Product: Thunderbirds [VHS] (1965)
Rating: 4.0
Dated But Still Great!
For a television series created in the 1960's, on a shoe-string budget, and with marrionettes as actors, the show was great. Anderson's view of the future was brilliant throughout all of his Supermarrionation series, and including his two live-action series; UFO and Space:1999.Regarding the statement made in the Editorial Review -- "who else would dare to make a virtue out of the fact that (a) the show is in color and (b) it's got puppets in it?" The show was filmed for a British audience. At the time, only one of the BBC's TV stations broadcast in color. Americans got to see the series in color years before the fans in the U.K. In fact, the BBC released the entire first season as comic books, to placate the British fans. Therefor, the fact that the show was shot in color was indeed a virtue.