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
The Uninvited (Thunderbirds) open and quickly lift off in "Thunderbird 1". "Thunderbird 1" and "Thunderbird 2" clear the area just before the final explosion destroys the pyramid. "The Uninvited" was the fifth episode of "Thunderbirds" to be produced. Originally filmed in late 1964 as a 25-minute episode, in January the following year it was extended to 50 minutes to satisfy AP Films' sponsor Lew Grade, who had been impressed with the pilot episode and ordered that all episodes of "Thunderbirds" be re-written to fill a one-hour timeslot. The additional material for "The Uninvited", which had originally been titled "Desert of Danger", consists of