Reg Hill 1950s. Hill worked in all things artistic, from set and puppet design to special effects. This collaboration ended, and the production of new programs commenced, with "Four Feather Falls", a Western featuring the voice of Nicholas Parsons as Sheriff Tex Tucker. During these early years, Hill was also involved in producing Anderson's low-budget film, "Crossroads to Crime" (1960). In 1962, AP Films was bought by Associated Television director Lew Grade, and in 1966 was renamed "Century 21 Productions". It would subsequently become "Group 3 Productions" in 1972 (named after its three founders: Gerry Anderson, Sylvia Anderson, and Hill), and "Gerry
Supermarionation and produced by Roberta Leigh, and the characters were (technically) very similar to those of Gerry Anderson' s work, as he had created The Adventures of Twizzle, and Torchy The Battery Boy - both based on Ms Leigh's stories. •Refined Supermarionation techniques were used in the South African children's science fiction show "Interster" in the late 1970s. Supermarionation Supermarionation (a portmanteau of "super", "marionette" and "animation") is a style of puppetry devised in the 1960s by British television production company AP Films (APF). It was used extensively in the action-adventure puppet series produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, of which