Now then, this is where things start to get interesting. In my opinion, The Feathered Spies is The Secret Service starting to find its own voice. The blend of humour, quaintness, action, and intrigue all starts to balance out nicely with this episode.
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The Secret Service – 2. A Question of Miracles
If the first episode, A Case For The Bishop, was a little too wild and experimental for your palate, you’ll find yourself in a much safer pair of hands this week. A Question of Miracles, feels like something of a course correction by the Century 21 team. In their format-establishing first script for The Secret Service, Gerry & Sylvia Anderson had laid out all the weird and wonderful tones and techniques they wanted explore with their quirky new series. Some of it worked and some of it didn’t. It was, in many ways, an experiment, as pilot episodes often are.
The Secret Service – 1. A Case For The Bishop
A bizarre mix of Supermarionation and live-action which was cancelled after 13 episodes because Lew Grade didn’t like Stanley Unwin’s gobbledygook. That’s the history of Gerry & Sylvia Anderson’s The Secret Service as most sources dish it out. It’s usually framed as a weird footnote in the Anderson story in between the steady waters of Joe 90 and the big comeback with UFO. Some critics accuse the Andersons of being either uninspired or unhinged when they devised the series’ format and that it was doomed to fail from the start because the adventures of a super-spy-priest and his shrinking gardener couldn’t possibly make good TV.
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