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Danger Man

Sun, Sep 11, 1960
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Synopsis

Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. Danger Man was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.

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  • Patrick McGoohan
    Patrick McGoohan
    as John Drake
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Episodes

4 seasons · 86 episodes

Ended · 86 aired
Season 1
39 episodes · 39 aired
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  • E1
    View from the Villa
    Aired · Sun, Sep 11, 1960 · 30m

    MI-5 Agent John Drake is in Rome investigating the murder of a banker who's embezzled a large amount of gold from his employers.The trail leads through a seemingly uninterested wife and a lady friend of the banker who may not want to be found.

  • E2
    Time to Kill
    Aired · Sun, Sep 18, 1960 · 30m

    Drake flies to Paris to find an international killer.His tries to retrieve not kill him, but that becomes more complicated with the involvement of a young woman.

  • E3
    Josetta
    Aired · Sun, Sep 25, 1960 · 30m

    Josetta is a young blind woman who is the only one who can identify her brother's killer.Drake tries to help her

  • E4
    The Blue Veil
    Aired · Sun, Oct 2, 1960 · 30m

    Drake travels to the Arabian Desert to investigate stories of slavery.While there he befriends a Muslim boy and helps a stranded showgirl who believes Drake is a slave broker

  • E5
    The Lovers
    Aired · Sun, Oct 9, 1960 · 30m
  • E6
    The Girl in Pink Pyjamas
    Aired · Sun, Oct 16, 1960 · 30m
  • E7
    Position of Trust
    Aired · Sun, Oct 23, 1960 · 30m
  • E8
    The Lonely Chair
    Aired · Sun, Oct 30, 1960 · 30m
  • E9
    The Sanctuary
    Aired · Sun, Nov 6, 1960 · 30m
  • E10
    An Affair of State
    Aired · Sun, Nov 13, 1960 · 30m
  • E11
    The Key
    Aired · Sun, Nov 20, 1960 · 30m
  • E12
    The Sisters
    Aired · Sun, Nov 27, 1960 · 30m
  • E13
    The Prisoner
    Aired · Sun, Dec 4, 1960 · 30m
  • E14
    The Traitor
    Aired · Sun, Dec 11, 1960 · 30m
  • E15
    Colonel Rodriguez
    Aired · Sun, Dec 18, 1960 · 30m
  • E16
    The Island
    Aired · Sun, Jan 1, 1961 · 30m
  • E17
    Find and Return
    Aired · Sun, Jan 8, 1961 · 30m
  • E18
    The Girl Who Liked GIs
    Aired · Sun, Jan 15, 1961 · 30m
  • E19
    Name, Date and Place
    Aired · Sun, Jan 22, 1961 · 30m
  • E20
    Vacation
    Aired · Sun, Jan 29, 1961 · 30m
  • E21
    The Conspirators
    Aired · Sun, Feb 5, 1961 · 30m
  • E22
    The Honeymooners
    Aired · Sun, Apr 2, 1961 · 30m
  • E23
    The Gallows Tree
    Aired · Sun, Apr 9, 1961 · 30m
  • E24
    The Relaxed Informer
    Aired · Sun, Apr 16, 1961 · 30m
  • E25
    The Brothers
    Aired · Sun, Apr 23, 1961 · 30m
  • E26
    The Journey Ends Halfway
    Aired · Sun, Apr 30, 1961 · 30m
  • E27
    Bury the Dead
    Aired · Sun, May 7, 1961 · 30m
  • E28
    Sabotage
    Aired · Sun, May 14, 1961 · 30m
  • E29
    The Contessa
    Aired · Sun, May 21, 1961 · 30m
  • E30
    The Leak
    Aired · Sun, May 28, 1961 · 30m
  • E31
    The Trap
    Aired · Sun, Jun 4, 1961 · 30m
  • E32
    The Actor
    Aired · Sun, Jun 11, 1961 · 30m
  • E33
    Hired Assassin
    Aired · Sun, Jun 18, 1961 · 30m
  • E34
    The Coyannis Story
    Aired · Sat, Dec 16, 1961 · 30m
  • E35
    Find and Destroy
    Aired · Sat, Dec 23, 1961 · 30m
  • E36
    Under the Lake
    Aired · Sat, Dec 30, 1961 · 30m
  • E37
    The Nurse
    Aired · Sat, Jan 6, 1962 · 30m
  • E38
    Dead Man Walks
    Aired · Sat, Jan 13, 1962 · 30m
  • E39
    Deadline
    Aired · Sat, Jan 20, 1962 · 30m
Season 2
22 episodes · 22 aired
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  • E1
    Yesterday's Enemies
    Aired · Tue, Oct 13, 1964 · 60m

    Mr. Brett is known to be giving away British industrial secrets. However, when Drake confronts him, he discovers things are a lot more complicated and that John Brett is not the only person being investigated.

  • E2
    The Professionals
    Aired · Tue, Oct 20, 1964 · 60m

    An important M9 agent has gone missing in Prague, and Drake's sent in as a British diplomat to find him. It appears a blackmail ring is operating, and soon, Drake has to rescue the agent, and his family, from death.

  • E3
    Colony Three
    Aired · Tue, Oct 27, 1964 · 60m

    Drake takes the place of a defector and goes behind the iron curtain to find out what is happening when foreign agents reach England. When he gets there he finds a replica English village, which is a school where foreign agents are taught to 'be British'. Actual British subjects, such as Drake, are employed to teach the agents the finer points of the British way of life. Drake sets out to disrupt their education and stop the supply of agents from reaching England.

  • E4
    The Galloping Major
    Aired · Tue, Nov 3, 1964 · 60m

    Drake is sent to Africa to protect the prime minister, who is in the midst of an election campaign. It is suspected that the opposition leader is planning to overthrow the government but Drake finds out that it is much more complicated.

  • E5
    Fair Exchange
    Aired · Tue, Nov 10, 1964 · 60m

    In a poignant reminder that spies are merely people and that they often take terrible punishment when caught, Drake tries to stop a former agent from killing the East German government official who had her tortured beyond repair.

  • E6
    Fish on the Hook
    Aired · Tue, Nov 17, 1964 · 60m

    M9 receives a mayday signal from an agent in an Arab country. He has been compromised and must get out. The agent is also the contact for a local spy called the Fish. Drake is sent undercover to bring the Fish out.

  • E7
    The Colonel's Daughter
    Aired · Tue, Nov 24, 1964 · 60m

    Drake is in India when he is asked by an old friend, the Delhi police chief, to investigate the mysterious death of the employee of a retired colonel. The colonel sells exotic butterflies but Drake finds out that there is a lot more to it.

  • E8
    The Battle of the Cameras
    Aired · Tue, Dec 1, 1964 · 60m

    A woman disguised as a clumsy tea lady steals some secret papers, which are sold to the highest bidder by a Mr Kent. M9 sends Drake to investigate a number of similar thefts by befriending the woman and infiltrating the organisation.

  • E9
    No Marks for Servility
    Aired · Tue, Dec 8, 1964 · 60m

    An international financier has come to the notice of M9, as he is believed to be an extortionist and murderer. When some important people are found dead, Drake goes undercover as a butler at the financier's rented villa in Rome.

  • E10
    A Man to Be Trusted
    Aired · Tue, Dec 15, 1964 · 60m

    Two M9 agents have been tortured and murdered on a Caribbean island, and Drake's sent to find out who killed them and to determine how much information they divulged before dying.

  • E11
    Don't Nail Him Yet
    Aired · Tue, Dec 22, 1964 · 60m

    An agent is selling secrets to a foreign government. How he is doing this is unclear so Drake is brought in to find out, which he does by befriending him as a bumbling teacher on stress leave.

  • E12
    A Date with Doris
    Aired · Tue, Dec 29, 1964 · 60m

    A glamorous actress is murdered and an M9 agent, whose cover has been discovered, is framed for her murder. Drake task is to get him out of jail and off the island using a submarine code-named Doris.

  • E13
    That's Two of Us Sorry
    Aired · Tue, Jan 5, 1965 · 60m

    Confidential papers go missing, and Drake travels to a small island off the coast of Scotland in search of them and the culprit.

  • E14
    Such Men Are Dangerous
    Aired · Tue, Jan 12, 1965 · 60m

    A prisoner is soon to be released and is offered a well-paid job that is obviously crooked. As he wants to go straight, he reports the approach. Drake takes his place in order to find out what the crime is to be, which is murder.

  • E15
    Whatever Happened to George Foster?
    Aired · Tue, Jan 19, 1965 · 60m

    Drake discovers that a woman is financing political agitators in Santo Marco trying to bring down the government. He sets out to find out who employs her and why. Drake finds it is being funded by a rich member of the aristocracy.

  • E16
    A Room in the Basement
    Aired · Tue, Feb 2, 1965 · 60m

    To save a friend with sensitive information who is being held in the Romanian embassy in Geneva, Drake must break into the embassy, in defiance of the British ambassador, retrieve his friend, and avoid an international incident.

  • E17
    The Affair at Castelevara
    Aired · Tue, Feb 9, 1965 · 60m

    A former republican leader returns to his home country to retire. However, he is arrested by the current president and faces the death sentence, something both the British and Americans do not want to happen. Drake is sent in to stop it.

  • E18
    The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove
    Aired · Tue, Feb 16, 1965 · 60m

    After a driving accident, Drake finds he has a £500 gambling debt at a club he has no knowledge of, yet the staff seem to know him, and the club's manager, Mr. Alexander knows all about Drake's career with M9, and plans to blackmail him.

  • E19
    It's Up to the Lady
    Aired · Tue, Feb 23, 1965 · 60m

    A government officer's defected, and M9 wants him back, and Drake's to try and get him.

  • E20
    Have a Glass of Wine
    Aired · Tue, Mar 2, 1965 · 60m

    Drake follows a young lady, who has been selling secrets, to France where he confronts her with what he knows. Kathleen is being blackmailed and her role is to take the information to France. She offers to help Drake find who employs her.

  • E21
    The Mirror's New
    Aired · Tue, Mar 9, 1965 · 60m

    Bierce is a British diplomat in France. He shoots a man, to whom he owes money, and hides the body. He then suddenly disappears. Drake is sent to try and find out what has happened to him.

  • E22
    Parallel Lines Sometimes Meet
    Aired · Tue, Mar 16, 1965 · 60m

    A British husband and wife, both atomic scientists, disappear whilst on holiday. The suspicion is they've been kidnapped and Drake is sent to investigate.

Season 3
23 episodes · 23 aired
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  • E1
    You Are Not in Any Trouble, Are You?
    Aired · Thu, Sep 23, 1965 · 60m

    After a fellow M9 agent is murdered Drake is sent to Rome to investigate and after retrieving the dead agent's tape recorder, learns about a ‘murder incorporated' organisation. Drake arranges for himself to be assassinated at midnight in order to flush out the assassin and to identify the leader of the organisation.

  • E2
    The Black Book
    Aired · Thu, Sep 30, 1965 · 60m
  • E3
    A Very Dangerous Game
    Aired · Thu, Oct 7, 1965 · 60m

    A Chinese spy ring is operating in Singapore and Drake is sent to infiltrate, taking the place of a man already working for the ring, in order to try and bring the ring to an end.

  • E4
    Sting in the Tail
    Aired · Thu, Oct 14, 1965 · 60m
  • E5
    English Lady Takes Lodgers
    Aired · Thu, Oct 21, 1965 · 60m

    There's a nice Portuguese villa where an English lady and her husband reside.  Lodger's there are suspected when the husband disappears and Drake is assigned to see what's going on.  He is brought in on a smuggling ring by the lodgers who say they are smuggling industrial diamonds.  In reality, they are smuggling missile electronics.

  • E6
    Loyalty Always Pays
    Aired · Thu, Oct 28, 1965 · 60m

    The Ministry wants to continue good relations with an African country.  But agents have discovered that certain elements of that country have signed agreements with the Chinese.  It is up to Drake to find the evidence of this and turn it over to the African country's Prime Minister in order to expose the truth to him and keep relations with the British.

  • E7
    The Mercenaries
    Aired · Thu, Nov 4, 1965 · 60m

    An agent is killed in the field and Drake is sent to the African country where it happened to investigate the generals and leaders of a small mercenary band intent on seeing the country's leader die while under the knife in a hospital so that they may take control of the country.

  • E8
    Judgement Day
    Aired · Thu, Nov 11, 1965 · 60m

    Drake's immediate plans are disrupted when London authorizes him to pick up a doctor who is targeted by the opposition and bring him to London.  He begins to suspect that forces are already moving against him before he gets very far.

  • E9
    The Outcast
    Aired · Thu, Nov 18, 1965 · 60m

    There's a security leak and the suspect is murdered by someone unknown.  Drake is assigned to unravel who killed the informant and discover just how the information was being passed on.

  • E10
    Are You Going to Be More Permanent?
    Aired · Thu, Dec 2, 1965 · 60m

    Agents are disappearing.  Drake is assigned to be the next courier in order to find out how.  But he has three contacts along the way.  All three have impeccable records.  But which one is working for the other side?

  • E11
    To Our Best Friend
    Aired · Thu, Dec 9, 1965 · 60m

    Drake is asked to check up on an old friend who may be passing information to the opposition.  He initially refuses the assignment, but decides to take the assignment figuring if there is any wrongdoing, he might be able to mitigate it.

  • E12
    The Man on the Beach
    Aired · Thu, Dec 16, 1965 · 60m

    Drake is working for Sir Alan Grose to try and find out who is the double agent within the organization.

  • E13
    Say It with Flowers
    Aired · Thu, Dec 23, 1965 · 60m

    Agent goes missing and M9 isn't sure if he is dead or alive.  Drake is assigned to find out.  What he finds is that it's a lot more complicated than anyone thinks as the opposition has found a way to infiltrate our side through the use of plastic surgery.

  • E14
    The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
    Aired · Thu, Dec 30, 1965 · 60m

    An agent has been captured and interrogated.  Drake is assigned to spring him before he breaks.

  • E15
    Someone is Liable to Get Hurt
    Aired · Thu, Jan 6, 1966 · 60m

    Drake is sent to get inside the political aspirations of a revolutionary candidate by posing as a gun runner.

  • E16
    Dangerous Secret
    Aired · Thu, Jan 13, 1966 · 60m

    A scientist accidentally develops a deadly gas that governments want their hands on.  He flees the country and Drake is sent to bring him back before enemy agents grab him.

  • E17
    I Can Only Offer You Sherry
    Aired · Thu, Jan 20, 1966 · 60m

    Classified information on British oil reserves is being leaked to foreign agents.  Drake is sent to find out how.

  • E18
    The Hunting Party
    Aired · Thu, Jan 27, 1966 · 60m
  • E19
    Two Birds with One Bullet
    Aired · Thu, Mar 10, 1966 · 60m

    Drake is framed for the murder of a Latin American country leader and must clear his name and expose the real plot and assassins.

  • E20
    I am Afraid You Have the Wrong Number
    Aired · Thu, Mar 17, 1966 · 60m

    An agent is kidnapped by one of the opposition and a body left in a burning car to make everyone think he was killed in a car crash.  Drake determines he is not dead after all and sets out to find who kidnapped him and rescue him before it's too late.

  • E21
    The Man with the Foot
    Aired · Thu, Mar 24, 1966 · 60m

    While on a well deserved vacation, Drake is still in search of an enemy agent who knows his cover as a spy.  If he can't apprehend him, his cover is blown.

  • E22
    The Paper Chase
    Aired · Thu, Mar 31, 1966 · 60m
  • E23
    Not So Jolly Roger
    Aired · Thu, Apr 7, 1966 · 60m
Season 4
2 episodes · 2 aired
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  • E1
    Koroshi
    Aired · Fri, Jan 5, 1968 · 60m

    A Japanese agent warns that a UN negotiator will be assassinated in New York by a Tokyo-based organisation. She is killed before she can give the details and Drake is sent to Tokyo to investigate. The only clue is a pendant the girl had.

  • E2
    Shinda Shima
    Aired · Fri, Jan 12, 1968 · 60m

    An electronics expert working for the government suddenly retires. M9 wants to know why, and Drake takes his place. His search leads to an island off Japan; Shinda Shima.