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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.
Mike Fillis of TV Zone and Cult Times magazines considers the episode a "tour de force" and a series highlight, describing the story as "riveting" and the bomb plot as "very topical". [4] [40] Stuart Galbraith IV of DVD Talk likens the premise to "an airborne version of Speed". [41] Marcus Hearn praises the episode's suspense and "extraordinary ...
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.
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 ...
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The episode begins with International Rescue responding to a mine fire in England. A nearby resident, Mr Morrison, puts his son Chip to bed before leaving their house to help fight the fire. Curious about International Rescue, Chip moves to his bedroom window and gazes out at the open pod door of Thunderbird 2 , which is sitting unattended in a ...