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The Best of Thunderbirds - The Favorite Episodes | 
| Actors: Jeremy Wilkin, Charles 'bud' Tingwell, John Tate
Studio: A&E Home Video
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  10 reviews
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 312 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 71343
ISBN: 0767065018
UPC: 733961713435
EAN: 9780767065016
Theatrical Release Date: 1964
Release Date: June 29, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Excellent DVD from the TV series ! September 7, 2008
J. CALDERON (MEXICO CITY)
Excellent release in DVD for the 60s TV series of this animated, creative, beautiful and much loved series, THE THUNDERBIRDS. I remember when I watched it as a child and I am so glad because I got now this compilation in DVD. I think it is much better to have the whole series in the deluxe pack or box set of 32 DVD. The image of quality and sound are also excellent. I think this series has a great value as an early animated series for TV and I enjoy much more this kind of programs instead of many modern series, made with a lot of technological effects.
Gerry Anderson's Marvels February 11, 2007
Bennet Pomerantz (Seabrook, Maryland)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
When you watch the Thunderbirds, you must realize this show is forty years old and still holds up. These marriottes are real looking, special effects still hold up after 40 years...and the story lines are intriging
So forget that satire Team America and the live action version of the Thunderbirds, get this..maybe those kids who crave SF adventure can enjoy this complex story lines, rather than those show with 30 second sound bytes of action
The Thunbderbirds (which was orginally called The internation Rescue organization) is is filled with great sets, characters and vehicles (as I said this was 40 years ago).These episodes still hold up. When you sound like a naysayer about these shows, THINK Classic Star Trek! It , in my opinion, still holds up just like classic Trek.
If you like this, get some of Gerry Anderson's other TV shows on DVD... Supercar, Captain Scarlet,Stingray, Joe 90, Space 1999 (yes the Martin Landau/Barbara Bain space opera), The protectors (with Robert Vaughn) and a weaker effort Secret Service. for US audiences, remember buy region one.
For puppets , these shows had complex stories a and over the top characters..worth you time to get and enjoy
Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD
 You've got to REALLY like models (and I don't mean pretty women in swimsuits) January 14, 2007
Kim Paffenroth (New York)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I grew up with this show. And I remember it looked so cool. I was not exactly disappointed, but just surprised at how much of each episode consists of lovingly-shot sequences with the tiny models they used. This is probably just as well, as I think the model work stands up better than the marionettes. The action sequences make you alternate between thinking "Boy, that looks pretty realistic for a model," and "How did they do that with models?" It's always hard to know which of your childhood favorites to risk watching again, and I'm not sure I'll rush out to try and find Kimba the White Lion or Marineboy (though I would watch Speed Racer in a minute), but this is very enjoyable and just slightly odd.
best of thunderbirds August 23, 2006
Theresa Mullane
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
great 60's era television. should also appeal to Sci-Fi fans of today.
 Thunderbirds July 7, 2006
Steven Hellerstedt
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
The `supermarionation' adventures of International Rescue, a 21st century family of super do-gooders who monitor the globe (and beyond) in search of those in extreme peril. I don't know if these are the six best episodes of this as advertised, but they're certainly very well produced. The special effects are as good as anything I've seen from the mid-60s, when this series was produced, and hold up very well today.
I don't want to step on anyone's cult favorite, but THE BEST OF THUNDERBIRDS left me kind of cold. It wasn't the stories, which were well conceived. An atomic fueled airplane (!) has a bomb in the hold and unless it's defused within the next two hours - the clock's ticking - all passengers aboard will receive a fatal dose of radiation. A reporter and television cameraman are trapped underwater and have only an hour's worth of oxygen left. There are false rescues and rescues, all, like I said, excitingly done.
I guess one of my problems was with the marionettes, which were just, well, kind of creepy. Their mouths are animated well enough, electronically as is explained in a short feature on the second disk, and they're modeled well enough to withstand a close-up. But they're expressionless, and their glass eyes are too big for the heads that are already too big for their bodies. The first episode, Peril in the Sky, was delightful, but the delight wore off apace with the novelty. By the time I got to the last episode on the second disk, Attack of the Alligators!, I was glad this was a rental and not a purchase. Still, this is a good choice for family viewing.
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