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Lady Penelope and her butler Parker are on a holiday in an Italian
village that's supposed to be the first ever that's going to be totally
solar-powered. But even at the evening of its premiere, the solar
reflector crashes and slides halfway down the hill it was positioned on
... reflecting the moonlight into the city during the night and this way
providing a pretty romantic atmosphere. However, Lady Penelope is
convinced the reflector is likely to just burn the village to cinders once
it reflects the sun, so she calls International rescue for help. However,
how not to alarm the guests of the hotel she's staying at and cause a
panic? To this end, she has her butler play bingo with them all morning,
posing as a lord. In the meantime, International Rescue takes care of the
reflector, and they even obscure the sun using exhaust gas of their
Thunderbirds to buy themselves a little more time ... The
premise of this episode is interesting, even if a solar-powered city
doesn't exactly spell excitements, and the (rather clichéd) subplot of
the butler posing as a lord should be good for some light amusement, but
ultimately this just turns out to be a rather weak episode that doesn't
provide nearly enough suspense, action or special effects to hold one's
interest for too long.
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