The link between The Wormton Lamb and Thunderbirds
I’ve just discovered that Thunderbirds explored the issues of growth hormones getting into the environment before I did with The Wormton Lamb . For Christmas my wonderful sister got me the Thunderbirds DVD boxed set and when I mentioned this to my friends a number of them said, “Oh yes, Attack of the Alligators – they were real baby crocodiles you know.” I could recall Pit of peril (walking army thing falls into a hole) , The man from MI5 (Lady Penelope helps a secret agent called Bunsen - or Bondson!)and Move and your dead (the road racing one) but Attack of the Alligators escaped me. Well, thanks to the bad weather outside I’ve now worked my way sequentially to this episode and it’s a tropical version of The Wormton Lamb with alligators and International Rescue. Apart from that there’s little resemblance and I can’t imagine Gerry Anderson taking me to court like Henry Lincoln and Michael Baigent did to Dan Brown over The Da Vinci Code . The basic plot is that a wonder chemical ...