See the press cuttings . Camp' Thunderbirds are told to go , by York Membery in The Sunday Times , 28th. Thunderbirds are . . . But if Universal Pictures executives get their way, at least two of the five Tracy brothers are likely to be written out. Sixties superheroes wobble and jerk back to TV by Raymond Whitaker in The Independent on Sunday , 9th.
Thunderbirds are go - again.
Nearly a decade after the cult puppets of International Rescue were last on television, they will be back on BBC2 in the autumn, with digital remastering doing nothing to smooth out their trademark jerkiness. Stereo sound has also been added, but otherwise the series is just as cheesy as its aficianados remember it. But if its British admirers feel it brings back the innocence of their childhoods, the US movie studio Universial is said to have ordered a drastic rewrite of the script of a proposed film because it had too many homosexual overtones. Biography , press cuttings . Back to the popular culture main page.