Tripp (Travis Wester) and Roxette (Johna Stewart-Bowden) find themselves on Hacker Command, a space station orbiting Thunderworld. Their job is to monitor the world and report to International Rescue when danger arises, usually from a scheme from The Atrocimator (Tim Curry) and his assistant The Hood (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.).

John and René are in their twenties, close friends but different enough for René to be nicknamed Thunderbird, while John remains just plain John. John feels irresistibly drawn into Thunderbird's orbit, but René isn't all flash. He actually longs to share John's plainness and quiet calm.

Antonin and Leonor are hunting larks. He is as submissive as his sister is voracious. One day, a dog attacks them.

When a pirate radio station in orbit malfunctions and plummets towards Earth, International Rescue must save the DJ on board and prevent the craft from crashing into a populated area.

Brains and Tin-Tin embark on an expedition to Lake Anasta in search of sunken treasure, but the Hood will stop at nothing to seize the spoils for himself.

In this documentary, the members of the University of British Columbia's Thunderbirds hockey team travel to China to demonstrate their skills to the new teams in the East. While hockey there still has a long way to go, this film leaves no doubt that the Chinese players are up to the challenge. A film propelled by discoveries, it goes a long way to providing insight into the differences between East and West.

While returning to base, Scott is attacked by mysterious fighter aircraft and shot down over the Sahara. Discovered by two archaeologists, they soon find themselves in search of the legendary lost Pyramid of Khamandides.

The retro rockets fail on a manned mission to retrieve matter from a solar prominence, putting the spaceship on a collision course with the Sun. Thunderbird 3 and Thunderbird 2 are sent on a dual mission to transmit a radio signal that will remotely activate the Sun Probe's retros.

International Rescue rushes to a movie set to save two actors from a watery grave, unaware that the Hood has orchestrated the accident as a means of filming the Thunderbird machines.

After being reprimanded by International Rescue for sending them a false alert, two Australian boys are trapped by the Hood in a mine when he tries to steal secret photos from their father.