The worst episodes of Thunderbirds
Ranked by viewer rating, lows first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
While Christmas preparations are underway at both Tracy Island and a local children's hospital, which is expanding to incorporate a new radiotherapy wing, a pair of criminals attempt to burgle a high-tech vault storing gold bullion.
- 02
Lady Penelope and Parker holiday at the world's first solar-powered town.
- 03
A Bank of England worker is trapped in a time-lock safe. Time is of the essence as the oxygen is running out.
- 04
'The Mighty Atom' is a robotic rodent programmed to take photographs. The Hood steals the machine intending to take secret pictures of the Thunderbirds' craft and operations.
- 05
After the launch of the ship Ocean Pioneer, fears are raised that its potentially explosive cargo of liquid alsterene may mean impending disaster.
- 06
Crooked tycoon Warren Grafton invites Jeff, Brains and Tin-Tin for a ride on the monorail he has built.
- 07
Master criminals hijack a plane with Lady Penelope on board.
- 08
A British agent is trapped in a room of plutonium with an explosive device strapped to his wrist.
- 09
A fighter jet crashes into a Teleray station, trapping two men, after being sabotaged by the Hood.
- 10
A British spy vanishes while carrying atomic weapon blueprints.
- 11
The Hood attacks a space tracking station in Australia.
- 12
The Hood forces an unwitting Kyrano into immoblising Thunderbird 1's photodetector.
- 13
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.
- 14
A Martian probe-rocket containing two engineers is buried underneath rubble when a bridge collapses.
- 15
Criminal Mastermind the Hood puts a bomb on a plane. International Rescue must foil the Hood's evil plans.
- 16
On a jungle test, the U.S. Army Sidewinder falls into an old landfill where combustible gases have turned it into a raging inferno.
- 17
Eddie Houseman, a Tracy Family friend, is left stranded on a cliff after a demolition operation goes wrong.
- 18
Scott is brought down in the desert by three mysterious jet fighters and captured along with a team of archaeologists.
- 19
A Space age shopping mall suddenly becomes the site of a raging furnace.
- 20
Operations are unjustly suspended when imposters disguised as International Rescue take secret papers from a vault.
- 21
Lady Penelope's friend, the Duchess of Royston, agrees to sell an expensive painting.
- 22
The villainous musician Olsen has a cunning plan to disrupt rocket flights.
- 23
Tin-Tin picks up an SOS message from an intergalactic pirate TV station.
- 24
Professor Borender, an important scientist, and Lady Penelope are both abducted.
- 25
A space explorer is on a collison course with the sun after becoming lost.
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