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The Best Episodes of Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1

Every episode of Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1!

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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 use it to benefit others. His answer to this desire

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 1 - Ring of Fire (1)
    7.2/10(142 votes)

    #1 - Ring of Fire (1)

    S1:E1

    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.

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  2. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 2 - Ring of Fire (2)
    7.6/10(126 votes)

    #2 - Ring of Fire (2)

    S1:E2

    As the team continue their quest to save the researched, Lady Penelope is on the trail of their adversary.

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  3. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 3 - Space Race
    7.3/10(102 votes)

    #3 - Space Race

    S1:E3

    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.

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  4. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 4 - Crosscut
    7.8/10(101 votes)

    #4 - Crosscut

    S1:E4

    Thunderbird 5 picks up an unusual radiation spike from a remote corner of Africa, and Scott rushes in with Thunderbird 1 to check it out. Using special equipment, Scott enters the mine and discovers the source to be a leak of unstable uranium. Moments later he is attacked by a mysterious woman who claims that the mine belongs to her family. During their confrontation, the mine begins to crumble - and Scott and she must find a way out.

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  5. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 5 - Fireflash
    7.9/10(101 votes)

    #5 - Fireflash

    S1:E5

    Kayo is riding aboard Fireflash, a supersonic airliner invented by Brains, but she is unaware that its controls have been tampered with. International Rescue notices the plane has vanished from their monitors and attempt to locate it. Kayo realises that the plane is flying in the wrong direction, and manages to avoid a powerful gas attack that has knocked out both passengers and crew.

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  6. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 6 - Unplugged
    6.5/10(84 votes)

    #6 - Unplugged

    S1:E6

    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.

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  7. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 7 - Runaway
    7.5/10(81 votes)

    #7 - Runaway

    S1:E7

    A strange malfunction occurs on a high-speed train in Japan, leaving it out of control and unable to stop. Brains comes up with a plan to fix the problem before a disastrous crash occurs - the only problem is that he will have to board the speeding engine himself to pull it off. Scott manages to get the genius on board, where they find the problem is more complicated than they thought.

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  8. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 8 - EOS
    8.0/10(86 votes)

    #8 - EOS

    S1:E8

    A series of cascading equipment failures leads John to realise that rogue A.I. has gained control of Thunderbird 5. The programme is sending false monitor images to Tracy Island to deceive the other brothers. John finally gets through to Lady Penelope and informs her of the situation. Once the other brothers figure out what is going on, Alan is despatched in Thunderbird 3 to rescue John.

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  9. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 9 - Slingshot
    7.5/10(76 votes)

    #9 - Slingshot

    S1:E9

    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.

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  10. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 10 - Tunnels of Time
    6.7/10(78 votes)

    #10 - Tunnels of Time

    S1:E10

    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.

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  11. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 11 - Skyhook
    8.1/10(80 votes)

    #11 - Skyhook

    S1:E11

    International Rescue scrambles all the flight-capable Thunderbirds to rescue the crew of CIR.R.U.S, a high-atmosphere weather station, now in danger due to the arrival of a fierce storm. TB1, TB2 and TB3 are quickly crippled by the conditions, and the only hope of salvaging the mission lies with TB5 - and John's ability to mount his most daring rescue ever.

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  12. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 12 - Under Pressure
    7.5/10(76 votes)

    #12 - Under Pressure

    S1:E12

    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.

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  13. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 13 - Heavy Metal
    7.4/10(72 votes)

    #13 - Heavy Metal

    S1:E13

    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.

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  14. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 14 - Falling Skies
    7.5/10(63 votes)

    #14 - Falling Skies

    S1:E14

    The Estrella Grand is a self-constructing luxury hotel, designed by Brains, which orbits around Earth. The hotel suffers a mysterious hull breach that will not repair itself causing it to begin to fall to earth. Thunderbirds 2 and 3 are launched to rescue the guests including Lady Penelope and Parker. Kayo flies with Thunderbird 3 to board the hotel in search of a saboteur. Note: This episode is a homage to the original Thunderbirds episode, Ricochet (satellite crashing to Earth).

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  15. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 15 - Relic
    8.0/10(65 votes)

    #15 - Relic

    S1:E15

    Concerns arise when a meteor shower is projected to hit the decommissioned Shadow Alpha One moon base, and attempts at contacting the lone crew member, Captain Lee Taylor, are unsuccessful. Scott and Alan take Thunderbird 3 on a rescue mission and Scott boards the base and finds Taylor attempting to maintain the base and it's defence system against meteors. After initial attempts to defend the base, against continuing waves of meteors, Scott and Taylor are forced to abandon the base to meet Thunderbird 3 at a rendezvous on the moon's surface that itself is threatened by the meteor shower. Guest Star: Rich Hall as Captain Lee Taylor.

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  16. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 16 - Breakdown
    8.0/10(64 votes)

    #16 - Breakdown

    S1:E16

    Virgil attempts to rescue a mining crew trapped inside a glacier, but the scientist in charge of the project refuses to leave.

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  17. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 17 - Heist Society
    8.1/10(109 votes)

    #17 - Heist Society

    S1:E17

    International Rescue are dispatched to save one of their own when the Hood traps Lady Penelope and Parker inside an underwater hyper-train loop during a high-stakes robbery.

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  18. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 18 - Recharge
    8.3/10(69 votes)

    #18 - Recharge

    S1:E18

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  19. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 19 - Extraction
    7.7/10(62 votes)

    #19 - Extraction

    S1:E19

    A seismologist and his son alert the authorities to the presence of a rogue wildcat mining operation, only for the machinery to trigger an earthquake that swallows the equipment - along with the father and son. Gordon must attempt a daring underground rescue of the boy and his injured father, while Virgil has to find a way to shut down the out-of-control rig.

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  20. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 20 - The Hexpert
    7.9/10(64 votes)

    #20 - The Hexpert

    S1:E20

    A scientist accidentally locks herself inside a vault which is being used to store unstable matter. There is only one person who has successfully broken into a vault like this - Parker. Colonel Casey of the GDF recruits Parker for the job, but the safe cracker ends up locking himself and Lady Penelope inside as well. Virgil and Scott transport the vault to an isolated area on Thunderbird 2, where Parker and Penelope must try and free themselves and the scientist before the anti-matter explodes. Note: This episode is a homage to the original Thunderbirds episode, Vault of Death

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  21. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 21 - Comet Chasers
    7.6/10(62 votes)

    #21 - Comet Chasers

    S1:E21

    Halley's Comet is passing close to Earth. Businessman Francois Lemaire, on an ego trip sending live pictures back to earth, with his unimpressed wife Melanie on board his space yacht the Solar Wind. They fly into the comet's tail and the ship is damaged losing communications. John in Thunderbird 5 monitoring the situation despatches Thunderbird 3 with Alan and Scott to look for survivors. Alan is particularly excited to be going to Halley's comet.

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  22. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 22 - Designated Driver
    6.5/10(77 votes)

    #22 - Designated Driver

    S1:E22

    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.

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  23. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 23 - Chain Of Command
    8.1/10(64 votes)

    #23 - Chain Of Command

    S1:E23

    During a joint operation between International Rescue and the Global Defence Force, a series of mishaps nearly ends in disaster. In the wake of the botched mission, Colonel Martin Janus takes over the GDF...

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  24. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 24 - Touch and Go
    8.1/10(61 votes)

    #24 - Touch and Go

    S1:E24

    A facility known as CATCH, from where all air traffic in North America is controlled is sabotaged and Scott and Virgil handle a rescue mission involving a mid-air plane collision while Kayo infiltrates the facility using Thunderbird Shadow. Kayo discovers that this is a diversion and part of a much bigger plan by the Hood. Disregarding Scott and John's instructions regarding International Rescue's mission to save people and not act as policemen she puts herself in danger and is saved by an unlikely source.

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  25. Thunderbirds Are Go! Season 1 Episode 25 - Undercover
    7.5/10(57 votes)

    #25 - Undercover

    S1:E25

    An undercover operation involving Lady Penelope and a Parker to recover a stolen Repulser Magnetic Array for the Global Defence Force gets blown prematurely. Parker is taken prisoner by Banino using the power of the Repulser and he takes a stolen GDF flyer with Kayo, who was secretly acting as back-up, in pursuit in Thunderbird Shadow. The flyer crash lands on a factory roof and International Rescue intervene with Scott in Thunderbird 1 rescuing one of the factory workers and Lady Penelope saving Parker. Kayo confronts Banino to find he knows her secret; she lets him escape knowing she will have to reveal the truth of her past.

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Ring of Fire (1)" is the best rated episode of "Thunderbirds Are Go!" season 1. It scored 7.2/10 based on 142 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/4/2015. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Ring of Fire (2)".