TV Series

Series Name:	The Secret Service
Format:	TV Series
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Years:	1969
Country:	UK
Language:	English
Genre:	Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Rating:	10.0 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	8 Have Seen, 1 Wishlist
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Selected Cast	Stanley Unwin as Father Stanley Unwin (voice and live action)
	Gary Files as Matthew Harding (voice)
	Jeremy Wilkin as The Bishop (voice)
	Keith Alexander as Agent Blake (voice)
	Sylvia Anderson as Mrs. Appleby (voice)

Notes

The last of the Gerry Anderson Supermarionation series, this short-lived program was cancelled by studio head Lew Grade over fears star Stanley Unwin's use of comedic gibberish would alienate US viewers. Unwin (who plays a character of the same name) not only provides the voice for his marionette doppleganger, but as the series makes greater use of live-action footage than previous Supermarionation shows, he was also filmed in wide angle shots. Gerry Anderson would attempt one further Supermarionation series, a pilot titled The Investigator in the early 1970s, before retiring the format to focus on live-action series; production of Secret Service happened at the same time as UFO.

Comments and Reviews


zabadak 28th May 2015		Ahhhh yes, I vaguely remember this one - just that Unwin did something somewhere... :read:



Monolith 28th May 2015		Strange in a weird way.



23skidoo 28th May 2015		Bizarre one this where Gerry Anderson tried to combine the puppets with live action. It must have been quite the shock for viewers to watch the opening credits and see the live-action Unwin looking at them! On YouTube there is an alternate version of the credits (Unused? I don't know as I've only seen bits and pieces of this show) where they used the marionette version instead.

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Supermarionation series produced by Gerry Anderson - 8 TVs - List by 23skidoo

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