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
Tex and the Lord of the Deep In the early 1980s, Duccio Tessari took on the project that was initially conceived as a pilot for a television series produced by RAI, Italy's national public broadcasting company. Giuliano Gemma was cast as Tex who had worked with Tessari on several films in the past, including "A Pistol for Ringo", "My Son, the Hero", "Kiss Kiss...Bang Bang" and "The Cats". Tessari and his screenwriters focused on three stories from the "Tex" comics with fantastic undertones. These included "El Morisco", "Sierra Encantada" and "Il signore dell'abisso" which were written by Bonelli and drawn by Guglielmo Letieri. Filming took place between