The automobile park operator is a character from Move - And You're Dead. He stacks the cars at the Parola Sands Raceway.
After the race, Johnny Gillespie and Victor Gomez went into the operator's control room and Gomez knocked him out. Gomez then manipulated the controls in a attempt to cause a car to fall on Alan Tracy and kill him, but this was unsuccessful. When the operator regained consciousness, he raised the alarm.
Trivia[]
- Although he has no spoken lines, he emits a high-pitch grunt when Gomez knocks him unconscious. Whether this grunt was sourced from a library or provided by a voice artist during the episode's recording session remains a mystery.
Puppet[]
The Automobile Park Operator puppet appeared in the following episodes (listed in production order):
- 6. The Mighty Atom: the driver of the Atomic Irrigation Station Tour Bus
- 18. 30 Minutes After Noon: Garfield
- 19. The Impostors: the Colonel who visits Tracy Island
- 21. Cry Wolf, an operative at Satellite HQ
- 23. The Duchess Assignment: a gambler at the French Casino, a Fireflash passenger, and a spectator at the London Air Display.
- 25. The Cham-Cham: a guest at the Paradise Peaks Hotel
- 27. Atlantic Inferno: Sir Harry
It was also seen twice in the movie Thunderbirds Are Go: first as one of the members of the SE Board during the meeting at the Space Exploration Center, and again later, as reporter number 13 at the Press Conference (Zero-X). In Thunderbird 6 it was seen briefly at the Indian Bazaar.