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  Danger Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Danger Man was a British television show that aired between 1960 and 1962 and again between 1964 and 1968.
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.
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 Danger Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
"Danger Man" was produced in Britain for the 1960-61 TV season, as a half-hour suspense show.
In each episode of "Danger Man" McGoohan is involved with standard spy intrigue (penetrating the Iron Curtain, assassinations, smuggling political prisoners, etc.).
There are a few gadgets sprinkled here and there, but "Danger Man" was mostly a character driven-show and McGoohan is simply perfect as the tough, phlegmatic, confident and often somewhat amoral spy.
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 Danger Man and Secret Agent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Danger Man was a half hour, British spy series which debuted in September 1960.
Danger Man, along with The Avengers and Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, sparked a spy craze in the United Kingdom.
Danger Man is considered by some to be a prequel to McGoohan's most famous series, The Prisoner.
users.cvalley.net /canote/danger_agent.html   (211 words)

  
 John Drake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the first Danger Man series (1960-61), Drake speaks with a slightly exaggerated American accent and is described as being an Irish-American.
In one early episode he initially refuses a mission that requires him to assassinate a man; he reluctantly takes the mission and is shown as being grief-stricken when his target is accidentally shot during a struggle.
It is a common belief among McGoohan's fans that the character of Number Six in The Prisoner, the show that McGoohan did after Danger Man, was meant to be Drake; McGoohan denies this but his co-creator of The Prisoner, George Markstein, claimed otherwise.
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 Danger Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
From this, he graduated to a series of small roles until he finally became the leading man. At the age of 22, being paid £6 per week, he was officially McGoohan the actor.
Danger Man went into a third series, the earlier episodes having been sold to America for a million pounds.
On the strength of his success with Danger Man, McGoohan was easily able to persuade Lew Grade to finance the next project.
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 Danger Man: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Danger Man was a British[Click link for more facts about this topic] television show Television program quick summary:
Patrick mcgoohan (born 19 march 1928) is an american-born irelandirish actor who starred in the 1960s television series danger man...
John drake was the debonair and duty-bound secret agent played by patrick mcgoohan in the british television show danger man (1960-1966)...
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 DANGER MAN | A TELEVISION HEAVEN REVIEW
Very much a harbinger of the spy/adventure series which would dominate 60's television and movie screens worldwide, Danger Man was a slick, professional and exciting package that turned its coolly handsome Irish leading man into a near overnight international star.
Boasting good writing and benefiting from a characteristically intense and charismatic performance from the always compelling McGoohan, Danger Man paved the way not only for the plethora of secret agent series which followed, but also laid the foundations for a genuine tele-visual phenomenon.
Danger Man was developed because of ITC boss Lew Grade's desire to produce UK TV series' that were suitable for export to the USA.
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 Amazon.com: Secret Agent AKA Danger Man, Set 1: DVD: Peter Madden,Patrick McGoohan,Stuart Burge,Don Chaffey,Charles ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Danger Man was a gritty spy series, relying more on realistic stories of espionage than on the gadgets and beautiful women popularized by 007.
The "Danger Man" theme is quite energetic and engaging, and the sound of the harpsichord appears with regularity throughout the episodes.
Danger Man/Secret Agent is an exception...it's as good as I remember with nicely choreographed action and fight scenes, lots of attention to detail, intelligent acting, editing and directing, artful background music, and of course McGoohan's unique charisma and wit.
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 Danger Man TV Show - Danger Man Television Show - TV.com
One of the most popular characters ever introduced to television screens, the original Danger Man swept the world, bringing international fame to the talented and good-looking star, Patrick McGoohan.
Danger Man is now produced as one-hour programs, with vivid new stories which take Special Security Agent John Drake into even more tensely dramatic adventures in every part of the globe.
He is a man who jousts with danger, a man who takes calculated risks, a...
www.tv.com /danger-man/show/3620/summary.html   (205 words)

  
 Secret Agent Man - a tribute
Known as "Danger Man" in England, the series started with 39 fl and white episodes and later became a one-hour series with 45 hour-long stories followed by two, hour-long color episodes sometimes sewn together as a TV-movie called "Koroshi".
There are two reasons for his popularity as the Danger Man. One is the character, John Drake, a man reflecting the spirit of adventure, always jousting with danger, yet different from other such TV heroes because of his depth of character and integrity.
The came "Danger Man", and despite the reputations he had already gained on the stage, in films and television, it was this series that led to international recognition for the first time.
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 Danger Man (Secret Agent) - Nostalgia Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Drake used numerous gadgets: tiepins that were cameras, cherries containing tiny microphones, and electric shavers which cunningly doubled as tape recorders.
Danger Man made ex-chicken farmer McGoohan the highest-paid actor in Britain at the time, earning £2,000 a week.
By all accounts he was not the easiest of people to work with though; First, he wanted to direct Danger Man, then produce it, and then write it.
www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/cops/dangerman.htm   (289 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Danger Man - The Complete Series 1 [1960]: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
When I first saw Danger Man on TV I was at school which in those days was pretty dreadful - psychopathic post war teachers whose methods would have done credit to any of the iron curtain regimes John Drake had to come up against.
With his reassuring manner and matter of fact approach to his job, it is easy to see how Danger Man was catapulted into what is known today as Cult TV.
I was too young to remember "Danger Man" when it was first shown on TV but I am delighted with what I have seen.
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 Secret Agent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Danger Man was one of the most popular TV series of its time in the United Kingdom.
As the new series progressed it would become more and more apparent that John Drake was a man of conscience, often unhappy with the violence which sometimes occurred in his line of work and even questioning the motives of his superiors.
Danger Man/Secret Agent continues to be a cult series in the United States, often considered among fans to be the prequel to The Prisoner (although whether Number Six is John Drake continues to be matter of debate).
users.cvalley.net /canote/secret_agent.html   (1292 words)

  
 Spin Off: "Danger Man", "Secret Agent" and "The Prisoner"
Danger Man was a show about the exploits of John Drake, played by Patrick McGoohan.
He was another international man of action and intrigue in line with the other spy-type shows of the time.
Only in Secret Agent he had a full hour to do it whereas Danger Man was only half an hour.
www.poobala.com /dangersecretprisoner.html   (729 words)

  
 Boxing News : Why Toney is Holyfield's Danger Man
However, this isn't why I think Toney is Holyfield's danger man, the biggest danger I fear is that Holyfield wins this one convincingly and encouraged by his success moves on to take on some of the bigger hitters in the division.
Evander is known for his outsize ego, but surely even he won't adopt this tactic against a man who is literally begging to be hit in the breadbasket.
He's a man who is capable of putting in a performance that defies expectation.
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 Danger Man and Secret Agent collectibles and merchandise - Home Page
This is a website of all known Danger Man, Secret Agent and Destination Danger merchandise, memorabilia and collectibles, from over 40 years.
There were several mid-sixties TV stars books and annuals with Danger Man features, but with no cover picture and so these are not included here.
With some musical versions of a theme or song there were both UK and US releases, although details are not known in every case, or regarding all formats (e.g.
www.dangerman.org.uk   (473 words)

  
 Danger Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
History: Kidnapped by aliens from his home on the Yorkshire moors when he was five, the boy who would become Danger Man was taken to Mars.
Comments: Danger Man was replaced in the Beano by the Danger Twins, a pair of orphans he adopted and trained as his sidekicks.
Danger Girl, special unit of top female secret agents led by Deuce
www.internationalhero.co.uk /d/dangermn.htm   (163 words)

  
 Danger Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The shows have their original Danger Man opening credit sequences and harpsichord theme, but the "Secret Agent" title sequence (modeled closely after the title montage of Goldfinger, minus the girl) is offered on each platter in a special feature section, along with a text profile of McGoohan and a couple stills from the featured episodes.
Part of the archness is due to the role he is filling, pretending to be a 'player' to get a job with the fence, but the whole charade seems a little silly and McGoohan communicates it to the viewer as he goes about his business.
on Secret Agent AKA Danger Man Set 3 (AAE70390, $40) is another effort in which McGoohan's character is investigating something on a mistaken assumption, but uncovers another secret in the course of his queries.
www.thehollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2086496   (1972 words)

  
 Danger Man News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Danger Man News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
This site is dedicated to the Sixties television series Danger Man or Secret Agent as it was called in America.
Patrick McGoohan took a couple of stabs at portraying secret agent John Drake, first in a half-hour series called Danger Man that ran for 39 episodes in 1960-61.
www.topix.net /tv/danger-man   (93 words)

  
 DANGER MAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Before The Prisoner, Patrick McGoohan was Danger Man. Created by Ralph Smart, it has been described as Bond without the guns or the girls, but Drake certainly had the gadgets before the Bond.
Interestingly enough, The Prisoner episode 'The girl who was death' is more like an episode of Danger man! It contained Drake's season four contact 'Potter' and has an actor by the name of John Drake.
Three years later after a show that was thought to be a US hit had flopped, Lew Grade flew to the states and sold the Americans the idea of Danger Man. (Or Secret Agent as it was known over there.) This time in hour long episodes.
www.cultv.co.uk /secretagent.htm   (370 words)

  
 Secret Agent AKA Danger Man Megaset DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Known in the States as Secret Agent Man, Danger Man - with just a few misfire episodes, is for me, the best television in history.
Patriot and lover of Britain to the end, handy man with gadgets, hater of guns and promiscuous sex, these are part of the appeal.
Danger Man is the 1965-6 series starring Patrick McGoohan better known for his subsequent series "The Prisoner".
www.apexesources.com /dvd/733961709346   (1175 words)

  
 Secret Agent A.K.A. Danger Man Megaset | PopMatters Television Review
Danger Man falls into the "wandering hero" subgenre of television drama, typified by such shows as The Fugitive, Kung Fu, and the underrated Quantum Leap, which throw a central character in a wide variety of situations without the burden of an ensemble cast or episodic continuity.
For a versatile actor, such a series is a dream gig, and McGoohan demonstrates both impressive chops and vast range in the various guises employed by John Drake.
Thus A&E's Danger Man and The Prisoner boxed sets should be purchased together and watched back-to-back and, given our real-life government's recent propensity for "disappearing" people it doesn't like, the sooner the better.
www.popmatters.com /tv/reviews/s/secret-agent-megaset.shtml   (875 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Secret Agent AKA Danger Man Megaset: DVD: Secret Agent AKA Danger Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Plot Synopsis: Three years after the original "Danger Man" series concluded, it was revamped and continued in a longer format.
Type in "danger man" then hit 'search by title'(this item is NOT available on Amazon; that is why i mentioned it!).
In a sense, it's sickeningly depressing, because the plot concerns are eerily of the moment.
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 Danger Man; Secret Agent (a Titles and Air Dates Guide)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
2-10 050 15 Dec 64 A Man to be Trusted 50.
3-12 073 16 Dec 65 The Man on the Beach 74.
3-21 082 24 Mar 66 The Man With the Foot 83.
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 DVD Talk Forum - Danger Man Season 1?
I would be curious to know where you bought the 10-disc Prisoner set for less than the $53 that DDD is advertising Danger Man Season 1.
That is how the show aired; the first season ran 1960-61, and was half hour episodes; the second and third seasons ran 1964-1966, with hour long episodes; and really there wasn't a 4th season, just two shows made in 1968 before it was aborted.
I'm well versed on The Prisoner, but not Danger Man. I did know about the reason for the name change, but was totally clueless about the series run.
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 Secret Agent (AKA Danger Man) Megaset   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Given the popularity with Americans of the James Bond films and The Saint television series, the British series Danger Man, which combined elements of both, was a natural for import to the states.
The program first debuted in 1960 in a series of half hour episodes, then disappeared for three years when it was revamped and expanded into an hour-long series that finally found its audience.
There is a noticeable deterioration throughout the series (though it isn't quite as pronounced in the later episodes), though the dialogue is clear and understandable throughout.
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 Elderly man on danger-list after car crash [MaltaMedia.com]
An elderly man is on danger-list after he was involved in a traffic accident in St. Julian�s.
The 87-year-old man from Swieqi was driving his car in St. George's Street when he crashed into a van, driven by a 29-year old man, coming from the opposite direction.
The octogenerian man was rushed to St. Luke�s Hospital by ambulance where he was certified to be in danger of losing his life.
www.maltamedia.com /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=13&num=8425   (140 words)

  
 DailyBulletin.com - Upland man faced danger while at sea
A 19-year-old Victor "Lippy" Lipmeyer watched as a young man was sucked into a ship's propeller.
At the time, Lipmeyer didn't realize how dangerous that assignment was.
Man robbed of wallet and keys in Fontana
www.dailybulletin.com /news/ci_3167615   (929 words)

  
 Secret Agent AKA Danger Man, Set 3 - shop.derkeiler.com Product Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Much like the U.S. series The Man From U.N.C.L.E., this cool, clever cold war spy show is built on elaborate espionage shell games and diplomatic chicanery, and Patrick McGoohan's John Drake is the ingenious con man behind the bluffs and feints.
McGoohan was superb as this "licensed to do whatever necessary "danger man where PM/PC niceties were unimaginable,and BAD GUYS were The Enemy unapologetically dealt-with.DANGER MAN segued into SECRET AGENT's full-hour episodes.
Secret Agent/Danger Man and Combat were the two best series from the 60s.
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 Danger Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Since Laurence has already agreed terms, Drake advises her "the real danger comes when they have been paid off." Laurence departs with the secret drawings of the Columbia Thermo Dynamic Project, but he runs up against a brick wall in the shape of Drake.
Cortez is to be persuaded that Josetta isn't blind and that she is therefore an eyewitness to the murder.
Her dad the landlord is less amicable and a sneaky check of the prints on the used drinking glasses proves to Drake that this man is Brechter.
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