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 entitled "The Straight Man: My Life in Comedy", which was published in 1984, and he produced a book of memoirs in 2010 called "Nicholas Parsons: With Just a Touch of Hesitation, Repetition and Deviation". He appears annually at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe presenting his comedy chat show "The Happy Hour" at the Cabaret Bar at the Pleasance, and has done so since 2001. Parsons is the oldest intermittent broadcaster on BBC Radio (4). Sir David Attenborough is the next oldest intermittent broadcaster on BBC TV and radio. From 1988 to 1991, Parsons served as Rector of the University of St