Nicholas Parsons 4 June 2018 (when regular guest Gyles Brandreth replaced him for 2 episodes), and has presented the show in six different decades. The programme's longevity is arguably due in part to the host's ability to be a chairman, create laughs and to act as a straight man to the comedians who participate. In the 1950s, Parsons provided the non-singing voice of Tex Tucker in the children's TV puppet series "Four Feather Falls" at the suggestion of his then wife, actress and voiceover artiste Denise Bryer, who was in the show. During the late 1960s he created and presented a satirical
Supermarionation of the puppets ... to give their 'acting' the integrity to match the material." David Garland, author of the essay "Pulling the Strings: Gerry Anderson's Walk from 'Supermarionation' to 'Hypermarionation'" (2009), calls character movement Anderson's "" and comments that the puppets' limited mobility resulted in "vehicle-heavy science fiction [becoming] Anderson's preferred genre". He considers the use of marionettes – "the type of puppet perhaps most unsuited" to an action format, to be "one of the most striking paradoxes" of the Anderson puppet series. In many cases, the puppets were modelled on their voice actors. Two examples are Lady Penelope in