- For the novel, please see Thunderbirds (1966 Novel)
"Terror from the Stars" is the first serial of Anderson Entertainment's Thunderbirds series, published May 28, 2021. It is presented as an audiobook and audio-play hybrid.
It is an adaptation of John Theydon's original Thunderbirds novel, published in 1966.
Plot[]
Thunderbird 5 is attacked by an unknown enemy with uncanny powers. An unidentified object is tracked landing in the Gobi desert, but what’s the connection?
Scott Tracy races to the scene in the incredible Thunderbird 1, but he cannot begin to imagine the terrible danger he is about to encounter. Alone in the barren wilderness, he is possessed by a malevolent intelligence and assigned a fiendish mission - one which, if successful, will have the most terrifying consequences for the entire world.
Cast[]
- Jeff Tracy, Aloysius Parker - Jon Culshaw
- Virgil Tracy, Brains, Narration - Wayne Forester
- Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, Grandma Tracy - Genevieve Gaunt
- Alan Tracy, Gordon Tracy - Joe Jameson
- Scott Tracy, John Tracy, the Hood, Kyrano - Justin T. Lee
- Tin-Tin Kyrano, Sphere - Anna Leong Brophy
Crew[]
- Director: Samuel Clemens
- Written by: John Theydon
- Adapted by: Andrew Clements
- Producer: Andrew Clements
- Executive producers: Jamie Anderson, Nicholas Briggs
- Music: Joe Kraemer
- Theme music: Barry Gray
- Sound design: Toby Hrycek-Robinson
- Remote sound engineering: Benji Clifford
- Cover art: Marcus Stamps
Trivia[]
- The events of Trapped in the Sky and Desperate Intruder are mentioned in this story.
- Scott (briefly) takes charge of Thunderbird 5 when John takes Alan back aboard Thunderbird 3.
- Thunderbird 5 is (briefly) put on auto-control when John and Alan rescue Scott.
- Gordon joins John and Alan aboard Thunderbird 3 to take Alan to Thunderbird 5.
- Scott plays the piano, just as well as Virgil.
- Braman has a non-speaking role in this story when Brains uses him to translate the aliens' language.
- Parker reveals that he was a boy scout.
- Scott joins Gordon aboard Thunderbird 4 for the mission in the subterranean reservoir in London.
- Brains' brain-probe device would be used again in Peril in Peru and Brains is Dead.
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