FAB Facts: Some Viewers of Thunderbirds may have seen 64 Episodes?!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Episodes of Thunderbirds were often split into two parts in order to fit into many broadcaster's children's slots.
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I thought you guys were going to talk about those God-awful shortened episodes made for Fox Kids in the 1990s.
Or worse still...
Turbocharged Thunderbirds
*Shudder*
I would love to know if the final cancelled seven episodes of series 2 were ever written and if we know what they would have been about?
I was legitimately so scared there for a second that there were 32 episodes that were lost media
I initially thought they were including 2086.
I remember seeing the two-part versions as a 4-year old child in eastern Canada (original airing). When I finally saw 50 minute episodes, years later, I was at first confused about how I could so badly misremember something from my childhood, then convinced myself that the 50 minute versions were an edit made for syndication after the fact. Then it came out that the episodes had "originally" been 50 minutes, and I had to reconcile this with my few clear memories of having episodes "end" half way through. The information in this video finally brings it all into perspective. My memory wasn't wrong! Thanks!
This is the first I've ever heard of Thunderbirds being split like this. How odd, as I've only ever seen full episodes.
I grew up with Fireball XL 5 . In the european eastern block ...that was a balst :)). Will never forget it . Plus the genius level music .
If Network puts out a new Blu-Ray for the 60th Anniversary in the styles of Fireball, Stingray, and the others, I think it would be a MUST to include the Shane Rimmer recaps as a bonus feature.
I've seen only one of them, and despite consisting of screenshots, the Stingray Launch Sequence music and a brief summary of the previous chapter in about 14 seconds (and done very well, mind), I think getting to see all of them would be among those dream-come-true moments for fans.
I've personally wanted to see them for years, or at the very least see scripts of them, but I've found nothing. I know they exist in the archives, but it would be cool to see them all cleaned up on my tv screen
I think everyone now likes to think there are, a nice round, 35 episodes thanks to the anniversary specials
Agreed 😊
Australia (Adelaide) in the '70's definitely the two parters on a Saturday morning.
Pretty sure it was Channel 9.
I saw 64 (plus 2 films) as I watched them on ITV 'up north' (ie Granada) when they first aired in the '60s
Great fab fact, still got the VHS copies (unedited) would be interesteing to find some of the 2 part versions from the archives. look forward to podcast 254
Wo this is interesting I have seen all its chapters and the 2 movies this is very amazing
I once saw the Swedish dub version of the part 2 recap of Terror in New York City. But for me all re-runs and VHS copies I saw growing up were the double length 50-min versions. Or were the compilation films from the early 80s
Sweden here. 64 episode. 96-98. Havn't been showned since. Dubbed to Swedish. Now lost. Very frustrating.
I remember watching them in Hong Kong in the '60s, and re-watching them a few months later dubbed into Cantonese with English subtitles. (They did the same with Star Trek and Gunsmoke).
I too first saw Thunderbirds - and Stingray, and about half the run of Captain Scarlet - in Hong Kong (Kowloon side), when I was kid in the mid 60s!
TV was so great for kids back then: Gerry Anderson shows, the 'new' Doctor Who, Batman, Man From Uncle, Voyage to the Bottom of the sea, etc... 👍
MeTV here in the US shows an hour long episode of Thunderbirds every Sunday morning.
Back in the mid 60's I used to run home from school every afternoon for the half hour Thunderbbirds episodes (in black & white) (Sydney Au), now have all the series from Supercar onwards on dvd
@ImJamieAnderson. Sadly, I don't have Twitter and I don't have confidence in myself to Email you because of my autism, but if you're reading this comment (hopefully), I think I have something to share with you, mate. Back when I was a kid here in the UK and in the early 2000s, Cartoon Network puts in a full-on episode of Thunderbirds. Each full episode was 40 minutes. So, when the clock says 7pm, the first 10 minutes of that episode plays, until we get to the black-screen-soundtrack. And Cartoon Network uses that black-screen as a 5-minute-advert break, before they start the next 10 minutes. So, it's 4 parts of 10 minutes, plus 3 5-minute-advert breaks, which makes nearly an hour. One more thing,. Since I've seen the TH-cam video FAB Fact of why your Dad, Gerry hated John Tracy, I have a question about that. Is the Ocean Pioneer episode your Dad's least favourite Thunderbirds episode? Cause I think that's the only episode that John's been on the longest and I think that was also John's one and only rescue mission.
It’s not the fact they were split that’s surprising, it’s that it was originally done by APF themselves. Nice bit of clever marketing if they sold them per episodes. 😁
I only ever recall seeing the full, one-hour episodes in New Zealand. I think someone in America did cut the episodes down to half-hour shows, but these were not shown in two parts.
In Australia in the late 70s I would bounce out of bed on Saturdays at 5:55am to be in front of the telly for 6am International Rescue but, as I was in early primary school at the time, my memory for how long a show was is pretty flimsy. I cannot recall there being cliffhangers, though, so maybe we got the full eps at that early hour.
Granada also broadcast in its own unofficial 3 part format but that was only on a repeat screening in ‘68
In Canada they were always 2-parters, in much later reruns as well. Assumed that was normal.
I thought the two part episodes only applied to the second season ones!
I lived in Indianapolis and it ran at 730-8:00am.
Yeah, we got the 2 part versions here in the US
I saw two part episodes in Canada on a BBC children’s channel and another channel aimed at kids. I noticed that the two episodes have bits missing and don’t show as much things as if they were one episode. I found watching them strange.
Hot news. 😴
Tangentially, "The Higgins Boys and Gruber" did split some episodes of "Supercar" into five minute segments on their show in the early 90s, back when Comedy Central was still The Comedy Channel...
I watched Thunderbirds as 1 hour shows in the Philippines in the ‘70s. The show was then on RPN-9 on Saturdays, in the ‘90s, it was re shown on ABC-5 on Sunday mornings also in 1 hour segments.
The Cable channel Star World also aired Thunderbirds on Saturday afternoons, if I remember correctly.
I never saw the 2 part version. When Thunderbirds originally aired in New York, on WNEW Channel 5 they showed the full episodes on Saturdays in the Afternoon. This was back in the 60's way before Fox took over that independent station.
As far as I know, only 32 episodes and 2 films were made.
Did you watch the video?
I first saw Thunderbirds in the early 1970s in the US, on New York CHannel 5. I believe it was shown at 7:30 AM through the summer months.
I'm sure it was the 2 episode version because I recall my shock at missing an episode and hearing it start with "Thunderbird 2 has crashed! Virgil, the pilot, badly injured!"
In the U.S. in the 90s they weren’t 2 parters, but they were edited for the 30min Saturday morning slot. Also edited with new musics.
These versions would've been beneficial to the BBC, who repeated it in the 90's, they might have repeated them during the week on CBBC! #FabFacts
Interesting, for Australia in the early 2000s probably thanks to the 6am time slot we got the full hour versions.
when i first was exposed to TB it was on BBC 2 during the school holidays or when ill, and i believe they were the full length episodes, i mean we are talking 20 years ago ish, but when i did a binge fairly recently to watch the entire catalogue of TB and TBAG, it was as i remembered it, so either i'm either misremembering or i saw full episodes
I heard about this a while ago and have been desperately seeking them simply to hear and see said Shane Rimmer's introductions and how they would frame the opening titles. Off air recordings are pretty difficult to come by from the 1960s.
First run I saw was split with a cliffhanger.(ATV area England 1965)
Shown successive midweek evenings.
bbc 2 showed French version in 1990s in 30 minute format
I watched Thunderbirds in it's original format (50 minutes) in Canada in 1991 on YTV.
I’m Australian and I only recall watching full 1 hour eps on Saturday mornings at 6am in the early 80s.
In the States when I had cable in the Los Angeles area, I saw the 2000s two-part versions of the show with recaps not done by Shane Rimmer on TechTV from 2003 to 2004 before TechTV merged with G4 to become G4TechTV (later G4TV, and finally Esquire before shutting down altogether).
Definitely news to me - I saw them as complete episodes in the late 60's on whichever network covered Chelmsford (Anglia?).
That is interesting as Thunderbirds was originally to be a half-hour show, and many of the first episodes had to be "padded" and extended into the hour format.
I think I was in the London Region, and cannot remember the first time I saw Thunderbirds (it would have been on our black and white telly), nor quite when it was scheduled broadcasts. I think it was probably more in the early 1970s when LWT would show full episode Sunday Lunchtimes - before the 2pm showing of football - Brian Moore with "The Big Match" (basically at least one London team with more mins than the BBC showed of a game did with MOTD).
Interesting, considering that Thunderbirds was originally intended to be a 'half hour' show and at least the first episode (maybe more) was shot that way. Then Lew Grade asked Gerry Anderson to extend them, so extra footage was shot and inserted into the half hour episode(s).
If I remember rightly...
The first broadcast of Thunderbirds in the ATV Midlands region was mostly as two-parters. Now I didn't see two of these - the pilot and Pit of Peril, so I can't vouch for them. But otherwise, everything came in 25 minute chunks, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, I think. I remember the line "Water is pouring into the cave" from the part two intro to Martian Invasion but I don't recall recognising Shane Rimmer's voice. The exception was The Duchess Assignment which was broadcast as a whole - immediately before the series ended or took a break. This seemed a huge treat at the time: 50 minutes of Thunderbirds - and it had the Mole in it!
I didn't know about these '2 part' versions as here in Sydney Australia I did not see any 2 part versions aired on our channel 9 Network (and yes, I am of the vintage to have seen these when first aired).
Boring article for such a great series.
These two part episodes were exactly what was seen by me here in Australia right from the late 60’s and early 70’s, but also right through the 80’s every Saturday morning. However they were never seen together, but usually one week apart. Also I am 100% (as I am a Thunderbirds tragic like the rest of us her 😊) positive I have never ever hear a Shane Rimmer recap. They were always just 30 minute episodes.
Sometimes, you would get an hour long one occasionally, but generally here in Oz, 30 minutes was the norm.
I am in New Zealand and I always thought I had seen the full-length versions on Saturday mornings, but if this was done in Australia maybe it was done here in New Zealand too, and my memories of my far-off early childhood in the 1970s are too faint to tell. And Kiwis able to enlighten me...?🤔
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TechTV (later G4 TV) aired Thunderbirds in a 2-part format in the early 2000s. They also added irritating scrolling commentary pop-ups along the bottom of the screen with idiotic comments like, "Don't you just love Scott's chiseled good looks?" and so on. Really detracted from the show's enjoyability.
I remember those fondly. Got me into filmmaking and special effects that way. Was kind of a riff on VH1's video edutainment series _Pop-Up Video._