Thunderbirds

Thunderbirds (1964)

202 mistakes in season 1

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City of Fire - S1-E15

Continuity mistake: When Joe Carter parks his car in the car park in the Thompson Tower, you can see that his car is white. But when the lady driver crashes her car into his later on in the episode, the car is now yellow.

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.

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.

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.

The Uninvited - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: When Jeff and Tin-Tin are discussing whether she should go on the mission with Virgil to rescue Scott, the pen on the map on Jeff's desk is facing upwards, but later on in the scene it has moved slightly to the right.

Day of Disaster - S1-E6

Continuity mistake: During the rescue operation, Thunderbird 2's wreckage grabber changes from being semi-circular with flat edges as TB2 flies over the water to being angular with teeth as it is being dropped down to the rocket.

Desperate Intruder - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: When Brains collapses under the Hood's influence, he has nothing in his left hand, but when the Hood takes off his mask, we see Brains again, and this time a blue stone has appeared in his hand.

Operation Crash-Dive - S1-E12

Other mistake: Some scenes in this episode feature portraits of Jeff Tracy's sons in their civilian clothing. This is only done on "Operation Cover Up" to disguise all evidence of the International Rescue organisation when a visitor comes to Tracy Island, but there were no visitors to the island during the episode.

Vault of Death - S1-E13

Continuity mistake: When we see a close-up of Light-Fingered Fred in the prison cell, the games of noughts & crosses on the wall behind him are completely different to the ones seen in previous shots.

Pit of Peril - S1-E2

Plot hole: The Sidewinder was heating up all the time and it was becoming increasingly uncomfortable for the crew men inside, yet none of them thought to take off their thick jackets.

30 Minutes After Noon - S1-E7

Continuity mistake: When the laser vehicle leaves the pod and enters the plutonium store, you can see the cockpit has a windshield, but when Scott tells Virgil "We're gonna have to work fast", we cut to Virgil, and the windshield has disappeared.

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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