Grandma Tracy is a fictional character

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 in the television series Thunderbirds

Thunderbirds (TV series)

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. The puppet

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 was voiced by Christine Finn

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.

Little is known about Grandma Tracy's past, and her real name is never mentioned on screen with all the characters, even sometimes her son Jeff calling her "Grandma". As a young girl, her grandmother took her round London and she travelled on the London Underground, a fact that would prove useful later for International rescue ("Vault Of Death"). She was married to a Kansas wheat farmer but became widowed some time before International Rescue begun and helped Jeff bring up his five sons after the untimely death of his wife. During International Rescue's early days she lived alone, near San Miguel, Colorado, however she began miss feeling useful so decided to move to Tracy Island.

Shortly after winning the Parola Sands Race, her Grandson Alan Tracy

Alan Tracy

Alan Tracy is a fictional character from Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation television show Thunderbirds and the subsequent films Thunderbirds Are GO and Thunderbird 6. The character also appeared in the 2004 live action movie Thunderbirds....

 picks her up so she can move to Tracy Island. Unfortunately, a racing competitor of Alan's takes revenge and Grandma finds herself having to sit still on a bridge spanning the San Miguel River with Alan due to a bomb that has been placed under the bridge to exact revenge. If either of them moved, the bomb would detonate. She and Alan are rescued by her grandsons, allowing Grandma to see first hand the work that her family did, and she moved into the Tracy home ("Move And You're Dead").

As the family matriarch, Grandma keeps her family together, offering wisdom and advice for her family and the others in the household such as Tin-Tin

Tin-Tin Kyrano

Tin-Tin Kyrano is a character in the mid-1960s British television show Thunderbirds. In the original TV series and its original movie adaptations, Tin-Tin, like the other characters, is portrayed using a marionette, and Christine Finn provided her voice....

. It is Grandma who is instrumental in keeping Alan and Tin-Tin togethr when one of Tin-Tin's old flames pays a visit ("End Of The Road"). Together with Kyrano

Kyrano

Kyrano is a fictional character from the television series Thunderbirds and the 2004 feature film based on it.Kyrano is the father of Tin-Tin and the half brother of The Hood and acts as a manservant in the Tracy household, sharing domestic duties with Grandma Tracy...

 and sometimes Tin-Tin, Grandma takes care of the domestic chores in the Tracy house, though she can sometimes be confused by all the technological gadgetry, getting tracking bugs mixed into her apple pie at one point ("The Uninvited"), though she is able to work a nuclear oven ("Give Or Take A Million").

Although not an active part of International Rescue, Grandma still plays a role when need be. She has been known to help her grandsons put together what equipment they need ("Sun Probe") and it is her who comes up with a solution for a rescue mission in the Bank of England when everyone else is stuck ("Vault Of Death"). She also attends filming of the Ned Cook Show episode in which he thanks International Rescue for saving him ("Terror In New York City"). Throughout her years, Grandma has never visited a stately home but hopes to do so, especially after meeting Lady Penelope.

Grandma's chronology is somewhat confusing in the series, in that she does not move to Tracy Island until "Move And You're Dead" (production episode #9), despite being mentioned in "Sun probe" (production episode #4) and featuring in production episodes #5,#6,#7 and #8. In original broadcast order, Grandma appears in even more episodes before the story of "Move And You're Dead" is aired.

Grandma featured briefly in the animation film, Thunderbird 6

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but not the 2004 live action Thunderbirds film, instead being replaced by a character called Onaha, who was Kyrano's wife.

Appearances

• "The Uninvited"
• "The Mighty Atom"
• "Vault Of Death"
• "Operation Crash-Dive"
• "Move And You're Dead"
• "Terror In New York City"
• "End Of The Road"
• "Day Of Disaster"
• "Desperate Intruder"
• "The Man From MI5"
• "Cry Wolf"
• "The Duchess Assignment"
• "Attack Of The Alligators"
• "The Cham Cham"
• "Lord Parker's 'Oliday"
• "Ricochet"
• "Give Or Take A Million"
• "Thunderbird 6
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