Tag / Gerry and Sylvia Anderson

F.A.B for Thunderbirds  My sister, my brother and I used to love Thunderbirds when we were little. Those were the days before Video Recorders and we’d rush inside, even on a hot summer’s day, draw the curtains and sit down enthralled for half an hour. Afterwards we’d hurtle back out into the garden, singing the theme tune at the tops of our voices and yelling  “F.A.B.” to each other. Such is the imagination of young children that the trees we used to climb became the Thunderbird vehicles: the tall Sycamore Tree was Thunderbird 1, the Copper Beech Thunderbird 2. I can’t remember...

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