Children’s TV for life

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Simon Evans

Five, Four, Three, Two, One - Thunderbirds are go! I still get a surge of excitement every time I hear that famous introduction to Thunderbirds, one of the greatest children’s TV shows ever made, one that continues to enthral youngsters down through the generations.

I remember that autumn of 1965, rushing home from school on a Thursday to catch the latest episode, gripped with excitement at the Tracy boys’ latest thrilling mission. Me and my pals loved the hardware, and snapped up the wonderful friction-drive models of the Thunderbird craft when they hit the shelves of the local toyshop, and we diligently followed the further adventures of International Rescue in the which also featured the rest of the Gerry Anderson stable of puppet shows, and later to be joined by