Thunderbird 6 Page #4

Synopsis: The International Rescue team is faced with one of its toughest challenges yet, as the revolutionary lighter-than-air craft Skyship One is hijacked while on her maiden voyage around the world. Against backdrops including the Statue of Liberty and the Sphinx, Lady Penelope, Parker, Alan and Tin-Tin fight the hijackers from on-board, while the rest of the team tries to stop the airship crashing into a missile silo.
Genre: Family, Sci-Fi
Director(s): David Lane
Production: MGM/UA Home Entertainment
 
IMDB:
6.4
G
Year:
1968
89 min
59 Views


to take off at midnight.

As a matter of interest,

Captain...

what would happen if you

didn't get back on time?

Your dream holiday would

just come to an end.

And now, Cinderella,

we must go.

Are we clear, Parker?

Quite clear, milady.

You debugged the whole

place, Parker?

No need, milady. It was

already done for me.

There's not a hidden

microphone anywhere, milady.

They've all been removed.

That can only

mean one thing.

They've got the information

they wanted. What now?

Parker, what have you

to report?

Well, milady,

they've been recording

you on a tape machine...

in the gravity

compensation room.

I managed to get

a look in there.

They've been editing the

tape... that was obvious.

And now they've got

the tape machine...

linked to a radio

transmitter.

The jigsaw's nearly

completed but not quite.

Parker, issue the guns.

They're in the false

compartment...

at the bottom

of my blue suitcase.

From now on, it's

emergency standby.

Black Phantom

from White Ghost.

Message will be transmitted

1000 hours tomorrow morning.

Gentlemen,

the Thunderbird machines...

will be arriving here

at approximately...

1100 hours

tomorrow morning.

The final phase of Operation

Ambush has commenced.

OH. Rewind and stand by.

OH. Ready.

15 seconds.

Calling International Rescue.

This is Lady Penelope.

Jeff, I want you to send

Thunderbirds 1 and 2...

to a disused airfield...

10 miles south

of Casablanca.

International fix system.

24-04. Reference E.

Ensure that Brains is aboard.

This is imperative.

Do not acknowledge

this transmission.

Will call later

with further details.

The Thunderbird machines

should be arriving...

in approximately

10 minutes.

Stand by.

If pilots offer any resistance

as they leave their machines...

shoot them down.

I've got it.

Penelope, I've got!

It's the only

possible answer.

They've been recording

your voice, right?

Right.

They've been editing

the tape, right?

Right.

Editing is a form

of rearranging.

They've been

rearranging your words...

to make you say something

that they wanted you to say...

and then they've

transmitted it.

Now, who's the one person...

who would act

on your instructions?

Why, Jeff Tracy.

Roger, Scott.

Understand that you are

at disused airfield.

Call me as soon

as you've landed.

F.A.B.

Go ahead, Penny.

Jeff, this is

an emergency.

Have you received

a message from me?

Yes, Penelope. The boys

are just about to land...

at the rendezvous

you requested.

Jeff, I haven't

sent a message.

This is a trap.

Now, remember...

just one sign of resistance

from those pilots...

and let them have it.

Thunderbird to base.

Thanks, Dad.

You gave us the warning

just in time.

Setting course now to

rendezvous with Skyship 1.

That's right, Scott.

The message was

a recording of my voice.

Now, the quicker you arrive,

the better for us.

You've got a fix

on our position.

F.A.B.

OH, I've received a message

from Black Phantom...

to say the Thunderbird

machines were landing.

By now, they must've

taken over the ships...

and shortly,

they'll be on their way...

to rendezvous with us.

Right, the playacting's over.

Round up our International

Rescue guests.

They're unsuspecting,

so they won't be armed.

Not so unsuspecting,

Captain Foster.

Raise your hands,

all of you.

It sounds as if Alan

needs some help.

Tin Tin, I'll leave you

my compact.

You can keep in touch

with the boys.

F.A.B., Penny.

Come on, Parker.

Quickly, Parker.

Lane, get the other one

as hostage. Quick.

OH, Foster, the numbers

are eVen nOW...

and we can outshoot you,

you know that.

Throw your guns down

and give yourselves up.

I suggest you throw

your guns down.

If you don't, you can

say good-bye to Tin Tin.

Father, I've lost

contact with Skyship 1.

Right, Scott.

At what position...

do you expect

to rendezvous with it?

According to my calculations,

at approximately 10,OOO feet.

About 5 miles east of Dover.

Well, all you can do, Scott...

is beat the hell

out of those machines...

and get there

as soon as you can.

F.A.B.

Very smart, Penelope.

So you radioed

your base?

That's right, Mr. Foster.

You should know that you can't

outwit International Rescue.

I'm not so sure.

The game isn't over yet.

We have you all

as our hostages.

When the Thunderbird

machines arrive...

I've got an idea

they're going to do...

just what we tell them to.

Meanwhile, the gravity

compensating machine...

has come to a standstill.

The jet engines on this bus...

are to give it

forward movement only.

The ship can't

maintain height...

unless the gravity

compensators are working.

I'm well aware

of the situation.

We're losing height

quite slowly.

It'll be half an hour yet

before there's any real danger.

It'll be half an hour yet

before there's any real danger.

Martin, go up

on the top deck...

and radio down as soon as those

Thunderbirds arrive. Right.

Father, I'm

at rendezvous point.

No sign of Skyship 1.

I don't understand it, Scott.

It's a big ship.

It'd be hard to miss.

Oh, wait. I can see it.

It's about 8,OOO feet

below me.

I don't get it.

According to the New World

pre-programmed schedule...

it should be at 10,OOO feet

at this point.

I'm going down

to take a look.

F.A.B.

Foster, Thunderbird 1

directly above us.

OH, Martin.

Right. Untie them.

I want you all

up on the top deck...

and no false moves.

OH, father, I'm alongside.

I can see one

of the stewards standing...

on the top deck.

Otherwise,

no sign of life.

When Thunderbird 2 arrives,

we'll attempt to board her.

Be with you in about

5 minutes, Scott.

OH, Virgil.

Dad, there's trouble ahead.

Dad, Skyship 1

is losing height.

Why? I don't know.

About one mile ahead is

an early warning system...

with interceptor towers.

The estimated height:

1,200 feet.

Below it is a missile site.

The way it looks from here...

Skyship 1 is on

a collision course.

The only thing that can

save it is its height.

But I've got my doubts.

It's a tower head.

We're going to hit it!

How far away is it?

I don't know.

About a quarter of a mile.

I'm coming up.

Dad, there's going

to be a collision.

You'd better alert...

all emergency services

down on the ground.

It's a missile base

about 5 miles east of Dover.

F.A.B.

What's the situation, Scott?

Well, the ship's swaying on

top of one of the towers.

If that tower gives way...

or the ship loses

its balance...

it's going to drop

like a stone...

it's going to drop

like a stone...

right onto that missile

site below.

Come on, quickly.

Up on the top deck and move!

We've crashed, Foster.

Don't you understand?

Throw your gun away.

We're all in this

together now.

I said move!

Scott, I've been listening

to your transmission.

I've sighted Skyship.

I'm coming in

straight over the top.

Will lower escape unit.

Brains is already in there.

F.A.B.

Is Brains armed?

He ought to be.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes

Gerry Anderson

Gerry Anderson (born Gerald Alexander Abrahams; 14 April 1929 – 26 December 2012) was an English television and film producer, director, writer and occasional voice artist. He remains famous for his futuristic television programmes, especially his 1960s productions filmed with "Supermarionation" (marionette puppets containing electric moving parts). Anderson's first television production was the 1957 Roberta Leigh children's series The Adventures of Twizzle. Supercar (1961–62) and Fireball XL5 (1962) followed later, both series breaking into the US television market in the early 1960s. In the mid-1960s Anderson produced his most successful series, Thunderbirds. Other television productions of the 1960s include Stingray and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. Anderson also wrote and produced several feature films whose box office performance was unexceptional. Following a shift towards live action productions in the 1970s, he had a long and successful association with media impresario Lew Grade and Grade's company ITC, continuing until the second series of Space: 1999. After a career lull when a number of new series concepts failed to get off the ground, his career began a new phase in the early 1980s when audience nostalgia for his earlier Supermarionation series (prompted by Saturday morning re-runs in Britain and Australia) led to new Anderson productions being commissioned. Later projects include a 2005 CGI remake of Captain Scarlet entitled Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet. more…

All Gerry Anderson scripts | Gerry Anderson Scripts

0 fans

Submitted on August 05, 2018

Discuss this script with the community:

0 Comments

    Translation

    Translate and read this script in other languages:

    Select another language:

    • - Select -
    • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
    • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
    • Español (Spanish)
    • Esperanto (Esperanto)
    • 日本語 (Japanese)
    • Português (Portuguese)
    • Deutsch (German)
    • العربية (Arabic)
    • Français (French)
    • Русский (Russian)
    • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
    • 한국어 (Korean)
    • עברית (Hebrew)
    • Gaeilge (Irish)
    • Українська (Ukrainian)
    • اردو (Urdu)
    • Magyar (Hungarian)
    • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
    • Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Italiano (Italian)
    • தமிழ் (Tamil)
    • Türkçe (Turkish)
    • తెలుగు (Telugu)
    • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
    • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
    • Čeština (Czech)
    • Polski (Polish)
    • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Românește (Romanian)
    • Nederlands (Dutch)
    • Ελληνικά (Greek)
    • Latinum (Latin)
    • Svenska (Swedish)
    • Dansk (Danish)
    • Suomi (Finnish)
    • فارسی (Persian)
    • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
    • հայերեն (Armenian)
    • Norsk (Norwegian)
    • English (English)

    Citation

    Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:

    Style:MLAChicagoAPA

    "Thunderbird 6" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 5 Nov. 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/thunderbird_6_21875>.

    We need you!

    Help us build the largest writers community and scripts collection on the web!

    Watch the movie trailer

    Thunderbird 6

    The Studio:

    ScreenWriting Tool

    Write your screenplay and focus on the story with many helpful features.


    Quiz

    Are you a screenwriting master?

    »
    What is the purpose of "scene headings" in a screenplay?
    A To outline the plot
    B To indicate the location and time of a scene
    C To provide dialogue for characters
    D To describe the character's actions