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
Forrest Tucker continued to be active on stage as well, starring in the national productions of "Plaza Suite", "Show Boat" and "That Championship Season". Tucker returned to the big screen, after an absence of several years, in the Cannon Films action film "Thunder Run" (1986), playing the hero, trucker Charlie Morrison. His final film appearance was "Outtakes", a low-budget imitation of "The Groove Tube". Tucker, who had battled lung cancer for more than a year, as well as having a series of minor illnesses, collapsed and was hospitalized, for the second time in a week, on his way to the ceremony for