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
Nicholas Parsons West End, further starring in the revival the following year. He then toured with the production intermittently from 1994-1996. In April 2005 he was the guest presenter on the BBC comedy news show "Have I Got News for You" and over the next decade guested on many other television shows as a speaker and an entertainer including as Father Gorman in "Marple: The Pale Horse" and "Celebrity Mastermind" in December 2007. "Just a Minute" transferred to television in 2012 for a ten-part early-evening series to celebrate its 45th anniversary, with Parsons and regular panellist Paul Merton. Parsons wrote an autobiography