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According to a non-canonical 1993 comic strip, Lucille and Jeff's father, Grant Tracy, were both killed in an avalanche. [17] A 2008 novel had Lucille die from a road accident in which her vehicle fell off a cliff. [18] Jeff founded a civil engineering, construction and aerospace business that made him one of the wealthiest men in the world. He ...
The main characters are ex-astronaut Jeff Tracy, founder of International Rescue, and his five adult sons, who pilot the organisation's main fleet: the Thunderbird machines. In "Trapped in the Sky", master criminal the Hood plants a bomb on board the new atomic-powered airliner Fireflash before it departs on its maiden flight.
Brady Corbet as Alan Tracy, the 14-year-old main protagonist and pilot of Thunderbird 4 at the end of the film; Soren Fulton as Fermat Hackenbacker, Alan's best friend; Vanessa Hudgens as Tin-Tin Belagant, Alan's crush; Bill Paxton as Jeff Tracy, the widowed father of Alan and his brothers and the founder/leader of International Rescue
Peter Dyneley (13 April 1921 – 19 August 1977) was an English actor. Although he appeared in many smaller roles in both film and television, he is best remembered for supplying the voice of Jeff Tracy for the 1960s "Supermarionation" television series Thunderbirds and its two film spinoffs, Thunderbirds Are Go (1966) and Thunderbird 6 (1968), all produced by Gerry Anderson.
The name "Hood" was derived from the term hoodlum. Gerry Anderson also observed that the character was frequently masked, and that a mask "could be described as a 'hood'." [2] Sylvia Anderson acknowledges that the Hood's appearances became less regular towards the end of the series (he does not feature in any episodes of the second season), explaining that, like Kyrano, the character "turned ...
The lead characters are ex-astronaut Jeff Tracy, the founder of International Rescue, and his five adult sons, who pilot the organisation's main fleet – the Thunderbird machines. In "Ricochet", the Tracy brothers rush to save an astronaut DJ and his technician after the destruction of a malfunctioning rocket damages their pirate radio ...
The lead characters are ex-astronaut Jeff Tracy, founder of International Rescue, and his five adult sons, who pilot the organisation's primary vehicles: the Thunderbird machines. In "Atlantic Inferno", a navy weapons test in the Atlantic Ocean ignites a gas field under the seabed, threatening a drilling platform.
In her autobiography, Sylvia Anderson wrote that the episode casts Tin-Tin as a "sex object"; she commented elsewhere that the character is also objectified in "End of the Road" when her former boyfriend visits Tracy Island, sparking a romantic rivalry with Alan Tracy. [8] Jeff alludes to these events when Casey's jet comes in to land, the ...