Tracy Island, the Glossary
Tracy Island is the secret headquarters of the International Rescue organisation in the 1960s British Supermarionation television series Thunderbirds and its adaptations.[1]
Table of Contents
82 relations: Aloysius Parker, Anse Lazio, Anthea Turner, Arecaceae, BBC Archives, BBC Books, BBC News Online, BBC Online, BBC Two, Berghahn Books, Blue Peter, Brains (Thunderbirds), Brazil (1985 film), British International Motor Show, Canonical, Cold War, Condé Nast, Coventry Telegraph, Den of Geek, Dennis Publishing, Derek Meddings, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Elsevier, FAB 1, Fallingwater, Forbes, Ford Motor Company, Frank Lloyd Wright, GQ, Haymarket Media Group, Hood (Thunderbirds), Immediate Media Company, Imperialism, Integrated circuit, Jim White (journalist), Kyrano, Lagardère Publishing, Lancashire Post, Los Angeles Times, Manchester Evening News, Mark Huffam, Matchbox (brand), Mid-century modern, North Island, Seychelles, Oscar Niemeyer, Pacific Ocean, Pinewood Studios, Praslin, PRWeek, Radio Times, ... Expand index (32 more) »
- Fictional elements introduced in 1965
- Fictional secret bases
- Retrofuturism
- Thunderbirds (TV series)
Aloysius Parker
Aloysius "Nosey" Parker is a fictional character introduced in the British 1960s Supermarionation television series Thunderbirds, who also appears in the film sequels Thunderbirds Are Go (1966) and Thunderbird 6 (1968) and the 2004 live-action adaptation Thunderbirds.
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Anse Lazio
Anse Lazio is a beach situated in the northwest of Praslin Island, Seychelles, considered by Lonely Planet to be the "best beach on Praslin", and one of the "best in the archipelago".
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Anthea Turner
Anthea Turner (born 25 May 1960) is an English television presenter.
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Arecaceae
The Arecaceae is a family of perennial, flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales.
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BBC Archives
BBC Archives are collections documenting the BBC's broadcasting history, including copies of television and radio broadcasts, internal documents, photographs, online content, sheet music, commercially available music, BBC products (including toys, games, merchandise, books, publications, and program releases on VHS, Beta, Laserdisc, DVD, vinyl, audio cassette, audio book CD, and Blu Ray), press cuttings, artifacts and historic equipment.
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BBC Books
BBC Books (also formerly known as BBC Consumer Publishing and BBC Publishing) is an imprint majority-owned and managed by Penguin Random House through its Ebury Publishing division.
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BBC News Online
BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.
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BBC Online
BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.
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BBC Two
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.
Berghahn Books
Berghahn Books is a New York and Oxford–based publisher of scholarly books and academic journals in the humanities and social sciences, with a special focus on social and cultural anthropology, European history, politics, and film and media studies.
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Blue Peter
Blue Peter is a British children's television entertainment programme created by John Hunter Blair.
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Brains (Thunderbirds)
Brains is a fictional character introduced in the British mid-1960s Supermarionation television series Thunderbirds, who also appears in the sequel films Thunderbirds Are Go (1966) and Thunderbird 6 (1968) and the 2004 live-action adaptation Thunderbirds.
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Brazil (1985 film)
Brazil is a 1985 dystopian science-fiction black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard. Tracy Island and Brazil (1985 film) are retrofuturism.
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British International Motor Show
The British International Motor Show was an annual (bi-biennial after 1976) motor show held by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) between 1903 and 2008 in England.
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Canonical
The adjective canonical is applied in many contexts to mean 'according to the canon' the standard, rule or primary source that is accepted as authoritative for the body of knowledge or literature in that context.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Condé Nast
Condé Nast is a global mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast (1873–1942) and owned by Advance Publications.
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Coventry Telegraph
The Coventry Telegraph is a local English tabloid newspaper.
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Den of Geek
Den of Geek is a US and UK-based website covering entertainment with a focus on pop culture.
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Dennis Publishing
Dennis Publishing Ltd. was a British publisher.
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Derek Meddings
Derek Meddings (15 January 1931 – 10 September 1995) was a British film and television special effects designer.
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Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Dr.
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Elsevier
Elsevier is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content.
FAB 1
FAB 1 is a pink, six-wheeled car seen in the 1960s British science-fiction television series Thunderbirds, its three film adaptations and its reboot, Thunderbirds Are Go. Tracy Island and FAB 1 are fictional elements introduced in 1965 and Thunderbirds (TV series).
Fallingwater
Fallingwater is a house designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator.
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GQ
GQ (which stands for Gentlemen's Quarterly and is also known Apparel Arts) is an international monthly men's magazine based in New York City and founded in 1931.
Haymarket Media Group is a privately held media company headquartered in London.
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Hood (Thunderbirds)
The Hood is a fictional criminal and terrorist and the recurring villain of the 1960s puppet television series Thunderbirds and its adaptations.
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Immediate Media Company Limited (styled as Immediate Media Co) is a British multinational publishing house that publishes a significant range of titles, including Radio Times, BBC Top Gear, BBC Good Food and a host of others.
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Imperialism
Imperialism is the practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural imperialism).
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Integrated circuit
An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip, computer chip, or simply chip, is a small electronic device made up of multiple interconnected electronic components such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors.
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Jim White (journalist)
Jim White (born 1957) is a British journalist and presenter.
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Kyrano
Kyrano is a fictional character featured in the 1960s British Supermarionation television series Thunderbirds and its 2004 live-action film adaptation.
Lagardère Publishing
Lagardère Publishing is the book publishing arm of Lagardère Group.
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Lancashire Post
The Lancashire Post is a daily newspaper based in Fulwood, a suburb of the city of Preston, Lancashire, England.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Manchester Evening News
The Manchester Evening News (MEN) is a regional daily newspaper covering Greater Manchester in North West England, founded in 1868.
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Mark Huffam
Mark Huffam CBE, is a Northern Irish film and television producer.
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Matchbox (brand)
Matchbox is a toy brand which was introduced by Lesney Products in 1953, and is now owned by Mattel, Inc, which purchased the brand in 1997.
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Mid-century modern
Mid-century modern (MCM) is a movement in interior design, product design, graphic design, architecture and urban development that was popular in the United States and Europe from roughly 1945 to 1970 during the United States's post-World War II period.
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North Island, Seychelles
North Island is a small granitic island (2.01 km2) in the Seychelles.
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Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (15 December 1907 – 5 December 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer, was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
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Pinewood Studios
Pinewood Studios is a British film and television studio located in the village of Iver Heath, England.
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Praslin
Praslin is the second largest island (38.5 km2) of the Inner Seychelles, lying northeast of Mahé.
PRWeek
PRWeek is a trade magazine and news website for the public relations and wider communications industry.
Radio Times
Radio Times (currently styled as RadioTimes) is a British weekly listings magazine devoted to television and radio programme schedules, with other features such as interviews, film reviews and lifestyle items.
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Reach plc
Reach plc (known as Trinity Mirror between 1999 and 2018) is a British newspaper, magazine and digital publisher.
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Retrofuturism
Retrofuturism (adjective retrofuturistic or retrofuture) is a movement in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future produced in an earlier era.
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Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719.
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Self-adhesive plastic sheet
Self-adhesive plastic sheet, known in the United Kingdom as sticky-backed plastic, is wide plastic sheet or film with an adhesive layer on one side, used as a surface coating for decorative purposes.
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Seychelles
Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles (République des Seychelles; Seychellois Creole: Repiblik Sesel), is an island country and archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands (as per the Constitution) in the Indian Ocean.
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Seychelles Nation
The Seychelles Nation is a daily newspaper in Seychelles.
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Smart toy
A smart toy is an interactive toy which effectively has its own intelligence by virtue of on-board electronics. Tracy Island and smart toy are electronic toys.
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Supermarionation
Supermarionation (a portmanteau of the words "super", "marionette" and "animation")La Rivière 2009, p. 67.
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Telegraph Media Group Limited (TMG; previously the Telegraph Group) is the proprietor of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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Thunderbirds (2004 film)
Thunderbirds is a 2004 science fiction action-adventure film directed by Jonathan Frakes, written by William Osborne and Michael McCullers, and based on the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.
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Thunderbirds (TV series)
Thunderbirds is a British science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, filmed by their production company AP Films (APF) and distributed by ITC Entertainment.
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Thunderbirds Are Go (TV series)
Thunderbirds Are Go is a science fiction television programme produced by ITV Studios and Pukeko Pictures.
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Thunderbirds machines
The Thunderbirds machines are a series of fictional vehicles that appear in the mid-1960s film and television series Thunderbirds. The series was developed by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. Tracy Island and Thunderbirds machines are fictional elements introduced in 1965 and Thunderbirds (TV series).
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Tie-in
A tie-in work is a work of fiction or other product based on a media property such as a film, video game, television series, board game, web site, role-playing game or literary property.
Tim Bevan
Timothy John Bevan, (born 20 December 1957) is a New Zealand-British film producer, the co-chairman (with Eric Fellner) of the production company Working Title Films.
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Tin-Tin Kyrano
Tin-Tin Kyrano is a fictional character introduced in the 1960s British Supermarionation puppet television series Thunderbirds.
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Toy Retailers Association
The Toy Retailers Association (formerly British Association of Toy Retailers) is a trade association that represents its members in the UK & Ireland.
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Trapped in the Sky
"Trapped in the Sky" is the first episode of Thunderbirds, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company AP Films (APF) for ITC Entertainment.
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TV Century 21
TV Century 21, later renamed TV21, TV21 and Tornado, TV21 and Joe 90, and TV21 again, was a weekly British children's comic published by City Magazines during the latter half of the 1960s.
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TV Zone
TV Zone was a British magazine that was published every four weeks by Visual Imagination that covered cult television.
Utopia
A utopia typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its members.
Vallée de Mai
Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve ("May Valley") is a nature park and UNESCO World Heritage Site on the island of Praslin, Seychelles.
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VHS
The VHS (Video Home System) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC).
Visual Imagination
Visual Imagination Ltd. was a British company that produced genre magazines.
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Vivid Imaginations
Vivid Imaginations is a British toy manufacturer, distributor and wholesale company, based in Guildford, Surrey.
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Wired UK
Wired UK is a bimonthly magazine that reports on the effects of science and technology.
WWE action figures
WWE action figures are poseable action figures based on wrestlers and personalities of WWE.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
Z-Cars
Z-Cars or Z Cars (pronounced "zed cars") was a British television police procedural series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, near Liverpool.
See also
Fictional elements introduced in 1965
- Arrakis
- Bene Gesserit
- FAB 1
- Fremen
- Helicarrier
- Hydra (comics)
- Melange (fictional drug)
- Norn Stones
- Sandworm (Dune)
- Savage Land
- Spacing Guild
- Thunderbirds machines
- Tracy Island
Fictional secret bases
- Batcave
- Fortress of Solitude
- Tracy Island
Retrofuturism
- Amazon Women on the Moon
- Americathon
- Ascension (miniseries)
- Barbarella (film)
- Bonk Business
- Brazil (1985 film)
- Brewster Rockit: Space Guy!
- Caprica
- Cassette futurism
- Dieselpunk
- Fallout (American TV series)
- Fallout (franchise)
- Formicapunk
- Freedom Project
- Googie architecture
- Hello Tomorrow!
- Kung Fury
- List of films set in the future
- List of stories set in a future now in the past
- Mars Attacks!
- Perry Rhodan
- Project Moonbase (podcast)
- Raygun Gothic
- Raygun Gothic Rocketship
- Retrofuturism
- Retrotronics
- Secret Secret
- Simon Stålenhag
- Space Station 76
- Steampunk
- Tales from the Loop (role-playing game)
- The Incredibles
- The Mercury Men
- The Rocketeer (character)
- Theme Building
- Tomorrowland (Disney Parks)
- Tracy Island
- Vampire Hunter D
Thunderbirds (TV series)
- FAB 1
- Thunderbirds (TV series)
- Thunderbirds machines
- Tracy Island
- Zero-X
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Island
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