Supermarionation a puppet hand, suspended by wires, operating the controls of "Thunderbird 1". The term "Supermarionation" was not coined until during production of later episodes of "Supercar". As a result, "Four Feather Falls" is often omitted from lists of Supermarionation productions. Two feature films based upon "Thunderbirds" were also made with Supermarionation: "Thunderbirds Are Go" (1966) and "Thunderbird 6" (1968). Numerous episodes of "Thunderbirds", "Captain Scarlet", and other series were also edited together (sometimes with the addition of new narration) to form movie-length features for VHS release and TV syndication in the 1980s. "The Secret Service" was actually a hybrid of
Nicholas Parsons West End, further starring in the revival the following year. He then toured with the production intermittently from 1994-1996. In April 2005 he was the guest presenter on the BBC comedy news show "Have I Got News for You" and over the next decade guested on many other television shows as a speaker and an entertainer including as Father Gorman in "Marple: The Pale Horse" and "Celebrity Mastermind" in December 2007. "Just a Minute" transferred to television in 2012 for a ten-part early-evening series to celebrate its 45th anniversary, with Parsons and regular panellist Paul Merton. Parsons wrote an autobiography