Posted by jamesgibbon on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Cigarettes-cigars-everyone-tp1503830p1503834.html

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:11:00 -0000
"Mastomy" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I was in high school in early 70's when this show was on - did
> everyone smoke? The first thing that struck me after watching all the
> DVD episodes was that in every episode smoking was epidemic. We
> should have a contest to count how many times Straker/Freeman "lit up"
> in a particular episode.
>

A zeitgeist thing really. Of course smoking WAS much more common back
then, but a few decades ago, smoking in films and TV series was a sort of
badge of style and sophistication; film-makers used it to embody their
characters with an aura of manly cool. Even the Thunderbird puppets
liked the occasional ciggie.

If I remember correctly, Gerry Anderson considered having the cigarettes
digitally removed from the remastered Thunderbirds DVD release, but the
cost was found to be prohibitively expensive.