Supermarionation "Thunderbirds", who closely resembled Sylvia Anderson, and Captain Blue in "Captain Scarlet", who looked like Ed Bishop (the similarity was reportedly coincidental). Other characters were based on well-known film actors: Troy Tempest of "Stingray" was based on James Garner, Scott Tracy of "Thunderbirds" on Sean Connery and Captain Scarlet on Cary Grant. "Stingray" also featured the only non-speaking Supermarionation puppet: the water-breathing woman Marina. Occasionally, close-ups of a live actor's hand would be inserted to show actions such as turning keys and pressing buttons. This was affectionately parodied in the 2004 live-action feature film "Thunderbirds", with a brief shot of
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