Four Feather Falls
| Four Feather Falls | |
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| Genre |
Action Adventure Children's Fantasy Western |
| Created by |
Gerry Anderson Barry Gray |
| Directed by | Gerry Anderson David Elliott Alan Pattillo |
| Voices of |
Denise Bryer Kenneth Connor David Graham Nicholas Parsons |
| Ending theme | "Two Gun Tex of Texas" sung by Michael Holliday |
| Composer(s) | Barry Gray |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 39 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Gerry Anderson |
| Cinematography |
Arthur Provis John Read |
| Editor(s) | Bert Rule Alan Pattillo |
| Camera setup | Single |
| Running time | 12–13 minutes |
| Production company(s) | AP Films |
| Distributor | Granada Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV |
| Picture format |
Black and white Film (35 mm) |
| Audio format | Mono |
| Original release | 25 February – 17 November 1960 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Supercar |
Four Feather Falls was the third puppet TV show produced by Gerry Anderson for Granada Television. It was based on an idea by Barry Gray, who also wrote the show's music. The series was the first to use an early version of Anderson's Supermarionation puppetry. Thirty-nine 13-minute episodes were produced, broadcast by Granada from February until November 1960. The setting is the late 19th-century fictional Kansas town of Four Feather Falls, where the hero of the series, Tex Tucker, is a sheriff. The four feathers of the title refers to four magical feathers given to Tex by the Indian chief Kalamakooya as a reward for saving his grandson: two allowed Tex's guns to swivel and fire without being touched whenever he was in danger, and two conferred the power of speech on Tex's horse and dog.
Tex's speaking voice was provided by Nicholas Parsons, and his singing voice by Michael Holliday. The series has never been repeated on British television, but it was released on DVD in 2005.
American Western television shows such as Wagon Train and Gunsmoke were popular with British audiences, therefore Gerry Anderson and his business partner Arthur Provis decided to make a cowboy series, based on an idea offered to them by Barry Gray. Anderson considered the puppets with static heads, made by Christine Glanville for his earlier productions, to be unacceptable because the viewer could not tell which character was talking unless its puppet moved up or down. Anderson's aim was to make the puppets look as realistic as possible, the beginning of the Supermarionation puppetry process, although that term was not coined until his next series, Supercar.
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