https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1e848ewnlno BBC Homepage * Skip to content * Accessibility Help * Your account * Home * News * Sport * Earth * Reel * Worklife * Travel * More menu More menu Search BBC * Home * News * Sport * Earth * Reel * Worklife * Travel * Culture * Future * Music * TV * Weather * Sounds Close menu BBC News Menu * Home * Israel-Gaza war * War in Ukraine * Climate * Video * World * US & Canada * UK * Business * Tech More * Science * Entertainment & Arts * Health * In Pictures * BBC Verify * World News TV * Newsbeat * England * Regions * Berkshire Unseen Thunderbirds films found in garden shed A black and white image of the original Thunderbirds, with nine of the puppets standing on the set.Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Most of Thunderbirds was filmed on the Slough Trading Estate Daisy Stephens BBC News * Published 7 October 2024 Film cans containing unseen footage of the Thunderbirds TV show have been found in a garden shed. A family found the cans - light-tight containers used to enclose film - in a Buckinghamshire shed belonging to their father, who was an editor on the show and died recently. Stephen La Riviere, from Century 21 Films which received the 22 old cans, said they mainly contained Thunderbirds material from the 1960s, including an alternative version of an episode that was never broadcast. It is hoped the footage - filmed on the Slough Trading Estate in Berkshire - can be shown to the public as part of the series' 60th anniversary next year. A rusty metal container with a pink label on it saying the material inside is from an episode of Thunderbirds called Trapped In The Sky. It has branding on it from 'Incorporated Television Company Limited'. Image source, Century 21 Films Image caption, The film cans were found in a garden shed Mr La Riviere said he was contacted by the family last year. He said they were difficult to identify because of their condition but "clearly the majority of it was Thunderbirds". The only way to get a proper look at the material was to transfer it to digital, and so began the "very, very slow" process of scanning it. "It took weeks, bit-by-bit," said Mr La Riviere. "Every night I'd get a link for a download of the latest one that had been scanned... you'd never know what you'd get." A metal container that has appeared to split open at the side, exposing the film reels inside.Image source, Century 21 Films Image caption, The film can had been damaged, exposing it to the elements A lot of the material was the same as what had been aired. "Eventually, listening one night... this one played out and it was not the same as broadcast," Mr La Riviere said. He said it turned out to be an alternative edit of an existing episode which had a previously unseen scene. Mr La Riviere said the film can was damaged, exposing the contents to the elements, so there was some restoration work to do on the material first. But then he hoped it could be shown to the public in 2025, after 60 years of "lying around waiting to be discovered". Get in touch Do you have a story BBC Berkshire should cover? Contact form Contact form You can follow BBC Berkshire on Facebook, external, X (Twitter), external, or Instagram, external. Related topics * Berkshire * Slough More from the BBC * Thunderbirds are go... again. 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