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
Tex and the Lord of the Deep In the early 1980s, Duccio Tessari took on the project that was initially conceived as a pilot for a television series produced by RAI, Italy's national public broadcasting company. Giuliano Gemma was cast as Tex who had worked with Tessari on several films in the past, including "A Pistol for Ringo", "My Son, the Hero", "Kiss Kiss...Bang Bang" and "The Cats". Tessari and his screenwriters focused on three stories from the "Tex" comics with fantastic undertones. These included "El Morisco", "Sierra Encantada" and "Il signore dell'abisso" which were written by Bonelli and drawn by Guglielmo Letieri. Filming took place between