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Thunderbirds
was a children's TV Sci Fi series made with puppets using a technique
called supermarionation by Gerry Anderson. The series ran for two seasons
from 1965 to 1966 and comprised of 32 episodes followed by two movies,
'Thunderbirds Are Go' in 1966 and 'Thunderbird 6' in 1968.
Thunderbirds books were first produced in the UK by Armada Books. Only five paperback novels were printed, four Thunderbirds and one Lady Penelope. Four further novels (two Thunderbirds and two Lady Penelope) were published in hardback by World Distributors Books in 1966. Titan Books later started to revive the series by reprinting Books 1 and 2 in 1989 and 1990. As with Captain Scarlet, this reprint run fizzled out with the inside cover stating Book 3 would be "Ring of Fire" which never appeared. In 1991 Young Corgi Books started printing novelisations of the original TV episodes, but after four books the series halted. This series was later reprinted with different covers by Carlton Books in 2001. In 1992 Boxtree Books started printing younger reader novelisations of some of the episodes but ended after eight books, and Carlton Books re-published four of these in 2002 with different covers. In 1992, Ravette Books started a numbered series of colour comic albums which lasted for six albums. In 2004 the new live action Thunderbirds movie was released leading to a number of books being published by Harper Festival Books. From 2008 to 2012 FTL Publications published a series of seven original novels. In 2021 Anderson Entertainment started publishing reprints of the earlier paperback books as hardbacks with new titles and new covers. A new animated series was launched on TV... 'Thunderbirds Are Go' that ran for three seasons from 2015 to 2020. 
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Armada Books
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1966
 Thunderbirds |
1966
 Calling Thunderbirds |
1966
 Thunderbirds : Ring of Fire |
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1966
 Thunderbirds Are Go |
1967
 Lady Penelope : The Albanian Affair |
World
Distributors Books
Hardbacks with Dust Jackets
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1966
 Thunderbirds : Lost World |
1966
 Thunderbirds : Operation Asteroids |
1966
 Lady Penelope : Cool For Danger |
1966
 Lady Penelope : A Gallery of Thieves |
Titan Books
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No
1 (1989)
 Thunderbirds |
No
2 (1990)
 Calling Thunderbirds |
Anderson
Entertainment Books
Hardbacks with Dust Jackets
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2021
 Terror From the Stars (Reprint of Armada 1966 'Thunderbirds') |
2021
 Peril in Peru (Reprint of Armada 1966 'Calling Thunderbirds') |
2022
 Operation Asteroids (Reprint of World Distributors 1966 book) |
Boxtree Books
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1992
 Day of Disaster |
1992
 End of the Road |
1992
 The Perils of Penelope |
1992
 Desperate Intruder |
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1992
 Cry Wolf |
1992
 Man From MI5 |
1992
 Martian Invasion |
1992
 The Imposters |
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1993
 Rescue at the Beach |
1993
 Surprise at Tracy Island |
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1992
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Young
Corgi Books
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No
1 (1992)
 The Uninvited |
No
2 (1992)
 Brink of Disaster |
No
3 (1992)
 Sun Probe |
No
4 (1992)
 Atlantic Inferno |
Carlton
Books
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No
1 (2001)
 The Uninvited |
No
2 (2001)
 Brink of Disaster |
No
3 (2001)
 Sun Probe |
No
4 (2001)
 Atlantic Inferno |
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Bumper
(2001)
 Bumper Storybook (of above four books) |
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2000
 Cry Wolf |
2000
 The Cham-Cham |
2000
 Martian Invasion |
2000
 Day of Disaster |
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2002
 Adventure Story Book Day of Disaster / Martian Invasion |
2002
 Adventure Story Book Cry Wolf / Martian Invasion / The Cham-Cham / Day of Disaster |
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2001
(Hardback)
 Classic Comic Strips from TV21 |
2000
 The Complete Book of Thunderbirds |
Ravette Books
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No
1 (1992)
 Thunderbirds ...to the Rescue |
No
2 (1992)
 Thunderbirds ...in Space |
No
3 (1992)
 Thunderbirds ...Danger Zone |
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No
4 (1992)
 Thunderbirds ...Lift Off! |
No
5 (1992)
 Thunderbirds ... in Action |
No
6 (1992)
 Thunderbirds ...Shock Wave |
Egmont Books
|
2013
(Hardback)
 The Comic Collection |
Thunderbirds
Movie
Harper Festival Books
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2004
 Thunderbirds Are Go |
2004
 Thunderbirds the Junior Novel |
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2004
 Meet the Thunderbirds |
2004
 Thunderbirds Forever! |
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2004
 Trouble on Tracy Island |
2004
 Rescue Mission |
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2004
 The Movie Storybook |
2004
 The Movie Storybook |
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2004
 The Making of the Movie |
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2004
 X-Ray Cross-Sections |
FTL
Publications Books
A series of trade size paperback novels
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No
1 (2008)
 Countdown to Action! |
No
2 (2008)
 Action Alert! |
No
3 (2009)
 Deadly Danger! |
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No
4 (2010)
 Situation: Critical! |
No
5 (2011)
 Extreme Hazard! |
No
6 (2012)
 Arctic Adventure! |
No
7 (2012)
 Danger Zone! |
Fanderson Books
|
2015
 Thunderbirds: Close-Up |
2015 Animated Series
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2015
 Official Guide |
Simon and Schuster Books
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2016
 Falling Skies |
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2015
 Crosscut |
2016
 Under Pressure |
Hachette
Jeunesse Books (France)
A set of five episode novelisations in French
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No
1 (2016)
 La ceinture de feu "The Ring of Fire" |
No
2 (2016)
 Coup de chaud ! "Hot Shot!" |
No
3 (2017)
 Course dans l'espace "Space Race" |
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No
4 (2017)
 Déconnecté "Disconnected" |
No
5 (2017)
 Les tunnels du temps "The Tunnels of Time" |