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Thunderbirds Are Go!: Season 1

26 episodes Premiered Apr 4, 2015 Updated Sep 27, 2026
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S1·E1 Mytharc

Ring of Fire (1)

Apr 4, 2015 · 25 min

A powerful seaquake turns a busy day for International Rescue into a perilous one. Lady Penelope helps Thunderbirds find who put seismic destabilisers on the sea bed.

S1·E2 Core

Ring of Fire (2)

Apr 4, 2015 · 25 min

As the team continue their quest to save the researched, Lady Penelope is on the trail of their adversary.

S1·E3 Core

Space Race

Apr 11, 2015 · 25 min

Alan is on space junk duty, when one of the pieces of debris turns out to be a heat-seeking SAT-MINE that activates and locks onto TB3's heat signature. Back on Earth, Lady Penelop

S1·E4 Core

Crosscut

Apr 18, 2015 · 25 min

Thunderbird 5 picks up an unusual radiation spike from a remote corner of Africa, and Scott rushes in with Thunderbird 1 to check it out. Using special equipment, Scott enters the

S1·E5 Core

Fireflash

Apr 25, 2015 · 25 min

Kayo is riding aboard Fireflash, a supersonic airliner invented by Brains, but she is unaware that its controls have been tampered with. International Rescue notices the plane has

S1·E6 Core

Unplugged

May 2, 2015 · 25 min

An anti-technology group calling themselves The Luddites power up an electromagnetic pulse device underneath London, crippling everything that uses electricity. The result is a nea

S1·E7 Core

Runaway

May 9, 2015 · 25 min

A strange malfunction occurs on a high-speed train in Japan, leaving it out of control and unable to stop. Brains comes up with a plan to fix the problem before a disastrous crash

S1·E8 Core

EOS

May 16, 2015 · 25 min

A series of cascading equipment failures leads John to realise that rogue A.I. has gained control of Thunderbird 5. The programme is sending false monitor images to Tracy Island to

S1·E9 Core

Slingshot

May 23, 2015 · 25 min

A malfunction at a mining operation sends an asteroid careening towards the sun, endangering crewman Ned Tedford. Alan and Kayo deploy Thunderbird 3 for the rescue mission, but a r

S1·E10 Core

Tunnels of Time

May 24, 2015 · 25 min

Lady Penelope, Parker and Gordon visit the Amazon desert, where an archaeologist shows them round an ancient temple. When they all become trapped inside, the academic refuses to le

S1·E11 Core

Skyhook

Jun 6, 2015 · 25 min

International Rescue scrambles all the flight-capable Thunderbirds to rescue the crew of CIR.R.U.S, a high-atmosphere weather station, now in danger due to the arrival of a fierce

S1·E12 Core

Under Pressure

Jun 13, 2015 · 25 min

A giant heavy metal extraction plant, moving along the Pacific seabed and collecting toxic waste, has a sudden compartment fire, leaving it out of control and heading for a underse

S1·E13 Core

Heavy Metal

Jun 20, 2015 · 25 min

Brains and Alan visit the Quantum Research Center, adjacent to New Geneva in Switzerland, to see the Supreme Hadron Collider switched on. Disaster strikes when the collider is swit

S1·E14 Core

Falling Skies

Oct 31, 2015 · 25 min

The Estrella Grand is a self-constructing luxury hotel, designed by Brains, which orbits around Earth. The hotel suffers a mysterious hull breach that will not repair itself causin

S1·E15 Core

Relic

Nov 7, 2015 · 25 min

Concerns arise when a meteor shower is projected to hit the decommissioned Shadow Alpha One moon base, and attempts at contacting the lone crew member, Captain Lee Taylor, are unsu

S1·E16 Core

Breakdown

Nov 14, 2015 · 25 min

Virgil attempts to rescue a mining crew trapped inside a glacier, but the scientist in charge of the project refuses to leave.

S1·E17 Core

Heist Society

Nov 21, 2015 · 25 min

International Rescue are dispatched to save one of their own when the Hood traps Lady Penelope and Parker inside an underwater hyper-train loop during a high-stakes robbery.

S1·E18 Core

Recharge

Nov 28, 2015 · 25 min

S1·E19 Core

Extraction

Dec 5, 2015 · 25 min

A seismologist and his son alert the authorities to the presence of a rogue wildcat mining operation, only for the machinery to trigger an earthquake that swallows the equipment -

S1·E20 Core

The Hexpert

Dec 12, 2015 · 25 min

A scientist accidentally locks herself inside a vault which is being used to store unstable matter. There is only one person who has successfully broken into a vault like this - Pa

S1·E21 Core

Comet Chasers

Dec 19, 2015 · 25 min

Halley's Comet is passing close to Earth. Businessman Francois Lemaire, on an ego trip sending live pictures back to earth, with his unimpressed wife Melanie on board his space yac

S1·E22 Core

Designated Driver

Dec 26, 2015 · 25 min

Lady Penelope's Great Aunt Sylvia visits Creighton-Ward Manor for afternoon tea, but has something important to discuss... Guest Star: Sylvia Anderson as Great Aunt Sylvia.

S1·E23 Core

Chain Of Command

Jan 2, 2016 · 25 min

During a joint operation between International Rescue and the Global Defence Force, a series of mishaps nearly ends in disaster. In the wake of the botched mission, Colonel Martin

S1·E24 Core

Touch and Go

Jan 9, 2016 · 25 min

A facility known as CATCH, from where all air traffic in North America is controlled is sabotaged and Scott and Virgil handle a rescue mission involving a mid-air plane collision w

S1·E25 Mytharc

Undercover

Jan 16, 2016 · 25 min

An undercover operation involving Lady Penelope and a Parker to recover a stolen Repulser Magnetic Array for the Global Defence Force gets blown prematurely. Parker is taken prison

S1·E26 Mytharc

Legacy

Jan 23, 2016 · 25 min

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