History Recap / ThunderbirdsS1E25TheChamCham

* TheCastShowoff: This episode shows that, in addition to voice acting, Sylvia Anderson can definitely sing as well.

TheOneWith the jazz combo.

The US military is growing increasingly impatient at the repeated loss of his missile-transport aircraft. Despite rigid security, every flight is gunned down by mysterious fighter aircraft. International Rescue attempt their own investigation, and their attention is rapidly drawn to the Cas Carnaby Five, a caberet group currently performing from the Paradise Peaks Hotel, high in the Alps. The group's smash hit, "Dangerous Game", has been playing each time the transport craft have been shot down.

Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward travels to the hotel under the pseudonym "Wanda Lamour", along with Tin Tin Kyrano as her assistant. Parker disguises himself as a barman, and the trio attempt to find out if there's a connection between the musical group and the transporters. They discover than Olsen, the band's musical manager, has a nearby chalet, in which a vast computer translates words into music. This machine - a Cham-Cham - is how Olsen uses the Cas Carnaby Five to transmit the locations of the transporters to the enemy airfield.

Armed with this discovery, International Rescue call the USAF and warn them. Sadly, the general in charge is disinclined to listen to some crackpot shouting about "Music! It's encoded in the music!" and orders the operation to go ahead. Without options, International Rescue work out the code and Wanda Lamour takes the stage. By shifting the pattern of the song, the interceptor fighters are redirected over the USAF airbase, where they are taken apart by the base's defences. Furious about being thwarted, Olson plans to kill Wanda Lamour by sabotaging the ski lift.

* TheCastShowoff: This episode shows that, in addition to voice acting, Sylvia Anderson can definately sing as well.

* HumanSnowball: Parker and Olson's henchman Banino end up in one.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Banino is not seen or mentioned again after Parker suggests Lady Penelope that they hide his unconscious body in the storage closet for the moment. OutOfSightOutOfMind indeed.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Banino is not seen or mentioned again after Parker suggests Lady Penelope that they hide his unconscious body in the storage closet for the moment. Out of sight, out of mind indeed.

* BlondGuysAreEvil: Olson is blond.

* TheCastShowoff: we learn in this episode that besides voice acting, Sylvia Anderson can definately sing as well.

* StuckOnASkiLift: With the bad guy cutting the cable.

* {{Blackmail}}: Parker blackmails his old aquintance Maxie, who now runs a talent agency, into arranging a concert for Wanda Lamour in the Paradise Peaks hotel by threatening to expose Maxie's current location to a guy named "Punchy" Patterson.

* CrazyJealousGuy: Downplayed this time. Alan is much less blatantly jealous about Tin Tin taking a shine to Cas Carnaby, though he clearly isn't too happy about it.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome - "Dangerous Game".

* YouHaveToBelieveMe: International Rescue's warnings about the next transporter being in danger fall to deaf ears, untill Scott flies to the airfield in thunderbird 1 to personally deliver the message.

* ButtMonkey: Parker ''really'' gets it this episode.

* ButtMonkey" Parker ''really'' gets it this episode.

* ButtMonkey - Parker ''really'' gets it this episode.

* CassandraTruth - IR to the USAF general.

* LoungeLizard - Lady P. goes undercover as one of these.
* ThePowerOfRock - Avant le lettre.
* StuckOnASkiLift - With the bad guy cutting the cable.

* Blackmail: Parker blackmails his old aquintance Maxie, who now runs a talent agency, into arranging a concert for Wanda Lamour in the Paradise Peaks hotel by threatening to expose Maxie's current location to a guy named "Punchy" Patterson.

Armed with this discovery, International Rescue call the USAF and warn them. Sadly, the general in charge is disinclined to listen to some crackpot shouting about "Music! It's encoded in the music!" and orders the operation to go ahead. Without options, International Rescue work out the code and Wanda Lamour takes the stage. By shifting the pattern of the song, the interceptor fighters are redirected over the USAF airbase, where they are taken apart by the base's defences.

* HumanSnowball

* [[ParasolParachute Umbrella Parachute]]

Armed with this discovery, International Rescue call the USAF and warn them. Sadly, the general in charge is disinclined to listen to some crackpot shouting about "Music! It's encoded in the music!" and orders the operation to go ahead. Without options, International Rescue work out the code and Wanda Lamour takes the stage. By shifting the pattern of the song, the interceptor fighters are redirected over the USAF airbase, where they are taken apart by the base's defences.