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 of the puppets ... to give their 'acting' the integrity to match the material." David Garland, author of the essay "Pulling the Strings: Gerry Anderson's Walk from 'Supermarionation' to 'Hypermarionation'" (2009), calls character movement Anderson's "" and comments that the puppets' limited mobility resulted in "vehicle-heavy science fiction [becoming] Anderson's preferred genre". He considers the use of marionettes – "the type of puppet perhaps most unsuited" to an action format, to be "one of the most striking paradoxes" of the Anderson puppet series. In many cases, the puppets were modelled on their voice actors. Two examples are Lady Penelope in