Thunderbird 6 (International Rescue Edition)
by David Lane
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Actor: Gary Files, John Carson, Keith Alexander, Peter Dyneley, Sylvia AndersonDirector: David Lane
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-07-20
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Thunderbird 6 (International Rescue Edition)
DVD Review: Not One of Gerry & Sylvia Anderson's Best Supermarionations
Summary: 3 Stars
Gerry & Sylvia Anderson's grand finale for their wonderful series of supermarionated shows & films about a family that has dedicated itself to rescuing/assisting others who are in trouble, the Tracy's, who are better known as the Thunderbirds, was a bit of a disappointment. Filmed in 1968, the final installment of the Thunderbirds entitled "Thunderbird 6" gave the impression that a new and wonderful craft was going to be unveiled and put to use in a horrific rescue attempt. All of the previous Thunderbird shows & films had a total of five ships that the Tracy family members used: Thunderbird 1 (essentially a rocket), Thunderbird 2 (a lifting body aircraft), Thunderbird 3 (a space-going rocket), Thunderbird 4 (a submarine) and Thunderbird 5 (an orbiting satellite). At the beginning of "Thunderbird 6", Brains (voice of David Graham), the man who designed all of the Thunderbird ships, presents an idea to a private aircraft corporation to build an airship. After being laughed at by the company's board of directors, they build the airship anyway because it is powered not by bags of hot air or lighter-than-air gas, but by a highly sophisticated anti-gravity device. Shortly thereafter, the Tracy family patriarch, John Tracy (voice of Keith Alexander), asks Brains to design a new Thunderbird ship to be called Thunderbird 6. Unfortunately, Brains' initial design is rejected and spends much of the rest of the film being upset as he tries to design something better. In the meantime, Alan Tracy (voice Mark Zimmerman), Tin Tin (voice of Christine Finn), Lady Penelope (voice of Sylvia Anderson) and her chauffer named Parker (voice of David Graham again), take an extended first "cruise" aboard the airship that Brains designed for the private aircraft corporation. However, unknown to them, spies have replaced the airship's crew.
The reason, then, why "Thunderbird 6" was rather disappointing is that most of the film (at least 2/3 of it) focuses upon the lengthy cruise across the globe that the airship takes. It is only in the last third of the film that any exciting action emerges with the Thunderbirds, but there were a few unusual camera angles used towards the beginning of the film that had not been used in previous Thunderbirds episodes. Sadly, due to the film's lack of audience engagement through most of the film and less realistic rescue during the final third of the film, I can only rate "Thunderbird 6" with 3 out of 5 stars. One interesting aspect to "Thunderbird 6" that is worth noting was that it used more live action footage than any previous Thunderbird installment (most of the biplane scenes were an actual biplane in flight). For it was only one year later (1969) that Gerry & Sylvia Anderson embarked on their first live-action sci-fi TV series, which was entitled "UFO". A few years later, this show was re-imagined into the better-known sci-fi TV series entitled "Space: 1999". It is possible, then, that Gerry & Sylvia Anderson's interest in supermarionation as a means of conveying their sci-fi story ideas was already beginning to fade in favor of live-action when they were developing the story for "Thunderbird 6" because its similarity to a soap-opera was very much part of the character development used in the live-action "UFO" TV series that aired only one year later.
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