Hood (Thunderbirds) Hood (Thunderbirds) The Hood is the main villain and adversary of International Rescue in the "Thunderbirds" TV series. The name "Hood" was derived from the term ""; Gerry Anderson also observed that the character was frequently masked, and that a mask "could be described as a 'hood'." Sylvia Anderson acknowledges that the Hood's appearances became less regular towards the end of the series (the character is absent from the six episodes of Series Two), explaining that, like Kyrano, the character "turned out to be less viable on the screen than on the page." To strengthen the character's antagonistic appearance, the
Thunderbirds Are Go (TV series) (SVT Barnkanalen) in Sweden (as "Thunderbirds"), NRK Super in Norway (as "Thunderbirds"), DR (Ramasjang and Ultra) in Denmark (as "Thunderbirds"), MTV Juniori in Finland (as "Thunderbirds"), with Alicom appointed as the Nordic licensing agent. The series was also premiered in TVNZ (TVNZ 2) in New Zealand, Noga in Israel (with LDI as the agent), MBC (MBC3) in pan-Arab (as "ثندربيردز انطلق"), NPO Zapp in Netherlands, Télé-Québec in Canada (as "Thunderbirds : Les sentinelles de l'air"), ABC in Australia, Ketnet in Flemish Belgium (with License Connection appointed as the agent for Benelux) (as "Thunderbirds"), Minika TV in Turkey, Gloob in Brazil.