Danger Man (US title: Secret Agent)
North American DVD release
Format	Spy drama
Created by	Ralph Smart
Starring	Patrick McGoohan
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	86
Production
Running time	30 min. (1960-62); 60 min. (1964-68)
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV
Original run	September 11, 1960 – January 12, 1968

This article is about the 1960s TV series which was also known as Secret Agent and shouldn't be confused with the 1990s television series Secret Agent Man. For the New York band of the same name, see Dangerman (band).

Danger Man was a British television series broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968, featuring Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart (not McGoohan) created the program, and it was produced by ITC Entertainment. In the United States, CBS broadcast the series under the Danger Man title for the first season, and under the Secret Agent title for the second and third seasons. The two, final episodes of the series often are presented as the television film Koroshi. Secret Agent Man is the title of the series' theme song, though it often is mistakenly applied to the series. Download high resolution version (820x1126, 145 KB) This work is copyrighted. ... Ralph Smart was the producer and creator of the Danger Man TV series, which was shown in the U.S. as Secret Agent. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting... is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... See also: 1959 in television, other events of 1960, 1961 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1960-61 American network television schedule. ... is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The year 1968 in television involved some significant events. ... Secret Agent Man was a short-lived spy-fi television series that aired on UPN in 2000. ... Dangerman is an alternative rock duo out of New York. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Secret Agent is a 1936 British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. ... John Drake was the debonair and duty-bound secret agent played by Patrick McGoohan in the British television series Danger Man (1960–1962, 1964–1966) (also known as Secret Agent). ... Ralph Smart was the producer and creator of the Danger Man TV series, which was shown in the U.S. as Secret Agent. ... The ITC Entertainment logo The Incorporated Television Company (ITC) was founded by television mogul Lew Grade in 1954. ... This article is about the broadcast network. ...

Program overview

The first season's episodes were 30 minutes long, and portrayed John Drake as an Irish American secret agent, for a secret arm of NATO, who often argued with his superiors about the ethics of the missions. Many of Drake's cases involved aiding democracy in foreign countries, though he also was called to solve murders and crimes affecting the interests of either the U.S. or NATO or both. Irish population density in the United States, 1872. ... This article is about the military alliance. ...

Early history

The series succeeded in Europe, making McGoohan famous, yet it failed in the United States, so, when American financing for a second season failed, the programme was cancelled; this U.S. broadcast is not remembered, the A&E DVD first season release wrongly suggests the series never was broadcast in the U.S. For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... Biography is one of A&Es longest-running and most popular programs. ... Size comparison: A 12 cm Sony DVD+RW and a 19 cm Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. ...

After a two-year hiatus, and in the wake of James Bond's popularity – and the popularity of ITC's The Saint — Danger Man's creator, Ralph Smart, re-thought the concept; the second season (1964) episodes were 60 minutes long and had a new musical theme, "High Wire". Drake re-gained his British accent and did not clash with his bosses; not at first. In the U.S., the revived Danger Man was re-titled Secret Agent, as a CBS summer replacement programme, given the theme song "Secret Agent Man", sung by Johnny Rivers, that became a success in itself. In other parts of the world, the series was titled Destination Danger and John Drake. “007” redirects here. ... The Saint was a long-running ITC mystery-cum-spy thriller, airing in Britain on ITV between 1962 and 1969. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ... This article is about the broadcast network. ... Secret Agent Man is a song written by P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri. ... Johnny Rivers (born John Henry Ramistella, 7 November 1942, in New York) is an American rock and roll singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. ...

Theme

Unlike the James Bond films, which became fanciful with popularity, Danger Man strove for realism, dramatising believable Cold War tensions. In the retooled series, Drake was an undercover agent of the British external intelligence agency (called "M9" instead of the actual MI6.) As in the earlier series, Drake found himself in danger, which did not always have happy outcomes; sometimes duty forced him to decisions that led to good people suffering unfair consequences. Drake didn't always do what his masters told him to do. “007” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation). ... The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), more commonly known as MI6 (originally Military Intelligence Section 6), or the Secret Service, is the United Kingdom external security agency. ...

Maintaining a rule established in the first season, Drake was never armed, though he was in fights, and what gadgets he used never were far-fetched. In fact, most were off the shelf, and their appearance in the series spurred sales of such commercial items as the folding binoculars featured in the American title sequence and the sub-miniature Minox camera. Unlike Bond, Drake was often shown reusing gadgets from previous episodes; among the more frequently seen were a miniature reel-to-reel tape recorder hidden inside the head of an electric shaver, and a microphone that could be embedded in a wall near the target via a shotgun-like apparatus, allowing Drake to eavesdrop on conversations from a safe distance. The Minox, the archetypal sub-miniature camera, was invented by Estonian engineer Walter Zapp of Riga, Latvia, in 1936. ...

He uses his intelligence, charm, and quick-thinking rather than force. Drake usually plays a role to work his way into a situation — scout for a travel agency, naive soldier, embittered ex-convict, brainless playboy, imperious physician, opportunistic journalist, bumbling tourist, cold-blooded mercenary, bland diplomat, smarmy pop disk jockey, precise clerk, compulsive gambler, impeccable butler...

The plots have realism. As Drake inveigles his way into a case, things are never what they first seemed. He gets arrested, he makes mistakes, equipment fails, careful plans don't work — and Drake often has to improvise an alternate plan. Sometimes investigation fails and he simply does something provocative to crack open the case. People he trusts can turn out to be untrustworthy; he finds unexpected allies. Things don't always turn out the way they should.

John Drake, also unlike Bond, rarely paired on-screen with any of the women, as McGoohan was determined to create a family-friendly show. Drake uses his immense charm in his undercover work, and women are often very attracted to him — but the viewer is left to assume whatever they want about Drake's personal life. (McGoohan denounced the sexual promiscuity of James Bond and The Saint, roles he rejected, though he did play romantic roles before Danger Man). The only exception to this rule was the two "linked episodes" of the series (see Trivia, below); Drake was also shown falling for the female lead in the episode The Black Book though nothing came of it; this episode is also one of the only scripts to directly address Drake's loneliness in his chosen profession. The Saint was a long-running ITC mystery-cum-spy thriller, airing in Britain on ITV between 1962 and 1969. ...

Although the villains often were killed, Drake, himself, rarely killed, and, in the entire series, only shot one person dead, in one of the last half-hour episodes from the 1960 season. Yet The Encyclopedia of 20th-Century American Television, by Ron Lackmann, claims Danger Man was one of the most violent series ever produced, despite contrary evidence.

Co-stars and guest stars

In many episodes, Drake unwillingly answered to 'Hobbs' (Peter Madden), a sinister superior officer always seen fiddling with a knife; (the only time McGoohan had a regular co-star in the series).

Each episode had major roles for guest stars, many of whom went on to star in their own shows. For example, Paul Eddington (The Good Life, Yes Minister, and Yes, Prime Minister), John Le Mesurier (Dad's Army), Anton Rodgers (Fresh Fields and May to December), Wendy Craig (several TV series, including Butterflies), Jean Marsh (Upstairs, Downstairs), and Susan Hampshire (Forsyte Saga, The First Churchills, The Pallisers.) Paul Eddington playing Jim Hacker in Yes, Prime Minister. ... The good life is an ambiguous term for the life that one would like to live. ... Yes Minister is a satirical British sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted by BBC television and radio between 1980 and 1984, split over three seven-episode series. ... Yes, (prime) minister: Sir Humphrey Appleby, James Jim Hacker, Bernard Woolley Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister are British sitcoms about the struggle between (Dr) James Jim Hacker (played by Paul Eddington), the government minister of the (fictional) Department of Administrative Affairs (and later as Prime Minister) and... John Le Mesurier (Bedford, 5 April 1912 – Ramsgate, 15 November 1983), born John Charles Elton Le Mesurier De Somerys Halliley, was a BAFTA Award winning English actor. ... Dad’s Army is a British sitcom about the Home Guard in the Second World War, written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977. ... Anton Rodgers (born 10 January 1933, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire) is a British actor. ... For the American national grocery store chain owned by Whole Foods, see Whole Foods Market. ... May to December was a BBC sit-com first broadcast in 1989 produced by Cinema Verity. ... Wendy Craig (born 20 June 1934) is an English actress who is best known for her appearances in the sitcoms Butterflies, ...And Mother Makes Three and . ... For other uses of the term butterfly, see butterfly (disambiguation). ... Jean Lyndsay Torren Marsh (born 1 July 1934) is a Golden Globe-nominated English actress and writer, who is best known for co-creating the British period drama Upstairs, Downstairs with Eileen Atkins. ... Upstairs, Downstairs was a BAFTA and Emmy award-winning British drama set in a large townhouse in Edwardian London that depicted the lives of the servants downstairs and their masters upstairs. It ran on ITV for five series from 1971 to 1975. ... Susan Hampshire, Lady Kulukundis, OBE (born on 12 May 1937 in London, England) is an English actress best known for her many film and television roles. ... The Forsyte Saga is the collective title of a series of novels by John Galsworthy. ... The First Churchills was a BBC miniseries from 1969 about the life of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and his wife, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. ... The Palliser series comprises six novels by Anthony Trollope. ...

Later history and transition to The Prisoner

The fourth season consisted of only two episodes, "Shinda Shima" and "Koroshi", the only two in the series photographed in colour. When the episodes were completed, McGoohan announced he was resigning from the series to create, produce, and star in a project titled The Prisoner which he co-created with George Markstein, who then was the Danger Man script consultant. Such was McGoohan's power as a star television actor at the time (and the highest-paid actor in television) that he was allowed not only to cancel his own series, but took many Danger Man crew to the new series. The Prisoner is a 1967 UK allegorical science fiction television series starring Patrick McGoohan. ... George Markstein is a writer, who was the co-creator of The Prisoner, a 1967 British television series starring and often written by Patrick McGoohan. ...

The two colour episodes were aired in the UK as filler during a hiatus of The Prisoner in 1968, the same year they were edited together and released as the television film titled Koroshi. Another, unused, fourth season script was reworked as an episode of The Champions while, according to The Prisoner: The Official Companion by Robert Fairclough, the Prisoner episode "The Girl Who Was Death" was based upon a two-part Danger Man script that had been planned for the fourth season. For other uses, see Champion (disambiguation). ...

Secret agent John Drake and prisoner Number Six

It is debatable whether or not John Drake of Danger Man and Number Six in The Prisoner are the same secret agent man. Although McGoohan denied it, they are similar: like John Drake, the anonymous Number Six is a morally integral secret agent who resigned his job. Moreover, in the surreal episode "The Girl Who Was Death" of The Prisoner, Number Six meets "Potter", John Drake's Danger Man contact. Christopher Benjamin portrayed Potter in both series: in "The Girl Who Was Death" and the Koroshi film. This character's appearance in The Prisoner may have been a tease for aficionados, nevertheless, "The Girl Who Was Death" was an adaptation of an un-used Danger Man story. Max Ernst. ... Christopher Benjamin is a British actor, born 27 December 1934 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England. ...

The first Danger Man season has an episode titled "The Prisoner", set in the Welsh village of Portmeirion, the setting of The Prisoner series. This dramatic overlapping is complicated by reference books, such as Vincent Terrace's The Complete Encyclopedia of Television Programs 1947-1979 referring to The Prisoner as a Danger Man continuation. Terrace postulates that John Drake's resignation reason is revealed in the "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling" episode, which is a follow-up to a mission assigned to Number Six before he was sent to The Village. The central Piazza and Gloriette. ...

Patrick McGoohan's insistence that prisoner Number Six is not secret agent John Drake is that actors do not own the characters they portray — producers and writers own them. Danger Man creator and producer Ralph Smart owned the "John Drake" character, and did not licence the character for The Prisoner. Thus, actor McGoohan was obliged to deny any resemblance between prisoner Number Six and secret agent John Drake.

Pop culture references

Danger Man has remained part of pop culture consciousness. Author Stephen King is said to have alluded to John Drake's "cool" in one novel. The band Tears for Fears referred to the character in their song "Swords and Knives," and goth musicians Dead Can Dance titled one of their songs "The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove" after a Danger Man episode. There also is a quick reference to the show in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date". On UK screens, it was parodied by the DangerMouse cartoon series. The American theme song has appeared in countless movies and TV shows, including during the climax of the first Austin Powers movie. Most recently, Danger Man's influence could be felt in the American series Alias, which, in January 2005, aired the episode "Welcome to Liberty Village", using the premise and plot elements identical to the Danger Man episode "Colony Three" (which contained elements revisited in The Prisoner). Popular culture, or pop culture, is the vernacular (peoples) culture that prevails in a modern society. ... Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of over 200 stories including over 50 bestselling horror novels. ... Tears for Fears are a popular English pop band formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, which emerged after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate. ... Gothic rock (sometimes called goth rock or simply goth) is a genre of rock music that originated during the late 1970s. ... Dead Can Dance is a band comprising Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. ... For other uses, see Buffy the Vampire Slayer (disambiguation). ... DangerMouse is a British animated television series which was produced by Cosgrove Hall Films. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... Alias is an American Spy-fi television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006, spanning five seasons. ...

In 2000, the UPN network aired a short-lived spy series entitled Secret Agent Man. Due to the similarities in titles between this series and the American edition of Danger Man, Secret Agent Man, a series with no relationship to the McGoohan program, is often erroneously referred to as a spin-off or remake of Danger Man. The year 2000 in television involved some significant events. ... UPN (which originally stood for the United Paramount Network) was a television network in over 200 markets in the United States. ... Secret Agent Man was a short-lived spy-fi television series that aired on UPN in 2000. ... A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a new company formed from a university research group. ...

DVD availability

All four seasons of the series are now available on DVD in North America. The three seasons of hour-long episodes were released by A&E Home Video under the title Secret Agent a.k.a. Danger Man in order to acknowledge the American broadcast and syndication title. However the episodes retain their original Danger Man opening credits, the first time these have been seen in the U.S. (The US "Secret Agent" credits were included as an extra feature.) The first season of half-hour episodes was issued by A&E sometime later as Danger Man. A&E subsequently released a single-set "megabox" containing all of the one-hour episodes; a revised megabox, released in 2007, added the half-hour episodes. North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ...

Episodes

Episodes were usually not aired in production order. Broadcast order varied widely between UK and US.

Season 1 (1960–1962)

Broadcast as Danger Man both in the UK and US

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Season 2 (1964–1965)

Seasons 2 and 3 were broadcast as Danger Man in the UK and Secret Agent in the US.

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Season 3 (1965–1966)

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Season 4 (1968)

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Original novels and comic books

First issue of the Gold Key Comics series.

Several original novels based upon Danger Man were published in the UK and US, the majority during 1965-66: Image File history File links This image is of a scan of a magazine cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the magazine or the individual contributors who worked on the cover depicted. ... Image File history File links This image is of a scan of a magazine cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the magazine or the individual contributors who worked on the cover depicted. ...

• Target for Tonight - Richard Telfair, 1962 (published in US only)
• Departure Deferred - W. Howard Baker, 1965
• Storm Over Rockall - Baker, 1965
• Hell for Tomorrow - Peter Leslie, 1965
• The Exterminator - W.A. Balinger, 1966
• No Way Out - Wilfred McNeily, 1966

Several of the above novels were translated into French and published in France, where the series was known as Destination Danger. An additional Destination Danger novel by John Long was published in French and not printed in the US or UK.

Although the debate over whether John Drake and Number Six of The Prisoner are the same person has raged on for more than 35 years, the author of at least one officially licensed novel based upon the later series appears to be of the opinion that Drake and The Prisoner are the same man; The Prisoner: Number Two by David McDaniel (also known as Who is Number Two?) identifies the lead character as Drake. The book is not considered canonical with the rest of The Prisoner series, however. David Edward McDaniel (1944(?)-November 1, 1977) was a US science fiction author. ... Canon, in the context of a fictional universe, comprises those novels, stories, films, etc. ...

The adventures of John Drake have also been depicted in comic book form from time to time. In 1961, Dell Comics in the US published a one-shot Danger Man comic as part of its long-running Four Color series, based upon the first season format. In 1966, Gold Key Comics published two issues of a Secret Agent comic book based upon the series (this series should not be confused with Secret Agent, an unrelated comic book series published by Charlton Comics in 1967, formerly titled Sarge Steel). In Britain, a single Danger Man comic book subtitled "Trouble in Turkey" appeared in the mid-1960s and a number of comic strip adventures appeared in hardcover annuals. French publishers also produced several issues of a Destination Danger comic book in the 1960s. Dell Comics was the comic book publishing arm of Dell Publications, which got its start in pulp magazines. ... One of the earlier issues of Four Color, featuring Walt Disneys Donald Duck. ... Gold Key Comics was an imprint of Western Publishing cteated for comic books distributed to newstands. ... Sarge Steel was a detective/spy character published by Charlton Comics during the 1960s. ... Big C logo, used from Sept. ...

Trivia

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• Two episodes of Danger Man's third season are linked in an unusual way. The episodes, "You're Not in Any Trouble, Are You?" and "Are You Going to Be More Permanent?" both feature Susan Hampshire as guest star, however playing different characters in each episode. Nevertheless, both episodes seem to echo one another, with similar lines of dialogue and identical props that are emphasized in both episodes (in particular, a doll). Additionally, the characters played by Hampshire are the only ones with whom actual romantic involvement with Drake is implied (one of the episodes ends with Drake and the girl going on holiday together -- something virtually unheard of in this series). These two episodes also feature the song "Mio Amore Sta Lontano," which was used in other episodes as well.

• An image of a penny farthing bicycle (the symbol used throughout McGoohan's later series, The Prisoner) is visible on the wall of one of Drake's superiors in one of the hour-long episodes.

• The Danger Man theme later served as a de facto signature tune for Mark Radcliffe's late-night BBC Radio 1 show during the mid-1990s.

• A French version of The Zombies 1964 hit "She's Not There" plays a prominent, yet uncredited, role in the third season's episode entitled, "Sting to the Tail".

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External links

• British Film Institute Screen Online
• Danger Man (1960–61 series) at the Internet Movie Database
• Danger Man (1964–68 series) at the Internet Movie Database
• Danger Man Website
• Prisoner & Danger Man News and Events