Danger Man

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I am starting this thread on Danger Man as I recently bought the season 1 set.

Danger Man refers to the lead character John Drake played by Patrick McGoohan.

After Danger Man, McGoohan became The Prisoner whose real name was never revealed and was only known by a number - 6. As a result of this there has been a debate about whether The Prisoner was John Drake despite McGoohan's denial that he was Drake.

Season 1 of Danger Man had 39 episodes. I have not seen any of it before as my previous viewing of Danger Man was with the subsequent 47 episodes that was shown on Australian TV about a decade ago (don't remember whether all 47 or most of it was shown) in the early hours of the morning and I remember enjoying watching it very much.

 

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View From A Villa:
Season 1, Episode 1.
Very good opening episode to the series with a very good plotline involving an embezzler and his mistress
Very good fun.

 

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Time To Kill:
Season 1, Episode 2.
Just as Drake tracks down an assassin, he spends much of this episode being handcuffed to a woman. Very fun seeing that.

 

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Josetta:
Season 1, Episode 3.
Julia Arnall was very lovely as the title character and quite an ingenious trick that Drake employed to catch the baddie.

 

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The Blue Veil:
Season 1, Episode 4.
Not a bad adventure in the desert.

 

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The Lonely Chair:
Season 1, Episode 8.
Quite fun seeing Drake pretending to be a cripple rich man in order to rescue the rich man's daughter but quite a surprise when Patrick Troughton turns up late in this episode.

 

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An Affair of State:
Season 1, Episode 10.
Very good episode dealing with corruption within the government and police plus a very nice appearance by Dorothy White as Raquel Vargas.

 

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The Sisters:
Season 1, Episode 12.
The title refers to a woman professor being reunited with her long lost sister but one of them is an imposter.
Very good in how Drake discovered who the imposter is.

 

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Bury The Dead:
Season 1, Episode 28.
Quite a good episode involving gun-running and what a surprise towards the end.
This episode featured Patrick Troughton's second appearance on the programme.

This is the first time that I have been able to post in this thread since Patrick McGoohan's death some months ago and he will be sorely missed.

 

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Sabotage:
Season 1, Episode 29.
Written by Michael Pertwee and Ian Stuart Black.
A pretty good mystery about who was responsible for the crash of a plane. The plane was on its way to New Guinea which incidentally was a place I used to live a long time ago.
Very clever of how Drake catches those involved.

 

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The Contessa:
Season 1, Episode 30.
An enjoyable episode about a cocaine smuggling ring.
Pretty good performance from Hazel Court as the episode title character.

 

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The Trap:
Season 1, Episode 32.
Drake investigates an embassy worker Beth who leaves work without permission.
The trap of the title is one for her and quite a surprise Beth got upon realising she has been kidnapped

 

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The Actor:
Season 1, Episode 33.
This episode has secret information being transmitted via a radio program.
Interestingly Get Smart did a similar episode years later.
This Danger Man episode is enjoyable on its own merits.

 

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Hired Assassin:
Season 1, Episode 34.
The plotline was not bad but quite amusing the way it ended the episode.