62, and have worked in modern special effects, the power of Thunderbirds to this day is partly in the quality of the effects, and partly in the quality of the design. The effects have a REALNESS, and the design has MORAL DEPTH.

[@lamonthamilton667]

WE had Talent back then and Imagination! Unlike to days hollywood.

[@Aviationartist01]

Barry Gray's music score for this series made it what it is. Absolutely perfect. And the new CGI version has missed the vital points of what made this series so endearing. And enduring. Gerry Anderson's original looks realistic, even with strings. The vehicles move and fly in a natural realtime sense. It was made with love by modelmaking craftsmen and women.

[@BullshitMan4]

Simon Atack why did you have to say women at the end? Everybody is sick of this PC crap

[@Woody615]

What the new CGI is missing is that when we watched it growing up (50 years ago?), the models were the same time of models that we had at home. It was visually exactly like how we played with our models, be they Thunderbirds, or WWII aircraft models, or toy trucks. When we played with them they were real enough to us, that's all that mattered. The CGI is too perfect. They are trying to be too real. We loved them BECAUSE they were models, not in spite of them being models.

[@drmayeda1930]

@@BullshitMan4 He might also be wrong. In the 60's I wonder how many women were into wood working and carving. The women would be doing costumes and hair.

[@bigkiwimike]

You make a very good point. The CGI version gives no impression of size and weight. I remember one scene in the new series where TB2 landed, she went up on her legs and the vehicle was out of the pod in less than 15 seconds. Gerry Anderson and his crew went to great lengths to make the ships look real.

[@dalethelander3781]

@@drmayeda1930 The lead puppeteers on all of Gerry's Supermarionation series were Christine Glanville and Mary Turner.

[@McLoven-vm1ck]

The folks responsible for all these models, sets and practical effects really were wizards, this stuff has aged so well.

[@TheHumbleFellow]

5:30 I loved shots like this in the original series! It gives a real sense of scale, making Thunderbird 2 look MASSIVE!

[@TheSteelStallion]

TheHumbleFellow That is certainly missing from the new version of Thunderbirds. The camera angles and puppetry really added to the weight and dimensions of the craft. The new ones merely glide far too smoothly as cgi is known to do.

[@dinomate01]

TheHumbleFellow Hi I remember seeing a stock photo of a Thunderbird 2 large scale model used in some of the episodes. In order to get proper depth & perspective and it was at least 6 - 8 feet long. It had one of the film crew standing next to it !

[@bigkiwimike]

The Steel Stallion. Could not agree with you more. In the new series, everything moves around like machines in Bob the Builder.

[@spacecadet35]

+TheHumbleFellow As much as I like the new series, the craft move to fast on the ground. Thunderbird 2 lowers on to the pod and rises to quickly to give the feel of a large size. Maybe because they are now a half hour programme?

[@aceyspud551]

+spacecadet35 They aren't even half an hour long. Both shows seem to have suffered from their time, with the original being needlessly slow at times, and the reboot not calming it's tits. Episodes are often as long as they need to be, but just over 30 minutes long would be perfect for both shows.

[@jamesmartin9401]

Like a lot of Gerry and Sylvia stuff, the insanely long, intricate and convoluted launch sequences on the Thunderbirds made no damn sense, but they were so much fun to watch, you didn't care.

[@adamstringer7092]

The incredible level of detail is one of my favourite parts.

[@RockyRailroadProductions_B0SS]

Especially since there were some ladders and stairwells they _could_ have used instead. But NASA level couch transport on a Triang-Hornby well wagon is more fun.

[@scotpens]

The chutes, slides, and moving couches were used because it's nearly impossible to make marionettes walk believably. Just ask anyone who's worked with puppets!

[@TheSmalltownhick]

I always wondered about the chutes and slides. If they were meant to keep visitors from discovering the Thunderbirds, then what did they do to keep those visitors from noticing the rocket coming out of the swimming pool?

[@AshleyPomeroy]

One of the reasons is that the show was originally made for a half-hour slot, but after watching the pilot episode Lew Grade asked them to make each episode twice as long. Which they did, but it meant that every episode has a lot of padding - launch sequences, people pressing buttons, "side quests".

[@michaelbyrne8860]

As a kid I always loved watching the show, just the detail & time it took to create a seamless show is still amazing even now as an old man! No CGI here! Buttercup!

[@Tempelman123]

I am 34 years old and grew up with the revival in the 90's of this series. The influence 30 years later has been incredible, perhaps even more popular than in the 60's. I still love seeing all these scenes many years later!

[@hoedemakerbart]

Same here. 34 to. Almost 35😂

[@KevinSmith-to6yc]

Loved this show as a kid! Wow, way ahead of its time...Gerry Anderson was a true genius...

[@rsalceda]

I was born in the 87 and loved this show just as Jonny Quest!!!

[@synaesthesia2010]

50 years later, it still looks impressive, the amount of imagination that went into these sequences makes them memorable and iconic, that new CG version is a poor imitation by comparison

[@Dra741]

These are the things that we're doing now I was excited about the Thunderbirds because we knew that if we progressed in our space program and I also research we sort since WWII we know that after a while we'll be doing this and we are doing

[@martinquerre9614]

@@Dra741 You ought to go back to primary school and get proper tuition in english syntax and grammar. Your typewriting is absolutely appalling!!! Don't you ever read your own e-mails before posting them??..

[@AdolfoWWolf]

I'm 35 now, and i'm still amazed by the work that goes into these machines, i'm specially impressed by the vehicle rolling out of the TB2 portable cargo bay, that is some impressive work going into that wheeled beast, almost looks like the real deal, the suspension compression and all looked fantastic there.

[@theaskingman]

Long time ago, I tried to find this series but forgot the name. I finally found you Thunderbird haha. I watched this by end of 90s. Amazing.

[@redshinyrobot]

This will never get old. A lot of happy memories from this show.

[@Salvavideocrack]

I think this series was a tremendous inspiration for the Harrier and i think that even defined the Jump-jet denomination, Thunderbird 2 even uses a vertical thruster configuration similar to the Pegasus engine.

[@neilreid2298]

Adored this show when I was a kid. Fireball XL5 was awesome but Thunderbirds were another level again. Those were good days...

[@mallorga1965]

It is fascinating to watch how impeccable those designs and execution were. So ahead of its time! It reminds me of what Space X is doing today! Soundtrack is world class.

[@allenjones3130]

Barry Gray's stirring theme music played an important part in the series' success.

[@DrPepper22222]

What's cool about the TB3 landing back in the roundhouse vertically was that would be completely unthinkable in reality when this was all designed. But now in 2015 that has pretty much now been achieved by SpaceX for the first time. So maybe it wasn't so sci-fi after all.

[@aceyspud551]

SpaceX. That totally sounds like something Gerry would name.

[@RockyRailroadProductions_B0SS]

+DrPepper22222 Gerry's creations aren't too far from reality :D I actually think the container pod system for TB2, it would be practical in real life in a similar sense to a shipping container for planes.

[@cwilkinson99]

+RockyRailroad Productions Fairchild XC-120 cargo plane from the 1950s is what inspired Thunderbird 2.

[@jaywolf1998]

I wonder what TB3 uses to tilt back into vertical from horizontal when hovering over the roundhouse?

[@RockyRailroadProductions_B0SS]

Maybe those retros in the center work in-atmosphere to do it?

[@crashmatrix]

I'm half the age of most people here, but my dad did well putting on Thunderbirds on tv for me in the 90s. All these shots are iconic, the music is grade A dramatic bombast full of pride and an absolute perfect fit. But aside from the main sets and models, the one-off's in each episode really communicate the love these people had for their craft.

[@jstevenson7121]

I have seen these launch sequences literally hundreds of times. I am still hypnotized! My favorites were the Fireflash crash landing and, of course, the giant crocodiles.

[@ovalspecial]

いつ観ても 凄すぎる！！！！ 時代を 超越してる！ この先進的な発想には脱帽ですよ！！！。

[@ronaldjeffers2415]

I am 62 remember watching this as a child I was always so interest in the technology that the Thunderbirds had I love the Thunderbirds thank you for the video

[@bpisler]

I remember this show and stingray were the one's to watch along with johnny Quest.

[@C500改]

土日の夕方にヘビロテで再放送されていて、食い入る様に見て脳内メモリーに刻み込んでいました。 何もかも懐かしい・・・

[@charleskuckel3173]

Even though I'm 59 years old, I vividly remember this TV series from my youth. I ALWAYS loved the Supermarionation of Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson. I was enthralled with them from Supercar, Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds and even Captain Scarlett. There was a plot to each episode though contrived it might have been. There was more character development and personality given to the marionettes than some Live action people on TV shows. The craftsmanship put into the mechanics of each show stands the test of time. These shows were the definition of love of labor! I really want them on DVD.

[@LoneBrowncoat]

Charles...box sets are all at Amazon, if you want 'em!

[@charleskuckel3173]

@@LoneBrowncoat EXCELLENT! Maybe I'll gift them to myself for the holidays. Thanks.

[@amanofmanyparts9120]

You do know it all started with Torchy the Battery Boy and Twizzle followed by Four Feather Falls? I'm 68, so which of the first two came first escapes me.

[@charleskuckel3173]

@@amanofmanyparts9120 I'm 59 so the series that you mentioned are before my time. As a matter of fact I DON'T believe that I've viewed any episodes of those series. It's enough getting caught up on all the ones I saw while I was growing up.

[@captain0080]

This show made my imagination fly when i watched reruns in the early 80's, Thunderbird 2 is still the machine i love the most .

[@birdblackbird4766]

Same but mid 90s haha

[@negativeindustrial]

Because it’s the only one that doesn’t completely suck? I mean, we had Voltron FFS

[@56postoffice]

At the time this was the most expensive show to be made. The music here is brilliant.

[@hughcdavies]

Just got to look at how many went from Gerry's series' to work for James Bond franchise. Derek Meddings in particular after designing Fireball XL5, Stingray, All the Thunderbirds, the SPV, SPC and MPV, all the great models in UFO and Space 1999. He then goes and turns the Lotus Esprit S1 (type 79) into a submarine. God knows what he'd of done with the JPS Mk4 F1 car (also given the type number of 79). Mario Andretti would probably been the first human on Mars, and still been back for dinner.

[@kimjongoof5000]

Dr Donald Blake The most expensive show award goes to Lazy Town

[@rogerbreton6412]

I love the music Barry Gray has created for this series. Without the music and all the other rich sound effects, the visual experience would not be the same.

[@deacondavis5098]

Roger Breton the music that Barry Gray scored was totally AWESOME!

[@pilaragrelo9565]

Roger Breton 😊

[@lairpds]

Esse desenho animado era fora de série, mexia com nossa imaginação com toda essa tecnologia, estrutura operacional era muito além da nossa realidade verdadeira, e nos fazia sonhar com coisas do tipo, sem dúvida marcou minha vida, saudades dessa inocência.

[@victor_silva6142]

Os equipamentos, as instalações... tem um ar de precisão militar e de engenharia que nenhuma outra serie no ocidente consegue igualar...

[@danielgagnon5001]

My father watched this show when he was a kid back in the 60s and he bought me the tapes collection when I was a kid back in early 2000s, so even if 40 years separates us, we shared that we watched and loved thunderbirds during each of our childhood, his favorite was thunderbird 2, my favorite has always been thunderbird 3, I always tought it was beautiful and most importantly, I was jealous that they could go to space anytime they wanted and so easily!

[@にしますのぶ]

素晴らしい番組でした！よくプラモデルを作りました。😃

[@nopeyadayadayada1248]

I'm 60 now and this just transported me back to my childhood. This show epitomized what a good imagination could realize. Thank you.

[@christianboddum8783]

I still remember at around 3 maybe 4 years old watching Thunderbirds at a friends house, being dragged home crying and screaming because it was suppertime. We couldn't watch it at home and I knew I was watching some thing very very special, and couldn't let go of it.

[@TruthAndFreedom76]

Was it in black & white or color?

[@christianboddum8783]

@@TruthAndFreedom76 I'm pretty sure it was in color, but that could be my memory playing tricks, in my household we had to wait to 1973 before we had a color tv. I also remember Deep Purple playing in Copenhagen via tv in 1968, and for some reason i knew Richie Blackmore's guitar was red though it was in black and white. it was a Gibson ES-335. And I found out later that guitar was indeed red... go figure ;-)

[@藤井彰-u9c]

子供の時、夢中でみていました。 改めて感動、日本の特撮はサンダーバードの影響がとても大きいと思います。

[@TeamGERWALKssJun]

違います。 既に円谷英二監督はリスペクトされていた。監督に触発された作品と言っていい。 それが、日本の特撮を更に進化させてくれた。

[@Kマサヒロ-w6l]

@@TeamGERWALKssJun さんへ、 円谷監督は、二次大戦当時から、戦争映画を特撮で取ってて、戦犯扱いされたそうです。

[@PainInTheS]

I used to watch this all the time according to my parents but I don't remember it actually. Of course I know of this series. I'm from 1970 by the way. Came across some nice dvd's and this whole series complete for 2 euro....ok, good deal. Got them free in the whole bunch in the end.

[@clarky2356]

Thunderbird 2 for me when I was younger was the coolest lol

[@Endeva09]

Definitely the best Thunderbird

[@skyelark155]

And the ugliest

[@Firemarioflower]

@@skyelark155 WTF???? NO it's not!!! T5 is the ugliest, TB2 is the best looking!!

[@kyloken4130]

Same here I had a medium sized toy of it as well and I loved that thing

[@spooks196]

I always have and always will love TB2. The utility knife of the group.

[@markyboyno1114]

Outstanding !!! Cheer's for sharing. Watched everyone of them when i was kid. Gerry Anderson commented years after, they did not make 'childrens films' but 'films for children'........ big difference....

[@kummer45]

It's amazing. This is literally a great display of robotics. In a distant time we have things that literally behave like THIS in the car assembly and the automatization of many things. It's clean robotics delivered in a conceptual way. Outstanding.

[@danielyeshe]

When I was a child I wrote to the BBC and asked how Thunderbird 4 was collected. The response I got was! ‘Don’t ask me I’m only an aardvark.’

[@_cameroncarey_]

Daniel O'Donovan wasn’t it on itv though?

[@glenncooney3959]

Otis the aardvark. He was about as useful as the first A in aardvark.

[@glenncooney3959]

_ cameroncarey _ It was originally on ITV (it was first shown in the ATV Midlands region before it was aired in other ITV regions) and I believe it was repeated on some ITV regions in the 70’s and 80’s before it was shown on BBC2 in 1991.

[@_cameroncarey_]

Glenn Cooney thanks for the info! didn’t know that

[@EricIrl]

@@_cameroncarey_ All the original; Gerry Anderson series, including Thunderbirds, were made for the independent TV production company, ITC. The Chairman of ITC was Lew Grade. ITC made programmes for broadcast by the various ITV franchise companies.

[@nel1962]

Man, Thunderbirds had some of the most absurdly overly elaborate loading and launch sequences but it sure was FUN.

[@barrybend7189]

And it was kept in the 2016 reboot version. Complete with composite model/ CGI shots.

[@callumdonnelly1718]

The longer the launch sequence the less original material you have to write! 😂

[@CV6300b]

OMG! Didn't expect seeing this on YT. As a small kid, i don't really care about the rescue stories but the launching of TBs are just fascinating. Watching TB, Green Hornet, Superman cartoon were my best childhood TV memory.

[@patricktaylor4997]

I loved this show as a kid in the `60s. (along with all the other Gerry Anderson shows) I love the design of the Roundhouse. It appears to be heavily influenced by both architect John Lautner's 'Chemosphere' as well as the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. The Anderson design team did some amazing work! If I ever win the lottery, I'll build a house like that. (minus the launchpad)

[@chrisst8922]

Anderson design team? Focus groups, maybe MIT? No just Derek Meddings. On his own. Actually the Roundhouse would make a good subject for Kevin McCloud's Grand Designs.

[@Classicrocker6119]

I’m about to turn 61 and the theme song brings back many memories. One drawback I noticed from this footage was that no one could use the pool leading up to a launching of Thunderbird One!😀😀

[@kiwitrainguy]

The launch of a space rocket going through a ring-shaped building is the one that gets me. It's amazing it didn't catch fire with every launch.😊😉😅

[@martincmchang81]

Even as a Taiwanese kid who did not understand English back then, the main theme and the count down was so vivid in my memory and still makes me thrill today at age of 62....

[@fernandover9538]

Jackie Chang

[@minilars1990]

how can someone dislike this!! this is awsome old school thunderbirds

[@usuarioheleno9589]

Lars Balk vxgxv

[@philbacon5283]

The best

[@scrmepal]

I remember as a kid, watching the sequence each week in the loading bay where you used to wonder which machine TB2 would pick up and take on the mission.........my favourite was the Mole!

[@videowilliams]

Absolutely! A great little tease for boyish minds- what's inside the oddly numbered cargo pod (because we knew what #4 meant)? Almost invariably, you'd get some comically little vehicle come rolling out of that huge container, except for the Mole which, with its huge head, actually filled it.

[@fat_spaniel_]

OMG! thanks for reminding me about the Mole! Thunderbird Two was my favourite because of the pods too!

[@Skyrocket2299]

I’m 63 and watched this show. I had a few of the plastic model kits as well. Good memories.

[@KlunkerRider]

As a kid I never noticed how Thunderbird 3's scale constantly changed, when boarding at 7:00 its apparently the size of the Queen Mary based on how tiny the puppets are, yet at launch its suddenly tiny, small enough to fit thru the eye of whats clearly a two story house, just look at the stairway for scale at 8:00, but its does still look cool doing so and I'm sure for the Anderson's that was more important. ;-)

[@vouge6750]

Just like TB2, it may looks huge, but when you see it pass between the palm trees, it it in fact pretty small...

[@KlunkerRider]

There just really Really REALLY freakishly *BIG* mutant palm trees LOL ;-)

[@vouge6750]

Welcome to the 2060's

[@RoboP]

My thought has been it was also as well as size just to give a kind of camera trick. But I wont deny the size of some of the models goes back and forth often. Then again TB3 is supposed to be massive in comparison to the other TBs. 2 I think they setttled on a size later but the stock launch footage at point makes it look huge. Especially the elaborate pilot transportation to their vehicles lol.

[@tracytron7162]

Actually it’s just not THAT big. It’s the same height as TB2 is long, so I find it easy to believe. Take into consideration just how big the rooms inside it are, they’re pretty small. Note that the rooms are all in the section right above the retros btw.

[@matrimcauthon7937]

You know the guys who made those sets had a blast doing it and were probably very proud of their work.

[@marksheppard7826]

Gerry Anderson was an absolute genius! I grew up with his awesome programs. Now I have found them all thanks to Roku and Tubi. Thunderbirds are GO!

[@テッポウゲンキン]

発進シークエンスは何度見ても感動します 数十年経った今でも色褪せない 素晴らしいです ワクワクします

[@ronzzr11]

Tracy Island must be completely hollowed out, looking at the size of those launch bays and equipment halls !!!

[@CriswellKOL]

Brains has also been doing genetic engineering. If TB1 is about 100 feet tall, then the orange squeezer is about 20 feet in diameter!

[@RoboP]

In cross section or cutaway books. Not all the Island but a lot of it is that. Given the island is divided in to 2 large segments. For activities anyways.

[@keshlalish5586]

adam savage did a video where he visited the set pretty cool stuff

[@colgatetoothpaste4865]

to all the people involved in the making of these series i have 4 words !!! THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE

[@mpepp9]

The level of detail is just incredible. You don’t get that with the soulless stuff today.

[@scrmepal]

Even too this day, i can remember my dad saying me and my brother could watch this new TV puppet show called Thunderbirds........and it was absolutely terrific. In fact TB became an instant mega hit in the UK!

[@machineheada]

In my country we didnt have a proper TV casting till 90s and i started to watch this cartoon around the end of 80s and the beginning of 90s when i was 9-10 years old. I still like this cartoon its still amaze me with the labour inside. Thanx for sharing this video and reminding me my old good days with my parents. Especially reminded me the days with my passed away father who was explaining me, how this videos were made at that time. 😪😢

[@sidneyrichard5319]

Loved this since I was a kid on its original release... but have really grown to appreciate the work of Barry Gray. This makes me realise that his stuff was subject to some pretty brutal edits to accommodate a launch sequence. Damn budget restrictions. Damn them all to hell.

[@TheMJKnight]

Thunderbird 2. Everyone's fave

[@femalethunderbirdsnerd8115]

MJ Knight my favourite Thunerbird

[@AmazingJoe96]

nah mate TB1 is the best

[@thunderbirdsharrypotterfan]

MJ Knight tb2 is my favorite

[@marinjeam]

TB2 my all time favorite

[@stuartsharman3055]

@@AmazingJoe96 I agree. TB1 and Scott for me, always.

[@Mark-pp7jy]

...meanwhile, after the launch, the house is a smoldering pile of wood, siding, shingles, brick, and glass. And the family pets, if still alive are deaf and traumatized beyond hope. I loved this show! 😉

[@Yaris510]

What a delightful trip down memory lane - I'd forgotten how beautifully made were Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's models; even today, decades later, they look so *real*

[@marksheppard7826]

Have you ever watched Captain Scarlet?

[@Yaris510]

@@marksheppard7826 I used to love Captain Scarlet - although I remember, as a kid, being terrified by the voice of the Mysterons!

[@marksheppard7826]

@@Yaris510 I remember thinking how cool the voice was! I was a strange child.

[@seitoku55]

この細かさと重量感　　CGじゃ無理 やっぱり　名作ですね

[@j.calvert3361]

No cgi, they actually built all this stuff! Great work!

[@dalegribble60]

I absolutely loved this show as a kid...I had the Thunderbird 2 toy and forgot all about it until this video......I feel like a little kid again after 60 years.

[@marcobarreto9630]

Excelente! Tenho 63 anos e assistindo relembrei minha infância quando não perdia o horário dos Thunderbirds! Saudações de Brasília/Brasil.👍👏👏🇧🇷

[@davegregg1512]

Vanessa’s comments were spot on! I turned 67 this week. What a great “Blast from The Past.” Good on you guy’s at the channel!!!

[@barriewright2857]

Just puer genius, and for me as a 56 year old, man just a good place in my child hood, never missed a single show, when it was due to come on everything just stopped. These kind of films "Super marrieanet" they couldn't make these today the cost would be just to high, and it looks better than CGI, actually, but that's my point of view. FAB :)

[@keeppdreamingg2982]

I'm watching the toon-like updated version on TV now, so I had to look up this older version right away. My childhood memories are restored. Thunderbird 2 🤗

[@jamesgeorge2299]

The opening moment when Scott is holding onto the lamp handles as he rotates out into Thunderbird 1's launch bay, and continues out on the little bridge. That casual cool has not been surpassed. I've loved this show since I was five years old.

[@nathankingham1248]

I loved the Thunderbirds, I recall all the launches clear as day. God I miss this.

[@cadetkirk762]

Nathan Kingham watch the new series thunderbirds are go

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

Cadet Kirk not as good... modern cartoons are crap 💩

[@bulman07]

It's not a cartoon, it's just the characters and the engine pyros that are CG, and sometimes the Thunderbirds themselves for more manoeuvrability. It is less mature now, though, which is a shame for us, but makes sense.

[@l8cuma]

The Emerald Men o,iu nm o,jk