The Secret Service: The Vault

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The Secret Service was a 1960s British children's TV series created by Gerry Anderson and the team of Century... More

1. My own overview
2. Before The Secret Service
EPISODE 1 - A Case For The BISHOP
3. Genesis
4. The life and work of Stanley Unwin
EPISODE 2 - A Question Of Miracles
5. The World of The Secret Service
6. A Gallery of Writers
EPISODE 3 - The Feathered Spies
7. A Director's Perspective
8. The Voice Artists
EPISODE 4 - To Catch A Spy
9. Pre-production
10. The puppets
EPISODE 5 - Last Train To Bufflers Halt
11. Production
12. Post-production
EPISODE 6 - Errand Of Mercy
13. Music scores
14. The Mike Sammes Singers
EPISODE 7 - The Deadly Whisper
15. Opening/closing titles
16. Live actors, in SUPERMARIONATION?
EPISODE 8 - Hole In One
17. The Other 13 episodes?
18. The puppet legacy
EPISODE 9 - Recall To Service
19. Doppleganger (1969)
20. Cancellation
EPISODE 10 - The Cure
21. The Mixed Receptions
22. Episode order
23. Broadcasts and transmissions
24. Memorabilia
EPISODE 12 - May-Day, May-Day!
25. The Novelisations
26. Was it a flop?
EPISODE 13 - More Haste, Less Speed
27. 50 years on...
28. BIBLOGRAHY - acknowledgements

EPISODE 11 - School For Spies

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"Explosives should be treated like a lion tamer treats the big cats - show 'em you're not afraid." 

Original UK broadcast: November 30th, 1969 (ATV Midlands)

Written by: Donald James

Directed by: Ken Turner

Regular cast: Father Unwin, Matthew, The Bishop

Additional voice cast:

Brother Thomas Keith Alexander
Brother Gregory Jeremy Wilkin
Archdeacon  Keith Alexander
Brother Simon Gary Files
Brother Jess Gary Files
Fifth Brother Gary Files

Father Unwin discovers that a gang of bogus vicars are responsible for a series of sabotage attacks on military installations and vehicles. After one of the gang is hospitalised after their latest venture, Unwin masquerades as his replacement, a demolition expert, to infiltrate the gang...

An interesting point is that the filming location for this episode was at the Wrexham Hospital in Slough, another example of where the Century 21 team went on filming location for the series. Captain Grey in this episode plays Brother Thomas, the only revamp puppet leftover from Captain Scarlet to be used in the episode. The Captain Scarlet pop theme music can be heard on the radio in the hospital whilst the piano track played at the house is the piano track from the Joe 90 episode International Concerto.

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