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The Star Observer compares "Pit of Peril" favourably to the first episode but criticises its lack of female characters. [26] In an essay analysing Thunderbirds along gender lines, Ian Haywood believes that the Sidewinder's fall into the pit reflects a broader conflict in the series between "masculine" science and "maternal" nature.
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]
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 ...
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 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 ...