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The Worst Episodes of Thunderbirds Are Go!

Every episode of Thunderbirds Are Go! ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Thunderbirds Are Go!!

Remake of the hit 1960s television show. In the 21st century, Jeff Tracy, a former astronaut, amasses a colossal fortune and decides that he must...
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Worst Episodes Summary

"Lost Kingdom" is the worst rated episode of "Thunderbirds Are Go!". It scored 6.2/10 based on 48 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/3/2016. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Designated Driver".

  • Lost Kingdom
    6.2/1048 votes
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    #1 - Lost Kingdom

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/3/2016

    When seismic activity near the coast of Greece reveals the lost city of Atlantis, two scientists venture below the depths to explore the area. But when their submarine becomes stuck, International Rescue are called out to assist.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Designated Driver
    6.4/1074 votes
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    #2 - Designated Driver

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 12/26/2015

    Lady Penelope's Great Aunt Sylvia visits Creighton-Ward Manor for afternoon tea, but has something important to discuss... Guest Star: Sylvia Anderson as Great Aunt Sylvia.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Unplugged
    6.5/1081 votes
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    #3 - Unplugged

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/2/2015

    An anti-technology group calling themselves The Luddites power up an electromagnetic pulse device underneath London, crippling everything that uses electricity. The result is a near catastrophe as the entire city shuts down. Virgil and Grandma Tracy must find and disable the device - with the help of Lady Penelope and Parker.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Rally Raid
    6.5/1028 votes
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    #4 - Rally Raid

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 5/12/2018

    Lady Penelope and Parker complete in a desert motor race with FAB1 and a racer named Jensen Hunt. All seems well until the Chaos Crew steal an experimental New engine from the leading BR2 vehicle.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Tunnels of Time
    6.7/1075 votes
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    #5 - Tunnels of Time

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/24/2015

    Lady Penelope, Parker and Gordon visit the Amazon desert, where an archaeologist shows them round an ancient temple. When they all become trapped inside, the academic refuses to let them call for help, fearing for his reputation - so the trio of heroes must put their wits to the task of finding an escape route.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Ghost Ship
    7.0/1055 votes
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    #6 - Ghost Ship

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/22/2016

    A distress call from an interstellar ship called EDEN leads Alan and John to explore the wreckage. There they find space pirates and mysterious spider-like robots known as Builder Bots.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Endgame
    7.0/1027 votes
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    #7 - Endgame

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 5/25/2019

    Kayo, with the help of a futuristic game creator that only talks like a wizard, must play through a futuristic holo-game called Cavern Quest to stop The Chaos Crew from stealing a powerful piece of technology.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Getaway
    7.0/1021 votes
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    #8 - Getaway

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 7/6/2019

    Lady Penelope, Parker and Sherbert answer a distress call from Parker's old acquaintances - Light Fingered Fred and Gomez. The distress turns out to be a ruse.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Ring of Fire (1)
    7.1/10139 votes
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    #9 - Ring of Fire (1)

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/4/2015

    A powerful seaquake turns a busy day for International Rescue into a perilous one. Lady Penelope helps Thunderbirds find who put seismic destabilisers on the sea bed.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • High Strung
    7.2/1040 votes
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    #10 - High Strung

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/2016

    International Rescue race to prevent Francois Lemaire's pleasure balloon from crashing into New Zealand's Southern Alps.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Weather or Not
    7.2/1043 votes
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    #11 - Weather or Not

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/24/2016

    The team travels to Langstrom Fischler's newest invention to stop a hive of malfunctioning weather drones.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Attack of the Reptiles
    7.2/1043 votes
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    #12 - Attack of the Reptiles

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 10/21/2017

    When Buddy and Ellie Pendergast go missing filming their latest episode in a hidden valley in South America Scott and Gordon must rescue them whilst being attacked by mutated lizards.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Night and Day
    7.2/1027 votes
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    #13 - Night and Day

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 4/21/2018

    The Gray and Houseman mining operation now includes planet Mercury - it uses a moving vehicle that stays on the 'dark side' of the planet.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Crash Course
    7.2/1024 votes
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    #14 - Crash Course

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 5/19/2018

    When two space freighters crash in low-earth orbit, Alan and John must evacuate the hotheaded pilots from a dangerous debris field.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Avalanche
    7.2/1019 votes
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    #15 - Avalanche

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 7/13/2019

    When a popular vlogger gets trapped during an avalanche, International Rescue must find a way to carefully dig him out.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Upside Down
    7.2/1020 votes
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    #16 - Upside Down

    Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 1/4/2020

    Lady Penelope and Parker are testing out FAB2, a luxury yacht, when they receive a distress call from a nearby tanker. A tsunami has formed, and the massive wave is headed for the stalled tanker's location.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Space Race
    7.3/10100 votes
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    #17 - Space Race

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/11/2015

    Alan is on space junk duty, when one of the pieces of debris turns out to be a heat-seeking SAT-MINE that activates and locks onto TB3's heat signature. Back on Earth, Lady Penelope and Parker implement a plan to sneak into a top-secret storage facility.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Growing Pains
    7.3/1029 votes
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    #18 - Growing Pains

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 4/28/2018

    The Chaos Crew interrupt the pleasant and quite life of Ned Tedford to steal the orchard growth serum inside the highly secure Global Seed Vault.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Heavy Metal
    7.4/1069 votes
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    #19 - Heavy Metal

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 6/20/2015

    Brains and Alan visit the Quantum Research Center, adjacent to New Geneva in Switzerland, to see the Supreme Hadron Collider switched on. Disaster strikes when the collider is switched on, creating a gravity well. A satellite is sucked down into downtown New Geneva, and International Rescue is mobilised when an aircraft and the World Wide Space Station are drawn into the gravity well, threatening the city. The only craft that can withstand the gravitational pressure is Thunderbird 4, used out of its normal undersea environment.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bolt From the Blue
    7.4/1041 votes
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    #20 - Bolt From the Blue

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 10/14/2017

    Lady Penelope and Parker must deal with a malfunctioning orbital power platform whilst Scott, Virgil and Gordon try to rescue the crew of a plane damaged by the platform's output.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Clean Sweep
    7.4/1040 votes
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    #21 - Clean Sweep

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 11/4/2017

    When an atmospheric cleaning machine malfunctions, trapping the maintenance crew inside, Parker must square off with a figure from his misspent youth.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Long Haul
    7.4/1044 votes
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    #22 - Long Haul

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 11/25/2017

    An emergency space docking goes wrong and the core of the orbiting Spacehub transit terminal goes into meltdown. A young traffic controller named Conrad is trapped inside and Alan is unable to reach him. With Thunderbird 3 being used to keep Conrad alive International Rescue's only hope is to modify Thunderbird 2 for space flight in order to transport a new cooling system to the hub.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Flame Out
    7.4/1027 votes
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    #23 - Flame Out

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 5/26/2018

    When gas from a dangerous hydromethane reserve begins to leak, Virgil and Gordon team up with a retired well-capping specialist to plug the leak. Gordon soon discovers the Chaos Crew syphoning off fuel - and moves to stop them.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Slingshot
    7.5/1072 votes
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    #24 - Slingshot

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/23/2015

    A malfunction at a mining operation sends an asteroid careening towards the sun, endangering crewman Ned Tedford. Alan and Kayo deploy Thunderbird 3 for the rescue mission, but a rogue solar flare knocks out their sensors. They land near the mine, and must find a way to alter the asteroid's trajectory so that it slingshots around the sun instead of crashing into it.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Under Pressure
    7.5/1073 votes
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    #25 - Under Pressure

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/13/2015

    A giant heavy metal extraction plant, moving along the Pacific seabed and collecting toxic waste, has a sudden compartment fire, leaving it out of control and heading for a undersea chasm. Thunderbird 2 is dispatched with Thunderbird 4 to effect the rescue of the only crewman, Ned Tedford once again, and make safe the toxic waste it is carrying. Lady Penelope, meanwhile, investigates the company that owns the extraction plant, when both John and Gordon suspect the owner was more concerned for the cargo, than the crew, and soon has trouble from the Hood.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A