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- "Attack of the Alligators!" is an episode of Thunderbirds, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company AP Films (APF) for ITC Entertainment. Written by Alan Pattillo and directed by David Lane, it was first broadcast on 10 March 1966 on ATV Midlands as the 23rd episode of Series One. It is the 24th episode in the official running order. Set in the 2060s, the series follows the exploits of International Rescue, an organisation that uses technologically-advanced rescue vehicles to save human life. The main characters are ex-astronaut Jeff Tracy, founder of International Rescue, and his five adult sons, who pilot the organisation's main vehicles: the Thunderbird machines. The plot of "Attack of the Alligators!" sees a group of alligators grow to enormous size after their swamp is contaminated by a new food additive. When the reptiles lay siege to a house, International Rescue is called in to save the trapped occupants. Combining science-fiction and haunted house themes, with a plot deliberately written to be "nightmarish", "Attack of the Alligators!" was filmed at APF Studios in Slough in late 1965. It was the first APF production to use live animals, the re-sized alligators being played by juvenile crocodiles. Filming of the episode was controversial as the crew resorted to using electric shocks to coax movement out of the animals. Concern for the crocodiles' welfare prompted an investigation by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), which ultimately took no action against APF. "Attack of the Alligators!" remains a favourite with Thunderbirds fans and commentators and is generally regarded as one of the series' best episodes. Along with "The Cham-Cham", the next episode to enter production, it went over-budget, causing the final instalment of Thunderbirds Series One ("Security Hazard") to be re-written as a clip show to lower costs. In 1976, "Attack of the Alligators!" inspired an episode of The New Avengers titled "Gnaws", written by ex-Thunderbirds writer Dennis Spooner. (en)
- El Ataque de los Caimanes es el duodécimo tercero episodio de la primera temporada de los Thunderbirds, serie de televisión de Gerry Anderson para Supermarionation fue el 24.º episodio producido. El episodio salió al aire primero en ATV Midlands el 10 de marzo de 1966. Fue escrito por Alan Pattillo y dirigido por David Lane. (es)
- Attack of the Alligators is, volgens de originele uitzending, de 23e aflevering van Thunderbirds, de Supermarionationtelevisieserie van Gerry Anderson. De aflevering werd voor het eerst uitgezonden op op 10 maart 1966. De aflevering was echter de 24e die geproduceerd werd. Derhalve wordt de aflevering tegenwoordig vaak als 24e aflevering in de serie uitgezonden. (nl)
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- A monstrously over-sized alligator presses itself against the outside of a dilapidated house. (en)
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- After an experimental food additive leaks into a swamp, the occupants of a house are terrorised by a group of monstrously enlarged alligators. While the episode has been praised for its story and production values, its use of live animals has attracted controversy. (en)
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- List of Thunderbirds episodes (en)
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- *Sylvia Anderson as Mrs Files
*Ray Barrett as Dr Orchard
*David Graham as Culp
*John Tate as Blackmer
*Matt Zimmerman as Hector McGill (en)
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- Guest character voices (en)
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- It was the one episode that gave us so much trouble. We had to work night and day ... We had a lot of fun, but it was a lot of heartache trying to get [the crocodiles] to do what you wanted them to do. (en)
- I got a call from the operator to say that an RSPCA man had turned up ... He said, 'It's been reported that your boys are giving [the crocodiles] electric shocks,' and I said, 'Well, I didn't know that, but let's go on to the stage and have a look.' So we went on to the stage and he was very, very grave and terribly concerned, but then he saw one of the puppets and he said, 'You're not filming Thunderbirds are you? Oh, God, that's my favourite programme.' ... He ended up taking his annual leave and coming to the studio to work for us, and he was personally giving the crocodiles electric shocks. (en)
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- — Derek Meddings (en)
- — Gerry Anderson (en)
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- El Ataque de los Caimanes es el duodécimo tercero episodio de la primera temporada de los Thunderbirds, serie de televisión de Gerry Anderson para Supermarionation fue el 24.º episodio producido. El episodio salió al aire primero en ATV Midlands el 10 de marzo de 1966. Fue escrito por Alan Pattillo y dirigido por David Lane. (es)
- Attack of the Alligators is, volgens de originele uitzending, de 23e aflevering van Thunderbirds, de Supermarionationtelevisieserie van Gerry Anderson. De aflevering werd voor het eerst uitgezonden op op 10 maart 1966. De aflevering was echter de 24e die geproduceerd werd. Derhalve wordt de aflevering tegenwoordig vaak als 24e aflevering in de serie uitgezonden. (nl)
- "Attack of the Alligators!" is an episode of Thunderbirds, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company AP Films (APF) for ITC Entertainment. Written by Alan Pattillo and directed by David Lane, it was first broadcast on 10 March 1966 on ATV Midlands as the 23rd episode of Series One. It is the 24th episode in the official running order. (en)
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- Attack of the Alligators! (en)
- El Ataque de los Caimanes (es)
- Attack of the Alligators (nl)
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