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 he was awarded an honorary LLD by the university in 1991. He was also awarded an honorary DA by the University of Leicester in 2007, and an honorary DL by the University of Lincoln in 2014. He held the Guinness World Record for the longest after-dinner speech (11 hours) until it was reclaimed by former holder Gyles Brandreth. On November 25, 2018, at the Grosvenor House hotel Parsons was announced to be "King Rat" of the Grand Order of Water Rats for 2019. Nicholas Parsons Christopher Nicholas Parsons (born 10 October 1923) is an English radio and television presenter and