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Episodes: All (32)

Season: 1  |  2
Year: 1965  |  1966


Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: Trapped in the Sky

Original Air Date—30 September 1965
The Hood plants a bomb aboard the Fireflash. Can International Rescue bring the airliner down without using its landing gear?

Season 1, Episode 2: Pit of Peril

Original Air Date—7 October 1965
The Army's new Sidewinder falls down a burning pit. Can International Rescue haul the machine out of the pit before it breaks up?

Season 1, Episode 3: The Perils of Penelope

Original Air Date—14 October 1965

Season 1, Episode 4: Terror in New York City

Original Air Date—21 October 1965
After Thunderbird 2 is heavily damaged in a mistaken attack, it leaves the team seemingly without a swift means to transport TB4 to New York City when a news crew is trapped underneath the collapsed Empire State Building.

Season 1, Episode 5: Edge of Impact

Original Air Date—28 October 1965

Season 1, Episode 6: Day of Disaster

Original Air Date—4 November 1965

Season 1, Episode 7: 30 Minutes After Noon

Original Air Date—11 November 1965

Season 1, Episode 8: Desperate Intruder

Original Air Date—18 November 1965

Season 1, Episode 9: End of the Road

Original Air Date—25 November 1965

Season 1, Episode 10: The Uninvited

Original Air Date—2 December 1965
Scott has been dispatched in Thunderbird 1 to rescue a pair of archeologists who've become stranded in the desert. Little does he suspect they've stumbled into the secret pyramid lair of the mysterious and hostile Zombites!

Season 1, Episode 11: Sun Probe

Original Air Date—9 December 1965

Season 1, Episode 12: Operation Crash-Dive

Original Air Date—16 December 1965

Season 1, Episode 13: Vault of Death

Original Air Date—23 December 1965

Season 1, Episode 14: The Mighty Atom

Original Air Date—30 December 1965

Season 1, Episode 15: City of Fire

Original Air Date—6 January 1966

Season 1, Episode 16: The Imposters

Original Air Date—13 January 1966
Crooks in International Rescue uniform steal the plans for the AL-4. This causes General Lambert, not realizing that the machine used was an EJ-2, to organize a search force, putting International Rescue temporarily out of business. Penelope searches for the fake Thunderbirds whilst Jeff Tracy has suspended operations. The Tracy family aren't the only ones with troubles, though: Space Observatory 3, the search satellite in their area, has shut down for 4 hours. Even worse, a man on the search force, Elliott, has accidentally launched himself into space, meaning Jeff must decide between Elliott's life and the lives of the 500 people who could suffer from International Rescue being put out of business. He launches a rescue simply because Penelope is close to clearing them, but can she manage in time?

Season 1, Episode 17: The Man from MI5

Original Air Date—20 January 1966

Season 1, Episode 18: Cry Wolf

Original Air Date—27 January 1966

Season 1, Episode 19: Danger at Ocean Deep

Original Air Date—3 February 1966

Season 1, Episode 20: Move and You're Dead

Original Air Date—10 February 1966

Season 1, Episode 21: The Duchess Assignment

Original Air Date—17 February 1966

Season 1, Episode 22: Brink of Disaster

Original Air Date—24 February 1966

Season 1, Episode 23: Attack of the Alligators

Original Air Date—10 March 1966

Season 1, Episode 24: Martian Invasion

Original Air Date—17 March 1966

Season 1, Episode 25: The Cham-Cham

Original Air Date—24 March 1966

Season 1, Episode 26: Security Hazard

Original Air Date—31 March 1966

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: Atlantic Inferno

Original Air Date—2 October 1966
Lady Penelope invites Jeff Tracy for a vacation on her Australian ranch. Jeff reluctantly agrees and leaves Scott in command of International Rescue, after getting an update from John that a World Navy exercise is taking place in the Atlantic Ocean. This exercise involves warning a nearby mid-ocean drilling rig, the Seascape, whose crew chief, Frank Hooper, isn't pleased that the exercise involves firing nuclear warheads underwater. His concern proves justified when an errant nuclear torpedo detonates on the ocean floor and the resulting wave batters the rig. The swell settles and no damage is incurred, but that night a jet of fire erupts from the sea floor, the result of detonation of a gas pocket beneath of ocean floor. John hears radio calls about the fire jet, and Scott, after considerable agonizing over what to do, sends IR to plug the fire jet. The mission succeeds, but Jeff hears about it on the news and harangues Scott for getting involved. Penelope calms them both down, but the Seascape is further threatened when the gas pocket erupts in several areas; when Frank Hooper and his radioman man a diving sphere to examine damaged supports, they become trapped when the rig buckles and the sphere is buried on the sea floor. Now IR must work with the World Navy to evacuate the threatened rig and rescue Hooper and his radioman from the buried diving sphere.

Season 2, Episode 2: Path of Destruction

Original Air Date—9 October 1966
A tree-logging machine is out of control in South America and it's about as easy to stop it as it is to win a guerrilla war. Can International Rescue stop the thing before it reaches a dam construction site?

Season 2, Episode 3: Alias Mr. Hackenbacker

Original Air Date—16 October 1966

Season 2, Episode 4: Lord Parker's 'Oliday

Original Air Date—23 October 1966

Season 2, Episode 5: Ricochet

Original Air Date—30 October 1966

Season 2, Episode 6: Give or Take a Million

Original Air Date—25 December 1966

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