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To mark Thunderbirds Day, Anderson Entertainment has released two new audio collections of adventures – the TV Century 21 Audio Annual and Thunderbirds vs the Hood – which are also available now via Big Finish.

The Thunderbirds disc is adapted from the original comic strips:

The Vanishing Ray

When Lady Penelope gets a strange new invention in the post, evil nemesis The Hood and MI5 soon come calling…

And now it’s up to her ladyship and the stalwart Parker to solve the mystery of the vanishing ray!

Brains is Dead

International Rescue is rocked by the death of one of their own when Brains is the victim of a seemingly motiveless murder in New York, but before the team have a chance to come to terms with this loss they find themselves facing an all-out attack against Tracy Island. Their oldest enemy is about to make his most devastating move against them – and among his new allies is a very familiar face…

The Audio Annual focuses across the Supermarionation shows:

Thunderbirds: Four Hours to Eternity, narrated by Nicholas Briggs

A daring heist goes badly wrong, trapping two crooks in a high-security vault with only four hours of air left. International Rescue are soon on the scene but the vault’s steel walls prove too tough for even the Mole to penetrate. Could this be the Thunderbirds team’s first failure?

Thunderbirds: Aquaphobia, narrated by Wayne Forester

Searching for sunken treasure, a bathysphere is forced to stop as it reaches its maximum depth tolerance. However, one of the men on board will stop at nothing to reach the lost prize, even if it means risking his life, and he’s not about to let Gordon Tracy stand in his way.

Stingray: Aquacade Emergency, narrated by Nicholas Briggs

Surface Agent X-2-Zero means to use an upcoming Aquacade celebration to destroy Troy Tempest and Stingray. A mock sea battle suddenly becomes a deadly reality when the demonstration weapons are substituted for the real thing.

Stingray: Marineville Must Go, narrated by Nicholas Briggs

Relics of a lost civilisation are thought to be buried somewhere under Marineville and government orders are issued for their recovery. There’s only one problem: to reach the relics, Marineville’s Control Tower must be demolished and Commander Shore will do whatever it takes to stop that from happening!

Captain Scarlet: Mirror of Vengeance, narrated by Wayne Forester

Determined to starve half of the world’s population, the Mysterons threaten to destroy all the fish in the sea and rivers. Utilising an incredible new satellite equipped with devastating hyper-high frequency sonar waves, they begin their attack. This time even Captain Scarlet may be unable to stop them.

Captain Scarlet: The Midas Menace, narrated by Wayne Forester
The gold vaults of Fort Knox are targeted by the Mysterons in an attempt to destabilise the world’s financial base. Spectrum mobilises an army of personnel and equipment to counter the threat but the Mysterons are already one step ahead and Spectrum’s efforts may be in vain.

Joe 90: The Cracksman, narrated by Wayne Forester
A near-fatal air crash leaves Joe 90 believing that he is really the master cracksman whose brain pattern he had received for his latest mission. Taken in by the real cracksman’s disbelieving criminal associates, Joe is soon asked to put his talents to a sinister use. Will he regain his mind before it’s too late?