Reception
It was the one episode that gave us so much trouble. We had to work night and day ... We had a lot of fun, but it was a lot of heartache trying to get to do what you wanted them to do.
Derek Meddings (1993)"Attack of the Alligators!" remains a popular episode of Thunderbirds. Co-creator Sylvia Anderson cites it as her favourite episode, while critic Stephen La Rivière notes its plot as one of the most unusual in the series. Lew Grade, chief of ITC Entertainment, which distributed Thunderbirds, expressed his delight with the filming when he visited the AP Films Studios during a recording session.
Since "Attack of the Alligators!" and a later episode, "The Cham-Cham", exceeded their budgets, the writing staff re-scripted the final instalment of Series One of Thunderbirds into a clip show, "Security Hazard". This episode makes extensive use of flashback footage to earlier episodes, which reduced costs.
Thunderbirds scriptwriter Dennis Spooner adapted the premise of "Attack of the Alligators!" for an episode of the The New Avengers in 1976. The episode "Gnaws" features a giant rat, grown to a monstrous size from the contamination of a water source due to a lethal chemical, which proceeds to attack humans.
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)