k OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE TRACY ISLAND CHRONICLES MAY-JUNE 2011 SECURITY NEW STORIES ON a great big HELLO from HAZARD NED COOK! EPISODE SYNOPSIS #26 TIC! I smell a rat. WWW.TRACYISLANDCHRONICLES.COM When Trixie showed me the Dear John letters lee for this issue, I had an inkling I recognised Security Hazard is a classic example of that one of the supplicants. [Yes readers, old standby in the television industry – the LMC’S STORIES: 'supplicants' is a big word, but the clip show (also known as the ‘economy show’). INTIMIDATION Management (you know, those women in This is where highlights from previous episodes high heels on the 42nd floor) gave me a set are used as filler, and in this case, the episode "We can't shoot Ben!" Brains exclaimed. of Websters for my birthday, and when I is pretty much filled right up with four twelve- "If he tries to kill us, that's exactly what we'll was using one as a tea-tray it fell off my lap minute segment highlights from, in this order, do," John said, his mouth set in a firm line. and onto the floor and flipped open to the End of the Road, Sun Probe, Trapped in the "Ben wouldn't want himself used that way." 'S' section. That's where I found Sky and Day of Disaster. 'supplicant.' Under 'S.' Of course I had to However, Security Hazard’s sole saving grace JUXTAPOSITION wipe the Bolognese sauce off the page first before I saw it, but that's what they call is the storyline that links these four lengthy Jeff nodded as John sat up with a smile on clips together. Short, sweet and unintentionally synchronicity. Yes, another big word I found his face. He turned sideways and patted the under 'S.' Very handy section, 'S'!] hilarious, it tells the story of Chip, an bed next to him. Toeing off his shoes, Jeff sat adventurous youngster with a hankering for down properly on the bed, scooting back At any rate, Mr Bing Bing BING as he calls midnight adventure. The bridging story goes until he was against the wall. John sat next himself, is definitely up to no good. How something like this: during a midnight mine point somewhere over on the far side of the do I know? Because all those radio-jocks room. Never look an angry dog in the eyes, to him, mirroring the way his father folded fire, International Rescue arrive and park their his hands in his lap. are hacks, and he's been sniffing around we all know that! NTBS trying to break into proper Thunderbirds right next door to Chip’s father’s "What would you like to talk about, son?" house. What more temptation does a boy need What all the ranting (and the sarcasm that newscasting for years. He probably thinks when he can see Thunderbird Two’s enticingly comes with the ranting is particularly that by getting in sweet with Dear John open and unguarded hatch from his bedroom entertaining) is about is the fact that Virgil, ALIENATION he's got a shot. (Sheesh, how wrong can window? Chip doesn’t even pause to get out of Alan and Scott left Thunderbird Two There was a knock at the suite door. Lee ya get? That fish won't give even me the his pyjamas before he’s out of the house and unattended with her doors not only unlocked, Seung rose and crossed through into the time of day!) Probably wants a job on my into the hatch, a most unlikely stowaway. but wide open. Fair enough, I say. Allowing Chip outer sitting room. Alan turned to Tin-Tin. "Is Newsflash. MY Newsflash! Well, readers, I At some point in the recent past, Brains must to stow away represents an enormous breach he trying to say they want you to lead the don't think so! Bad enough I have to deal have installed a security sensor inside in security, and Jeff now has to find some way to war?" with the slippery Mr Bondson (who still Thunderbird Two’s pod, but it seems it doesn’t plug the hole. He begins, perhaps somewhat "I can't fathom it," Tin-Tin replied. "After all, won't answer my calls), but I won't be really work until TB2 lands back on the island. foolishly, by letting his sons baby-sit Chip while what would the World President say?" having a neurotic ex-radio-disc-jockey-hack Just as Virgil is backing into the hangar, Jeff issues he racks his brains for an answer. (No, Brains on my editorial board. Nosirree, I won't! a terse warning for he and Alan to stay put in isn’t in this episode. Except in flashback, that is.) UNIFICATION Er… unless the Management makes me, the cockpit as an intruder has been detected in Virgil takes first watch, and decides that taking that is. Very persuasive, the Management, the pod. It would surely have been a bit more Chip down to see Thunderbird Two is a good She looked up at Alan, unshed tears shining Particularly when they're grinding a high convenient if Virgil and Alan had known this place to start. Uh-uh. Virgil, didn’t you hear brightly in her hazel eyes. "They're joining," heel through your boot. before they took off, but then it’s not my place your father tell you that under no she said. "Father must have left his life force Uh-oh, gotta go. Here comes Trixie, fresh to second-guess International Rescue. circumstances were you to reveal any secret in Mr. Tracy." from her psych appointment and carrying While Virgil and Alan scratch their heads at each information to the boy? Looks like Virgil has "Say what?" Gordon said. a cup of hot coffee. It might be time to other up in the cockpit, Jeff has armed himself forgotten that, and in an effort to prove TB2 is duck! with a Buck Rogers pistol and megaphone (every the best of the Thunderbirds, tells Chip the corporate dictator should have one of those story of Eddie Houseman. Alan arrives twelve SPINKLE22’S STORY: under his desk), and backed up by Scott and minutes later, apparently rather peeved he has JOHNNY to now take charge of the kid. His sullenness sharp-shootin’ Gordon, demands the intruder Then we smiled and I taught Allie how to reveal himself. Imagine their surprise when shows, but Chip soon cajoles that out of him, THIS ISSUE: and shortly Alan is showing him Thunderbird play Snakes and Ladders. He was like my Hello from Ned Cook....................1 tow-headed freckle-faced pyjama-clad Chip mom and kept going up snakes and down pokes his mug around the door! Three and telling him all about the Sun Probe Episode Synopsis..........................1 episode. Twelve minutes after that, Scott ladders by accident, and sometimes I let him Poolside Pointers..........................2 Now, we know Jeff Tracy can be short- win. It was fun, but then Gordy came home tempered. We know he can lose his cool at the arrives to take over, and ends up sitting Chip in Dear John.......................................2 TB1’s pilot’s seat, telling him about the and Allie ran off with Gordy to play cars and drop of a hat. But never before have we seen I said my presentation again. PennySpy’s Episode Guide...........3 him apoplectic with rage! If the display he Fireflash. It’s starting to sound a bit like a game INTERVIEW: Chris Thompson......7 unleashes at four of his sons at this moment is of ‘mine is bigger than yours,’ but Chip doesn’t Mr Bondon’s Briefcase.................9 any indication, he would have been one father seem to understand the innuendo. Twelve minutes later Gordon arrives and takes Chip Have you read a work of Thunderbirds: The Comic ..........10 you would not want to cross. This is borne out Thunderbirds fanfiction that Birth Order...................................12 by the stiff (no pun intended) postures of his down to see Thunderbird Four. Chip exclaims you think should be included sons as he rants at them, and the fact that all how small it is, and Gordon agrees that yes, his on the Tracy Island of them seemed to have fixed their gaze on a is small, but it’s where and how he uses it (on Chronicles? Contact our the Mars Space Probe, of course!) that counts. selection panel via email Jeff, meanwhile, is blowing his blood pressure and let us know! sky-high as he realises that none of his sons has STAFF: obeyed him and that Chip has now had a grand [email protected] Contributing Editor - tour of the caverns beneath Tracy Island Samantha Winchester without paying an entry fee. More Contributing Editor - GillyLee amusements ensue as Virgil, Scott and Alan Format & Contributing Editor - Lee bicker amongst themselves over who is to Contributing Editor - MCJ blame for the whole debacle, while Gordon keeps an eagle eye out for their father. This Original Concept - LMC little display is a delightful glimpse into what their younger days must have been like, and provides a very entertaining domestic scene as they revert to their childhoods. The joke’s CONTACT on Jeff however, as shortly afterward his sons [email protected] discover him with Chip settled behind his desk, while he spills his own guts about his role as commander-in-chief of International Rescue!! In the end Jeff hatches a plan to get Chip back If you’re interested in THUNDERBIRDS home by allowing him to fall asleep, and then and all things Tracy Island, how about having Scott and Virgil sneak him into his own joining the TIWF Yahoo! Group? 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