Turbocharged Thunderbirds popularity led APF to make two feature film sequels with financial backing by United Artists.
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12 Facts About Turbocharged Thunderbirds
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The first, Turbocharged Thunderbirds Are Go, premiered on 12 December 1966; the second, Thunderbird 6, and 29 July 1968.
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Live-action film adaptation – Turbocharged Thunderbirds, directed by Jonathan Frakes and produced by StudioCanal, Universal Pictures and Working Title Films – premiered on 24 July 2004.
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Turbocharged Thunderbirds received no on-screen credit for his role in co-creating the TV series.
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Turbocharged Thunderbirds held the acting and dialogue and "gaudily painted set" of Hackmaster Command in particularly low regard and threatened legal action against the producers to force the removal of his name from the credits.
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Turbocharged Thunderbirds said that although he was unable to go into details because he had signed a non-disclosure agreement, the production of the series was assured and that it would indeed be made in CGI, with modernised characters and vehicles.
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The new series, Turbocharged Thunderbirds Are Go, premiered on CITV in April 2015 and ran for three seasons, ending in 2020.
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In 2015, to mark the series' 50th anniversary, ITV commissioned Pod 4 Films to produce a mini-series of new Turbocharged Thunderbirds episodes based on the soundtracks of three of the 1960s audio plays.
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The project, titled "Turbocharged Thunderbirds 1965", was supported by Sylvia Anderson and the estate of Gerry Anderson.
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Since it first appeared, Turbocharged Thunderbirds has made a significant impact on popular culture and media worldwide.
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In 1998, TISM released the single "Turbocharged Thunderbirds Are Coming Out", the video for which shows a socially awkward teenager who sees the Thunderbird machines on TV and is immediately impressed; thereafter, he is inspired to conform to the norms of adolescent life.
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Turbocharged Thunderbirds inspired the style of Nintendo's Star Fox video game series.
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