High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Cham-Cham" is the 25th episode of the 1960s Supermarionation television series Thunderbirds. One of the final instalments of Series One, it first aired in the United Kingdom on ATV Midlands on 24 March 1966. Alan Pattillo both scripted and directed the episode, which starts with the latest in a number of United States Air Force (USAF) planes being shot down during the radio broadcast of a hit pop song. International Rescue suspects sabotage, and Lady Penelope, Tin-Tin and Parker are dispatched undercover to investigate the band`s latest tour venue — a deluxe hotel in the Swiss Alps.