Thunderbirds Are Go: The Tracy Brothers Revealed

By John Freeman on January 15, 2015

The new-look Tracy Brothers of International Rescue – Scott, Virgil, Alan, Gordon and John. Photo © ITV

ITV continue to carefully drip feed imagery from the upcoming Thunderbirds Are Go series, a reboot of the original “Classic” Thunderbirds created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, which sees its 50th anniversary this year.

To date, we’ve only seen the back of the five new-look Tracy brothers who perform most of International Rescue’s daring missions, but now the team has been revealed, prompting bemusement from some older Thunderbirds fans and further excitement from those keen to see how the new show will look when it debuts in the UK in April.

We’ve previously published images of all five new Thunderbirds machines. ITV has also released its first trailer and a second series has been commissioned even before the first has aired.

DC Thomson have the rights to publish a new Thunderbirds magazine but we still don’t have any information on a release date or editor.

• The official Thunderbirds Are Go web site is at www.thunderbirds.com

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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.