Thunderbirds

Thunderbirds (1964)

232 mistakes - chronological order

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Cry Wolf - S1-E18

Continuity mistake: When Bob and Tony are trapped in the bottom of the tin mine, Bob is seen sitting down with both his hands on a plank of wood, but in the next shot he has only one hand on the wood.

Cry Wolf - S1-E18

Continuity mistake: When Tony is trapped on the cliff edge at the beginning of the episode, he reaches for his bag which can be seen standing up, but in the shots when we see his hand trying to grab the handle, the bag is lying down.

Cry Wolf - S1-E18

Continuity mistake: When the Hood becomes entangled in the branches in the ravine at the end of the episode, the branches break and he falls into the river below, but when he falls, the branches have disappeared.

Cry Wolf - S1-E18

Continuity mistake: When Scott first approaches the boys after the 'rescue', his sidearm can be seen to be missing the usual red barrel covering.

Cry Wolf - S1-E18

Continuity mistake: The characters all refer to Williams's station as Dunsley Tracker, but in a close-up of the console, the caption above the alert light reads 'Densley Tracker'.

Danger at Ocean Deep - S1-E19

Continuity mistake: When Scott and Virgil contact Tracy Island and their reports are affected by a bad interference, Jeff is wearing his glasses, but later on in the scene they disappear.

Move - And You're Dead - S1-E20

Continuity mistake: When Alan contacts his father at Tracy Island, Jeff asks him "How's the situation, boy?" Alan informs him that Grandma has passed out in the heat and Alan's face is covered in sweat. But after a quick cut to Jeff saying "Passed out?" we return to Alan, and the sweat on his face has disappeared.

Move - And You're Dead - S1-E20

Continuity mistake: As Alan makes his telecall to Grandma, the close-up of his hand dialing her number shows the push-button dial panel with letters on the left and numbers on the right, but on the puppet-sized telecall unit, the numbers are on the left and the letters are on the right.

Move - And You're Dead - S1-E20

Deliberate mistake: Throughout Thunderbirds, when the script required objects to be manipulated, there were cutways to close up 'insert' shots of real human hands - usually of the puppeteers/crew. However in this episode, Alan's close-up (i.e. live action) hand is remarkably hairy with very dark hair. Yet Alan Tracey is supposed to be 21 and blond haired (including the hair on the back of his hands).

Move - And You're Dead - S1-E20

Continuity mistake: When Jeff Tracey is first contacted by Alan, he is sat behind his desk, but when the picture cuts back to him after a quick shot of Alan, he is suddenly perched on the front of the desk reading a magazine.

Move - And You're Dead - S1-E20

Continuity mistake: When we first see Alan in his racing car, a close-up shot shows the steering wheel on the left-hand side. However, the miniature model used for the distance shots shows the steering wheel on the right.

Move - And You're Dead - S1-E20

Continuity mistake: In a close-up of Victor Gomez' racing car, he has a very large number 7 behind the driver's position. But the miniature model used for the distant shot has only a small white number 7 on the door.

Move - And You're Dead - S1-E20

Continuity mistake: When we first see Virgil in the cockpit of Thunderbird 2 in the launch sequence at Tracy Island, he has nothing on his head. Later on, when we see both him and Brains, Virgil is now wearing his International Rescue hat, but when we see Virgil after the launch, the hat has gone.

Move - And You're Dead - S1-E20

Continuity mistake: When Thunderbird 1 is pursuing Gillespie and Gomez towards the end of the episode, Gillespie and Gomez both have their hands on the steering wheel in the car in one shot, yet the view from Thunderbird 1 shows only Gomez driving the car.

Move - And You're Dead - S1-E20

Continuity mistake: When Thunderbird 2 touches down on the sand to release Alan in his car, there is no "2" underneath its front section, but the number reappears when the pod is being released.

The Duchess Assignment - S1-E21

Continuity mistake: After the Duchess has been rescued by "those romantic young men from International Rescue," when the Duchess removes the canvas from her umbrella, in the closeup (with human hands) she's wearing a pink button-down, but in all other shots there are no buttons whatsoever. (00:45:20)

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The Duchess Assignment - S1-E21

Continuity mistake: The pod chosen for Thunderbird 2 in order to rescue the Duchess from the burning house is Pod 3, but if you look carefully when the Mole is coming out of the pod, you can see "Thunderbird 2 Pod 4".

Trivia: Jeff Tracy's five sons were named after Mercury astronauts - Scott Carpenter, Virgil Grissom, Alan Shephard, Gordon Cooper and John Glenn.

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