User Reviews

By this time in the series, Mr. Roake is more god than man, pulling off impossible transformations, sending people back in time, appearing in two places at once ... and in this episode ... teleporting a woman from the cockpit of a Thunderbirds fighter jet to his office.

The earlier years of the show were, I believe, better, when the stories were about things one might actually arrange, given the time and money ... although I'll have to say the Bill Bixby segment of the pilot may have been a hint of things to come in later years.

In this episode a guy's fantasy is to sleep with a "Playpen" playmate. I'm not sure that's such an unusual fantasy. But he bets his two friends he will. Of course, she finds out about the bet.

In the other, the gorgeous Mary Ann Mobley wants to fly with the Thunderbirds ... and even more ... would like to fly one of the jets herself. They mixed some Native American mumbo jumbo in for no good reason whatsoever. LOL.

This wasn't a poor episode by any stretch, and there is some decent writing, but overall, I found it too light and boring. The faces include Mary Ann Mobley, Lydia Cornell, otherwise known as Lydia Korniloff, John James, Edd Byrnes, Tim Rossovich, and a fake Indian named Iron Eyes Cody, who's really an Italian guy named Espera Oscar DeCorti. The REALLY boring story titled "The Big Bet" has Corky Daniels(Corky, really?), played by James, after a woman(Cornell), considering he just bet his pals that he'll score with her. When she accidentally finds this out, guess what she does? She sleeps with him anyway, in order to "punish" him for using her. What morals she has! This 1982 episode was just before AIDS became a public scare, but up until then, everyone was jumping in and out of the sack. The other story, "Nancy and the Thunderbirds", is not about a rock band, but about Nancy Carsons(Mobley)trying to fulfill a prophecy to her adopted Native American father, played by DeCorti. If you're expecting an intriguing prophecy, you may be in for a letdown, because it's about her flying a jet. What kind of silly prophecy is that? I'll give the story props for originality, but I didn't feel it made any sense. Lastly, it's evident to me that Mr. Roarke and boring Julie don't have much chemistry as he did with Tattoo, who is missing yet again.