The best episodes of Thunderbirds
Ranked by viewer rating, highs first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
A TV reporter and a cameraman are trapped when the Empire State Building collapses.
- 02
Brains and Tin-Tin set off on an expedition to retrieve sunken treasure from Lake Anasta. The Hood has also set his sights on the riches and plans to put both Brains and Tin-Tin in grave peril.
- 03
Thunderbirds are called to rescue a supersonic plane from beneath the Atlantic Ocean.
- 04
An experimental drug that makes animals grow four times their normal size is spilled into the Amazon River by a greedy boatman attempting to steal it.
- 05
Professor Borender, an important scientist, and Lady Penelope are both abducted.
- 06
A space explorer is on a collison course with the sun after becoming lost.
- 07
After Alan wins Parola Sands motor race, his rival Victor Gomez develops a grudge.
- 08
Jeff takes a holiday with Lady Penelope, leaving Scott to take charge of International Rescue. But when a fire threatens to engulf the Seascape drilling rig, he is unsure whether to intervene or not...
- 09
On a jungle test, the U.S. Army Sidewinder falls into an old landfill where combustible gases have turned it into a raging inferno.
- 10
Eddie Houseman, a Tracy Family friend, is left stranded on a cliff after a demolition operation goes wrong.
- 11
Scott is brought down in the desert by three mysterious jet fighters and captured along with a team of archaeologists.
- 12
A Space age shopping mall suddenly becomes the site of a raging furnace.
- 13
Operations are unjustly suspended when imposters disguised as International Rescue take secret papers from a vault.
- 14
Lady Penelope's friend, the Duchess of Royston, agrees to sell an expensive painting.
- 15
The villainous musician Olsen has a cunning plan to disrupt rocket flights.
- 16
Tin-Tin picks up an SOS message from an intergalactic pirate TV station.
- 17
Criminal Mastermind the Hood puts a bomb on a plane. International Rescue must foil the Hood's evil plans.
- 18
A Martian probe-rocket containing two engineers is buried underneath rubble when a bridge collapses.
- 19
A fighter jet crashes into a Teleray station, trapping two men, after being sabotaged by the Hood.
- 20
A British spy vanishes while carrying atomic weapon blueprints.
- 21
The Hood attacks a space tracking station in Australia.
- 22
The Hood forces an unwitting Kyrano into immoblising Thunderbird 1's photodetector.
- 23
The massive, atomic powered 'Crablogger' that cuts down and processes trees into pulp goes out of control and razes a town to the ground. Virgil and Scott risk death to shut down its reactor and empty its fuel tanks before it destroys a local dam.
- 24
A British agent is trapped in a room of plutonium with an explosive device strapped to his wrist.
- 25
A Bank of England worker is trapped in a time-lock safe. Time is of the essence as the oxygen is running out.
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