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Originally Posted by Lord Brett
Two things might make those recordings especially valuable.
Firstly they have the original sound effects (as do the more recent 1990s BBC screenings, which I have recordings of) as opposed to the cack-handed efforts to give the episodes a stereo soundtrack on subsequent TV showings and the DVD releases (that's why any exposion on the show now sounds like someone has dropped a tray of crockery).
Secondly, it's just possible that those sceenings had the original ad break bumpers (the little piece of film and fanfare that announed the beginning and end of the ad break). These haven't been seen in decades, and if your 1981 copies have these, I'd really appreciate it of you'd PM me, as I edit the Gerry Anderson fan club magazine, and fans of the show would love to see these again.
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Hi Lord Brett -
Yes - Having episodes with the original soundtracks makes watching them much more enjoyable. Thunderbirds really suffered during its last 'remastering'. The contrast and colour balance on my recordings also adds to the appeal, and only one - sadly, Terror in New York City - has now begun to suffer badly from drop-out.
As far as ad-breaks go, unfortunately (or fortunately in some respects) they were screened without breaks, apart from the Trapped in the Sky, and the ad-break bumpers for this used what looked like a more recent caption card with coloured lettering against a black background. HTV were imaginative enough to use the break to screen a 1960s anti-littering public information film though.
The other bonus is the complete opening fanfare for the HTV region featured before one episode.
To my knowledge, I'm not sure if any of the ITV regions screening Thunderbirds at the time used the original ad-bumpers - featuring the shot of TB2 landing at London Airport, if I remember rightly - which were never quite as special as those used on later Anderson shows.
10-01-2008, 06:01 PM
I warned them not to go that way, but they didn't listen 
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