--- product_id: 20535150 title: "Thunderbirds: The Complete Series" price: "SAR 168" currency: SAR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/20535150-thunderbirds-the-complete-series store_origin: SA region: Saudi Arabia --- # Thunderbirds: The Complete Series **Price:** SAR 168 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Thunderbirds: The Complete Series - **How much does it cost?** SAR 168 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.sa](https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/20535150-thunderbirds-the-complete-series) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The SUPERMARIONATION cult television classic leaps into the stratosphere of fun and excitement with Thunderbirds: The Complete Series! Operating from a top-secret island base in the year 2065, the team at International Rescue - intrepid Jeff Tracy and his valiant sons Scott, John, Virgil, Gordon, and Adam - engage in a never-ending humanitarian crusade to protect the innocent. Traveling via land, sea, air, and space in their fantastically advanced vehicles, the Tracys take on the most impossible of missions with courage, honor and their greatest strength of all: the power of family. The crown jewel of Gerry Anderson's visionary creative oeuvre, Thunderbirds promises audiences both young and young-at-heart an outstanding showcase of thrills, action, and adventure-with no strings attached (okay, maybe some strings.) Review: Arguably the greatest puppet show ever made. And a must watch for SciFi fans - Geeks and nerds of a certain age, and Brit's of almost any will fondly remember Gerry Anderson's classic "Supermarionation" puppet based shows. More modern viewers may recognize the technique as that same one used by the South Park boys Matt Stone and Trey Parker to make Team America World Police a few years back. Well Thunderbirds is unquestionably the best known and in many ways the best of Gerry's offerings. The show wa sthe stuff of dreams for teh late 60's. A retired American Astronaut, now a Billionaire builds a fleet of 4 super vehicles. Flown by his sons, to act as a sort of secret Coast Guard. International Rescue. Monitoring the earth from an orbital satellite the team can swiftly respond to any global crisis big or small. They can go where others cannot, do what others cannot. While the puppets, are both creepy and yet oddly engaging, the real star of teh series is those amazing vehicles. Thunderbirds 1 through 4 and the Sattelite Thunderbird 5. We atched breathlessly each week to see them. If ever you wonder what the evolutionary step that got us from old school Flash Gordon and Captain Video type SciFi to 2001 and Star Wars effects and design work. This show is it. The late Derrick Medding's masterful designs were cutting edge yet incredibly grounded back in the 60's. And they still hold up well today. Everything about the show is grounded and oddly believable. Thunderbird 1 is a fast responding atomic powered Ballistic Ramjet. A true hypersonic transport designed to launch and arrive first and act as forward command and control. Much the way a Fire Chief does in his Chief's car for real emergencies. Thunderbird 2 is the heavy lifter. A massive VTOL cargo craft with a host of swappable cargo pods that can be loaded and equipped with a broad range of specialized ground or water vehicles. From high tech fire fighters to specialized digging or collapse rescue craft. You never know what will come out and watch breathlessly each week. Thunderbird 3 is the atomic orbital space shuttle. Mainly used to service the space station or to perform orbital rescues of astronauts. Thunderbird 4 is the least seen and arguably weakest of the lot, the small submarine. Carried in Thunderbird 2 it is a DSRV with robot arms. (Of all the vehicles Thunderbird 4 stands out as something of a holdover design wise from earlier shows. It feels more Stingray than Thunderbirds. The other three main vehicles actually not only look believable, but have been proven to actually be not simply viable, but outstanding aircraft designs by several major universities. T 4, not so much.) Perhaps the greatest charm os Thunderbirds is that while it was a kids show, it never talked down to kids or sought to dumb it down. The show was largely a straight up problem solving procedural. Think Apollo 13 or The Martian as a half hour weekly show. The cast and crew were steely eyed missile men out to save people by solving problems using their amazing technology. All while taking great lengths to avoid having that same tech fall into the wrong hands. While targeted at kids, it treats the kids as adults. It doesn't shy away from the fact that it was a cold war era show. Rather it quietly and subtly factors it in, in real and truthful ways. (Heck in one episode T1 gets shot down over a surprisingly Libya like Middle Eastern nation.) This show ran for several seasons and spawned two follow up movies Thunderbirds Are Go and Thunderbird 6. The concept has also been revisited several times. There was a Japanese Anime in the 80's (hard to find), the rather awful Nikolodean Jonathan Frakes directed Hollywood movie from a few years back. And the new reasonably decent CGI offering. While the new one isn't bad... it is still unquestionably a silly kids show. Something that the original managed to never be. All of the new ones pale before the pure genius and fun that was the 60's puppets. If you like SciFi, and in particular of you have a fondness for special effects and really good model work, Thunderbirds is a must see. Review: Thunderbirds Are Go and Better Than Ever!!! - The new Thunderbirds Complete Series set from Timeless Media Group/Shout! Factory/ITV is a must have for the newly remastered transfers and optional original (UNALTERED!!!) Mono alone! The new transfers are a real step up from the A&E releases (and despite what people say about Shout! and their so-called encoding problems resulting with compression artifacts, I haven't notice or even barely noticed. Don't listen to the nay-sayers, the compression problems are not as you think and like I said, I barely even notice it to not noticing it at all!), beautiful, crisp, colorful, and clean, a HUGE improvement and as mentioned you have the original unaltered mono mix (for the first time ever on the digital format in the US!) as well as the remixed 5.1 track featuring additional sound effects added for said mix when the series was first released on DVD by A&E so fans have the best of both worlds! The DVD and Blu-ray releases also feature a new (and by new, I mean done before Gerry Anderosn's death like before December 2012) documentary Launching Thunderbirds and vintage Thunderbirds publicity brochure as a DVD/BD-ROM extra (located on the last disc of both formats). But fans should not throw out their A&E sets just yet! If you still have the 40th anniversary megaset, you'll have extras (most of which are located on the 12th bonus disc) not included with the Shout! release including: -"The Making of Thunderbirds" vintage featurette (found on discs 1 and 3) - Pit of Peril with pop up trivia track (separated into 2 parts) -Another "The Making of Thunderbirds" vintage featurette (a different one) -"The Brains Behind Thunderbirds" documentary -Interview with Gerry Anderson There's also a Best of Thunderbirds DVD compilation which also contains (in addition to the Pit of Peril with pop-up trivia track) 2 exclusives not found on either release: -Before Thunderbirds Were Go -Interview with Gerry Anderson (very different one, I assure you) Still, fans should definitely get the new Shout! release for the remastered prints and optional original Mono (and the new documentary)! You will not be disappointed! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Contributor | Dyneley, Peter, Elliott, David, Graham, David, Holliday, David, Lane, David, Rimmer, Shane, Saunders, Desmond, Zimmerman, Matt Contributor Dyneley, Peter, Elliott, David, Graham, David, Holliday, David, Lane, David, Rimmer, Shane, Saunders, Desmond, Zimmerman, Matt See more | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 707 Reviews | | Format | Dolby, Multiple Formats, NTSC | | Genre | Science Fiction & Fantasy/Television, Television | | Language | English | | Number Of Discs | 8 | ## Images ![Thunderbirds: The Complete Series - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71whCVew10L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Arguably the greatest puppet show ever made. And a must watch for SciFi fans *by R***Y on September 22, 2016* Geeks and nerds of a certain age, and Brit's of almost any will fondly remember Gerry Anderson's classic "Supermarionation" puppet based shows. More modern viewers may recognize the technique as that same one used by the South Park boys Matt Stone and Trey Parker to make Team America World Police a few years back. Well Thunderbirds is unquestionably the best known and in many ways the best of Gerry's offerings. The show wa sthe stuff of dreams for teh late 60's. A retired American Astronaut, now a Billionaire builds a fleet of 4 super vehicles. Flown by his sons, to act as a sort of secret Coast Guard. International Rescue. Monitoring the earth from an orbital satellite the team can swiftly respond to any global crisis big or small. They can go where others cannot, do what others cannot. While the puppets, are both creepy and yet oddly engaging, the real star of teh series is those amazing vehicles. Thunderbirds 1 through 4 and the Sattelite Thunderbird 5. We atched breathlessly each week to see them. If ever you wonder what the evolutionary step that got us from old school Flash Gordon and Captain Video type SciFi to 2001 and Star Wars effects and design work. This show is it. The late Derrick Medding's masterful designs were cutting edge yet incredibly grounded back in the 60's. And they still hold up well today. Everything about the show is grounded and oddly believable. Thunderbird 1 is a fast responding atomic powered Ballistic Ramjet. A true hypersonic transport designed to launch and arrive first and act as forward command and control. Much the way a Fire Chief does in his Chief's car for real emergencies. Thunderbird 2 is the heavy lifter. A massive VTOL cargo craft with a host of swappable cargo pods that can be loaded and equipped with a broad range of specialized ground or water vehicles. From high tech fire fighters to specialized digging or collapse rescue craft. You never know what will come out and watch breathlessly each week. Thunderbird 3 is the atomic orbital space shuttle. Mainly used to service the space station or to perform orbital rescues of astronauts. Thunderbird 4 is the least seen and arguably weakest of the lot, the small submarine. Carried in Thunderbird 2 it is a DSRV with robot arms. (Of all the vehicles Thunderbird 4 stands out as something of a holdover design wise from earlier shows. It feels more Stingray than Thunderbirds. The other three main vehicles actually not only look believable, but have been proven to actually be not simply viable, but outstanding aircraft designs by several major universities. T 4, not so much.) Perhaps the greatest charm os Thunderbirds is that while it was a kids show, it never talked down to kids or sought to dumb it down. The show was largely a straight up problem solving procedural. Think Apollo 13 or The Martian as a half hour weekly show. The cast and crew were steely eyed missile men out to save people by solving problems using their amazing technology. All while taking great lengths to avoid having that same tech fall into the wrong hands. While targeted at kids, it treats the kids as adults. It doesn't shy away from the fact that it was a cold war era show. Rather it quietly and subtly factors it in, in real and truthful ways. (Heck in one episode T1 gets shot down over a surprisingly Libya like Middle Eastern nation.) This show ran for several seasons and spawned two follow up movies Thunderbirds Are Go and Thunderbird 6. The concept has also been revisited several times. There was a Japanese Anime in the 80's (hard to find), the rather awful Nikolodean Jonathan Frakes directed Hollywood movie from a few years back. And the new reasonably decent CGI offering. While the new one isn't bad... it is still unquestionably a silly kids show. Something that the original managed to never be. All of the new ones pale before the pure genius and fun that was the 60's puppets. If you like SciFi, and in particular of you have a fondness for special effects and really good model work, Thunderbirds is a must see. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thunderbirds Are Go and Better Than Ever!!! *by D***A on June 19, 2015* The new Thunderbirds Complete Series set from Timeless Media Group/Shout! Factory/ITV is a must have for the newly remastered transfers and optional original (UNALTERED!!!) Mono alone! The new transfers are a real step up from the A&E releases (and despite what people say about Shout! and their so-called encoding problems resulting with compression artifacts, I haven't notice or even barely noticed. Don't listen to the nay-sayers, the compression problems are not as you think and like I said, I barely even notice it to not noticing it at all!), beautiful, crisp, colorful, and clean, a HUGE improvement and as mentioned you have the original unaltered mono mix (for the first time ever on the digital format in the US!) as well as the remixed 5.1 track featuring additional sound effects added for said mix when the series was first released on DVD by A&E so fans have the best of both worlds! The DVD and Blu-ray releases also feature a new (and by new, I mean done before Gerry Anderosn's death like before December 2012) documentary Launching Thunderbirds and vintage Thunderbirds publicity brochure as a DVD/BD-ROM extra (located on the last disc of both formats). But fans should not throw out their A&E sets just yet! If you still have the 40th anniversary megaset, you'll have extras (most of which are located on the 12th bonus disc) not included with the Shout! release including: -"The Making of Thunderbirds" vintage featurette (found on discs 1 and 3) - Pit of Peril with pop up trivia track (separated into 2 parts) -Another "The Making of Thunderbirds" vintage featurette (a different one) -"The Brains Behind Thunderbirds" documentary -Interview with Gerry Anderson There's also a Best of Thunderbirds DVD compilation which also contains (in addition to the Pit of Peril with pop-up trivia track) 2 exclusives not found on either release: -Before Thunderbirds Were Go -Interview with Gerry Anderson (very different one, I assure you) Still, fans should definitely get the new Shout! release for the remastered prints and optional original Mono (and the new documentary)! You will not be disappointed! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great forgotten dvd set of Thunderbirds tv show from a long time ago. *by R***D on December 21, 2025* My wife suggested the Thunderbirds collection and remembers them from her childhood. She knew the names of the kids and loved the story line. 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