Thunderbirds

Thunderbirds is a late 1960s to early 1970s Sylvia and [Gerry Anderson]? television show which used "Super-Marionation" (marionettes), showing the adventures of the Tracys, a family consisting of ex-astronaut Jeff Tracy, his 5 sons and one daughter, who live on a Pacific island and are secretly the members of [International Rescue]?, a mechanized do-gooder organization which covers the globe rescuing people with their fantastic machines, the Thunderbirds.

The Thunderbird machines are:

• Thunderbird 1: a high-speed rocket plane
• Thunderbird 2: a heavy carrier aircraft
• Thunderbird 3: a spaceship
• Thunderbird 4: a submarine
• Thunderbird 5: an Earth-orbiting space station
• The Mole: a high-speed manned tunneling machine

Notable for its (for the time) superlative special effects using miniatures.

See also:

• [Fireball XL5]?
• Stingray?
• [Captain Scarlet]?
• Four Feather Falls