Stingray (1964 TV series) to HO". The process of designing and making the puppets took four months and each of the main characters was sculpted in duplicate to allow two episodes to be filmed simultaneously using both puppet stages. The likenesses of some of the puppets were inspired by real-life actors: Titan was based on a young Laurence Olivier and Surface Agent X-2-0 on either Claude Rains or Peter Lorre. Troy Tempest was modelled on James Garner at Gerry Anderson's suggestion. Atlanta Shore has been likened to Lois Maxwell (who voiced the character) and Marina to both Brigitte Bardot and Ursula Andress. "Stingray" was
The Tempest the play was written before, after, or at the same time as "The Winter's Tale", the dating of which has been equally problematic. Edward Blount entered "The Tempest" into the Stationers' Register on 8 November 1623. It was one of 16 Shakespearean plays that Blount registered on that date. There is no obvious single origin for the plot of "The Tempest"; it seems to have been created out of an amalgamation of sources. Since source scholarship began in the 18th century, researchers have suggested passages from "Naufragium" ("The Shipwreck"), one of the colloquies in Erasmus's "Colloquia Familiaria" (1518), and Richard