All Boys Cry Wolf

"Cry Wolf" is an episode of Thunderbirds, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company AP Films for ITC Entertainment. Written by Dennis Spooner and directed by David Elliott, it was first broadcast on 27 January 1966 on ATV Midlands as the 18th episode of Series One. In the official running order, it is the 21st episode. The episode had its first UK‑wide network broadcast on 31 January 1992 on BBC2. Set in the 2060s, Thunderbirds follows the missions of International Rescue, a secret organisation which uses technologically advanced rescue vehicles to save human life. The lead 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. International Rescue's work is repeatedly disrupted by master criminal the Hood. In "Cry Wolf", two young Australian brothers who hero-worship the Tracy brothers get carried away during a game of "International Rescue" and transmit a false distress call. Thunderbird 1 is dispatched to their location in the Outback and pilot Scott Tracy discovers that no one needs rescuing. The misunderstanding is amicably resolved, but when the Hood traps the brothers in a collapsing mine and steals satellite reconnaissance from their father – a tracking station controller – the boys call International Rescue to report a real emergency, only to find that the Tracys do not believe them.