Thunderbirds - Set Four

At its best, Thunderbirds is an inspired mix of Japanese monster movie mayhem and British stiff-upper-lip attitude. The International Rescue team members are bland and interchangeable, a marionette family of clean-living Hardy Boys, but the high-tech toys are like big-kid fantasies come alive, and the awestruck seriousness of the direction is quaint and cool in these days of hyperactive cartoons. The highlight of Set 4 is Attack of the Alligators! where real-life baby alligators star as giant mutants thrashing about the dollhouse-sized sets and actually act with the wooden puppets; one of them actually chases a puppet hero through the jungle. Fan favorite Lady Penelope (the team's cool, high-class London agent) and her ex-con chauffeur Parker make memorable appearances in The Imposters, where they track down a team of crooks passing themselves off as International Rescue, and The Man From MI5, a James Bond parody where Lady Penelope is (uncharacteristically) a damsel in distress. Other episodes include Cry Wolf (two boys live the dream of every Thunderbirds fan and get a guided tour of the top-secret base), Danger at Ocean Deep (a fog of radioactive algae destroys ships and wreaks havoc with Thunderbird communications), and The Duchess Assignment (a rescue mission in a burning mansion). --Sean Axmaker ...

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