Four Feather Falls Four Feather Falls 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
Supermarionation characters – played by puppets known as "revamps" – were sculpted in Plasticine. The term "Supermarionation" was coined during the production of APF's fourth series, "Supercar", whose final 13 episodes were the first to be credited as being "Filmed in Supermarionation". The system used marionettes suspended and controlled by thin wires. As the wires were visible to the camera, the puppeteers attempted to conceal them by spraying them with "antiflare" (grease mist) or painting them various colours so that they would blend in with the backgrounds. The marionettes' two distinguishing features were their fibreglass heads and the internal solenoids that