| 词条 | The Cham-Cham |
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| title = The Cham-Cham | series = Thunderbirds | season = 1 | episode = 25 | airdate = 24 March 1966 | production = 25 | director = Alan Pattillo | writer = Alan Pattillo | photographer = Julien Lugrin | editor = Harry Ledger | guests = {{Plainlist|
| episode_list = List of Thunderbirds episodes | prev = Martian Invasion | next = Security Hazard }} "The Cham-Cham" is the 25th episode of Thunderbirds, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and produced by their company AP Films (APF). The penultimate episode of Thunderbirds Series One, it was written and directed by Alan Pattillo and first broadcast on 24 March 1966 on ATV Midlands. Set in the 2060s, Thunderbirds follows the exploits of International Rescue, an organisation that uses technologically-advanced rescue vehicles to save human life. The main characters are ex-astronaut Jeff Tracy, founder of International Rescue, and his five adult sons, who pilot the organisation's main vehicles: the Thunderbird machines. "The Cham-Cham" opens with a United States Air Force plane being shot down during a radio broadcast of the instrumental "Dangerous Game" by popular musical group the Cass Carnaby Five. International Rescue suspect sabotage, and Lady Penelope, Tin-Tin and Parker travel to the Swiss Alps to investigate the band's current tour venue, the mountain resort Paradise Peaks. There, they discover that the RTL2 attacks are being co-ordinated with the aid of an advanced computer called a "Cham-Cham". Filmed in late 1965, "The Cham-Cham" has a show business theme and was written in the style of classic Hollywood musicals.[1] It features several innovations in APF's use of marionette puppets. One scene features the Penelope character performing a slow dance, which was a challenge to film due to the difficulty in moving Supermarionation puppets convincingly.[2][3] "The Cham-Cham" is also the first episode of any Supermarionation series to show characters skiing.[1] "Dangerous Game", the focus of the episode's soundtrack, was devised as a Latin rhythm by series composer Barry Gray. Singer Ken Barrie recorded a lyrical version but this is not heard in the finished episode.[5] "The Cham-Cham" has been well received by commentators, drawing particular praise for its production design and soundtrack. Sylvia Anderson considered the plot "far-fetched" but valued the episode for its "charm" and Swiss Alps setting.[6] An audio version of the episode was released in 1967.[7] PlotA succession of RTL2 aircraft flying missile shipments out of Matthews Field USAF Base have been shot down by enemy fighters soon after take-off. On Tracy Island, Alan (voiced by Matt Zimmerman) realises that all the attacks have occurred while the popular band the Cass Carnaby Five were performing their instrumental "Dangerous Game" on live radio. Alan and Brains (voiced by David Graham) examine a recording of the latest broadcast to find out whether the music contains a hidden code that is being used to direct the attacks. Jeff (voiced by Peter Dyneley) assigns Lady Penelope, Parker and Tin-Tin (voiced by Sylvia Anderson, David Graham and Christine Finn) to investigate Paradise Peaks, a luxury Swiss Alps hotel currently playing host to Cass Carnaby and his group. The trio arrive at the resort undercover, with Penelope posing as a singer called "Wanda Lamour" and Parker securing a job as a waiter. Penelope and Tin-Tin learn that Carnaby's manager, the mysterious Mr Olsen, changes the arrangement of "Dangerous Game" for each broadcast. Skiing down the mountain to Olsen's private lodge, Penelope and Tin-Tin film him operating a strange device that is converting musical notes into a message stating the date and time of the next RTL2 flight. Noticing Penelope and Tin-Tin, Olsen telephones his associate — a waiter called Banino — and orders him to kill the agents. Parker overhears the conversation and grabs Banino's sniper rifle before the waiter shoots Penelope and Tin-Tin from a ridge. Losing their balance, Parker and Banino tumble down the mountain (forming a giant snowball in the process) until Banino is knocked out. On Tracy Island, Brains identifies Olsen's device as a "Cham-Cham", an ultrasonically-sensitive computer that Olsen is using to send coded radio transmissions. Jeff relays International Rescue's findings to Washington, D.C., but the Matthews Field commander refuses to postpone the next RTL2 flight. That evening, the Cass Carnaby Five start to perform Olsen's latest arrangement of "Dangerous Game" live on-air. The RTL2 flight seems doomed until Penelope, in the guise of Wanda Lamour, appears on stage and begins singing a lyrical version, devised by Brains, which contains a new set of coded instructions. Deciphering the radio transmission, the personnel at the airbase that has been launching the attacks unwittingly direct their fighters into the airspace over Maxwell Field. Arriving at the scene in Thunderbird 1, Scott (voiced by Shane Rimmer) alerts the commander and USAF fighters are launched to shoot down the enemy. Fearing Olsen's retribution, Jeff dispatches Virgil (voiced by David Holliday) and Alan in Thunderbird 2 to bring Penelope, Tin-Tin and Parker home. As the agents leave Paradise Peaks in a cable car, Olsen cuts the lines at the terminus, causing the car to speed out of control down the mountain. Thunderbird 2{{'}}s magnetic grabs fail to connect with the car, so Virgil and Alan release a set of guide cables from the aircraft's underbelly. Climbing onto the roof of the car, Parker uses the handle of Penelope's umbrella to hook the cables, which he attaches to the car. Virgil and Alan fire Thunderbird 2{{'}}s retro-rockets, bringing the car to a halt. Parker is thrown off the car by the braking force but uses the umbrella to "parachute" gently to the ground. Back at Paradise Peaks, Cass treats everyone to a private piano recital of "Dangerous Game". ProductionFilmed in November and December 1965,[1] "The Cham-Cham" was the second-to-last episode of Thunderbirds Series One to be produced. Scriptwriter Alan Pattillo devised a show business plot and the exotic setting of the Paradise Peaks resort in an attempt to emulate classic Hollywood musicals.[2] As an in-joke, Pattillo named Lady Penelope's alias, Wanda Lamour, after APF puppet operator Wanda Brown.[2] APF had always found it difficult to make Supermarionation puppets walk convincingly, so rarely showed this action openly on-screen. Instead, the puppet operators created an illusion of walking by holding the puppets by the legs (which were kept out of shot) and moving the puppets up and down using a "bobbing" motion.[1] For the scene in "The Cham-Cham" where Penelope glides across the Paradise Peaks ballroom while singing "Dangerous Game", Brown worked the puppet from the stage while fellow puppet operator Christine Glanville controlled its wired top portion from an overhead gantry.[3] Gerry Anderson remembered that before filming this episode APF had never shown puppets skiing, but thought that Penelope and Tin-Tin's journey to Olsen's lodge looked suitably realistic.[2] Anderson himself invented the "ski thrusters" used by the characters during their return to Paradise Peaks.[2] Praising Bob Bell's production design, Anderson commented that the episode "gave [APF's] art and design departments a chance to show what they could really do, and they didn't let us down."[2]Composer Barry Gray created a Latin rhythm for the tune "Dangerous Game".[4] Originally all performances by the Cass Carnaby Five were to have been a lyrical version sung by Ken Barrie, but for the finished episode this was replaced with a number of instrumental versions.[5] Sylvia Anderson based her singing voice on that of Marlene Dietrich.[6] The shots of Penelope and Tin-Tin skiing to Olsen's lodge are accompanied by an incidental track called "Happy Flying" that was originally composed for the Supercar episode "Amazonian Adventure".[7] As with "Attack of the Alligators!", which had been filmed immediately prior, this episode's technical complexity caused production to end behind schedule and considerably over-budget.[2][3][1] To make up for the lost time and extra costs, the scriptwriters turned the final episode of Series One into a clip show, "Security Hazard", which would make extensive use of flashbacks to earlier episodes to reduce the amount of new footage that would need to be filmed.[3][8] Reception{{Quote box|quoted=1|quote=We tried to do things in that picture that we hadn't done before, such as Penelope dancing a slow foxtrot. It was an experimental production, but was great fun to do.|salign=right|source=— Alan Pattillo (2000)[2]|width=26%|align=right}}Sylvia Anderson considered "The Cham-Cham" to be one of the series' best episodes and a rival to "Attack of the Alligators!" in terms of quality.[6] On her website, she commented: "Even though the plot is far-fetched, it has charm and, because of the lovely Swiss mountain setting, has credibility."[6]Simon Archer and Marcus Hearn, authors of What Made Thunderbirds Go! The Authorised Biography of Gerry Anderson, describe "The Cham-Cham" as "perhaps the most lavish-looking episode of the series", naming the skiing scenes and Penelope's rendition of "Dangerous Game" as "unforgettable images".[8] Tom Fox of Starburst magazine gives the episode a score of 4 out of 5.[9] He praises the production design and the cable car rescue, arguing that they make up for the "tenuous" plot.[9] Like Archer and Hearn, he finds Parker's umbrella descent entertaining.[8][9]Stephen La Rivière, author of Filmed in Supermarionation: A History of the Future, praises the episode's technical standards, remarking that the skiing and dancing scenes "[fly] in the face of what puppets can and can't do."[1] He sums up "The Cham-Cham" as a "glorious example of Thunderbirds at its best, combining all the elements that made the show so popular: the characters, the adventure, the rescues and, of course, the humour."[10] He suggests that the episode's humour has intergenerational appeal, arguing that Parker's subtle double entendres are balanced by slapstick moments such as the character's "Mary Poppins"-style descent with the umbrella.[1] In a review of the CD release of the Thunderbirds soundtrack, Morag Reavley of BBC Online describes Sylvia Anderson's singing as "slinky, sexy and slightly off-key, like a hung-over Zsa Zsa Gabor".[11] Heather Phares of AllMusic judges "Dangerous Game" to be a highlight of the release, commenting that the instrumental version "[reflects] the Sixties' ongoing fascination with exotica and Latin pop" while its lyrical counterpart "could be a kissing cousin to seductive spy themes like 'Goldfinger'."[4] Media historian Nicholas J. Cull interprets "The Cham-Cham" as a product of the Cold War era, noting the "Central/Eastern European accents" of the enemy airbase personnel.[12] Audio adaptationAn audio version of the episode, narrated by David Graham as Parker, was released in March 1967 as the Century 21 mini-LP Lady Penelope.[13] Footnotes1. ^1 2 3 4 5 La Rivière 2009, p. 128. 2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Bentley 2005, p. 30. 3. ^1 2 3 Bentley 2005, p. 31. 4. ^1 {{Cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/thunderbirds-original-tv-soundtrack-mw0000593528|title=Thunderbirds: Volume 1 AllMusic Entry|last=Phares|first=Heather|work=AllMusic|publisher=All Media Network|location=San Francisco, California|accessdate=13 March 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131122015125/http://www.allmusic.com/album/thunderbirds-original-tv-soundtrack-mw0000593528|archivedate=22 November 2013 |deadurl=no}} 5. ^1 {{Cite web|author=Titterton, Ralph; Ford, Cathy; Bentley, Chris; Gray, Barry|title=Barry Gray Biography|url=http://www.lampmusic.co.uk/downloads/barry_gray_biog.pdf|format=.pdf|work=lampmusic.co.uk|accessdate=3 March 2010|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008155846/http://www.lampmusic.co.uk/downloads/barry_gray_biog.pdf|archivedate=8 October 2008|deadurl=yes}} 6. ^1 2 3 {{Cite web|last=Anderson|first=Sylvia|authorlink=Sylvia Anderson|title=Thunderbirds – Episode Guide|url=http://www.sylviaanderson.org.uk/html/episode_guide.html|work=sylviaanderson.org.uk|accessdate=3 March 2010|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503080402/http://www.sylviaanderson.org.uk/html/episode_guide.html|archivedate=3 May 2008 |deadurl=yes}} 7. ^{{Cite web|title=Thunderbirds Episode Guide (Series One)|url=http://www.fanderson.org.uk/epguides/tbirdseg5.html|publisher=Fanderson|location=Bradford, UK|accessdate=3 March 2010|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716234053/http://www.fanderson.org.uk/epguides/tbirdseg5.html|archivedate=16 July 2011|deadurl=no}} 8. ^1 2 {{Cite book | last1 = Archer | first1 = Simon | author1-link = Simon Archer (author) | last2 = Hearn | first2 = Marcus | title=What Made Thunderbirds Go! The Authorised Biography of Gerry Anderson | year = 2002 | publisher = BBC Books | location = London, UK | isbn = 978-0-563-53481-5 | page=128}} 9. ^1 2 {{Cite journal | title=Starburst Special | issue=65 | author=Fox, Tom | date=August 2004 | publisher=Visual Imagination | location=London, UK | editor=Payne, Stephen | issn=0955-114X | oclc=79615651 | page=53}} 10. ^La Rivière 2009, p. 127. 11. ^{{Cite web|last=Reavley |first=Morag |title=Thunderbirds Original Soundtrack Review |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/6hw6 |work=BBC Online |accessdate=3 March 2010 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5nwSCWnKu?url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/6hw6 |archivedate= 3 March 2010 |deadurl=no |df= }} 12. ^{{Cite journal|last1=Cull|first1=Nicholas J.|authorlink=Nicholas J. Cull| date=August 2006 |title=Was Captain Black Really Red? The TV Science Fiction of Gerry Anderson in its Cold War Context|journal=Media History|volume=12|issue=2|page=200|publisher=Routledge|issn=1368-8804|oclc=364457089|doi=10.1080/13688800600808005}} 13. ^1 Bentley 2005, p. 88. References
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