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A crossover is a story in which elements from two fictional universes, originally created to be distinct, are brought together for the span of a specific narrative.
The Thunderbirds franchise has had many crossovers over the years in a variety of mediums. They are mostly, though by no means exclusively, confined to the pages of TV Century 21 and related publications. The main premise of the magazine was that all its strips and features were set in a single, unified universe.
Candy was a spin-off magazine from TV Century 21 which targeted a much younger audience. Its feature strip, Candy and Andy, was a premise from Dennis Hooper and Gillian Allan and starred AP Films-created puppet characters. The publication's stories occupied a strange place within Thunderbirds continuity, more so than other expanded media of the time. A variety of Thunderbirds merchandise could be seen occupying the Magic Toy Shop where the strip was set early its in run but later stories involved the titular characters meeting Lady Penelope and even visiting Tracy Island.
The Daleks comic strip, featured in TV21 from 1965 to 1967, usually featured a "Stop Press" panel which tied into other series in the magazine. They were included in full reprint collections of The Daleks but are functionally similar to the cover stories in that there is little direct intersection between the series featured.
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Lady Penelope Investigates[]
In this series, Lady Penelope would usually attempt to seek out and interview real world celebrities, though she sometimes met with fictional characters from other television series.
Each issue of TV Century 21 was framed as taking place one hundred years in the future with each front cover usually imitating the front page of a newspaper reporting on the events of the stories inside. Consequently, these cover stories regularly crossed Thunderbirds over with other series, though they rarely interacted with each other directly.
↑Although the Daleks only appear for a brief second on the back of an issue of TV21, that issue's story was framed as a report from the Solturian News Agency, suggesting the existence of such an organisation in Thunderbirds continuity.
↑Although these elements are said to be part of a fictional television show instead of being "real", their appearance still constitutes the licensed use of another legal property.
↑Thomas & Friends, Fireman Sam, Bob the Builder, Pingu, Rubbadubbers, Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps, Postman Pat, Roary the Racing Car, Fifi and the Flowertots, Raa Raa the Noisy Lion, The Koala Brothers, Little Robots, The Woodentops, Flower Pot Men, Andy Pandy, Engie Benjy, Paddington Bear, The Wombles, Teletubbies, In the Night Garden..., Peppa Pig, Bagpuss, Ben 10: Alien Force, Scooby-Doo, SpongeBob SquarePants, Roobarb, Fluffy Gardens, Rainbow, The Sooty Show, Camberwick Green, and Trumpton. Muffin the Mule and Mr Blobby also feature.
↑Several puppet characters feature including Basil Brush, Muffin the Mule, Zippy from Rainbow, George and Bungle, Captains Scarlet and Blue from Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Zig and Zag, CBBC's Gordon the Gopher, Edd the Duck, Otis the Aardvark, Oucho, Stanley, Dodge and Hacker T Dog, Channel 5's Milkshake Monkey, The Neighbour's Cat from Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow, Zelda from Terrahawks, Marion and Nelson from Mongrels, Larry the Lizard from Buffering, and Mr Blobby.
↑ 5.05.1The Sidewinder was instead referred to as the "Junglecat".
↑Front Page was a comic strip focusing on the fictional staff behind the in-universe TV21 magazine. Thunderbird 2 and Thunderbird 5 did not appear physically, but on TV21 front pages featured in the story. The titular submarine from Stingray also appears in the same vein. Prior TB comic strips were also referenced in dialogue, including the President ship disaster from The Revolution, the Kaplan assassination from Assassination!, and the Zero X crash from Horror of Asteroid Belt Nine!.
↑Though Journey to the Centre of the Red Planet was primarily a Secret Agent 21 story, it also featured the Mysterons from Captain Scarlet.
↑Although this story did not tie into the Lady Penelope strip featured in the issue, the titular superjet was a Fireflash, instead featured in the Stingray story.
↑Although the story did not tie into the Lady Penelope strip featured in the issue, it featured the Sidewinder, instead featured in the Stingray story and referred to as the Junglecat.
↑Although the story did not tie into the Lady Penelope strip featured in the issue, the titular headline was written by Lady Penelope herself, who had signed on as a TV Century 21 reporter.
↑Although the title did not tie into Lady Penelope per se, it referenced the first part of a two-part story which was made up of Fireball XL5 and Lady Penelope respectively.
↑Although the headline tied-in to the Fireball XL5, the titular spacecraft from the Thunderbirds episode Sun Probe blasts off in search for Steve Zodiac. In a smaller article, Space City and Marineville from XL5 and Stingray respectively report sightings of an unknown craft named TB1.
