as flashbacks.Clip show episode including flashbacks to "Emergency Marineville", "Raptures of the Deep" and "Subterranean Sea". }} }} In a first for a Supermarionation series, Stingray included a Christmas episode, "A Christmas to Remember", and a clip show series finale, "Aquanaut of the Year". Before they could make "Aquanaut of the Year", APF required the approval of American TV producer Ralph Edwards, as the premise of the clip show borrows creative elements from Edwards' This Is Your Life. When correspondence with Edwards took longer than expected, work began on an alternative clip show in which the regular characters watch film recordings of some of Stingrays past missions. The filming of that episode was halted when APF was given permission to proceed with "Aquanaut of the Year". Special episodes APF subsequently used the framing material from the abandoned clip show to create a TV film called the "Feature Presentation". Written and directed by Alan Pattillo, this comprises four complete episodes and was privately screened for Japanese TV executives visiting the APF studio. It has never been broadcast on TV. The framing material was rediscovered in late 2000 or early 2001 and later included on Stingray DVD releases.Archer and Hearn, p. 100. Several years later, BBC Wales and Granada International produced a condensed version of the Feature Presentation titled "The Reunion Party", which includes material from three episodes and was broadcast on BBC Four as part of a "Gerry Anderson Night" in 2008. Compilation films In the early 1980s, two Stingray compilation films were produced by ITC New York. These were made for American TV and later released on home video. They were televised as part of an ITC package branded "Super Space Theater", which also included compilations from other Supermarionation series. Each of the Stingray films consists of re-edited versions of four of the original episodes. The second film, Invaders from the Deep, was broadcast as the first episode of movie-mocking TV comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000 in 1988. Characters WASP personnel and allies Captain Troy Tempest (voiced by Don Mason): pilot of the WASP's flagship submarine, Stingray. "Phones" (voiced by Robert Easton): a WASP lieutenant, Stingrays navigator and hydrophone operator, and Troy's best friend. His real name, George Lee Sheridan, is mentioned in the series' publicity material but never spoken on-screen. Marina: a young woman from under the sea who joins the Stingray crew. She was enslaved by King