Matthew Harding

Matthew Harding is a character from The Secret Service.

Posing as Father Stanley Unwin's Gardener, he is in fact a top agent himself, ready to be miniaturized whenever a case demands it.

He voiced by Gary Files.

Appearances

A Case For The Bishop

A miniaturized Matthew looks out of the case, inside the service hangar

"Engines cut"

Safely back home in the vicarage garden

Behind the Scenes

• The miniaturized Matthew was usually played by an ordinary puppet on a life-size set, but on rare occasions, it was played by a miniature model on a puppet-size set.

Miniature Matthew in
May-Day, May-Day!

In The Deadly Whisper

In To Catch A Spy

Trivia

• Matthew Harding's puppet previously appeared in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons as Doctor Mitchell in the episode Treble Cross.
• In Joe 90 it appeared as a farmer in The Most Special Agent, a policeman in Hi-Jacked, the searchlight operator in Big Fish and Constable Lewis in The Unorthodox Shepherd.

Doctor Mitchell

Farmer

Policeman

Constable Lewis

Searchlight operator

v - e - d

Characters B.I.S.H.O.P: Father Stanley Unwin • Matthew Harding • The Bishop • Agent Saunders • Agent Blake • Agent Patterson Others Mrs. Appleby Revamp Puppets Episodes A Case for the Bishop • A Question of Miracles • To Catch A Spy • The Feathered Spies • Last Train to Bufflers Halt • Hole In One• Recall To Service • Errand Of Mercy • The Deadly Whisper • The Cure • School For Spies • May-Day, May-Day! • More Haste Less Speed Vehicles Gabriel Equipment The Minimizer • Matthew's Suitcase Locations B.I.S.H.O.P. Headquarters • Vicarage • Father Unwin's Church • British Intelligence Headquarters