This will always be my Favourite Thunderbirds episode, it had the right music and the moments and suspense in this episode is Phenomenal. As a kid i was exited when this episode Appeared on television The Sidewinder is one of the Amazing and Creative Machines Gerry Anderson Created. This is an episode that will never leave my Memory and i hope they could Include it in the new Series.
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Thunderbirds--Pit of Peril
Scarecrow-8827 April 2013
Warning: Spoilers
Pit of Peril has quite the dandy suspense story driving it. An impressive (monstrous-looking) tree-removing US Army machine called The Sidewinder, with metallic arms that have vice grips for hands, walks right into a crater once used as a military dumping site after WWII. Now a flaming inferno pit, with temperatures gradually intensifying, the three crew members of The Sidewinder will perish if rescue doesn't either remove them from the machine or pull the machine from the pit. Just getting reconnaissance on the situation (just the attempt to see The Sidewinder by using a wench to drop officers into the pit is disastrous to their health) is hazardous as two men are severely burned due to the flames and sickened/blinded by the smoke. Enter International Rescue. A mole drill vehicle will drive itself to near the The Sidewinder's position, with bombs placed in a general area around it so that a greater hole in the crater can be opened and the machine can be pulled from the pit. Because IR has the equipment that can counter any crisis situation (like heat-resistant suits, a reconnaissance "copter" that can fly within the pit to record data needed to assess how difficult it will be and what to do, electromagnetic locking stamps that can attach to the machine, with pulling vehicles to drag it from the current position), it will be able to perhaps rescue The Sidewinder and its occupants from a fate most unkind. Per usual, there's plenty of cool sets, model ships, and set pieces, along with the typically splendid marionette work by the amazing Gerry and Sylvia Anderson production team. The crisis befalling the three members of The Sidewinder (I especially like how the marionettes have sweat, cuts, and burns established in realistic ways) is milked for great effect.
The Perilous Pit
StrictlyConfidential13 June 2021
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"Pit Of Peril" was first aired on television October 7, 1965.
Anyway - As the story goes - Lives and military technology are threatened when a top secret Army transport vehicle disappears beneath the ground. International Rescue must execute an ingenious but incredibly dangerous operation.
Anyway - As the story goes - Lives and military technology are threatened when a top secret Army transport vehicle disappears beneath the ground. International Rescue must execute an ingenious but incredibly dangerous operation.
A disappointing follow up to the first episode
rt-ingram18 November 2017
Pit of Peril is a big letdown after the excitement of the first episode. The main problem is that the episode lacks imagination; the Sidewinder could have done so much more than simply falling into a pit and lying there. And not only do we get one failed rescue attempt from the Army, we get two, so when International Rescue finally arrive on the scene, it's a relief. Luckily, the later episodes tried to do something more imaginative, but this is a real shame after the brilliant opening of Trapped in the Sky.
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