UFO theme in Thunderbirds

Wondering if anybody else caught this ?

There were three Thunderbirds compilation movies made sometime after
the series ended. One of these was called "Thunderbirds in Outer
Space" and consisted of episodes "Sun Probe" and "Ricochet". There
is a scene where the UFO theme is being played over the radio
(broadcasted by a 'pirate satellite station'). I assume this was
dubbed in afterwards, and was not the original music that was used
for that scene (of the 'Ricochet' episode). Anybody have that
individial episode on tape who can confirm this ?

[hidden email] wrote:
I think we've discussed this before, and that the outcome
was that it was dubbed in for the compilation as you suspect
.. possibly because of a copyright/royalty issue with the
original music. Anyway I have the TB DVDs so will check.

James

James Gibbon wrote:
Checked, no sign of the UFO theme! Was it dubbed in in the
scene, where the radio is heard in the kitchen, by any chance?
Because the bass line in the original piece of music there
is hopelessly out of tune in parts, by about a semitone.

--- In SHADO@y..., mike@m... wrote:
> Wondering if anybody else caught this ?
>
> There were three Thunderbirds compilation movies made sometime
after
> the series ended. One of these was called "Thunderbirds in Outer
> Space" and consisted of episodes "Sun Probe" and "Ricochet". There
> is a scene where the UFO theme is being played over the radio
> (broadcasted by a 'pirate satellite station'). I assume this was
> dubbed in afterwards, and was not the original music that was used
> for that scene (of the 'Ricochet' episode). Anybody have that
> individial episode on tape who can confirm this ?

Hello mike@m...

I checked my THUNDERBIRDS IN OUTER SPACE tape and you are right -
on two occasions they played the UFO main title. First when the two
guys on the satellite are talking before they were hit by the
explosion and then again at the end when "Ricochet" deliver his
thanks to IR. Sadly I haven't got the THUNDERBIRDS DVDs yet (have to
wait till my account allows it :-/ ), so I can't say if this was
dubbed only for this compilation.

As far as I can remember there exists no individual episodes of
"Sunprobe" and "Ricochet" on tape, only on DVD.

On the other hand I always found some UFO music on older Anderson
shows, back to STINGRAY! So it doesn't seem impossible that this
theme was composed in 1965 and later used as main title for UFO in
1969.

Hope this is of use for you.

Christian
(oh, I'm back again :-)

Christian writes:
> I checked my THUNDERBIRDS IN OUTER SPACE tape and you are right -
>on two occasions they played the UFO main title.

> On the other hand I always found some UFO music on older Anderson
>shows, back to STINGRAY! So it doesn't seem impossible that this
>theme was composed in 1965 and later used as main title for UFO in
>1969.

No, the UFO main title music *was* recorded in 1969, *for* UFO.

The UFO theme does indeed appear in THUNDERBIRDS IN OUTER SPACE,
but that compilation movie was made in 1980, and they simply
replaced the radio music heard in the original episode RICOCHET
with the UFO main theme.

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Marc Martin, [hidden email]