Review The Secret Service

[michaellevenson]

The final Gerry Anderson tv show with puppets until Terrahawks. The Secret Service is either regarded as a hidden gem, or a rare Anderson flop.
Comedian Stanley Unwin stars in the flesh, and voices a puppet of himself in a weird mix of live action and supermarionation.
13 episodes about a clergyman who really is a secret agent working for BISHOP, a branch of British Intelligence. Unwin devised a unique gobbledygook language for his character to use to fool enemy agents. This language was famous in his comedy routines, a mix of spoonerisms and impenetrable, or nearly impenetrable nonsense.

 

[michaellevenson]

 

[michaellevenson]

Stanley Unwin's routine was well known, Gerry Anderson 's idea of using it in a spy show was either inspired or dumb, not sure which. Here is Unwin telling the story of Goldilopper and the three bearloaders.