The Best Episodes Directed By David Lane

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   #1 - Terror in New York City

   S1:E410/21/1965

   A TV reporter and a cameraman are trapped when the Empire State Building collapses.

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   #2 - Desperate Intruder

   S1:E811/18/1965

   Brains and Tin-Tin set off on an expedition to retrieve sunken treasure from Lake Anasta. The Hood has also set his sights on the riches and plans to put both Brains and Tin-Tin in grave peril.

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   #3 - Attack of the Alligators!

   S1:E233/10/1966

   An experimental drug that makes animals grow four times their normal size is spilled into the Amazon River by a greedy boatman attempting to steal it.

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   #4 - Sun Probe

   S1:E1112/9/1965

   A space explorer is on a collison course with the sun after becoming lost.

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   #5 - End of the Road

   S1:E911/25/1965

   Eddie Houseman, a Tracy Family friend, is left stranded on a cliff after a demolition operation goes wrong.

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   #6 - Winged Assassin

   S1:E210/6/1967

   The Mysterons threaten the life of the Director General of the United Asian Republic and Spectrum swings into action to protect him as he prepares to board his private plane at London Airport.

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   #7 - The Man from M.I.5

   S1:E171/20/1966

   A British spy vanishes while carrying atomic weapon blueprints.

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   #8 - Sub-Smash

   S1:E811/11/1970

   Suspecting a UFO to be responsible for the sinking of a freighter, Straker, Foster and Nina Barry investigate in Skydiver. Attacked by an undersea UFO, the submarine is downed on a ledge on the sea bed and the crew are trapped. While Straker fights against his claustrophobia, Nina faces a living nightmare...

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   #9 - The Mighty Atom

   S1:E1412/30/1965

   'The Mighty Atom' is a robotic rodent programmed to take photographs. The Hood steals the machine intending to take secret pictures of the Thunderbirds' craft and operations.

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    #10 - Brink of Disaster

    S1:E222/24/1966

    Crooked tycoon Warren Grafton invites Jeff, Brains and Tin-Tin for a ride on the monorail he has built.

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    #11 - The Man Who Came Back

    S1:E162/3/1971

    Reported missing, presumed dead, after a UFO incident which has left SID disabled, astronaut Craig Collins turns up alive and well. But as an operation to complete repair work on SID is planned, Colonel Lake and Colonel Grey discover that Collins is not the man he used to be...

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    #12 - Exposed

    S1:E29/23/1970

    An XV-104 test plane wanders into a UFO target area and the pilot, Paul Foster, makes sightings of both the UFO and Sky One. Angry and frustrated that no one believes his story, Foster suspects a cover-up and decides to conduct his own investigation into the activities of ex-USAF Colonel Ed Straker.

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    #13 - A Question of Priorities

    S1:E510/14/1970

    "Important? What can be more important than your own son's life?" Straker faces the toughest decision of his career when his son is critically injured in an accident. The drug that can save his life can only be ferried from New York in time aboard a SHADO Transporter - the same Transporter that is in the prime position to track an Alien defector on the West Coast of Ireland.

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    #14 - Computer Affair

    S1:E215/15/1971

    A SHADO investigation reveals that romance may be complicating Moonbase operations.

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    #15 - Confetti Check A-O.K.

    S1:E227/10/1971

    A flashback episode in which Straker recalls his marriage, followed by stormy days as he must work covertly to get SHADO up and running and recruit personnel. All this leaves his wife angry at his absence, suspicious at the things he might be doing (her father photographs Straker meeting a woman in a parking garage, a woman who will be working at SHADO). In the end, she gives birth to their son.

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    #16 - The Sound of Silence

    S1:E237/17/1971

    A UFO hides in a lake on a country estate of a well-known equestrian, and the equestrian himself vanishes. When SHADO tracks down the UFO and manages to destroy it in an exchange of pot-shots, the UFO breaks up and leaves a thing floating in the water. Treated as if it is a bomb, it is brought back to SHADO and examined, with unexpected results.

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    #17 - The Square Triangle

    S1:E1012/9/1970

    "Unfortunately for them, an Alien came through that door instead of her husband." In the woods between Clare Cross and Lingbury, an injured Alien stumbles into a lonely cottage and is shot down by Liz Newton and her lover Cass Fowler. Liz and Cass are taken to SHADO HQ for questioning, but when Liz's husband arrives at the cottage, Paul Foster realises that the Alien's death was no accident!

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    4.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Instrument of Destruction, Part One

    S1:E12/12/2005

    Captain Black and Captain Scarlet are sent to mars to investigate a mysterious alien signal coming from there. A misunderstanding occurs and the Mysterons vow revenge. They are killed and both become Mysteron agents. Back on earth Captain Scarlet tries to destroy skybase, but he fails, so Captain Black is revived to do the Mysterons bidding.

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