Time to call the B.I.S.H.O.P! I loved this programme when it came out! I saw the immortal Mr Anderson when he did a speaking tour in the 80's. I was the only person in that audience who recognised this and even remembered what the Bishop stood for! The look on his face was priceless! Been a fan my entire life!
@paulajanney93287 жыл бұрын
The theme music is very much of its time & place & reminiscent of a church choir. Personally i think it's fab : )
@EnnioRome5 жыл бұрын
I love this kind of theme of the opening title, very relevant to that era!!!
@mrgobrien6 жыл бұрын
I believe that when Lew Grade told Gerry Anderson "I think we've gone as far as we can with puppets" he had just watched the pilot of this!
@scousesonata6 жыл бұрын
Barry's favourite composition, and mine.
@Witheredgoogie3 жыл бұрын
When Lew Grade saw this, his cigar probably fell out his mouth and thought "oh no (thinking about the Prisoner) another one ready for the funny farm"
@jsilence4186 жыл бұрын
I remember this when it was current, could never get behind it although I loved other Anderson shows . I think it was the Swingle Singers type theme, I still can't get past .
@aigleperseverant6 жыл бұрын
Actually the Swingle Singers were initially approached to provide the chant, but the fee demanded would have placed considerable strain on the music budget. Seeking out an alternative, they hired the Mike Sammes Singers. They produced an impression of the Swingle Singers' tones under theme composer Barry Gray's direction. Gerry Anderson's biographers Simon Archer and Marcus Hearn cite the opening and closing theme music, recorded in a four-hour studio session on 16 October 1968, as "a glorious piece of choral lunacy".
@jsilence4186 жыл бұрын
Not " glorious" by my standards ,weren't the " Mike Sammes singers" on the BEATLES . I AM THE WALRUS ?
@aigleperseverant6 жыл бұрын
Yes, the back vocals are theirs.
@blackmore46 жыл бұрын
It's also reminiscent of the amazing 'South American Getaway' from Burt Bacharach's 'Butch Cassidy soundtrack'. I like doo-be-dooing.
@Comfortzone994 күн бұрын
Gerry definitely wanted this to fail LOL so that he could get UFO.
@marktrickett5081 Жыл бұрын
Having an old cleric as the hero for a children's show does seem a misstep.
@charliedrosario9993 ай бұрын
1.37, that's not a supermarianation puppet
@mutinyonthekitkat6 жыл бұрын
These late-60s/ early 70s Gerry Anderson shows are my first telly memories. But I'm a bit shocked I don't remember the theme music to this one at all.
@onlyoneamong3006 жыл бұрын
mutinyonthekitkat I do! Father Unwin and all British puppet shows were popular in Nicaragua _and perhaps Central America_ in the late 60's, early 70's and we kids at the time used to love them!
@baward8 жыл бұрын
Swingles!
@stephenborsbey43507 жыл бұрын
1969. so was this made just before UFO or was it made at the same time.
@waltdefucq61067 жыл бұрын
Before. Anderson was able to use it as a try-out for live-action work, to enable him to quickly begin production of UFO.
@AndrewChapman4 жыл бұрын
I know the Supermarionation shows were already using human hands, feet and sometimes eyes for certain close up shots, but it was kind of weird how they tried to mix more of live-action with the marionettes in The Secret Service.
@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp6 жыл бұрын
What the fuck was gerry anderson thinking with this lousy series! UFO was a masterpiece!
@PointyTailofSatan6 жыл бұрын
A fugue!!!
@davidsanderson59184 жыл бұрын
PointyTailofSatan Well spotted. :)
@garethglitter59327 жыл бұрын
Music needs some drum and bass
@WinChun787 жыл бұрын
No, just a little more cowbell...
@davidsanderson59184 жыл бұрын
I was thinking more like dampened guitar power chords in drop D. Chug chug chug.