A criminal known only as the Hood places a bomb in the landing gear of a new supersonic airliner, Fireflash, hoping to draw out a newly created, privately funded emergency response team called International Rescue.
The Army is testing its new armored vehicle, the Sidewinder, when suddenly the ground gives way, and the machine falls into a burning pit. International Rescue are called in to haul it out and rescue the three-man crew on board.
International Rescue's top agent Lady Penelope and her butler Parker travel to Paris to investigate a missing scientist who has invented a new and dangerous Super Fuel, which in the wrong hands could poison the worlds oceans.
After Thunderbird 2 is heavily damaged in a mistaken attack, it leaves the team seemingly without a swift means to transport any rescue gear to New York City to save a news crew trapped underneath the collapsed Empire State Building.
The Hood has been paid by General Bron to destroy Red Arrow - a new British Fighter plane. However, two men are placed in deadly danger when the second prototype crashes into a television relay tower.
Brains and Lady Penelope find themselves involved in a rescue mission when the Arlington Bridge collapses, trapping the Martian Space rocket in the river bed.
Brains, International Rescue resident genius and inventor of the Thunderbird machines has another interest -- buried treasure, but the Hood will stop at nothing to acquire the treasure himself.
When Eddie Housman, a construction worker with ties to TinTin, gets himself trapped inside a tractor on collapsing ledge with a case of explosives beside him, International Rescue must try and save him without revealing their identities.
Scott has been dispatched in Thunderbird 1 to rescue a pair of archeologists who've become stranded in the desert. Little does he suspect they've stumbled into the secret pyramid lair of the mysterious and hostile Zombites!
When a manned space probe, on a mission to collect solar debris, gets stuck onto a collision course with the sun, its up to Thunderbird 3 to rescue the Solarnauts before it's too late.
When a banker accidentally gets locked inside the impregnable new vault at the Bank of England, International Rescue race against time to save the man before his air runs out.
The evil Hood is up to no good again, when he releases a huge cloud of radioactive material in order to photograph International Rescue's Thunderbird machines.
Thompson Tower - an entire city, contained in one enormous skyscraper - accidentally catches fire forcing Scott and Virgil to use untested equipment to save a family who have become trapped in the buildings basement.
When International Rescue is framed for a theft committed by a gang of impostors, the organization's intelligence network must clear them before the Tracy's are arrested responding to a distress call they cannot ignore.
Plans for a nuclear device have been stolen and MI.5 call International Rescue to help find them. Lady Penelope goes undercover to track down the criminal that stole the plans but is captured and left tied up with a bomb.
Two young Australian boys inadvertently call out International Rescue on a false alert. Soon the boys face real peril when the Hood traps them in a mine when trying to steal top secret images from the boys father.
International Rescue must save the crew of a new super tanker when it sails into a patch of sea harboring a fungus that reacts explosively with the vessel's cargo of liquid fuel.
Alan Tracy returns to motor racing, to test out Brains' new engine, but his rival manages to steal the car and leaves Alan and Grandma to die on an abandoned bridge with a motion sensitive bomb which will go of if either of them move.
Lady Penelope discovers her friend, the Duchess of Roysten is in need of financial assistance. Penelope helps the Dutchess to loan out her prized portrait of a gazelle to a New York tycoon. However, the Duchess is kidnapped by crooks who want the painting and the money owed to her.
Warren Grafton, a crooked investor, invites Jeff, Brains and Tin-Tin to test out a new fully-automated cross country monorail train. However, an accident causes the mono-train to speed towards a collapsed bridge with no way to stop it.
International Rescue rush to a film set to save two actors from a watery grave, unaware that the evil Hood has created the accident on purpose to film the Thunderbird machines.
After several mysterious attacks on military aircraft, Lady Penelope and Tin-Tin go undercover to investigate links to live broadcasts of the song "Dangerous Game" by the cabaret band the Cass Carnaby Five.
After returning to base from a rescue operation in England, the Tracys find a young stowaway aboard Thunderbird 2. How can they return him home without the young lad revealing all the secrets of International Rescue.
