Greetings,
As a confirmed Yank anglophile and trivia expert, allow me to provide
these simple definitions:
Thunderbirds (USA) - the US precision flight demonstration team, formed
in 1949 or thereabouts, first flying straight-wing F-84 Thunderjets,
progressing later to F-100 Super Sabres, F-4 Phantoms, and now F-16
Fighting Falcons. The equivalent in the UK is the RAF Red Arrows team.
Thunderbirds (UK) - A science-fiction TV series by Gerry Anderson, one
of the last to use lifelike marionettes ("Supermarionation"). The
setting is a secret base that is the headquarters of International
Rescue, a team of pilots and scientists who respond to all manner of
crises with futuristic jet and rocket powered craft. I seem to remember
one was a large cargo jet that looked like a gigantic toad. Anderson
went on to produce the live-action series Space-1999, with Martin Landau
and Barbara Bain.
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