Four Feather Falls scripts and asked her husband, Nicholas Parsons, to help by reading some of the other parts, including the sheriff Tex Tucker. Anderson liked Parsons' interpretation and offered him the job of providing Tex's speaking voice. Notes Citations Bibliography 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
Nicholas Parsons episode "Mr Jolly Lives Next Door", in which he had the misfortune to encounter two incompetent escort agency directors (Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson in their usual cheerfully violent, dipsomaniac personas) followed by the psychopathic and misnamed Mr Jolly himself (played by Peter Cook). In 1989 he featured in the long-running BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who" as the doomed Northumberland vicar Reverend Wainwright in the Seventh Doctor serial "The Curse of Fenric". Parsons later provided a commentary for the DVD release of the serial. Another guest role in 1989 was in "The New Statesman", where he played the