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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.
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.
This subcategory contains articles related to episodes of the television series Thunderbirds. Pages in category "Thunderbirds (TV series) episodes" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
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]
List of episodes " The Perils of Penelope " is an episode of Thunderbirds , a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company AP Films (APF, later Century 21 Productions) for ITC Entertainment .
During testing, the prototype vehicle falls into an unmapped landfill pit. Due to spontaneous combustion of the waste, the inside of the pit is extremely hot. Using the Thunderbird 2 Recovery Vehicles, International Rescue retrieves the Sidewinder and rescues its crew. The look of the Sidewinder was devised by episode director Desmond Saunders ...
The 11th episode in the production and ITC-recommended viewing orders, "Brink of Disaster" is one of several early episodes that were extended from 25 to 50 minutes after Lew Grade – the owner of APF, who had been impressed by the 25-minute version of the first episode, "Trapped in the Sky" – ordered the runtime doubled so the series would ...