Welcome to Four Feather Falls
Meet Tex Tucker and the town in our official introduction to the puppet Western.
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Four Feather Falls
Sheriff Tex Tucker has four magic feathers and a town to protect. Step into a musical miniature Western where talking animals, outlaws and an inventive new approach to puppetry helped shape the Anderson future.
- 39 episodes
- First broadcast in 1960
- An AP Films original based on an idea by Barry Gray
Four Feather Falls
Where to begin
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A Western with a difference
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Characters
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Tex Tucker
Four Feather Falls’ sheriff keeps the peace with quick judgement and four magic feathers. Two allow his companions to speak; the others let his guns fire without his hands, giving this Western hero a touch of the impossible.
- Role: Sheriff of Four Feather Falls
Rocky
Tex’s horse is a travelling companion who can answer back. The feathers give Rocky a voice, turning rides across the frontier into part of the series’ conversation and comedy.
- Companion: Tex Tucker
Dusty
Tex’s loyal dog shares Rocky’s gift of speech. Dusty helps make the sheriff’s small team a partnership, with friendship at the centre of their work around the town.
- Companion: Tex Tucker
Pedro
Pedro is one half of the town’s recurring troublemaking duo. His schemes with Fernando supply a comic counterpoint to Tex’s dependable judgement and the more dangerous outlaws passing through.
- Partner in mischief: Fernando
Fernando
Fernando joins Pedro in plans that rarely survive contact with the sheriff. David Graham’s performance is part of the varied voice work through which the small frontier town becomes a lively community.
- Voice: David Graham
Four Feather Falls
Places
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The town of Four Feather Falls
The frontier settlement gives the series its name and its recurring stage. Shops, the sheriff’s office and the surrounding countryside make a compact world where strangers, neighbours and outlaws continually cross paths.
- Sheriff: Tex Tucker
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A quick introduction
Discover the story, production and distinctive world of Four Feather Falls in this official Gerry Anderson introduction.
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From the archive
The story of Four Feather Falls
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A Western with a little magic
Welcome to Four Feather Falls, a frontier town with an unusually resourceful sheriff. Tex Tucker keeps the peace with the help of four magic feathers, two self-firing guns and a horse and dog who can talk. The setting may be the Old West, but the combination of everyday danger and extraordinary invention is unmistakably Anderson.
The series first aired in 1960 and comprises 39 short episodes. Its stories mix Western adventure, songs and comic troublemaking, with Tex ready to stand between the town and anyone who threatens it.
Tex Tucker and the townsfolk
Tex's horse Rocky and dog Dusty are companions as well as helpers, bringing conversation and comedy to journeys beyond the town. The often inept Pedro and Fernando supply recurring trouble, while other visitors and outlaws provide less predictable challenges.
Despite the compact running time, these adventures have room for gunfights, cattle rustlers, dangerous landscapes and questions about whether a suspicious stranger is really a villain. Tex's job calls for judgement as well as a quick response.
A turning point for AP Films
Following its work on Roberta Leigh's Twizzle and Torchy, AP Films made Four Feather Falls from an idea by composer Barry Gray. It was an important step towards developing the company's own worlds.
The puppets also marked a technical advance. Electronic equipment inside their heads synchronised mouth movement with recorded dialogue, developing the approach that became central to Supermarionation. Four Feather Falls therefore connects the early toy stories with the more ambitious productions that followed, including Supercar and Fireball XL5.
Where to begin
Approach Four Feather Falls as a lively puppet Western in its own right. Its appeal lies in the townspeople, the humour and the inventive miniature filmmaking as much as in its place in television history.
Discover the magic of Four Feather Falls, or follow the archive into a story that never reached the screen: a rediscovered unfilmed script.
Dates and legacy
The series first aired on 25 February 1960. Its sixtieth anniversary fell in 2020, followed by its sixty-fifth in 2025. Those milestones offer a chance to revisit a production whose small-town world helped establish the techniques behind much larger adventures.
For the broader chronology, explore the guide to Gerry Anderson's television shows.
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