#Team america tim robbins series#

'We said, 'What? Jonathan Frakes is directing puppets?' and then we found out it was a live-action version, and we were disappointed,' said Parker. Riker on Star Treak: The Next Generation.

#Team america tim robbins series#

Trey Parker and Matt Stone got the idea to make Team America around 2002 (three years after Bigger, Longer and Uncut, in which, due to the 'hassle' of the film, they vowed to never do another film, which they decided against when it came to Team America), when they were bored and decided to go channel surfing and came across Thunderbirds reruns and then remembered they had seen it as kids, but were not fans because 'the dialogue was so expository and slow, and it took itself really seriously.' The duo, now mesmerized by the concepts of the series, then decided to go digging about the rights to the series and found out about a film of the series Universal Pictures was doing directed by Jonathan Frakes, known for playing William T. Perennially popular, the series is still shown today and has inspired a number of subsequent television programmes and films. Set in the mid to late 2020s, The series focused on the head of the organization, ex-astronaut Jeff Tracy, and his five sons who piloted the 'Thunderbird' machines. The series followed the adventures of International Rescue, an organization created to help those in grave danger using technically advanced equipment and machinery. It is a British mid-1960s television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films (season 1) and Century 21 Productions (season 2) using a form of marionette puppetry dubbed 'Supermarionation'.

Team America is based on and was inspired by Thunderbirds. Thunderbirds, like Team America, was filmed and made by using puppets.