Four Feather Falls - U.K. title
A 1958-1959 British television
production [Associated Puppet Films, Granada Television (London)]
Producers: Gerry Anderson (Gerry
Abrams), Sylvia Anderson (Sylvia Thamm)
Directors: Gerry Anderson (Gerry
Abrams), David Elliott, Alan Pattillo
Story: Barry Gray (John Eccles)
Teleplay: Philip Wrestler (Abraham
Wrestler), Roberta Leigh (Rita Shulman), Gerry Anderson (Gerry Abrams), Arthur
Provis, Barry Gray (John Eccles)
Photography: Arthur Provis, John
Read [black & white]
Music: Barry Gray (John Eccles)
Song: “Four Feathers Falls”
Michael Holliday (Norman Milne)
Running time: 15 minutes x 39
episodes
Cast:
Tex Tucker, Rocky, Dusty, Pedro,
Ma Jones, Little Jake, Grandpa Twink, Fernando, Dan Morse, Marvin Jackson, Red
Scalp, Makooya, Chief Klamakooya, Big Bad Ben, Doc Haggerty, Slim Jim, Sarah
Jones, Rattlesnake, Sheriff Jameson, Mister Huckenbacker, Comanche Indian
brave, Indian Jack, Zeke Harman, Whitey Strut, bartender, Zack Morrill, Ike
Burns, Johnny, Morge Fenton, Abe Weeks, Joe Voise, Reub Voise, Ike Tobin, Billy
Pinto, Cass Morgan, Lucky Chance, Matt Ames, Brad Martin, Jee Ward, Mr. Scagg,
Mr. Wright, Medicine Man, Missouri Mike, Buck Reevers, Lightnin’ Lew, Bart
Stevens, Silver City Sheriff, William J. Haddon
Sheriff Tex Tucker maintains peace
in Four Feather Falls, Kansas with the aid of four magic feathers which allow
his dog and horse to talk and his guns to swivel and fire automatically
whenever he is danger.
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.[1] 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 the Indian chief Kalamakooya as a reward for saving his grandson: two
allowed Tex's guns to swivel and fire without being touched whenever he was in
danger, and two conferred the power of speech on Tex's horse and dog.
Tex's speaking voice was provided
by Nicholas Parsons, and his singing voice by Michael Holliday.
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