September 30, 1965 –
Gerry Anderson’s supermarionation take on The Tracy family business, Thunderbirds premiered on this date in the UK.
According to Guinness World Records 2008, the character of Jeff Tracy holds the record for the “Highest Earning TV Character“, said to be worth an estimated $50 billion; assets included maintenance of Tracy Island, all the Thunderbird machines, and so on. Tracy’s enormous wealth came from inheriting his family’s agricultural-business which he built-up and diversified to include civil and construction engineering. Not from the fact he was an astronaut.
The Haus of Dcaligari 