Thunderbirds: The Lost Episodes
Updated: 27th April 2024
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Faneditor: Wraith 
Fanedit Type: TV-to-Movie
Fanedit Release Date: 1st May 2021
Fanedit Runtime: 1h:48m:0s
Time Cut: 1h:14m:0s
Time Added: 0h:0m:0s
Franchise: Thunderbirds
Genre: Action • Drama • Kids • Sci-Fi
Original Title: Thunderbird 6 (1968)
Thunderbirds are Go (2015)
Original Release Date: 1st January 1968
Original Runtime: 1h:33m:0s
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Fanedit Type: TV-to-Movie
Fanedit Release Date: 1st May 2021
Fanedit Runtime: 1h:48m:0s
Time Cut: 1h:14m:0s
Time Added: 0h:0m:0s
Franchise: Thunderbirds
Genre: Action • Drama • Kids • Sci-Fi
Original Title: Thunderbird 6 (1968)
Thunderbirds are Go (2015) Original Release Date: 1st January 1968
Original Runtime: 1h:33m:0s
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Format: Digital
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Synopsis:
Both Thunderbirds movies suffer from pacing issues (quite slow), very light on scoring (due to budget constraints) and just generally not as good as any of the 32 episodes. These edits turn them into full blown TV episodes as they would have been in 60's but in HD and widescreen, with score enhancements and ad bumpers. WARNING: This may be puppets and "childrens TV", but the dialogue is no t patronizing, dialogue is mature idiom (not childish) and "people" get shot in cold blood or die !!!! 60s childrens TV was full on gruesome, thank heavens.
Both Thunderbirds movies suffer from pacing issues (quite slow), very light on scoring (due to budget constraints) and just generally not as good as any of the 32 episodes. These edits turn them into full blown TV episodes as they would have been in 60's but in HD and widescreen, with score enhancements and ad bumpers. WARNING: This may be puppets and "childrens TV", but the dialogue is no t patronizing, dialogue is mature idiom (not childish) and "people" get shot in cold blood or die !!!! 60s childrens TV was full on gruesome, thank heavens.
Intentions:
I Found both movies to plod frankly. As much as I love Thunderbirds are Go, it feels bland and the dream sequence (now removed) is frankly padding. Thunderbird 6 feels just empty and it it ends up being a great TV episode much to my own surprise. I hope you will agree.
I Found both movies to plod frankly. As much as I love Thunderbirds are Go, it feels bland and the dream sequence (now removed) is frankly padding. Thunderbird 6 feels just empty and it it ends up being a great TV episode much to my own surprise. I hope you will agree.
Change List:
The objective was to keep the pace going, trim superfluous dialogue, remove all padding, tighten up everything to feel like an episode and boost the scoring density to match the episode structure. In addition, completely new add bumpers were made (since the surviving ones are in black and white) and newly made from scratch end titles. The eagle eye may notice the opening titles have been tweaked and also re-made.
The objective was to keep the pace going, trim superfluous dialogue, remove all padding, tighten up everything to feel like an episode and boost the scoring density to match the episode structure. In addition, completely new add bumpers were made (since the surviving ones are in black and white) and newly made from scratch end titles. The eagle eye may notice the opening titles have been tweaked and also re-made.
Additional Notes:
The editing in both of these contain too many tiny trims to document or to be interesting so here is a summary instead. The episodes are thus Ep 33 ZERO X 1 contains 392 cuts and 25 mins of additional music in 54 minutes, 10 sec, that's a cut every 8.26 seconds. Virtually every scenes, has multiple edits. Ep 34, Operation Ambush contains 407 cuts and 32 mins of additional music in 54 minutes, that's a cut every 7.96 seconds. Virtually every scenes, has multiple edits. They are structured IDENTICALLY to the TV series, including that Ad bumbpers which no longer exist in color and which were remade from scratch. The only dif is the aspect ratio which is about 1:1.8 ish.
The editing in both of these contain too many tiny trims to document or to be interesting so here is a summary instead. The episodes are thus Ep 33 ZERO X 1 contains 392 cuts and 25 mins of additional music in 54 minutes, 10 sec, that's a cut every 8.26 seconds. Virtually every scenes, has multiple edits. Ep 34, Operation Ambush contains 407 cuts and 32 mins of additional music in 54 minutes, that's a cut every 7.96 seconds. Virtually every scenes, has multiple edits. They are structured IDENTICALLY to the TV series, including that Ad bumbpers which no longer exist in color and which were remade from scratch. The only dif is the aspect ratio which is about 1:1.8 ish.
Other Sources:
Thunderbirds CD Scores.
Thunderbirds CD Scores.
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