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Previously unseen footage from the classic British TV show Thunderbirds has been found in a garden shed and restored – where possible – for viewing next year.
The family of a recently deceased former editor of the show found a collection of 22 rusty and cracked film cans in their Buckinghamshire shed. The film inside is currently being restored and digitized. They contain a lot of old material, but also some extended scenes and a previously-unseen new ending to one episode.
Stephen La Rivière of Century 21 Films – who is leading the restoration drive – told the BBC recovering the footage “took weeks, bit by bit."
"Every night I'd get a link for a download of the latest one that had been scanned … you'd never know what you'd get. Eventually, listening one night … this one played out and it was not the same as broadcast."
If you’ve never watched the show, the video below offers a good primer and a peek at the recovered footage.
Thunderbirds was originally conceived as 30-minute episodes, but some were extended at the request of management. It's thought that the extra footage came from one of these extended episodes that never aired.
Missing Thunderbirds footage found in British garden shed
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