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"Pit of Peril" is the second episode of Thunderbirds, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company AP Films (APF) for ITC Entertainment. Written by Alan Fennell and directed by Desmond Saunders, it was first broadcast on 7 October 1965 on ATV Midlands.
This is an episode guide for Thunderbirds, a British Supermarionation television series produced by AP Films (later named Century 21 Productions) from 1964 and first broadcast on the ITV network in 1965 and 1966. It lists both the TV episodes and the 1960s audio plays by Century 21 Records, along with their adaptations.
and ordered Gerry Anderson to re-write and expand all episodes to fill a one-hour timeslot. He later increased the series' budget per episode from £25,000 to £38,000. [9] [18] [21] "Trapped in the Sky" and another eight fully or partially filmed episodes were each extended to 50 minutes by adding new scenes and subplots.
He finds it very similar to "Pit of Peril", another Fennell script that sees characters trapped below ground and threatened by fire being rescued with the help of the Mole. [3] Rating the episode three out of five, Tom Fox of Starburst magazine considers the ineffectiveness of the tower's fire control systems implausible but describes the ...
[3] [4] The Crablogger theme is re-use of the Sidewinder theme from "Pit of Peril". [5] [6] [7] The San Martino Dam was a modified form of a scale model originally built for the Stingray episode "In Search of the Tajmanon". [6] [8] The freight lorries in front of the dam were represented by Matchbox die-cast toys. [9]
The episode's incidental music was recorded on 18 March 1965 with a 25-member band. [15] Dialogue in "Sun Probe" indicates that the main part of that episode is set a week after the space launch, so the events of "The Perils of Penelope" must take place only a few days before.
He observes that "Ricochet" was the last episode of Thunderbirds to show International Rescue in "full-blown action mode", preceding the Christmas-themed series finale "Give or Take a Million". [1] Tom Fox of Starburst magazine rates the episode 2 out of 5, citing its "totally unbelievable" final rescue and "silly Sixties music". However, he ...
Alan Barnes and Marcus Hearn both point out that the series finale is the only episode in which International Rescue do not perform any rescues. Barnes compares "Give or Take a Million" to the Stingray episode "A Christmas to Remember", which sees the main characters of that series hosting an orphan boy for Christmas. [8]