History Recap / ThunderbirdsS1E14TheMightyAtom

** The Mighty Atom is a clever bit of spy technology, but FridgeLogic sets in when you wonder how photographing a control panel is supposed to reveal secrets about a piece of technology. As an example, do a quick Google search for a picture of an aircraft cockpit. Done that? Good. Now use it to build your own airliner.

* AwesomeButImpractical: A nuclear power plant that desalinates seawater as part of its power generation process, turning desert into arable land. Sounds too good to be true, and it is. If a fire breaks out, there is essentially no way to stop the fission process as it grows out of control until the core explodes. Even when this flaw is determined to be responsible for the destruction of one plant and a resulting nuclear disaster, ''nothing is done to address the problem when an identical plant is built''.

* MadeOfExplodium: Any incident in the nuclear plant automatically triggers a chain reaction that will cause a nuclear explosion. On that note...

* [[StayInTheKitchen Stay In Thunderbird 2]]: Lady Penelope pleads with Jeff to be allowed to go on the rescue, as she happens to be visiting the base. Eventually she is allowed to go, although she stays in Thunderbird 2 while Virgil and Scott do the dangerous work.

TheOneWith the mouse camera.

** Also, hitting a single SCRAM button will immediately drop the control rods into the reactor core to halt a runaway reaction. No need for a technician to slowly insert them one by one.

* EekAMouse

* MadeOfExplodium: Any incident in the nuclear plant automatically triggers a chain reaction that will cause a nuclear explosion.

-->'''The Hood:''' {{PunctuatedForEmphasis You stupid! Idiotic! Failure!}}

* [[StayInTheKitchen Stay In Thunderbird 2]]

When an experimental facility explodes in Australia, it gives the dastardly Hood an idea. When a similar project is brought online in the Sahara a year later, he steals a new prototype camera disguised as a mouse, and sabotages the Saharan plant, planning to draw the attention of International Rescue!

The first part of his plan goes without a hitch, but the sabotage rapidly grows out of hand and soon the entire plant is on the verge of destruction. Thunderbird 4 successfully disables the coastal section of the plant, averting a nuclear disaster, and Lady Penelope accidently defeats the Hood's mouse-cam.

* [[HappyRain Happy Storm]]: After the facility in Australia explodes, the only thing that keeps the resulting radioactive cloud from reaching Melbourne is a sudden storm.

* VillainBall: The Hood smashing the Mighty Atom counts, big time. Yes, it failed to get any usable shots of the Thunderbird craft, but it still had plenty of pictures of the atomic plant, ''which is what the Hood went there for in the first place!'' Not to mention, The Hood could easily [[NeverRecycleYourSchemes have tried to make it photograph the Thunderbirds again]] had he not smashed the mouse.

* VillainBall: The Hood smashing the Mighty Atom counts, big time. Yes, it failed to get any usable shots of the Thunderbird craft, but it still had plenty of pictures of the atomic plant, ''which is what the Hood went there for in the first place!''

* RobotBuddy: The Mighty Atom to The Hood, at least untill he angrily destroys it.

* Prequel: the first part of the episode, where The Hood destroys the facility in Australia, is chronologically set before International Rescue became operational.

* [[HappyRain Happy Storm]]: after the facility in Australia explodes, the only thing that keeps the resulting radioactive cloud from reaching Melbourne is a sudden storm.

* VillainBall: The Hood smashing the Mighty Atom counts, big time. Yes, it failed to get any usable shots of the Thunderbird craft, but it still plenty of pictures of the atomic plant, ''which is what the Hood went there for in the first place!''

* TitleDrop: ''The Mighty Atom'' is the nickname of the mouse cam.

When an experimental facility explodes in Australia, it gives the dastardly Hood an idea. When a similar project is brought online in the Sahara a year later, he steals a new prototype camera and sabotages the Saharan plant, planning to draw the attention of International Rescue!

Incidenatally, this is the only episode to feature all five Thunderbirds on screen.

The first part of his plan goes without a hitch, but the sabotage rapidly grows out of hand and soon the entire plant is on the verge of destruction. Thunderbird 4 successfully disables the coastal section of the plant, averting a nuclear disaster, and Lady Penelope accidently defeats the Hood's mouse-cam.