In , AFS announced an expansion in production and sales staff for the year. Five new properties were acquired by the company and all received pilots, with two set for syndication if not placed nationally. Two were to be produced by John Gibbs and Meridian Pictures, "Renfrew of the Mounted" and "Ripley's Believe It or Not!", while Rabco's Bernard Fox was assigned with "Forest Ranger". The two pilots set for production were "The Americano", directed by Martin Gosch and filmed in Spain, and "The Force" produced by Victor Stoloff about the plain clothed Canadian Mounties division. Two shows, "Code 3" and "The Three Musketeers" were already under production for syndication. One of AFS's earliest successes was "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle", produced largely in Mexico by Nassour Studios and starring Irish McCalla as the comic-book heroine. Even though only 26 episodes were filmed, the series ran for years in reruns on local stations, in kiddie-show time slots.