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"Trapped in the Sky" is the first episode of Thunderbirds, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company AP Films (APF) for ITC Entertainment. Written by the Andersons, it was first broadcast on ATV Midlands on 30 September 1965.
Trapped in the Sky (aka Army Spy and Sabotage) is a 1939 American thriller film directed by Lewis D. Collins and produced by Larry Darmour for Columbia Pictures. [1] The film stars Jack Holt, Ralph Morgan and Katherine DeMille. [2] Holt is the "flyboy" who is trying to find the saboteurs of a "silent" aircraft.
He was the first of the brothers to be voice-cast; Barrett was so impressed with the puppet, whose looks were modelled on Adam Faith and Charlton Heston, that he immediately told Sylvia Anderson that he wanted to play the studious young astronaut with the boyish quiff.
In 1980, ITC's New York branch paired the episode with "Trapped in the Sky" to create the Thunderbirds compilation film Thunderbirds to the Rescue. [2] " Operation Crash-Dive" had its first UKâwide network broadcast on 8 November 1991 on BBC2 .
This episode marks the first use of Thunderbirds ' regular ending theme music: a modified version of the instrumental that accompanies the launch of Thunderbird 1 in "Trapped in the Sky". [13] The incidental music for "Pit of Peril", composed by Barry Gray, was recorded on 24 April 1965 in a four-hour studio session with a 22-piece orchestra. [14]
The seventh episode to be produced, "Vault of Death" sees the reintroduction of Lady Penelope and Parker following their brief appearance in the first episode, "Trapped in the Sky", and is the characters' first centric episode. [2] According to Chris Bentley, the episode presents the duo more as comic relief than competent undercover agents. [3]
A few weeks earlier, Lew Grade – who had been greatly impressed by the original 25-minute version of the first episode, "Trapped in the Sky" – had instructed Gerry Anderson to make all episodes 50 minutes long so the series could fill an hour-long commercial TV timeslot. [4]
Lucy in the Sky is a 2019 American psychological drama film directed by Noah Hawley in his feature directorial debut, and co-written by Hawley, Brian C. Brown, and Elliott DiGuiseppi. The film stars Natalie Portman as astronaut Lucy Cola, loosely based on the life of real-life NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak . [ 4 ]