- "My, this is a deserted area. One just wouldn't know where one was, would one?"
— "Gayle Williams"
"The Man From MI.5" is the seventeenth episode of Thunderbirds season 1, first broadcast on the 20th of January 1966.
Plot
The British government asks for International Rescue's help in locating the missing blueprints for an atomic weapon. Whilst tracking the culprits, IR agent Lady Penelope (posing as model Gayle Williams) is kidnapped and held aboard a bomb-rigged boat. Scott and Gordon have very little time to locate and rescue her, and steal back the plans...before the bomb explodes, and the villains escape...
Storyline
- Main article: The Man From MI.5/Storyline
Transcript
- Main article: The Man From MI.5/Transcript
Cast
Regular Characters
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.png "Virgil (Man from MI5).png (131 KB)")
.png "Alan (Man from MI5).png (145 KB)")
.png "Brains (Man from MI5).png (138 KB)")
.png "Parker (Man from MI5).png (126 KB)")
.png "Tin-Tin (Man from MI5).png (139 KB)")
.png "Gordon (Man fron MI5).png (137 KB)")
.png "John (Man from MI5).png (135 KB)")
Guest Characters
Jimmy Bondson
(Ray Barrett)
(Ray Barrett)
MI.5 Agent Tidman
(David Graham)
(David Graham)
Carl
(David Graham)
(David Graham)
Ritter
(Ray Barrett)
(Ray Barrett)
The Third Man
(Matt Zimmerman)
(Matt Zimmerman)
Fireflash Stewardess
(Christine Finn)
(Christine Finn)
Cameo Roles
Crowd Scenes
International Rescue Equipment Used
Thunderbird 2
(Pod 4)
(Pod 4)
Harpoon drill,
with knock-out gas
(Thunderbird 4)
with knock-out gas
(Thunderbird 4)
Sonar Tracking System (Thunderbird 1)
Non-International Rescue Equipment Used
Locations
Trivia
- First Appearance: Lady Penelope's yacht, FAB 2. (It will later make an appearance in Introducing Thunderbirds, for Thunderbirds 1965.)
- The model submarine Brains used for his experiment in the Tracy Villa pool was also used as The Hood's 3E Submarine in Desperate Intruder. (It even still has 3E written on the sides!)
Brains' model submarine
- This episode features the first full Thunderbird 4 launch sequence, shown from inside Pod 4. (Prior to this, TB4 had only been seen emerging down the ramp outside the pod door.)
- It's also the only occasion wherein Thunderbird 2 gently rests Pod 4 upon the surface of the water (rather than dropping it in), and then rises clear with its lifting jets.
- The backdrop used for the harbour scenes also appears in the opening scene of The Duchess Assignment, in the Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons episode Model Spy, and in the Joe 90 episode The Race.
Monte Carlo harbour in "Captain Scarlet"
- When broadcast in the half-hour "cliffhanger" format, Part One concluded with Carl taking off in his boat, with Penelope as his prisoner, from FAB 2.
Goofs
- Main article: The Man From MI.5/Goofs
Foreign Titles
- French: L'homme du M I5
- German: Der Mann vom M.I.5
- Spanish: El Hombre del MI.5; El agente MI5 (DVD)
- Italian: S.O.S. Servizi Segreti Britannici
- Dutch: De geheime agent (TV); De man van MI. 5 (VHS, DVD)
- Japanese: 情報員MI. 5