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Thunderbirds
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Thunderbirds was a television series that, according to the Eighth Doctor, aired in the 1980s. (PROSE: Trading Futures) According to Agent Twenty One of the Universal Secret Service, it was first broadcast in 2065 and featured Penelope Creighton-Ward with the Tracy brothers. (PROSE: J. Gray) It was created by Gerry Anderson. (PROSE: Trading Futures)

Megali Scoblow once described a swimming pool sliding away to reveal something, prompting Jason Kane to shout out, "Thunderbirds Are Go!" (PROSE: Beige Planet Mars) Sam Jones once said the same thing to Amy Saraband to prompt them into action, (PROSE: Kursaal) as did Rose Tyler to the Ninth Doctor when Mickey Smith was kidnapped by the Quevvils. (PROSE: Winner Takes All)

Anji Kapoor once saw a red spaceship that she thought looked exactly like Thunderbird Three, right down to the white "3" on its side. (PROSE: Trading Futures)

Having studied Thunderbirds, Bernice Summerfield could tell that the flashing red light on Irving Braxiatel's pen meant something important. Braxiatel recalled that, in the show, it was a teapot that did this. (PROSE: The Doomsday Manuscript)

Christine Summerfield stuck with the name 'control room' because she had seen too much Thunderbirds. (PROSE: Dead Romance)

Trix once described the person who kidnapped Fitz Kreiner as "a bit like a skinny version of the baddie out of Thunderbirds. Only with worse dress sense." (PROSE: To the Slaughter)

The Zygon Osgood mistook the Twelfth Doctor's reference to "Cloudbase" as being from Thunderbirds, but was corrected by Colonel Ahmed, who told her that Cloudbase was from Captain Scarlet. (TV: Death in Heaven)

The Fourteenth Doctor and Donna Noble quoted the characters Parker and Lady Penelope when they stepped inside a hovercraft on a spaceship at the edge of the universe. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder)

Behind the scenes[]

  • Though the link isn't directly made in Death in Heaven, in the real world, Sylvia Anderson co-created both Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet, which were produced by Century 21 Productions.
  • This series crossed over with the DWU many times in the pages of TV Century 21.
  • While Trading Futures stated that Thunderbirds aired in the 80s, it originally ran between 1965 and 1966, but was repeated various times throughout subsequent decades, and was remade in 2015.
  • Many actors have voiced characters in the 2015 Thunderbirds Are Go! reboot, including David Tennant, Sylvester McCoy and Thomas Sangster (who had a starring role as John Tracy, the astronaut of Thunderbird 5)
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