Thunderbirds is a late
1960s to early
1970s Sylvia and [Gerry Anderson]
? marionette adventure series, about 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.
Notable for its (for the time) superlative special effects using miniatures.
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