The Secret show is always worth watching, often funny, and occaisionally hilarious. If it were hilarious more often it might have rated higher.

Heavily spoofing late 60's English TV spy shows like Danger Man (though anyone who's seen 60's 007 films or the original 'Mission Impossible' will have a reasonable idea), 'The Secret Show', according to creator Tony Collingwood, is aimed at 10 year-olds. 10 year-olds must be more sophisticated than when I was 10, because there is some genuinely funny stuff in this show (though it can be relatively flat, too. As with any show with so many writers, who get episodes to themselves, it depends who wrote the episode).

Victor and Anna are secret agents working for U.Z.Z., in what seems to be maybe the late 21st century. They have to contend with a seemingly endless array of bizarre villains working for T.H.E.M.

"You stole the Earth's gravity just so you could have 'falling down'?!"

(the show is peppered with deliciously silly lines like that).

They also have to contend with their chief; a possibly deranged, geriatric who is possibly a transvestite, and who sends them on some rather silly missions. This ends up, for example, with Victor having to marry a pig, in The Bermuda Trapezoid (a trio of U.Z.Z. agents follow the agents everywhere playing ominous music whenever this phrase is mentioned), so Professor Professor can watch his favorite Bavarian soap Opera.

This is a show I didn't pay a lot of attention to - had it on in the background while working - until I happened to catch the very start of one with Tom Baker (Dr Who) as the guest voice star. This is still the funniest episode I've seen, and had me in stitches. Baker plays Baron someoneorother, who roars impressively every time he says anything. At the start, Victor and Anna are trying to break into his 'secret room'. When the Baron finds out he roars,

"Nobody gets into my secret room! That's why it's a secret! And mine! And a room!"

At dinner he reveals that his wife died in a 'corn-husking accident', and goes off his head when corn is served at dinner, literally running through walls. Meanwhile Professor Profesor manages to end up in drag.

In another episode he is unable to invent the un-inventing ray, because it keeps un-inventing itself.

Not a classic, but entertaining and stylish and frequently genuinely funny.

"Switzerland is being stolen!"