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:
“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)
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)