Home Video Releases
A&E Home Video has released all of the Thunderbirds episodes on DVD in Region 1. Individual sets were issued in 2001, each one being two-disc and featuring six episodes (except for the final volume, which only has three episodes and features bonus material on its second disc). These discs were combined for a "complete series" box set in 2002. In 2004, the movies Thunderbirds Are Go and Thunderbird 6 were released on DVD, both individually and together in an "International Rescue Collection" that featured both movies. A new box set of the series, featuring slim-pack cases, was released in early 2008. More recently, the series has been released in Region 2 territories on Blu-ray, but this release has come under fire for cropping the episodes into a 16:9 aspect ratio, so as to better fit widescreen television sets (all other releases of the series have been in the 4:3 aspect ratio which is truer to how the episodes were originally aired, though even the 4:3 releases are cropped slightly. However, the Region 2 Blu-ray release of the series is region-free and will work on any Blu-ray machine.
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