Track of the week w/e 5 April 2015
Because people seem to have lost the ability to have new ideas there is a conveyor belt of old stories and programmes that get 're-booted'. (Their word, not mine). This week it was the turn of Thunderbirds to get another makeover.
In that 'Supermarionation' genre I was more of a fan of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons but the original Thunderbirds also loomed large in my childhood and for many years after.
I haven't watched the new one but the puppets are replaced by CGI and live action. That will undoubtedly mean the show loses some of its charm but I'm wondering what the incidental music will be like. It's more important than you might think.
This week's choice is the Barry Gray Orchestra composition that was played when there was some level of peril unfolding.
Add that to some models, sound effects and yes, puppets and you have two and a half minutes of the greatest television ever made as the team try to prevent a nuclear-powered plane with a bomb on board crash-landing*.
*From the first-ever episode, Trapped in the Sky. Nearly 50 years old and still as fresh as a daisy.
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