Synopsis:

The Hood has put a bomb on the new atomic-airliner: Fireflash and only International Rescue can save them!

Intentions:

To make the pilot episode of Thunderbirds more in-line with the rest of the series, less spoilers and as short as the original pilot before it was doubled in run-time becasue of executive meddling.

Change List:

- New opening which do not contain spoilers and different music. - Removed Kyrano and Tin-Tin completely and all references to them - Opened edit with Firefllash about to take-off - Removed un-removable shot of bomb(becasue of audio issues) by inserting a shot of the control tower and placing the new title text over it - trimmed Fireflash take-off - trimmed hood making phone-call becasue; 1: Why wear a mask when your making a phone call? At least now you only see him from behind and 2; to remove ad-break. So now we cut from The end of the phone call to Fireflash being informed of the bomb - When Fireflash pilots are being informed of the bomb, re-used shots from earlier and later in the episode to remove pilot standing up(he has no reason to in this edit becasue Tin-Tin is absent, which was the reason in the original) - removed passengers being informed of them returning to London airport - when John looks down at earth. Removed model-shot of Fireflash and inserted Tracy island introduction, which in this edit is John telling Jeff about the bomb. - Inserted shot of Fireflash to bridge gap between Jeff being informed about the bomb and the briefing - Trimmed briefing to remove shot of boys responding to Jeff to remove continuity error with Alan's voice - Cut out Fireflash failing to shake the bomb loose - trimmed Scott's call to John to remove reference to bomb loose - cut out everything with Bob Meddings - trimmed Thunderbird 1 landing to remove the Hood - Trimmed police cars arriving at Thunderbird 1 to remove ad-break - Trimmed Hood taking photos inside Thunderbird 1 - Trimmed Hood's getaway - Removed first failed attempt at rescuing the Fireflash. This meant replacing every shot of elevator car no.3 with no.4 car(which I did) - Trimmed rescue - ended edit with The Hood being defeated and swearing revenge on International Rescue - replaced end credits with those from Pit Of Peril - Added fan-editor logo and the end.

Additional Notes:

My goal was to make it as short as the original pilot(which was 25 minutes), I experimented with various cuts until I got something which was easy to follow and didn't drag on as much as Red Dwarf: Enter The Red.

Other Sources:

Audio for the opening titles and the Video and audio for the closing titles came from the next episode: Pit Of Peril.