A ttention all nostalgia buffs infatuated with 1960s kids’ TV: get ready for a serious wallow. This package offers a reissue of two episodes, about 50 minutes each, from the first 1965 season of Thunderbirds, the sci-fi/adventure series performed entirely with puppets and scale-model sets, a format that creators Gerry and Sylvia Anderson called “Supermarionation”. Most readers will probably already be familiar with the basic premise, but for gen Z and Alpha types out there, the idea is that the all-male Tracy family, led by former astronaut paterfamilias Jeff (voiced by Peter Dyneley), operate a private international rescue business with mysteriously unclear sources of funding that sends various super hi-tech vehicles (the titular Thunderbirds) to bail out people in jeopardy. Indeed kids,

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