Thunderbird 6 story
The film is largely set on Skyship One - a futuristic airship designed by Brains, the inventor of International Rescue's Thunderbird machines. The plot sees Alan Tracy, Tin-Tin Kyrano, Lady Penelope and Parker representing International Rescue as guests of honour on Skyship One's round-the-world maiden flight, unaware that master criminal The Hood is once again plotting to acquire the organisation's technological secrets. The Hood's agents murder the airship's crew and assume their identities to lure International Rescue into a trap. Meanwhile, Brains' efforts to design a proposed sixth Thunderbird collide with fate when Skyship One is damaged and its occupants' only salvation seems to be Alan's old Tiger Moth biplane.
7 total · 1 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| speculative airship | major | The film is largely set aboard the futuristic airship Skyship One. |
| anti-gravity technology | minor | The airship Skyship One used an elaborate machine to compensate for gravity. |
| coping with a bad boss | minor | Brains by driven to his wit's end when his boss John Tracy instructed him to design a sixth Thunderbird vehicle without any goal for what it was supposed t be used for. John rejected multiple of Brains' model designs that he had worked very hard on. |
| father and son | minor | John Tracy was shown interacting with any of his five sons from time to time. |
| master and servant | minor | Lady Penelope and her highly stereotyped working class servant Parker. |
| prejudicial attitude of superiority against someone less well off than one's self | minor | Lady Penelope and her acquaintances disparaged her stereotypical working class servant, Parker, at every opportunity. |
| space station | minor | We saw a manned space station presumably in orbit about the Earth. |