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Edge of Impact
"Edge of Impact" is the 16th episode of Thunderbirds, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company AP Films for ITC Entertainment. Written by Donald Robertson and directed by Desmond Saunders, it was first broadcast on 28 October 1965 on ATV Midlands as the fifth episode of Series One. It had its first UK‑wide network broadcast on 29 November 1991 on BBC2.
Set in the 2060s, Thunderbirds follows the missions of International Rescue, a secret organisation that uses technologically advanced rescue vehicles to save human life. The lead characters are ex-astronaut Jeff Tracy, founder of International Rescue, and his five adult sons, who pilot the organisation's primary vehicles: the Thunderbird machines.
In "Edge of Impact", master criminal the Hood is hired to sabotage military test flights; one of his attempts causes an experimental fighter to crash into a television tower, trapping a pair of technicians inside. With an old friend of Jeff, the project master that the Hood is sabotaging, paying an unexpected visit to Tracy Island, International Rescue must covertly spring into action to save the two men before the tower collapses.
General Bron, a power-hungry warlord, hires the Hood to sabotage the Red Arrow: a new British-made experimental fighter plane and the only threat to Bron's military. Travelling to London Airport, the Hood sabotages a test flight of Red Arrow 1 by concealing a homing device in a hangar, causing the aircraft to veer out of control and crash; blacking out before he can eject, the pilot, Race, is killed. The disaster is attributed to unidentified design flaws and Colonel Tim Casey, World Space Control project supervisor, is replaced for the test programme on Red Arrow 2. Bron orders the Hood to destroy the second prototype, Red Arrow 2, promising to reward him in gold.
An aircraft flies to Tracy Island leading Jeff to activate the "Operation Cover-Up" security measures to prevent International Rescue being discovered. The visitor is Casey, who is an old air force comrade of Jeff. Judging the blueprints sound, Brains concludes that Red Arrow 1 must have been diverted from its original course. Predicting that it is sabotage, he designs a "diversion detector" to be installed on Red Arrow 2 to warn the pilot, Goddard. As Red Arrow 2 takes off, the Hood attaches another homing device to a television tower operated by British Telecommunication. Red Arrow 2 is drawn off course, confirmed by Brains' detector, and although the pilot, Goddard, ejects, the plane crashes into the tower; the explosion fatally weakens the structure and traps two technicians, Jim and Stan, who are working in the control room at the top. The arrival of a storm makes helicopter pick-up impossible, so Stan and Jim radio International Rescue for help.
As a diversionary tactic to enable the rescue to take place, Tin-Tin keeps Casey out of the way – taking him scuba diving under the pretext of searching for a rare marine mammal, the water mamba. Meanwhile, Jeff dispatches Scott, Virgil and Alan in Thunderbirds 1 and 2. Reaching the tower, the brothers use the Booster Mortar pod vehicle (a mobile cannon) to fire two Low Altitude Escape Harnesses jet packs through the window of the control cabin. Donning the harnesses, Jim and Stan lift off from the tower seconds before it collapses and land safely nearby. Virgil finds the homing device and contacts the police. A patrol car spots the Hood's van and gives chase. The Hood drives though a diversion, mistaking it for a police roadblock, and flies straight off the end of a collapsed bridge, plunging into the river below. Bron, furious that the sabotages have been exposed, berates the Hood over the van's radio.
The Thunderbirds return to base unseen by Casey, allowing Tin-Tin to bring him back from diving. Casey is delighted to learn that International Rescue have solved the mystery of the Red Arrow disasters and he has been reinstated at World Space Control and is to resume the Red Arrow tests. None the wiser about the Tracys' secret activities, he departs.
"Edge of Impact" is the only episode featuring the Hood in which his schemes do not involve trying to uncover the technical secrets of the Thunderbird machines or otherwise targeting International Rescue. Instead, his only aim is to destroy the Red Arrow project. He gives his codename as "Six-Seven-One" when he contracts General Bron. The puppet for Tim Casey had previously appeared as a bank executive in "Vault of Death". The miniature model representing the Hood's van previously appeared as reporter Ned Cook's news van in "Terror in New York City".
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Edge of Impact
"Edge of Impact" is the 16th episode of Thunderbirds, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company AP Films for ITC Entertainment. Written by Donald Robertson and directed by Desmond Saunders, it was first broadcast on 28 October 1965 on ATV Midlands as the fifth episode of Series One. It had its first UK‑wide network broadcast on 29 November 1991 on BBC2.
Set in the 2060s, Thunderbirds follows the missions of International Rescue, a secret organisation that uses technologically advanced rescue vehicles to save human life. The lead characters are ex-astronaut Jeff Tracy, founder of International Rescue, and his five adult sons, who pilot the organisation's primary vehicles: the Thunderbird machines.
In "Edge of Impact", master criminal the Hood is hired to sabotage military test flights; one of his attempts causes an experimental fighter to crash into a television tower, trapping a pair of technicians inside. With an old friend of Jeff, the project master that the Hood is sabotaging, paying an unexpected visit to Tracy Island, International Rescue must covertly spring into action to save the two men before the tower collapses.
General Bron, a power-hungry warlord, hires the Hood to sabotage the Red Arrow: a new British-made experimental fighter plane and the only threat to Bron's military. Travelling to London Airport, the Hood sabotages a test flight of Red Arrow 1 by concealing a homing device in a hangar, causing the aircraft to veer out of control and crash; blacking out before he can eject, the pilot, Race, is killed. The disaster is attributed to unidentified design flaws and Colonel Tim Casey, World Space Control project supervisor, is replaced for the test programme on Red Arrow 2. Bron orders the Hood to destroy the second prototype, Red Arrow 2, promising to reward him in gold.
An aircraft flies to Tracy Island leading Jeff to activate the "Operation Cover-Up" security measures to prevent International Rescue being discovered. The visitor is Casey, who is an old air force comrade of Jeff. Judging the blueprints sound, Brains concludes that Red Arrow 1 must have been diverted from its original course. Predicting that it is sabotage, he designs a "diversion detector" to be installed on Red Arrow 2 to warn the pilot, Goddard. As Red Arrow 2 takes off, the Hood attaches another homing device to a television tower operated by British Telecommunication. Red Arrow 2 is drawn off course, confirmed by Brains' detector, and although the pilot, Goddard, ejects, the plane crashes into the tower; the explosion fatally weakens the structure and traps two technicians, Jim and Stan, who are working in the control room at the top. The arrival of a storm makes helicopter pick-up impossible, so Stan and Jim radio International Rescue for help.
As a diversionary tactic to enable the rescue to take place, Tin-Tin keeps Casey out of the way – taking him scuba diving under the pretext of searching for a rare marine mammal, the water mamba. Meanwhile, Jeff dispatches Scott, Virgil and Alan in Thunderbirds 1 and 2. Reaching the tower, the brothers use the Booster Mortar pod vehicle (a mobile cannon) to fire two Low Altitude Escape Harnesses jet packs through the window of the control cabin. Donning the harnesses, Jim and Stan lift off from the tower seconds before it collapses and land safely nearby. Virgil finds the homing device and contacts the police. A patrol car spots the Hood's van and gives chase. The Hood drives though a diversion, mistaking it for a police roadblock, and flies straight off the end of a collapsed bridge, plunging into the river below. Bron, furious that the sabotages have been exposed, berates the Hood over the van's radio.
The Thunderbirds return to base unseen by Casey, allowing Tin-Tin to bring him back from diving. Casey is delighted to learn that International Rescue have solved the mystery of the Red Arrow disasters and he has been reinstated at World Space Control and is to resume the Red Arrow tests. None the wiser about the Tracys' secret activities, he departs.
"Edge of Impact" is the only episode featuring the Hood in which his schemes do not involve trying to uncover the technical secrets of the Thunderbird machines or otherwise targeting International Rescue. Instead, his only aim is to destroy the Red Arrow project. He gives his codename as "Six-Seven-One" when he contracts General Bron. The puppet for Tim Casey had previously appeared as a bank executive in "Vault of Death". The miniature model representing the Hood's van previously appeared as reporter Ned Cook's news van in "Terror in New York City".